There are lessons to be drawn from the recent near-buckling of the U.S. energy grid under the stress of the winter, rumours of whose demise have been greatly exaggerated

New German research shows that offshore wind farms in the North Sea could measurably alter regional—and in some cases large-scale—currents by 2050, particularly in the German Bight.

The article from Blackout News here reports on how a severe fire was triggered by an electric car at a charging station in Schwaigern (Baden-Württemberg) on February 16, 2026. [some emphasis, links added]

Yesterday, Raphael Lataster published an ecological analysis in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine examining excess mortality in Australia during 2021

Miles Deutscher recently posted something on X which, on the face of it, sounds very disturbing

US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending up in California, a state battling shrinking fuelmaking capacity and high pump prices

In a recent Youtube commentary, Canadian skeptic, Dr John Robson asks a provocative question: has climate alarmism taken on the character of a religion—and not in a good way?

The two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 on a five-year mission to study the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. What they did after that made them the most successful spacecraft ever

Headline (one of many): “Long COVID may be triggering Alzheimer’s-like changes in the brain: new study”

The Media Hall Monitors repeatedly tell us that CBS’s new editorial direction is Trump-adjacent and “MAGA-friendly.” This is, of course, a shameless exaggeration most recently belied by a weird Sunday Morning report that injected ‘climate change’ into the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding

A recent investigation has added a new layer of data to something many of us use for hours every day: headphones.

Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex. [some emphasis, links added]

Many countries around the world demand that all children be vaccinated against measles. When they start school or kindergarten, their parents are asked for proof of vaccination. The state tells them the injection is beneficial and protective for their child

For years on Irrational Fear, I have written about Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) events, abrupt climate shifts during the last glacial period when temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere surged by double-digit degrees in mere decades

The Times of London reports ‘The data centres needed to power the government’s artificial intelligence revolution would use more electricity than the entire country consumes at its peak.’

Global warming policy has become the world’s most expensive bet. Governments have committed trillions of dollars on the assumption that carbon dioxide (CO2) from human activity is the principal driver of rising temperatures