“Burnham warns of energy crisis as bills to soar by most in years” – Andy Burnham has warned that UK households face their steepest energy bill rises in four years this winter, reports the Sun.
“Diesel crisis deepens as UK’s biggest refinery shuts for 10 weeks” – Fawley refinery in Hampshire will be closed until November for planned maintenance, adding to fears of a squeeze on fuel supplies across the country, says the Telegraph.
“Diesel price crosses £2-a-litre amid pleas to cancel fuel duty hike” – The average diesel price on the Government’s Fuel Finder site has reached 200.03p per litre, heaping pressure on ministers to reverse the planned fuel duty increase, according to the Mail.
“Polanski urges Miliband to block Rosebank oil field over Israel links” – Zack Polanski has called on Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to halt development of the Rosebank oil field because of its alleged ties to Israel, reports the Telegraph.
“Green Party bans ‘unacceptable’ words like ‘mother’, ‘female politician’ and ‘homosexual’” – Green Party members have been told to replace terms such as “mothers and fathers” with gender-neutral terminology under new guidance on inclusive language, according to the Express.
“Inside the Green Party’s Orwellian language guide” – In the Spectator, Noa Hoffman reveals an exclusive look into the Green Party’s glossary of officially ‘unacceptable’ language, published ahead of its conference this weekend.
“The National Trust should stick to the day job, not lecture us on climate change” – In the Spectator, Harry Mount argues that the National Trust has no business blaming climate change for the fires on Dunwich Heath in Suffolk this summer.
“‘More and more severe storms’: when can we declare this hypothesis to be definitively falsified?” – Francis Menton writes on his Manhattan Contrarian blog that the much-repeated claim that fossil-fuel-driven climate change increases the frequency and severity of hurricanes is long overdue a reckoning.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“Legacy media weep as Trump axes Biden’s fuel economy diktat” – The New York Times and the rest of the legacy media are in mourning after President Trump axed Biden’s pro-EV fuel economy standards. But real fuel efficiency shouldn’t need a mandate, says Dr Tilak Doshi.