{"id":437443,"date":"2026-04-05T07:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=437443"},"modified":"2026-04-05T07:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:05:45","slug":"when-it-comes-to-climate-etc-is-europe-more-anchor-to-the-u-s-than-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=437443","title":{"rendered":"When it comes to climate (etc.), is Europe more anchor to the U.S. than ally?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Bastardi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer appears to be more of an anchor weighing our progress down.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course, in other matters outside of climate, you may also think they are more anchor than ally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assuming we are an \u201cally,\u201d one has to wonder how long we can be allies with people who are fools and are committing suicide by climate policy. (Again, you may think it\u2019s only one of other policies leading to their downfall.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I will keep this short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HDD season is about over in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look where Europe\u2019s natural gas storage is today:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chart courtesy of Gas Infrastructure Europe – AGSI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is hard to believe. The Netherlands and Sweden are under 10%. Almost everyone is under 50%. Poland, which actually had a chilly winter, is higher than areas that had a warm winter. That\u2019s right, for much of Europe, the HDD season was warm.<\/p>\n\n\n

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France\u2019s winter was warmer than normal, and they are down to 21%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would have happened if we had a winter like 2017-2018?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Or the back-to-back winters of 2009-2010, 2010-2011?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s a warning shot with the big El Ni\u00f1o coming up. This is the winter of 86-87, which was a pretty strong El Ni\u00f1o.<\/p>\n\n\n

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So if a warm winter took us to the brink, what would have happened if it were cold?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exposes the lunacy of European climate policies. I\u2019m not going to go over every lunatic fringe policy that has been enacted, but you have to be completely oblivious to what the weather is truly capable of to adopt policies like these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a way, it\u2019s similar to how the Iranian theological rulers hold their population hostage to their ideology. Every winter, unless Europeans reverse course and quit fighting this phony climate war, they are held hostage to the weather \u2014 because their leaders have turned man-made climate change into something resembling a religion. It\u2019s the people who will suffer, and I don\u2019t think their leaders care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then again, how do they keep getting elected? (Obviously not the case in Iran.) The public has been brainwashed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This winter should serve as a wake-up call to any rational human being concerned about elevating their society. Notice Poland again: Its leaders are not the fools who seem to be running so many other countries. Poland is naturally colder than France, and it experienced a colder winter. Yet, it ended up with more than twice the natural gas storage as France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s just a matter of time. The real disaster is not the climate itself \u2014 it\u2019s climate policy. And the only human-induced problem here stems from a lunatic fringe that believes it can control the weather and the climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes and asides:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t know the reason, despite trying to get answers, but the Physical Science Lab is no longer conducting reanalysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data Notice: NCEP\/NCAR Reanalysis 1 has stopped production with its last date March 17, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I fear this is due to budget cuts, and if so, it\u2019s part of what concerns me: that valuable data and research sources are becoming collateral damage in the effort to end the climate lunacy that NOAA has been obsessed with. What may have happened \u2014 and I know this as a fact from people in research \u2014 is that instead of using a surgeon\u2019s precise tool, a blunt hammer was swung. The source of the cuts was NOAA\u2019s obsession with climate, but the pendulum correcting that may have swung too far the other way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A critical site that I use to analyze patterns and combat climate lunacy has been shut down. I\u2019m hoping that if I run into some higher-ups in the administration at the upcoming CFACT\/Heartland climate conference, I can make them aware of this and explain how valuable it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their defense, I got sent to this site:<\/p>\n\n\n

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But here is what I get if I try to use it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forbidden<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

You don\u2019t have permission to access this resource.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless you forecast the weather on a global scale every day \u2014 especially if you\u2019re someone who is fed up with climate lunacy, as I am \u2014 I don\u2019t think you can fully see what is and isn\u2019t valuable. So, since CFACT is kind enough to give me a voice, I wanted to show people that a valuable tool to combat climate craziness has been taken down (and is no longer updating). I suspect the intent was good, but the result is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The answer appears to be more of an anchor weighing our progress down. And of course, in other matters outside of climate, you may also think they are more anchor than ally.<\/p>\n

Assuming we are an \u201cally,\u201d one has to wonder how long we can be allies with people who are fools and are committing suicide by climate policy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":437445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AQM21e8ZM2nXWDGL9UOIfCFOlIG1mPL78AHxFBVjsmg5gMqocK_dc_MNd9g4ZBAknlz19lMXI2KaEH-fC4ZqtXSm6olGOWLuMTMjjLoYdY7K2Y-B2IDyturHg7Gtw_Yz.jpeg?fit=1500%2C1016&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1PNx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":258970,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258970","url_meta":{"origin":437443,"position":0},"title":"Canada \u2013 The Climate Pawn","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"05\/24\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The campaign to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is sometimes presented as a global undertaking in which Canada is \u201callied\u201d with all other countries. 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