Climate News Round-Up

• “Emergency alert was inappropriate, says chairman of fire chiefs” – National security officials raised concerns that the wildfire emergency alert would backfire by encouraging the public to disable the alert feature on their phones, reveals the Telegraph.

• “All the times emergency alerts have gone wrong – how to turn them off” – In the Mail, Shivali Best notes that recent years have seen several incidents in which emergency alert systems have misfired, and explains how to disable them on your phone.

• “Burnham is set to make a ‘life or death’ decision on the North Sea oil” – Andy Burnham’s looming decision on new North Sea drilling could spell “life or death” for the industry, reports the Mail.

• “Andy Burnham expected to delay North Sea oil decision over ‘optics’” – Andy Burnham is expected to push a decision on two North Sea oil and gas projects into the autumn because of concerns about the “optics” of approving new drilling during a summer of heatwaves and wildfires, reveals the Times.

• “‘Hardcore’ Right-wingers are fuelling Net Zero backlash” – An ally of Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh has claimed that hardcore Right-wingers are deliberately stoking a backlash against Net Zero, reports the Telegraph.

• “Scrap Net Zero and enjoy the weather” – Reform UK’s Deputy Leader has called for Net Zero to be abandoned, describing the drive towards it as an “arrogant” attempt to halt climate change, says the Times.

• “Climate alarmists go silent: turns out fossil fuels are Earth’s ‘Miracle-Gro’” – New research shows that nitrogen deposition from burning hydrocarbons has expanded plant growth and driven the greening of large parts of the planet, directly contradicting the climate alarmist narrative on fossil fuels, according to Vijay Jayaraj at CO2 Coalition.

• “British Gas threatened disabled pensioner with court over incorrect £2,000 bill” – British Gas threatened to take a 69 year-old disabled pensioner to court over an incorrect £2,000 gas bill that took her the best part of a year to resolve, reports the Telegraph.

• “Clean-up binned ‘after the council said the bags won’t be collected’” – A huge litter clean-up had to be scrapped after bureaucrats at Newport City Council’s waste department said the rubbish would have been put in the wrong type of bin bags, according to the Mail.

“Welcome to the third world! Emergency blackout rules expose the true cost of Britain’s renewables gamble” – New rules let grid bosses impose rolling three-hour blackouts on millions of homes with just eight hours’ notice – and no political approval needed. Is this what ‘energy security’ looks like? asks Paul Homewood.