The Green Party leader has admitted that she still has a gas boiler despite her party’s commitment to reach Net Zero by 2040. The Telegraph has the story.

Last week, the weather was pleasant and often balmy across the U.K., and to take full advantage of the gently rising warmth, there was no better place to be than Heathrow Airport.

There have been two (at least) lithium-ion battery plant fires in the last 24 hours, one of them deadly, serving as yet another reminder that these types of fires are entirely different beasts; first, from a report at BBC News this morning [emphasis, links added]:

Throughout the history of science, what we once held as irrefutable truth has often been overturned by new evidence and evolving perspectives.

Today’s media are filled with concerns about air pollution.

A new study has found that AI systems known as large language models (LLMs) can exhibit “Machiavellianism,” or intentional and amoral manipulativeness, which can then lead to deceptive behavior.

Electric power is a necessity of modern life, particularly for employers. Without electricity, modern society quickly collapses.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has used the claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to push the Paris Climate Agreement, and based on that, the quest for Net Zero emissions.

The Democratic presidential ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris promoted COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy to defeat President Trump.

Australia has seen a 20-year downward trend in productivity.

The McCullough Foundation, informative update on the current H5N1 global situation has received considerable attention and garnered valuable feedback. Here are the key takeaways:

Pierre Chaillot is a statistician and author from France who has been exposing the data related to COVID-19 since early 2020.

Readers of my previous articles will know that I have been very critical of MHRA’s regulation and management of the safety of medicines.

Environment Canada has pumped out a Xeet with the summer temperature forecast map of Canada covered in flaming orange red almost from coast to coast to coast, with a thin band of blue/grey down the West Coast.

Sales of electric vehicles plunged across Europe last month, fuelled by a sharp drop-off in demand in Germany and the Netherlands. The Telegraph has more.

Recent calculations by the distinguished atmospheric scientists Richard Lindzen, William Happer and William van Wijngaarden suggest that if the entire world eliminated net carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 it would avert warming of an almost unmeasurable 0.07°C.