Climate News Round-up

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

• “If you think your bills are bad now, just wait” – The US, and especially the UK, may be dangerously on course for a sovereign debt crisis, yet debt and deficits play a surprisingly minimal role in either country’s politics, notes Lionel Shriver in the Spectator.

• “Driving behind a Tesla” – Stuck for 20 minutes behind a Tesla on a winding upstate New York road, Francis Menton, on his Manhattan Contrarian blog, finds fresh reason to despair of electric vehicles.

• “Hauliers, hotels and farms ‘in survival mode’ as fuel costs rise” – Many businesses in rural areas are at breaking point as a surge in the price of heating oil and diesel adds to pressure from rates rises and the minimum wage, reports the Times.

• “Britain set for hottest May day on record” – Britain is on course to break the hottest May day on record, currently 32.8°C set more than 80 years ago in Tunbridge Wells, says the Telegraph.

• “The world has seen the light on energy, except Ed Miliband” – As other countries scramble for energy security, Britain seems determined to leave its own fossil fuels in the ground, says Robert Colvile in the Sunday Times.

• “Is your chicken dinner ‘poisoning’ Britain’s rivers?” – A boom in industrial chicken farming is creating a waste product that campaigners claim is “like asbestos” for Britain’s waterways, reveals Rosa Silverman in the Telegraph.

From the Climate Skeptic today:

“UK Climate Change Committee’s latest weather witterings indicate Met Office chief should step down” – The CCC’s claim that Britain must spend £11 billion a year adapting to 4°C of warming rests on a scenario the IPCC has just declared “implausible”. Heads should roll at the Met Office, says Chris Morrison.