Data, where is thy sting? With media outlets all independently hitting on May 2025 being the second-hottest on record, Steve Milloy at @JunkScience, with a rude word we omit, asked “If May was ‘second hottest on record’, why was May 2025 cooler than May 1896 in the US? Is the US regionally exempt from global warming?”

Not a single “expert” put 2 + 2 together to reveal the secret behind the “big magic trick” that made the COVID vaccine appear to dramatically reduce COVID deaths

As microplastics (1 μm–5 mm) and nanoplastics (<1 μm) increasingly contaminate human tissues—from hearts to brains—researchers are racing to find safe ways to eliminate them.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled ‘Restoring Gold Standard Science’ on May 23rd 2025, aiming to overhaul research-integrity policies and ensure that federal government-sponsored science is “transparent, rigorous and impactful”.

Meteorologists are discovering that if they want to get attention from the media and more clicks and likes (short term), then all they have to do is announce fictional heat waves that weather models routinely hallucinate 10-14 days out, e.g., “Temperatures could soar to 40°C!”

Net Zero Watch has belittled the government’s announcement that it will cut electricity bills for large industrial users by 25%. The campaign group has pointed out that the cost of the discount has to be paid somehow.

Further to the Guardian’s absurd claim that “last week’s heatwave killed 600 people”, it is worth going back to the ONS analysis carried out after the 2022 heatwaves:

According to the New York Times ‘climate change’ is helping make submarines invisible

Canadian researchers who analyzed detailed geographic and temporal all-cause mortality data from the U.S. and Europe concluded that the data are incompatible with existing models of pandemic viral spread

The Telegraph brings news of the latest setback for the ‘green’ scam industry

I’ve covered a lot of speech crime indictments here at the plague chronicle. Before Covid, these things hardly ever happened

The Times recently interviewed Ed Hodgson, associate director for polling and analysis at More in Common, about what is being said in focus groups

Some friends have asked me to write more articles on the political and sociological impact of Net Zero. In addition, another contact put forward the suggestion that Net Zero is an attack on freedom.

When Greenpeace lost a recent $660 million case over its organization of a violent pipeline protest, the most unusual part of the story was neither the jury confirming that environmental organizations do this sort of thing all the time (they do) nor the size of the verdict (although that was impressive)