Watts Up With That

Even with October at 0.69 C, the warming trend from 1979 through now is only 0.16 C per decade. It increased from September's 0.61 C. Land shows a faster 0.22 C per decade. Oceans lag at 0.13 C per decade. Why do claims of accelerating warming persist when the rate has not changed? wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

The Commons committee wants to move all energy transition costs off electricity and onto gas bills. They admit this is because consumer costs are the biggest barrier to Clean Power 2030. The report proposes taxpayer support for those on gas and taking from network profits. Why not question the targets that are forcing these costs up? wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

Britain has the highest industrial electricity prices in the world. Factories in chemicals, glass and metals are closing week by week. Ed Miliband is locking in offshore wind at £117 per MWh while the market price is £72, plus extra costs for backup and turning farms off. The Climate Change Act forces these higher prices even as it fails to cut global emissions. If the result is more imports from coal-powered nations, what climate benefit remains? wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

U.S. power sector SO2 emissions fell 95 percent from 1990 levels even as coal plants kept running. Scrubbers now hit 99 percent removal on many units, with 82 percent of the fleet equipped. NOx dropped 89 percent too. The old acid rain problem is largely solved by engineering, not by shutting everything down. Why does the debate still treat coal as an unchanged 1970s polluter? wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

The UN is reclassifying normal oil, gas, and food production as a $500 billion subsidy because it lacks a carbon tax. This is the heart of Target 18 at COP17 in Armenia. Governments must reduce those incentives by that amount each year by 2030 while expanding UN-backed ones. The result is central direction of capital, production, and land use. If failing to tax something turns it into a subsidy, who gets to pick the next target? wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

Tamil Nadu once supplied up to 35 percent of its electricity from wind on strong days. Now it pays six to seven times the normal rate for gas to cover evening shortages. Wind output dropped to 14 percent of what contracts promised. The state is spending about $527,000 a day on 1,500 megawatts from gas plants for six peak hours. Solar output is zero after sunset, which is when the shortage hits. When will planners treat wind capacity as something other than guaranteed supply? wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

El Nino is warm and strong, yet the Northwest coast has avoided the feared sea level spikes. The cold PDO is opposing the warm water and higher levels El Nino normally brings. Data at La Push shows only slight elevation this month, below flooding thresholds. Records at Toke Point indicate this year's El Nino hasn't matched the sea level peaks of 1983 or 1998. Why are some media outlets still warning of serious coastal flooding? wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

"The EU and member states don't have a magic wand to make the price increases go away," said Irish Energy Minister Darragh O’Brien. Yet estimates put 20 to 35 percent of EU household electricity bills on the green transition, counting levies, grid costs and carbon. Gas prices just hit four-year highs. Cost of living protests are spreading. If those green costs are real, why rule out cutting them? wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

32,619 heat deaths in European cities this summer were caused by human climate change, claims a new Imperial study. The figure comes from models, not actual death records. Data was taken from 232 cities and extrapolated to 854. The authors say it shows the need for rapid emissions reductions. How does a computer model know the exact number of deaths from one cause without looking at any real data? wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

German workers rate climate change joviality at 1.19 out of 5 on average. Leipzig study dropped 618 of 1,931 for attention check failures, leaving 1,313. Within-person effects reached just 0.03 points on behavior scores. What intervention would target a stable tendency toward climate joviality? wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

“𝗜𝘁’𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝟮𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 ‘𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵’ 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗱” Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth accused skeptics of industry corruption based on a memo that said to "reposition global warming as theory rather than fact." That memo existed, but it was never implemented. No fossil fuel executive ever called climate change a hoax in any public way that mattered. Yet the legacy media ran with the story anyway. A recent LA Times letter repeats the same line without checking. The questions reporters should have asked were obvious. They never did. Read the full article: wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱. 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 €𝟭𝟯 𝘁𝗼 €𝟯𝟭𝟱 𝗮 𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘁𝘁-𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 German electricity prices jumped from €13 to €315 a megawatt-hour in four days. The wind just stopped after a 115% renewable record. Output fell from 45 GW to below 5 GW. Gas and coal are now running flat out. Two power systems. One price tag. Read the full article: wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

Real Kickstarter project is a real failure. LOL! 🙄 $66 and 2 backers in 6 days. #chemtrails #idiots

𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 The IPCC admitted its own worst-case climate model is implausible. RCP8.5 fueled years of scare stories from the Met Office and media. It led to Net Zero rules that have added £200 billion to UK electricity bills. Arctic ice is stable, polar bears are thriving. Yet the popular delusion rolls on. This review of Chris Morrison's Implausible shows why. Read the full article: wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗽 #𝟳𝟭𝟯 Lindzen and Happer just told the EPA that CO2 warming is tapped out. At today’s 420 ppm, another 20 ppm adds only 0.038°C. They want the greenhouse gas findings killed because the physics says so. Water vapor and clouds dominate anyway. Net Zero they call a fast track to less food and higher poverty. The roundup shows the saturation charts that back it up. Read the full article: wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗢 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 NESO claims a 5.9 GW safety margin this winter. It disappears without wind power. Their calculations assume wind will provide 5.4 GW. Wind has already dipped below 3 GW this week. Read the full article: wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

𝗥𝗚𝗚𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲 Virginia rejoined RGGI six months early and the first auction cleared at $37.65 per allowance. Dominion now wants a $13 monthly rider on typical residential bills. It was $4.43 before the state left. The governor who campaigned on affordability skipped every public review and took a cap designed for other states. The bill credit they are offering leaves most of the real costs uncovered. Read the full article: wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗗𝘂𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘂 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 The Australian Bureau of Meteorology said it found and fixed a small number of duplicated temperatures and there were no more in the network. A full check of the raw files turned up 44 temperature copies and 1,337 rainfall copies, with 1,334 still published today. The rainfall duplicates include entire years of late-1990s data written over earlier records at 22 stations across six states. Read the full article: wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬𝘀 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 1990s water models forecast 5.02 billion people in water-stressed countries by 2025. Actual number: 2.71 billion. Withdrawals were supposed to climb 19 to 52 percent. They rose 13 percent instead. Population estimates landed close. Demand forecasts missed completely, and global use has stayed flat since 2010. The new review still calls the old projections well aligned. Read the full article: wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…

𝗢𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘁 𝗨𝗡 𝗖𝗢𝗣𝟯𝟭 The beginning of the end for endless UN climate summits could be on the table at COP31. A rival Fossil Fuel Treaty is in the works that might compete with the official UN framework for funding and authority. Negotiators are also cooking up new money mechanisms like a global Just Transition fund and a Pacific resilience facility. Rogue non-UN efforts on fossil fuel phaseouts are already running ahead. Read the full article: wattsupwiththat.com/2026/11/…