Climate Dispatch

Did you know the Mayor of NY City makes more money than: 1. Zohran Mamdani $258,750 2. Marco Rubio (Secretary of State) $250,600 3. Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Defense) $250,600 4. Scott Bessent (Secretary of the Treasury) $250,600 5. J.D. Vance (Vice President) $235,000 Here’s the kicker. Mamdani’s self appointed committee is asking for an 18.2% raise for Mamdani and his elected officials. His new salary would be $305,800. Even a democratic socialist is a deep down capitalist. The guy loves giving himself a raise with tax payers money.

This is one of the most important moments ever aired on CNBC. Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says the media lied to millions of Americans about President Trump, and that after going back to the original source material, he realized he had been completely misled about Trump’s character. PALIHAPITIYA: “The reality is that most of us were lied to by the media about President Trump.” “And if you just go back to the source material, you should take away two things.” “One, he didn’t say half the things he said, and two, why did these other people just fabricate what they wanted to say so that they could essentially assassinate his character?” “I think that that second thing is completely unacceptable in America, and there’s still been no repercussions, really.” “I took the time to learn about it. I admitted where…you know, the way that I met him was, I admitted on the pod, which, you know, has millions of viewers.” “And I said, I got it totally wrong because I went and I watched Charlottesville.” “And, you know, the first person to call me? President Trump.” “And I got to know him and I put the phone down, I called my wife, and I said, we got it TOTALLY, totally wrong. We were lied to.” “And then I got to know him and he is fantastic!” @chamath

In light of newly released emails showing how Thomas Windom (Jack Smith J6 investigation chief) worked with NARA general counsel Gary Stern to obtain text messages of dozens of Trump White House officials--and in the process, 44 members of Congress--my @RCInvestigates piece showing how Windom and Stern also worked together to set up the criminal investigation into the president related to classified documents. Stern also met with Biden WH officials at least twice: realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/…

Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last April. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear: wind and solar triggered the collapse. Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every megawatt of that early loss coming from renewables. Gas and hydro remained stable (until the cascade was already underway). The report's own charts show the sequence. As voltage at the Carmona substation plunged, trips snowballed - entirely from wind and solar. The report calls it "an unprecedented speed of blackout." This was a textbook inverter-chain failure: renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react. By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady. But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was - a systemic failure of weather-dependent power.

Did you know that Ro Khanna’s two kids in elementary school own three private golf clubs in Ohio? Membership fees are up to $45,000. I highly recommend everyone ignore security at the clubs and just wander on to hit a few balls and see what happens. Maybe I’ll swing by in August with some reporters…

This is a lie. 🤥 Fort Yukon, Alaska, which is located within the Arctic Circle, reached 100°F (37.8°C) on June 27, 1915. Fort Yukon is located ~8 miles (~13 km) north of the Arctic Circle.

Just in case we forget the mission of the IPCC, here's a reminder.

Roger says humans are going extinct while other alarmists says Super El Ninos will accelerate extinction ... but the data disagree with them.

@TomANelson @ccdeditor @ClimateCentral Yes, they do. But their definitions change depending on the message they wish to convey. Sad truth, the foundation for successful propaganda (in addition to power):

Green blob-funded "journalist" in green blob-funded fakenewspaper uncritically reproduces green blob-funded front organisation's whinge that real news organisations aren't subject to green blob oversight and censorship (yet).

@ClimateCentral Don't you even know the difference between weather and climate?!

@rahmstorf Data confirm ... excess UHI effects ... fraudulent sensor placements ... and widespread data tampering.

CO2 makes up just 0.04% of Earth's atmosphere, just four one-hundredths of one percent. It's been that way for decades and it's projected to stay that way for the foreseeable future. Yet this trace gas is blamed for driving every drought, flood and storm on the planet. Even if CO2 doubled, it would still be less than one-tenth of one percent of the air around us. For context, nitrogen and oxygen make up 99% of the atmosphere, while water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas, sits at around 2%. Without CO2, plants couldn't grow, crops would fail and all life would collapse. CO2 is essential, not catastrophic. The more of it the better.

fwiw .. (maar laat ons wel hopen ! .. want als "iets" in de #USA gebeurt, gebeurt het meestal enige tijd later ook hier ..) After Eight Years, Maryland's Climate Lawsuits Die A Quiet Death climatechangedispatch.com/maryland-clima… via @ccdeditor

After Eight Years, Maryland's Climate Lawsuits Die A Quiet Death climatechangedispatch.com/maryland-clima… via @ccdeditor Lawsuits frozen out.

Renewable Advocates' Battery Bet Proves Cost Prohibitive: Report climatechangedispatch.com/wind-solar-bat… via @ccdeditor Saying renewables can replace fossil fuels is for the birds. It is dawning on some folk the real cost pursuing wind & solar, with subsidies in the billions & even trillions.

Climate Change Wasn't Behind July Fourth's Extreme Heat — Attribution Science Was climatechangedispatch.com/climate-change… via @ccdeditor

Europe's Net Zero Reckoning Will Reveal Its Real Climate Priorities climatechangedispatch.com/eu-net-zero-re… via @ccdeditor Miliband's obsession with net zero looks to be abandoned by Europe, as reality gradually sinks in.

Trump Taps Credentialed Scientist to Lead Federal Climate Program, Lefty Media Cringes climatechangedispatch.com/usgcrp-climate… via @ccdeditor