Climate News Round-Up

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

• “America’s liberal stronghold wastes $8 million on buses that stop in the cold” – Vermont’s push to make its cities eco-friendly has gone sideways after officials found out their new fleet of electric buses can’t run in cold weather, according to the Mail.

• “Climate change is not going to cost Colorado billions, Colorado Sun” – In Climate Realism, Linnea Lueken challenges the Colorado Sun’s scary climate projections with some hard data.

• “Aussie senator: US social media reluctance to censor climate sceptics – ‘this is the problem’” – Apparently, free speech is OK as long as the Australian Government thinks what you are saying is true, says Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?

• “Miliband’s Net Zero obsession ‘puts Britain at risk of Russia attack’” – Gen Sir Richard Shirreff has warned that speeding up the UK’s fossil fuel phase-out could hit its energy resilience, leaving it open to cyber attacks from Moscow, reports the Telegraph.

• “On the ‘collapse’ of the Boreal forest” – In Cliscep, Jit pokes fun at doomsayers warning of Boreal forest collapse.

• “Germany: electric car catches fire at charging station, sets off local ‘inferno’, widespread damage” – On No Tricks Zone, P. Gosselin reports on a dramatic electric car charging-station fire in Germany.

From the Climate Skeptic today:

“The Nutty £4 billion scheme to pipe carbon dioxide 120 miles that risks asphyxiating those in its path” – Only a complete nutter would spend £4 billion on a scheme to pipe carbon dioxide 120 miles through towns and villages, risking asphyxiating those in its path, says Chris Morrison. But that’s what Ed Miliband is doing.