“Britain needs cheap energy but Net Zero isn’t delivering” – With Ofgem’s energy price cap set to rise a further 4% in October to £1,723 for a typical dual-fuel household, the case that Net Zero is failing to deliver affordable energy grows ever harder to ignore, says Kathryn Porter in the Telegraph.
“The ONS, the doubt and the lost benefit” – The ONS and UN keep stacking the scales towards heat deaths while sidelining cold risks, writes John Ridgway at Climate Scepticism. There is just too much clumsy work going on here for it to be perfectly innocent.
“Claim: solar saved the day when heatwaves forced shutdowns of European nuclear plants” – In Watts Up With That?, Eric Worrall challenges the claim that solar energy rode to the rescue when heatwaves forced European nuclear plants offline.
“Wrong, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, nuclear power isn’t the reliability problem” – In ClimateRealism, Anthony Watts argues that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ claim that nuclear power is unreliable is flatly contradicted by the facts.
“UK energy schizophrenia (all pain, no gain)” – UK energy planners are falsely blaming geology rather than Net Zero for the decline in North Sea production, says Robert Bradley Jr in Watts Up With That?
“How undersea geological activity could influence El Niños” – In Climate Change Dispatch, Thomas Richard writes that undersea eruptions, seafloor heat and the Ring of Fire may be an overlooked geological driver of El Niño events.
“Apocalypse not: decades of failed doomsday predictions refuse to die” – From resource depletion and mass starvation to peak oil and climate catastrophe, dire predictions have repeatedly failed to materialise – yet continue to shape policy, says Wilfred Reilly in Climate Change Dispatch.
“Father’s VW EV repeatedly accelerated on its own” – A single father has vowed never to buy a Volkswagen EV again after he says it assumed a mind of its own on a busy road, almost killing him and his young children, reports the Mail.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“Green rules mean Britain can’t even recycle a fridge” – Fridges are piling up in laybys across the country as recycling centres refuse to take anymore. It’s the backfiring result, in part, of pettifogging green waste disposal regulation, says Ben Pile.