“Why green zealots want to drop ‘Net Zero’” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark argues that the Commons Energy Security Committee’s call to drop the term ‘Net Zero’ is a cynical rebranding exercise designed to rescue the discredited policy by ditching only its toxic label, not its substance.
“Britain teaching kids they have to save the world from climate change” – As Britain teeters on the brink of a self-inflicted green economic catastrophe, children are being indoctrinated to demand ever more aggressive climate action, writes Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
“Fantasy climate models effectively denied energy to the poor: the White House just set the stage for change” – A debunked climate agenda built on fantasy models has kept millions in the developing world locked in energy poverty, but a new White House intervention could finally rewrite the rules, says Vijay Jayaraj in Watts Up With That?
“Aberdeen hydrogen bus fleet sold for just 6% of original public investment” – Aberdeen’s much-trumpeted hydrogen bus fleet has been sold for a mere 6% of the taxpayer money originally spent on it, revealing the true cost of the city’s green transport experiment, notes Paul Homewood in Not a Lot of People Know That.
“Moss Landing battery plant fire reignites, stoking fresh safety concerns statewide” – A fresh fire at California’s Moss Landing battery storage facility has renewed alarm over the health impacts of large-scale battery installations and the state’s accelerating reliance on them, reports the Hemet and San Jacinto Chronicle.
“Taxpayers foot £420,000 bill for eco-boiler to keep sex offenders warm” – A Dorset prison is spending £420,000 on a Net Zero-compliant boiler to heat workshops used by sex offenders, says the Telegraph.
“Don’t waste water on full-body baptisms, judge tells church” – A judge has blocked an Anglican church in Nottingham from installing a full-immersion baptism font, ruling that the water use cannot be justified, writes the Telegraph.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“The Vatican’s Green Gospel” – Under Pope Francis and now Leo the Catholic Church has drunk deeply of the climate Kool-Aid, says Professor Roger Watson. It’s about time it quit the pseudo-scientific scaremongering and got back to saving souls.