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MacDonald: Al Gore Needs Some Flamethrowers and A Ship

July 25, 2025 Steve MacDonald

When nature will not do what you’ve insisted, the classic response from the so-called planet-saving environmental activists is to simulate the disaster. This most often occurs on paper and in the media, where captured interests invent and then perpetuate fraud. Weather is pimped as proof because trends fail to support the theory. The other way … Read more

Early Freeze Traps 18 Ships in Arctic Sea Ice

November 28, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Nothing says “global warming” like unexpectedly cold temperatures. That’s why they rebranded is climate change and then climate chaos and then super random weather that’s your fault, no matter what. And it matters, especially to the freighters trapped in arctic sea ice that’s not supposed to be there.

Ice frozen bubble Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

Ice, Ice, Baby! …

October 21, 2021 Steve MacDonald

In 2020 we entered a grand solar minimum after exiting a grand solar Maximum. You had nothing to do with either, but politcal freaks saddled up the latter as a mule for socializing and controlling energy and your ability to use it.

Polar Bears Photo by Hans-Jurgen Mager on Unsplash

There’s 25% More Arctic Ice Than Last Year. “Expert” Says It’s ‘cuz “the weather is so variable.”

October 20, 2021October 3, 2021 Steve MacDonald

The world is ending because of climate change, and the only cure for that is a disciplined march toward Marxist-Leninism. The government will fix it, they say, using a system incapable of fixing anything but the succession of one-party state power.

1-28-2020 N_daily_extent Sea ice rotated

If Extreme Arctic Melting is a Problem There’s No Problem

January 28, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The left and the media like to tell you things they feel almost certain you will never know or verify. Like, everything they say and do. Sea ice is excellent because virtually no one is near it except enviro-mental-ists looking for open water they can’t find. In other words, they believed the lie too. And it’s a lie.

Another Climate Cult Pilgrimage to Ice-Free Arctic Ends When Their Ship Gets Stuck…in Ice

September 11, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Passengers had to be evacuated to safety when their ship got trapped in arctic ice last week. The intrepid voyagers were concerned about, you guessed it, global warming and melting polar ice.

New Climate Catastrophe: Melting Arctic Will Release Anthrax, Nuclear Waste, Doom!

June 17, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Desperate Rent Seekers seek government grant. Will say anything to get one. Like, melting arctic ice will release plagues upon the earth.

Coming Soon Increased Arctic Sea Ice Will Be Another Sign of The Global Warming Apocalypse

July 10, 2022February 4, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The irrefutable hypothesis of Global Warming has undergone some interesting evolutions in the decades since it’s “discovery.” By discovery I mean, the opportunity to use the weather to raise taxes and grow global government. By evolution I mean the necessary name-change gymnastics intended to keep the long con from collapsing.

A look at the Climate Cult’s Expert Fraudster in Chief – No, Not Al Gore, an actual “Scientist.”

January 7, 2019 Steve MacDonald

James Hansen is the scientist’s scientist when it comes to Climate. From his perch, at NASA, he’s been leading “the consensus” since the late ’70s. Leaping from “we’re doomed to freeze” to “we’re doomed to boil.” And don’t forget about the Climate Cult’s diluvial fantasy. The story of the great flood that generations from now (or … Read more

Arctic Sea Ice, and Google’s Search Results “Reality”

July 10, 2022November 24, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Danish Meteorological Institute’s most recent data shows Arctic Sea Ice Extent rapidly approaching the 1981-2000 mean. Rapidly. But if you Google “Arctic Sea ice 2018” you will find a series of headlines on the subject of the 2018 arctic minimum. I didn’t search the annual arctic minimum. In the absence of other details “minimum” was … Read more

Sea Ice Original Photo by Juha Lakaniemi on Unsplash

Arctic Will Be Ice Free by (Insert Next Year Here)

June 15, 2023April 27, 2016 Steve MacDonald

Tony Heller at Real Climate Science has a great post about the nearly century-old tradition of declaring that the Arctic will be ice-free by some arbitrary point in time after today.