“Re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic” – The Budget does little to tackle soaring energy costs, though hints of a retreat from Net Zero suggest the penny may finally be dropping, writes Mark Hodgson in Climate Scepticism.
“England records its wettest week for two years after Austen and Boelo” – This week has been the wettest in England for two years after Storms Austen and Boelo battered the country – but parts of the South have remained in a drought, according to the Mail.
“Wrong, AP and NPR: Europe’s 50,000 heat deaths are a computer-model estimate, not a real body count” – NPR claims that more than 50,000 Europeans died from heat this year, yet the figure is a statistical estimate from computer models and not a real body count, writes Anthony Watts in the ClimateRealism.
“Same hospital, new label. Our World in Data finds a third of bilateral project aid is now ‘climate-related’” – A third of bilateral project aid is now labelled “climate-related”, which raises the question of how much pledged climate finance is simply the old aid budget with a green sticker on it, says Charles Rotter in Watts Up With That?
“Wildfire trends: are fires becoming more frequent?” – At Clintel, Ralph B. Alexander looks at historical wildfire trends and questions whether fires are becoming more frequent or intense.
“Whisper words of wisdom. Climate ASMR experiment finds no effect on anything, sees potential anyway” – A study has found that autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) made no difference to people’s attitudes or behaviour, yet researchers still claim the technique could help persuade people to go green, reports Charles Rotter in Watts Up With That?
“Ideologues try their hand at ordering up an electrical grid powered only by ‘renewables’” – El Hierro’s much-vaunted 100% renewable grid has never managed more than 56% wind power in a year. So why are Britain and others repeating the same expensive experiment? wonders Francis Menton in the Manhatten Contrarian.
“Colder and snowier than normal in the Northwest: this is not the El Nino pattern” – The US Northwest is running colder and snowier than normal in a pattern that is emphatically not the typical El Nino one, notes Cliff Mass on his weather blog.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“London is letting its bridges fall down to ‘save the climate’” – London’s bridges are falling down, and some are now closed indefinitely. Yet councils can find money for endless climate-saving schemes despite supposedly having none for bridges. This is no accident, says Ben Pile.