“Trump is exposing Britain’s energy folly” – In the Spectator, Ross Clark writes that Ed Miliband’s claim that exploiting more North Sea oil and gas would make no difference to energy security is precisely the kind of folly that Trump is exposing.
“University of Reading professor explains how Britons will have to do without when renewable energy is unavailable” – A University of Reading professor has outlined a future in which ordinary Britons must go without power during renewable energy shortfalls – while the wealthy face no such hardship, reports Eric Worrall in Watts Up With That?
“State censorship” – John Ridgway in Climate Scepticism raises the prospect of algorithmically enforced state censorship arriving in Britain.
“The UK city with a £100 million plan to turn grey into green” – Wolverhampton has unveiled a £100 million plan to replace concrete with green space in a bid to transform the much-derided city’s urban landscape, reports the Times.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“Net Zero is Destroying Rural Scotland” – Rural Scotland is under threat from a Net Zero subsidy scheme that is seeing large areas of the Highlands ‘rewilded’ and turned into peat bogs, driving out traditional pursuits like deerstalking.
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