Beyond the Smoke: Rethinking Wildfires and Climate Change
Global Greening, Fire Ecology, and the Failure of Simplistic Attribution.
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My personal Substack strives to be a healthy antidote to the highly infectious disease called Group-Think.
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North American LNG Won’t Displace Asia’s Coal
Why 190 MTPA of export capacity still can’t crack China and India’s sovereign energy systems.
Hadley Cell Expansion and the Re-Greening of Africa
How Hadley Cell Expansion Explains Africa’s Past Humid Periods and Modern De-desertification.
Solar-Driven Hadley Cell Expansion: How the SAM Index Explains Global Brightening Since the Little Ice Age
From stratospheric polar vortex coupling to declining marine stratiform clouds — the missing solar mechanism behind the Holocene's neoglacial warming events.
El Niño Does Not Dry the Planet: Global Humidity Rises with Warming Tropics
New analysis of 60+ years of data reveals a predictable physical sequence and shows that global tropospheric humidity rises, not falls, during El Niño events.
Ottawa’s Net Zero Delusion vs. Nature’s Carbon Cycle: Why Alberta Must Break Free
Dedicated to Mitch Sylvestre and Stay Free Alberta — The Meridional Overturning Mediated Carbon Cycle (MOMCC) reveals that Pacific upwelling, not human emissions, drives tropospheric CO₂ growth.
Energy Realism Returns: The Strait of Hormuz and Asia’s Coal Lifeline
The 2026 Middle East crisis exposed a hard truth: hydrocarbons — especially coal — remain the chemical backbone of feeding billions. Net Zero ideology dangerously detached from reality.
Why Climate Alarmists Ignore Wind: My Canadian Seasonal Climate Index
From Pacific Trade Winds and Bjerknes Feedback to Chinook moderation and Atlantic thermohaline flows — a rancher’s data-driven challenge to CO₂-centric climate narratives.
Beijing’s Excalibur: Coal as China’s Weapon of Sovereign Power
At the exact moment Western economies rush to eliminate coal, China is deliberately scaling output by ~25%, embedding it deeper into power, steel, chemicals, and national resilience.
Sunshine, Satellites, and the Great Climate Disconnect: A First Anniversary Report
One year of calling out the lies — Global Brightening, not CO₂, drives the Earth’s Energy Imbalance. The WMO, UN, and carbon tax policies punish success while ignoring satellite data and basic physics