News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
While China advances with cutting-edge nuclear power, Britain's green zealots have us stuck with sky-high bills and a nuclear sector in disarray, says Ben Pile.
The West's headlong rush to jettison fossil fuels and hit 'Net Zero' CO2 emissions is impoverishing us while enriching China, which is ramping up its coal-fired industry to sell us all the 'green' technology.
Porsche has scrapped its sales targets for EVs amid a slump in demand. A previous goal of 80% by 2030 has been watered down and the company now says sales will depend on uptake and how the technology develops.
Bizarre and unrealistic, the National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios report is a wild jumble of impractical ideas and unfeasible technologies, says David Turver.
Donald Trump has vowed to axe Government support for electric cars and other green schemes from "day one" if he regains control of the White House.
There's a reason that electricity costs twice as much in Britain as in the USA, says Dr. John Fernley. It's because of brainless plans like Ed Miliband's to power us with a sun that doesn't shine when we need it most.
The problem with heat pumps is they're fundamentally uneconomic, and no amount of shifting the costs around can hide that, says Andrew Montford. So beware the Government's latest bait-and-switch ruse to get you to buy one.
Britain doesn't have enough land for all the solar panels that would be needed to power Labour's nutty Net Zero agenda, says Ben Pile. Truth is, you can't make everything electric and run it on sunshine.
Over 80% of the temperature stations opened in the last 30 years by the U.K. Met Office have been sited in junk locations. Don't they want unbiased data, asks Chris Morrison.
NHS waiting lists sit at record levels, yet the Royal College of Physicians finds time to produce a Green Physician Toolkit, which reads like a parody and would be amusing if it wasn't so serious, says our in-house doctor.
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