“Miliband signs off on Falklands drilling despite Argentina row” – Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has approved oil drilling in the Falkland Islands despite a diplomatic row with Argentina, with production potentially beginning as early as next year, reports the Telegraph.
“The chutzpah of Ed Miliband” – In the Spectator, Stephen Pollard writes that Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is a man conspicuously unbothered by self-doubt or shame.
“Eight million properties at risk of flooding by mid-century” – The Environment Agency’s claim that eight million homes in England will face flooding risk by mid-century due to climate change is challenged by Paul Homewood in Not a Lot of People Know That.
“Blocking Jackdaw and Rosebank ‘would cost Britain £11 billion’” – Blocking the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields would cost Britain thousands of jobs and nearly £11 billion in tax revenues, according to LBC.
“Britain must pick a side in the electric car battle between East and West” – With what remains of the UK car industry hanging in the balance, Britain can no longer afford to sit on the fence in the global electric vehicle battle between East and West, warns Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
“The Conversation admits fuel load is responsible for severe fires, not climate” – In Climate Realism, Linnea Lueken notes that the Conversation has conceded that poor forest management – not climate change – is behind severe Australian wildfires.
“Believe it or not: NASA study finds the Arctic melt season stopped lengthening in 2010” – A NASA study finds the Arctic melt season hasn’t lengthened since 2010, raising questions about the role of human-caused warming vs natural variability, writes Charles Rotter in Watts Up With That?
“Greta Thunberg joins Paris student protests” – Greta Thunberg has joined demonstrations sweeping Paris, condemning what she calls an “extremely violent” police response to the student unrest, reports Reuters.
“Greta Thunberg is a protest addict” – In the Spectator, Gareth Roberts asks whether there is a Left-wing protest Thunberg won’t join.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“Are fossil fuels running out?” – Have we passed peak oil – are fossil fuels running out? Richard Lyon says yes, and the transition to ‘renewables’ is making it worse. But peak oil is a myth, says Tilak Doshi, as he reviews Lyon’s book The Energy Trap.