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Funeral For A Narrative

By Jeff Reynolds - May 17th, 2025

The climate cultists can be heard singing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" as the global warming arguments continue to unravel this 
week.

The stories this week strike a plaintive tone, like a balladeer pouring out his soul on stage while playing a sad tune on piano. 
The laments come one after the other as tragic stories of loss and heartbreak emerge from those pushing the climate agenda. The 
classic Elton John song "Love Lies Bleeding" could easily have been about the tragic death of not just a relationship, but an 
entire movement:

The roses in the window box have tilted to one side

Everything about this house was born to grow and die

The narrative lies bleeding in their hands.

And really, we've seen this coming for a long time, those of us who consider ourselves rationalists, who reject hysteria. 
Everything about this house was born to grow and die, indeed. None of it ever held together with rational explanations, or 
science for that matter, which explains the need to propagandize and mandate. We clearly never had any intention of voting for 
this stuff, after all.

And for good reason. This week's stories center around the theme of truths ever so inconvenient for the climate cult. We also 
have several stories that are downright weird, and a new scientific study that continues to erode the arguments in favor of the 
theory of manmade global warming.

In our Good News segment, we have more EV implosions, and NOAA retires its "billion-dollar disaster" boondoggle.

Let's get to it.


Death of a Narrative: Antarctic Sea Ice Edition

The narrative states definitively that anthropogenic global warming has caused climate change that drives more weather extremes, 
causing more catastrophic storms, floods, fires, sea level rise, and melting polar ice caps and glaciers. Therefore, we need to 
extract trillions of dollars from capitalist countries and impose global communism.

The narrative's baseline assumptions are dying, as the dogs of society howl. Take, for instance, Antarctica. The sea ice 
continues to refuse to shrink there. Four "key glacier basins" in East Antarctica showed ice growth from 2021 to 2023, according 
to a new study.
Death of a Narrative: Volcano Edition

The sudden spike in global temperatures in 2023 was nothing but a candle in the wind, it seems.

A massive underwater volcano in the South Pacific, Hunga-Tonga, erupted in 2022. It spewed massive amounts of water vapor, carbon 
dioxide, and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Many climate "skeptics" - or, rationalists, rather-have attributed the 
spike in global temperatures to that event. The satellite temperature record sure does seem to have validated that view. This is 
important because most climate zealots dismiss out of hand any natural causes of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase. Seems they 
haven't given this one enough thought-or they've dismissed any inconvenient factors that invalidate their claims.
Death of a Narrative: Bees Edition

Enviros have tried to gin up panic about declining bee populations for decades now, with the catastrophic claims that no 
pollinators would lead to no food, causing mass starvation. Thanks a lot, climate change! When that turns out not to be true, so 
much, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

Somebody decided to count worldwide bee colonies. Turns out they've increased significantly since 1990. So you can stop worrying 
that global warming is going to cause mass starvation.
Resistance to Offshore Wind Goes International

It's not just New Jersey and New York resisting the offshore wind movement. In Japan, residents of Hokkaido have pushed back hard 
on wind turbines that pose serious risks to threatened White-tailed Eagles.
New Study Demonstrates Urban Heat Island Effect

Global warming acolytes flatly reject the notion that an "urban heat island" effect exists or that it skews global temperature 
records. A new scientific study puts the lie to those claims, showing a strong correlation between population growth and warming 
trends at individual weather stations. The authors state definitively that about 22 percent of observed warming can be explained 
by the urban heat island effect, not any sort of global phenomenon. This is yet another variable for which climate scientists 
have failed to account when creating predictions of doom.
This Week In Weird Norwegian Ferry News

Hopefully this doesn't become a weekly installment in this column. Apparently, Norway is doing weird things to its ferry system 
in the name of the climate.

The passenger ferry operator Norled announced the world's first passenger ship powered by liquefied hydrogen in 2023, the MF 
Hydra. Hydrogen is notoriously difficult to use as a fuel for transportation, despite its great potential. The source of the 
liquefied gas has caused some controversy in the environmental press in Europe, leading to more questions than answers. A German 
chemical plant is trucking the hydrogen gas to Norway, but its hydrogen plant is not the source. Journalists believe it comes 
from a fossil fuel production source. A long report contains a lot of background information on the drive to produce hydrogen 
fuel in Europe, with many questions still unanswered.

The second Norwegian ferry story concerns the electric ferry Medstraum-the first of its kind in the world. Apparently it had so 
many mechanical issues and insufficient battery life it had to switch back to diesel for normal operations.
US Power Goes Non-Fossil, but There's a Big BUT

"For the first time, fossil fuels provided less than half of U.S. electricity generation in a month (March 2025)." So goes the 
headline announcing a seemingly massive milestone proving that green energy has taken root in America.

BUT.

This info came from a leftist think tank called Ember, which included nuclear in their calculations. In addition, according to 
oilprice.com, "this is an estimate of total generation, including small scale systems that are not connected to the grid."

Yeah, if you squint real hard and look at it cock-eyed and include every off-grid homestead's solar panels and wind mills, sure, 
you come up with something that looks like a trend.

Coincidentally, energy expert David Blackmon reported this week on a study showing that large-scale wind and solar production 
farms face greatly extended interconnection delays getting them connected to the grid, so that doesn't exactly look like progress 
for green energy.


Getting Astrological to Treat Climate Anxiety

Feeling anxious about the impending end of the world due to global warming? Try tarot:

A growing movement of artists is creating spaces for people to sit down and unpack their climate feelings. And no, it's not talk 
therapy; it's climate tarot reading.

When the deck's stacked against you, and the living gets hard, oh it's four walls of madness in this house of cards.

And now for this week's Good News segment.

Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting EVs

The numbers are in, and the Trump agenda is in full effect. In April, sales of electric vehicles fell five percent. That 
contrasts with the auto market as a whole, which saw robust sales increases. April marks the third monthly decline of EV sales 
since 2021. And it wasn't just Tesla due to the backlash against Elon Musk-the entire EV sector was down. Both manufacturers, due 
to the end of government subsidies, and consumers, sensitive to pricey options, have signaled broad declines in the industry that 
could extend into the future. Gas-powered vehicle sales increased 10 percent in the same month.
NOAA Retires Billion Dollar Disaster Boondoggle

Roger Pielke, Jr., a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former climate professor, has a Substack called The 
Honest Broker. There, Pielke writes about the absurdities of the climate hysteria movement. He published a peer-reviewed study in 
2024 that demonstrated the lack of scientific integrity in NOAA's "Billion Dollar Disaster" database. This database follows a 
climate hysteric invention of the increase in the number of natural disasters that caused over a billion dollars in damages. From 
the abstract of Pielke's paper:

For more than two decades, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has published a count of weather-
related disasters in the United States that it estimates have exceeded one billion dollars (inflation adjusted) in each calendar 
year starting in 1980. The dataset is widely cited and applied in research, assessment and invoked to justify policy in federal 
agencies, Congress and by the U.S. President. This paper performs an evaluation of the dataset under criteria of procedure and 
substance defined under NOAA's Information Quality and Scientific Integrity policies. The evaluation finds that the "billion 
dollar disaster" dataset falls short of meeting these criteria. Thus, public claims promoted by NOAA associated with the dataset 
and its significance are flawed and at times misleading. Specifically, NOAA incorrectly claims that for some types of extreme 
weather, the dataset demonstrates detection and attribution of changes on climate timescales. Similarly flawed are NOAA's claims 
that increasing annual counts of billion dollar disasters are in part a consequence of human caused climate change. NOAA's claims 
to have achieved detection and attribution are not supported by any scientific analysis that it has performed. Given the 
importance and influence of the dataset in science and policy, NOAA should act quickly to address this scientific integrity 
shortfall.

This week at The Honest Broker, Pielke reports, "NOAA announced that the BDD tabulation would no longer be updated by the agency, 
explaining that it has been 'retired.'"

Good riddance to bad assumptions.

And now that it's all over

The birds can nest again

I'll only snow when the sun comes out

I'll shine only when it starts to rain

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May:

Urban Heat, Not Climate Change - A New Study By Dr. Roy Spencer

James Hansen Canceled By His Own Climate Cult

Heavy Mid-May Snow Hits Poland

Europe And East Asia Buck Heatwave Narrative

Concordia Continues To Cool

Record US Ski Season Defies Alarmist Predictions

Record May Cold In Bâlea Lac

Concordia At -107.1F

Mainstream Damage Limitation After Antarctic Ice Growth

Cold Sweeps Japan After Historic Winter Snow

Record May Snow Slams Goose Bay
Concordia At -106.1F
Antarctica Had Far Less Sea Ice Just 1,000 Years Ago
Snow And Record May Lows Hit Europe
No May Trend
-100F Returns To Antarctica
May Frosts Persist In Europe
Mumbai Logs Coldest May Temp Since Records Began (In 1881)
Volcanoes That Changed The Modern World
NOAA Pulls Plug On "Billion Dollar Disasters" Database
Mumbai Coldest May Temp Since 1985
Tasmania Sees Snow As Cold Front Grips SE Australia
Atlantic Cools Sharply As Global Temperatures Dip
Another New Study Blows Hole In Antarctic Warming Claims
Snows and Sub-Zero Lows Sweep Europe
Ice Recovery At Both Poles
UK Carbon Prices Soar
A Scholarly Takedown Of The Net-Zero Agenda
Mt. Hutt Sees Record Early May Snowfall
Cherry Blossoms In The Snow
NH Snow Mass
Cold US
Greenland Ice Gain At 8-Year High
Another New Study Finds Antarctica Is Gaining Ice
Japan's Summer-Only Ski Resort Opens With Record Snowpack
Historic May Snowfall Hits Moscow Region
Snow Returns To UK
100 Years of Spanish Rainfall Data Destroys The Climate Narrative
UK Weather Data Is Broken
No Warming Across The High Southern Latitudes
Heat Hysteria: A Manufactured Crisis Built On Asphalt
Was It Earth's Internal Heat That Drove Recent Ocean Warming?
Taiwan Shivers Through Cold Spring
Russia Slammed By Record Late-Season Snowstorm
Upper Midwest Still Frozen