Climate News Round-Up

The latest science-driven news and analysis to counter the cult of climate catastrophe

• “BP turns to Venezuela as it rejects Burnham’s Britain” – BP has secured a licence to drill for gas off the coast of Venezuela just a fortnight after announcing plans to quit the North Sea, says the Telegraph.

• “Britain races against the world to unlock energy’s holy grail” – The UK’s quest to make nuclear fusion a reality is approaching the scale of the Manhattan Project, writes Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.

• “Street burned down by record heat: charred remains of six houses” – Fire chiefs are investigating whether A-level students lighting barbecues to celebrate their results started a wildfire that destroyed six homes on a millionaires’ row, according to the Mail.

• “Government issues temporary ban on disposable BBQs over wildfire risks” – Officials have declared disposable barbecues a “significant risk to the public”, reports the Mail.

• “Labour faces backlash after ‘needless’ emergency wildfire alert” – The Government is facing backlash for sending out a “needless” emergency wildfire alert to millions of people’s phones in England and Wales, says the Mail.

• “One hot summer won’t silence us climate change sceptics” – In the Spectator, James Delingpole argues that climate evangelists rely on emotional rather than intellectual arguments precisely because the science does not support their alarmist conclusions.

• “Burnham to slash electric car targets” – Andy Burnham is set to cut quotas for electric vehicle sales as drivers continue to favour petrol and diesel, says the Telegraph.

• “Porsche could axe its first electric car before 2030 as demand slows” – Porsche is reportedly planning to cull its first series-production electric car, the Taycan, by the end of the decade, reports the Mail.

• “Who can fathom the eternal optimism of EV enthusiasts?” – Issues & Insights examines the puzzling persistence of optimism among EV enthusiasts, even as automakers continue to absorb heavy losses.

• “Indonesia and India are jointly planning a hydrocarbon-powered future” – Two of Asia’s most populous and fast-growing nations are deepening ties around fossil fuel energy, charting a course that cuts sharply against the green agenda, notes Vijay Jayaraj at CO₂ Coalition.

• “Misinformation” – In Climate Scepticism, John Ridgway takes aim at the Government Office for Science’s slippery definition of ‘misinformation’, arguing it lets climate scepticism be branded misinformation even when it’s factually correct.

From the Climate Skeptic today:

“The Climate Skeptic podcast | Episode 57” – On the show this week, Ellie Hodges sits down with the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor Chris Morrison to ask why decades of declining wind-speed data have disappeared from the Met Office’s latest climate report and what it means for public trust in Britain’s climate institutions.