Climate News Round-Up
The latest science-driven news and analysis to counter the cult of climate catastrophe
“Local 10 examines why expensive electric buses sit in disrepair in Miami-Dade, Broward” – Ninety-six million dollars’ worth of electric buses are sitting idle across South Florida, with some dumped in landfill and others parked at an air force base, according to Local 10.
“Leftists fake tears about high energy prices, but ignore the foreign-funded lawfare” – Progressives wringing their hands over energy bills are ignoring the foreign-funded legal campaigns that blocked domestic production and drove those prices sky-high in the first place, says Larry Behrens in Watts Up With That?
“Ed Miliband’s crusade against gas will help no one” – Eco-zealots have misunderstood the meaning of energy security, argues Dillon Smith in CapX.
“UK should forego North Sea Oil expansion because nobody needs oil and gas” – The head of the International Energy Agency has told Britain to abandon North Sea expansion on the grounds that nobody needs oil and gas anymore – a claim that will land oddly with anyone paying their energy bills, says Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
“European energy policy is accelerating towards the wall” – Faced with clear evidence their energy policies are heading the wrong way, European leaders have responded by pressing harder on the accelerator, notes Evert Doornhof in the Liberum.
“It’s the cold, stupid!” – Multiple peer-reviewed studies confirm that cold kills around 20 times more people than heat – a finding that sits awkwardly with the relentless focus on warming as the great killer, writes P. Gosselin on No Tricks Zone.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“Time for the UK Met Office to reform its junk temperature statistics before it’s too late” – Two years on from the Daily Sceptic’s ‘junk station’ scoop, the Met Office is still leaning on dodgy, heat-skewed readings from badly placed sites – and, if anything, it’s getting worse, says Chris Morrison.
These eco zealous are stupid. I come from a mining family. They have absolutely no idea what they are doing. The amount of oil used for machinery which drives most production processes, included their beloved wind turbines, is not inconsequential.
On the hot and cold deaths, there can be no claim that global warming will reduce cold deaths. A 2021 study disproves it. This found 5.1 million deaths per annum due to abnormal temperatures, and nearly all were due to cold. But the breakdown by country or region was counterintuitive. That is one would expect the highest cold-to-heat death ratios in the cold countries. It was not. Based on 2000-2019 data.
In the UK there was 5.6 times more cold-to-heat deaths, in Australia 6.2 times and in Africa over 46 times. The region highest rates of cold deaths per 100,000 people was sub-Saharan Africa. It is poverty that makes people susceptible to cold deaths, not the annual average temperatures.
If people used a little logic, they would realise that UK net zero policy will have no significant impact on global emissions, but it is increasing energy bills. Cold deaths are likely to increase as energy poverty increases.
https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/worlds-largest-study-of-global-climate-related-mortality-links-5-million-deaths-a-year-to-abnormal-temperatures