Climate News Round-Up
The latest science-driven news and analysis to counter the cult of climate catastrophe
“The US AI rebellion is gaining momentum” – Data centers driving up energy costs and fear of job losses have become major public concerns in the US, reports Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
“Driving up the cost of energy while claiming to promote ‘affordability’” – On the Manhattan Contrarian, Francis Menton argues that politicians pushing Net Zero policies are engaged in political lies that go far beyond mere spin.
“Chefs see red as Michelin axes ‘green star’ for sustainability” – The Michelin Guide has abruptly retired a prize for eco-friendly restaurants and said chefs will no longer be able to advertise that they have won it, reports the Times.
“Climate change apocalypticism was a fashion, not a cause” – Democrats have discovered that end-of-world rhetoric doesn’t win elections when voters can’t pay the bills, notes Noah Rothman in Climate Change Dispatch.
“RCP 8.5: when the spherical cows escape the barn” – The discredited worst-case emissions scenario is being wheeled out of the lab and presented to bank regulators, judges and the public as if it were real, writes Charles Rotter in Watts Up With That?
“Blowing hot and cold” – The outlook for Britain’s Net Zero energy strategy is bleak, says Mark Hodgson at Cliscep.
“Attenborough’s ‘facts’ seven years on” – On his Substack, Paul Homewood revisits David Attenborough’s 2019 broadcast Climate Change – The Facts and finds his claims of climate doom have not aged well.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“Fact-checking the climate change committee’s latest doom report” – The latest report from the Climate Change Committee claims Britain is set to see soaring temperatures and sharp rises in flooding and storms by 2050. There’s just one problem, says Paul Homewood: none of it is plausible.
At worst meat farming might account for 5% of gases. But McDonald's disproportionate meat production accounts for 2% or more, add in other takeaways and that 5% becomes minimal. Stop McDonald's etc. not natural meat consumption. Why don't you call for that Bill Gates?
Could you be sacrificing families for big business?
Another potential news item from the BBC. On 20.05.26
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r834z8ze8o
Lake study shows ways to 'cancel' climate impact
"The EA's research, in collaboration with the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, (UKCEH) suggested Windermere's mean temperatures would rise by 2.4 to 2.5C by the late 2070s due to climate change.
This temperature rise, assuming nothing changed with the way the lake was managed in terms of local agriculture and sewage entering the lake, would lead to an increase in the waterbody's concentration of nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen."
Cannot find the study. The UKCEH has a press release on 01.05.26 about Lake Windermere.
https://www.ceh.ac.uk/press/worrying-warming-trend-windermere-over-past-80-years
Worrying warming trend at Windermere over past 80 years
“Long-term monitoring data collected by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) show that surface temperatures in Windermere, the largest lake in England, have warmed by 1.5 degrees in the last 80 years. “
If there is warming of 1.5C in 80 years, then a straight-line prediction would be ~1C in 50 years. RCP8.5 top estimate predicted 4.8C of global warming 1850-2100. With 1C by 2020, this would be 3.8C 2020-2100 or 2.4C in 50 years. If this is the case, the UKCEH research will confirm.
The proposal is to spend millions of pounds, whose justification is based on implausible warming estimates.