Sitemap - 2023 - Irrational Fear

Is James Hansen a climate prophet?

Climate Change: Separating Fact from Fiction

New video filmed with PragerU...

Update: Climate Change and Disaster Trends...

Does More CO2 = More Heat?

Innocent Voices, Exploited Agendas: The Case Against Using Children in Climate Lawsuits

Weekly (biweekly?) with Wielicki

Basalt Band-Aid: The Quixotic Quest for Carbon Capture

Shifting Lines in the Sand: The Climate Tipping Point Controversy

November 2023 recap...

From Environmental Aid to Wealth Redistribution

Weekly (biweekly?) with Wielicki

The Absurdity of Global Mean Temperature and Mean Sea Level Metrics

A Critical Analysis of the Fifth National Climate Assessment

Bone-Chilling

Beyond the Tipping Point...

The Human Cost of Proposed Climate Change Mitigation

From Waste to Watts...

Weekly (biweekly?) with Wielicki

Shifting the Blame...

Can Volcanoes Undo Our Climate Efforts?

Are we entering a Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) event?

No, you didn't just live through the hottest 12-months in 125,000 years.

Recycling in America: A Golden Ideal or a Tarnished Reality?

USA Paid 3X More in Interest Payments Than on Climate Disasters in 2022.

It was never about the climate...

Are we really in an unprecedented time of warming?

October 2023 recap...

Greening Earth & Booming Crops

Academia's war on men

My takes on climate, free speech, DEI, and more.

Weekly with Wielicki 10/27/2023

Mass spectrometers, mass spectrometry, and climate change

May 2023 recap...

Hurricane Rapid Intensification: Decades of Data Defy Expectations

The Gatekeepers of Science

George Carlin on the Environment

Bering Sea Snow Crab: The New Poster Child for Climate Change?

Measuring ice mass from space...

Does CO2 drive global surface temperatures?

June & July recap...

A tale of two wildfire seasons.

Are Electric Vehicles a Fire Danger?

Examining the most newsworthy climate papers in the last decade (Part 7)...

Fossil fuels aren't from dinosaurs, but evidence suggests they are the remnants of past living organisms.

August recap...

The Pettenkofer method and the atmospheric CO2 content of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

September recap...

Will greening due to CO2 fertilization mitigate future warming?

Do record high sea surface temperatures (SSTs) increase the frequency and intensity of hurricanes as predicted by the IPCC?

New study shows IPCC predictions of decreased precipitation in southwestern US are exactly backwards.

New study shows that large wildfires are likely due to poor forest management, not climate change.

Catastrophizing every weather event is the new normal of climate alarmists.

Examining the most newsworthy climate papers in the last decade (Part 6)...

Almost everything we know about hurricanes and climate change, just ain't so...

Examining the most newsworthy climate papers in the last decade (Part 5)...

Has the IPCC got anything right? At what point do we stop listening?

Examining the most newsworthy climate papers in the last decade (Part 4)...

People of the State of California v. Big Oil

Since we are talking about the costs of natural disasters...

Examining the most newsworthy climate papers in the last decade (Part 3)...

Examining the most newsworthy climate papers in the last decade (Part 2)...

Examining the most newsworthy climate papers in the last decade (Part 1)...

Marine heatwaves...

Are natural disasters increasing in Europe?

Record rainfall in Thessaly, Greece is not climate, it's weather.

Hurricane season in the US is kicking into high gear

The IPCC says, "There is high confidence that human-induced climate change has already increased the risk of river flooding in many regions."

Why are we protecting a climatic regime that almost caused our extinction?

Atmospheric CO2 concentrations of the past.

The Holocene Temperature Conundrum

Update: A remarkably quiet fire season in the US...

Update: Manufacturing a scientific consensus.

Manufacturing a scientific consensus.

Is the emperor penguin the new polar bear?

Invite your friends to read Irrational Fear...

How to hide past climatic warming.

Heat Index, Wet Bulb Globe Temperature... New metrics when temperatures don't cooperate.

Not a single person has been killed from the meltdown of a modern nuclear reactor...

Attribution studies in climate science...

Hurricane Hilary... A sign of climate change?

Do we really know the surface temperature or CO2 concentration of the past?

Did Judge Seeley get it right when she stated, "Montana's emissions and climate change have been proven to be a substantial factor in causing climate impacts..."?

No, July wasn't the warmest month in human history.

A remarkably quiet fire season in the US...

Stop claiming that fires in Canada, Greece, and now Maui are due to climate change.

Will wind energy survive?

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)

Federal energy subsidies in the USA...

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption and the stochastic nature of climate variability...

Interpreting extreme weather statistics.

Global boiling???

Vilfredo Pareto, the Pareto Principle, and climate science...

Heat waves show no correlation with atmospheric GHG concentrations or emissions.

Solar Radiation Management: unnecessary, unhealthy, and impractical.

Measuring sea surface temperature (SST) and the warming of the North Atlantic.

Dead zones, eutrophication, Henry's Law and climate change.

The 'human condition' has never been better...

Are wildfires in Canada a sign of climate change?

Is this what 'settled science' looks like?

Nearly half the world's population relies on synthetic fertilizers made from fossil fuels.

A recent article that was removed by Forbes from Jude Clemente of RealClearEnergy.

How do scientists estimate past temperatures from ice cores?

Are GHG emissions and air pollution correlated?

How the Western world, and particularly the US, reduced GHG emissions...

The non-uniformity of climate change.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia.

The Pleistocene epoch, a time of incredible warmth at pre-industrial levels of CO2.

FREE 7-day trail to Irrational Fear by Dr. Matthew Wielicki

Weather events are not climate...

Is climate change causing increased numbers of refugees?

The more you know about the environment, the less anxious you are about climate change.

Evaluating the effects of climate change...

What are climate scientists so afraid of?

A single solution for two of society’s greatest sustainability issues...

What if every car was an EV?

Confirmation bias within the IPCC...

An open invitation...

Chasing the heat?

Nuclear energy is the only carbon-free solution.

Heat wave in Southern Europe.

Sea levels were significantly higher in the mid to late-Holocene at pre-industrial levels of CO2.

NASA CERES dataset shows observed 'net climate feedback' is significantly less than climate model assumptions.

What would a world without fossil fuels look like?

The new green colonialism of Africa...

Ft. Lauderdale record rainfall and climate change...

Home runs, tornadoes, and the IPCC Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability report.

The Montreal Protocol and the ozone hole...

Agriculture and drought in the Horn of Africa...

Climate alarmism and mental health.

Power reliability is essential for human flourishing...

Lets talk about the expanding bull's-eye effect...

Does climate change increase the number of people affected by extreme weather events?

Are water levels in Lake Mead evidence of climate change?

Does climate change increase the frequency and intensity of extreme weather, thus affecting more and more people?

It's tornado season again...

Planned obsolescence, right to repair, and America's reliance on foreign raw materials...

Milankovitch Cycles...

The formation of fossil fuels...

What does the Younger Dryas tell us about humans ability to deal with climate change?

How long can society continue to use fossil fuels?

It's all about power density and land use...

Lets talk about the latest IPCC AR6 synthesis report

Geoengineering through cloud seeding...

Weekly with Wielicki podcast...

Proxy data as evidence of past absolute temperatures...

Where does ocean heat come from?

How do we distill crude oil?

Can we really attribute some amount of a weather event to climate change?

Volcanic sulfur aerosols and climate change

Why do hydrocarbons exist on other planetary bodies, like Titan, a moon of Saturn?

Are fossil fuels really from fossils...

Scientific consensus...

A discussion about peer review

Water management, or mismanagement, in California

How well do we know atmospheric CO2 concentrations of the past?

The Holocene Temperature Conundrum

My climate journey from true believer to staunch realist...