“AI is blowing apart the case for Net Zero” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark says that the AI boom has blown apart the promise that ‘green jobs’ would transform the UK economy and sweep away the dirty, old economy jobs.
“Grid staff accuse bosses of covering up blackout risks” – Engineers running Britain’s electricity grid have accused their bosses of misrepresenting the risk of blackouts, reports the Telegraph.
“Reflect Orbital demos turning night into day” – Reflect Orbital has demonstrated its plan to turn night into day. What could possibly go wrong? wonders Anthony Watts in Watts Up With That?
“El Nino, sea level and Kelvin waves” – The media have been talking about oceanic Kelvin waves and their link to El Niño. Some of what they’re saying is right, but some of it is complete nonsense, says Cliff Mass on his weather blog.
“This just in: weather variable” – Weather will happen, as it always has, and it will be unpredictable, as it always was, according to Climate Discussion Nexus.
“No, climate change is not ‘gentrifying’ seafood, New York Times” – The New York Times has made the absurd claim that climate change is “gentrifying” seafood while brushing aside the major cost factors, writes Linnea Lueken in Climate Realism.
“Costly is cheap and cheap is costly” – Green energy was supposed to make power cheaper. So why are bills soaring and heat pumps need subsidies? asks Climate Discussion Nexus.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“Britain’s oil refineries are too important to sacrifice to Net Zero” – In just two years Labour has seen the closure of two of Britain’s six oil refineries due to green levies. The remaining four are much too important to sacrifice to Net Zero, says Ted Newson.