“Polls show no one cares about climate change” – US voters have decisively tuned out the climate change agenda, with recent polling showing it ranks at the bottom of public concerns, reports Breitbart.
“Rail officials to investigate role of heatwave in train derailment” – Rail officials are set to examine what part the summer heatwave played in last week’s East Sussex train derailment, according to the Telegraph.
“Households brace for surging energy bills this winter” – Household energy bills are on course to soar to their highest level in three years, wiping out any savings from Andy Burnham’s VAT cut on electricity, says the Telegraph.
“Tories pledge to scrap ban on diesel lorries” – The Conservatives are promising to reverse Government plans that would ban sales of new HGVs weighing up to 26 tonnes from 2035 unless they meet Net Zero requirements, reports the Telegraph.
“EU green tax to hit British farmers” – Farmers face a doubling of fertiliser prices when an EU Net Zero border tax is introduced in January, according to the Telegraph.
“The FT says war and climate change spiked shipping costs: war, yes; weather, yes; climate change, no!” – In ClimateRealism, Linnea Lueken argues that the Financial Times is misleading readers by attributing spiking shipping costs to climate change when the data point firmly to war and weather as the real culprits.
“The climate policy trap: why every failure leads to more policy” – In Clintel, Evert Doornhof notes that rising energy costs, grid congestion and industrial decline are met not with careful reconsideration, but with yet more climate policy, driven by institutional self-interest.
“Woke Canadian town officially recognises trees as beings with rights” – A small town in Quebec has become the first public entity in North America to sign onto the Universal Declaration of Tree Rights, which argues that a tree is “a sentient living being”, reports the Mail. Does that apply to nut trees?
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“The climate debate was never about saving the planet vs doing nothing – it was always about statism vs the free market” – Opposing EV mandates, ULEZ and Net Zero isn’t climate denialism – it’s taking a stand against state overreach, says the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Ted Newson.