“Google finally admits renewables don’t work for powering data centres” – Google’s management has conceded that battery technology cannot meet the power demands of data centres, prompting accusations that the company knew renewables were inadequate for the task a decade ago, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
“Labour plans to hike ‘boiler tax’ to £140” – Households could face a £140 “boiler tax” under Labour’s plans to more than double the number of heat pumps, reports the Telegraph.
“Why are power grid bosses gaslighting us?” – The National Energy System Operator is repeatedly dismissing serious control room failures as “unusual” events, even as the grid buckles under the strain of Net Zero, writes Juliet Samuel in the Times.
“Next financial crisis ‘to be triggered by uninsurable homes’” – ‘Experts’ are warning that Britain faces a financial crisis as climate change makes homes harder or impossible to insure, says the Telegraph.
“IPCC is under pressure to delay publication of key global climate report” – Some oil-producing countries and major developing nations want to delay a key UN climate report, but vulnerable countries warn that putting it off could spell disaster, reports the Guardian.
“As clichés rage” – The Climate Discussion Nexus dissects the media’s relentless deployment of the phrase “as wildfires rage” and exposes the clichéd template underpinning climate change reporting.
“Nuclear power at ‘warp speed’: magical thinking meets statism” – Bipartisan enthusiasm for fast-tracking nuclear power is opening the subsidy floodgates while ignoring the free-market conditions the industry has never actually had, says Robert Bradley Jr. on Master Resource.
“Why Tom Cruise’s Digger flopped at the box office” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that the dismal box-office performance of Tom Cruise’s climate blockbuster signals that audiences are finally tiring of Hollywood’s green preaching.
“Greta Thunberg is the personification of empty activism” – Greta Thunberg will bounce from one grievance to the next so long as the cameras are on her, says Joanna Williams in the Telegraph.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“Preparing for the end of oil: a reply to Tilak Doshi” – Peak oil is real and we must prepare for its exhaustion now as it’ll be too late once the price is spiking, says Richard Lyon as he responds to Tilak Doshi’s review of his book The Energy Trap.