“Drive to turn the UK into an AI superpower could leave us waterless” – In the Mail, Ross Clark shows that AI data centres consume as much water as thousands of homes – and their thirst peaks during the very summer months when supplies are already under the greatest strain.
“Healey tax grab ‘would inflict lasting damage on North Sea’” – Industry bosses are warning that a fresh Labour tax raid on North Sea oil and gas would cause “lasting damage” to Britain’s energy sector, says the Telegraph.
“The church with 20 worshippers and an eye-watering bill to go green” – A rural Cambridgeshire church with a congregation of just 20 faces a £400,000 Net Zero bill that threatens its very survival, writes Mary Downer in the Sunday Times.
“Ed Miliband just slapped us all round the face – he’ll cost us billions” – Ed Miliband made two grandstanding Net Zero pledges during the last election that don’t add up, and British households are set to pay the price, warns Harvey Jones in the Express.
“We don’t need to be afraid of the Greens any more” – From newly elected local councillors yelling “Allahu Akbar!” to a parade of ideological grotesques, Julie Burchill argues in the Spectator that the Green Party has become too absurd to fear.
“Wrong, Reuters, an early Champagne harvest isn’t proof of climate change” – Reuters’ claim that this year’s record-early Champagne grape harvest proves the impact of climate change on French vineyards mistakes one season’s unusual weather for a long-term trend, says Anthony Watts in Climate Realism.
“Nemo Nemo Nemo” – Cliscep’s Jit looks back at how claims that acidification sent fish haywire unravelled after dodgy data led to a string of retractions.
“‘King of Cap Ferret’: how I beat the bureaucrats and saved my estate from fire” – In the Telegraph, Henry Samuel tells the story of how one man took matters into his own hands, defied the bureaucrats and built a firebreak that saved his £21 million estate from devastating wildfires.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“Carney’s dagger: how Ottawa’s trade brinkmanship threatens US national security strategy” – Mark Carney’s ‘war’ rhetoric has turned a tariff row into a crisis threatening North American energy security – and the first casualty could be Alberta, not Washington, says Dr Tilak Doshi.