# net zero (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover net zero. Page: Feed: --- ## [NOAA Proposes Amending the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5)](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/21/noaa-proposes-amending-the-fifth-national-climate-assessment-nca5/) _2026-08-21 · Charles Rotter · Watts Up With That?_ Its answer amounts to: go back and check the work. The post NOAA Proposes Amending the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [Labour MP Deletes Post Claiming Private Sector Would Not Exist Without Government Contracts](https://order-order.com/2026/08/21/labour-mp-deletes-post-claiming-private-sector-would-not-exist-without-government-contracts/) _2026-08-21 · Max Young · Guido Fawkes_ Vocal Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash has deleted an X post which read: “Public sector workers use their income to pay FOR the private sector. The state is one of the biggest procurers of the private sector. It wouldn’t exist without tax payers. People creating the divide between public and private genuinely don’t understand how an… ## [Harry & Meghan Demand Privacy From Press](https://order-order.com/2026/08/21/exc-harry-meghan-demand-privacy-from-press/) _2026-08-21 · Max Young · Guido Fawkes_ A message landed on editors’ desks this week from the press regulator IPSO: “PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL; NOT FOR PUBLICATION IPSO has today been contacted by a representative acting on behalf of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Editors will be aware that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are relocating to the UK, along with… ## [Comparison Of Two German Weather Forecasts: From 25 Years Ago and From Today](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/21/comparison-of-two-german-weather-forecasts-from-25-years-ago-and-from-today/) _2026-08-21 · Guest Blogger · Watts Up With That?_ Escalating climate language: 25 years ago, 28°C was “pleasant”…today it is called “extremely dangerous”. The post Comparison Of Two German Weather Forecasts: From 25 Years Ago and From Today appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [Borrowing Rises Above Forecasts in July](https://order-order.com/2026/08/21/borrowing-rises-above-forecasts-in-july/) _2026-08-21 · Max Young · Guido Fawkes_ New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that total UK debt is at £2.985 trillion. A hair’s breadth of the £3 trillion mark… Borrowing was higher than OBR forecasts at £1.8 billion in July, up £0.7 billion on the same month last year. Self-assessed income tax was collected last month and total receipts… ## [The Data Center Backlash Has a Practical Fix](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/20/the-data-center-backlash-has-a-practical-fix/) _2026-08-21 · Guest Blogger · Watts Up With That?_ The third rail was never the data center. It was the leader who reached for the easy win and forgot whose backyard it landed in. The post The Data Center Backlash Has a Practical Fix appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [Psychedelics for Climate Action (12,000 cultists)](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/20/psychedelics-for-climate-action-12000-cultists/) _2026-08-21 · Guest Blogger · Watts Up With That?_ “Our psychedelic-climate leaders are active today, creating change and doing compelling transformational work in this space.” The post Psychedelics for Climate Action (12,000 cultists) appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [California’s New Tire Mandate Could Drive Up Costs](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/20/californias-new-tire-mandate-could-drive-up-costs/) _2026-08-20 · Guest Blogger · Watts Up With That?_ If California’s leaders truly wanted to lower costs at the pump, they’d start by getting out of the way of refining capacity instead of dictating the chemistry of your tire rubber. The post California’s New Tire Mandate Could Drive Up Costs appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [Claim: “Natural Variability” Hid the Real Magnitude of Global Warming Between 1981 and 2014](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/20/claim-natural-variability-hid-the-real-magnitude-of-global-warming-between-1981-and-2014/) _2026-08-20 · Eric Worrall · Watts Up With That?_ When the observations disagree with the model, claim the model is right anyway? The post Claim: “Natural Variability” Hid the Real Magnitude of Global Warming Between 1981 and 2014 appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [State Press Body Uses Arday Affair to Push Government Into Media Regulation](https://order-order.com/2026/08/20/state-press-body-uses-arday-affair-to-push-government-into-media-regulation/) _2026-08-20 · Max Young · Guido Fawkes_ The Press Recognition Panel, the state body set up to ‘oversee regulation of the press’ after the Leveson Inquiry and endorse regulators (of which there is only one), is using Jason Arday’s death to push for the state to regulate the press more tightly. In come the campaigns… The PRP is a state body established… ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1R4Uo2asdLnm) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [VOTE NOW: The Guido Fawkes Reform Power Rankings (August Recess Edition)](https://order-order.com/2026/08/20/vote-now-the-guido-fawkes-reform-power-rankings-august-recess-edition-4/) _2026-08-20 · Adam Cherry · Guido Fawkes_ Click here to fill in the survey, and the results will be published at the end of the month. Here’s how the last result played out… 1 Nigel Farage – 12.95 2 Robert Jenrick ▲ 1 10.47 3 Danny Kruger ▲ 3 10.20 4 Richard Tice ▼ 2 10.06 5 Lee Anderson – 9.68 6… ## [YOUGOV: Most Londoners Don’t Want Khan to Stand for Fourth Term](https://order-order.com/2026/08/20/yougov-most-londoners-dont-want-khan-to-stand-for-fourth-term/) _2026-08-20 · Adam Cherry · Guido Fawkes_ New YouGov data shows that 56% of Londoners don’t want Sir Sadiq / Lord Khan to stand for a fourth mayoral term. Including almost a third who voted for him in 2024… Most Londoners also think the capital is a worse place to live than it was a decade ago, even if Khan himself thinks… ## [Welsh Government Hands More Than £800,000 to Asylum Seeker ‘Sanctuary’ Charity](https://order-order.com/2026/08/20/welsh-government-hands-more-than-800000-to-asylum-seeker-sanctuary-charity/) _2026-08-20 · Max Young · Guido Fawkes_ The Welsh Government is handing out hundreds of thousands in taxpayer contracts to organisations supporting asylum seekers, despite immigration being a brief reserved to Westminster. Plaid… Last week Sioned Williams, thr the Welsh Deputy First Minister and ‘Cabinet Minister for Social Justice and Equality’ said the Welsh Refugee Council has been “allocated £840,000 (including VAT)… ## [The Financial Times Says War and Climate Change Spiked Shipping Costs: War, Yes; Weather, Yes; Climate Change, NO!](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/20/the-financial-times-says-war-and-climate-change-spiked-shipping-costs-war-yes-weather-yes-climate-change-no/) _2026-08-20 · Guest Blogger · Watts Up With That?_ It is unfortunate that these weather conditions have coincided with at war in the Middle East that has resulted in multiple bottlenecks or closures of major shipping lanes at the same time, but that has nothing to do with climate change. The Financial Times stepped outside their area of expertise in making the climate change assertion, and by doing so has badly misinformed its readers. The post… ## [Burnham: Security for Harry & Meghan Is ‘Private Matter’](https://order-order.com/2026/08/20/burnham-security-for-harry-meghan-is-private-matter/) _2026-08-20 · Max Young · Guido Fawkes_ Burnham said: “It’s a matter for Harry and for Meghan, and we wish them well in the move that they are making.” Sorry Harry… ## [LIVE: Suella Braverman and Richard Tice Vow to Scrap Loans for Foreign Students](https://order-order.com/2026/08/20/live-suella-braverman-and-richard-tice-vow-to-scrap-loans-for-foreign-students/) _2026-08-20 · Adam Cherry · Guido Fawkes_ ## [Lucy Powell Defends Taxpayer-Funded Posters Telling Illegal Immigrants Not to Rape Women](https://order-order.com/2026/08/20/lucy-powell-defends-taxpayer-funded-posters-telling-illegal-immigrants-not-to-rape-women/) _2026-08-20 · Max Young · Guido Fawkes_ The posters were published yesterday by the Home Office. They warn asylum seekers, among other things: Women are allowed to “earn their own money” and “make their own decisions about their lives.“ Do not make sexual remarks about someone “even if you think it is a compliment“, whistle or make “kissing sounds” at someone. Do… ## [Sue Gray: Working in Starmer’s No10 Was “Unbearable”](https://order-order.com/2026/08/20/sue-gray-working-in-starmers-no10-was-unbearable/) _2026-08-20 · Adam Cherry · Guido Fawkes_ Keir Starmer’s ex-chief of staff Sue Gray has given both barrels to her former colleagues in Number 10, claiming it was “unbearable” working in Starmer’s team and lamenting the briefings against her during her (brief) tenure in Downing Street. She told Ed Balls on the Political Currency podcast: “Stories about supposedly trying to move Morgan… ## [New Report Says Miliband’s Clean Power Plan Will Cost £320 Billion](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/20/new-report-says-milibands-clean-power-plan-will-cost-320-billion/) _2026-08-20 · Guest Blogger · Watts Up With That?_ The indisputable facts they have put forward must be the strongest argument yet about abandoning Ed Miliband’s mad dash to decarbonise the electricity system. The post New Report Says Miliband’s Clean Power Plan Will Cost £320 Billion appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [Mahmood Plots Rwanda-Style Crackdown on Failed Asylum Seekers](https://order-order.com/2026/08/20/mahmood-plots-rwanda-style-crackdown-on-failed-asylum-seekers/) _2026-08-20 · Adam Cherry · Guido Fawkes_ Shabana Mahmood is drawing up a Rwanda-style scheme to remove failed asylum seekers to third countries, two years after Labour scrapped the actual Rwanda plan on the grounds that it was “a gimmick“. It turns out ‘smashing the gangs’ wasn’t a deterrent after all… Mahmood said in an interview with the Sun: “We are also… ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xEyV48AiczTJ) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [Blue States. High Rates ($0.55/gallon premium)](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/19/blue-states-high-rates-0-55-gallon-premium/) _2026-08-20 · Guest Blogger · Watts Up With That?_ The political signal in gasoline prices is real, but it is a signal of accumulated policy choices: fuel taxes, carbon taxes, and regulatory environments built over decades, rather than of who happens to hold office right now. The post Blue States. High Rates ($0.55/gallon premium) appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [Washington Lit the Fuse for Africa’s Energy Explosion](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/19/washington-lit-the-fuse-for-africas-energy-explosion/) _2026-08-20 · Guest Blogger · Watts Up With That?_ The boy in Cabo Delgado and the girl in Rivers State are the first generation with a plausible route out of poverty their grandparents never had, and that pathway runs through the hydrocarbons their economies require. The post Washington Lit the Fuse for Africa’s Energy Explosion appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [Woke 1.0 Is Still Alive in the Democrats’ Energy Agenda](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/19/woke-1-0-is-still-alive-in-the-democrats-energy-agenda/) _2026-08-19 · Guest Blogger · Watts Up With That?_ People can change their minds. But voters are entitled to ask a harder question: What happened when these politicians actually had power? The post Woke 1.0 Is Still Alive in the Democrats’ Energy Agenda appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [Aussie Climate Minister turns to International Labor Unions to Fill Seats at his No Show Fiji Climate Conference](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/19/aussie-climate-minister-turns-to-international-labor-unions-to-fill-seats-at-his-no-show-fiji-climate-conference/) _2026-08-19 · Eric Worrall · Watts Up With That?_ Could this taxpayer funded climate conference possibly get more embarrassing? The post Aussie Climate Minister turns to International Labor Unions to Fill Seats at his No Show Fiji Climate Conference appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [IN FULL: Explore Andy Burnham’s £360,000 of Financial Interests](https://order-order.com/2026/08/19/in-full-explore-andy-burnhams-360000-of-financial-interests/) _2026-08-19 · Max Young · Guido Fawkes_ Andy Burnham is billionaire-funded. He has Lord Sainsbury to thank for his leadership campaign getting buttered… The PM has today as a new MP published his interests stretching back a year. Explore all of Burnham’s declaration below: Total registered £359,053.99 Lord Sainsbury alone £164,347.42 45.8% of everything registered ▸ Top donors £359,053.99 Lord Sainsbury of Turville… ## [Reform Attacks Tory Claire Coutinho Over Net Zero Past](https://order-order.com/2026/08/19/reform-attacks-tory-claire-coutinho-over-net-zero-past/) _2026-08-19 · Max Young · Guido Fawkes_ Reform has produced a dossier of Claire Coutinho’s net zero-positive statements from her time in office. Ministerial lines and all that… Reform’s would-be Energy Secretary Richard Tice said: “Claire Coutinho was instrumental in growing the Department for Net Zero and famously said “nothing will distract us from achieving net zero”. Her report today is a… ## [Voluntary Tax Payments Drop Again](https://order-order.com/2026/08/19/voluntary-tax-payments-drop-again/) _2026-08-19 · Max Young · Guido Fawkes_ The ‘tax us more’ crowd have again proven their hypocrisy as the cash sent voluntarily to HMRC dwindles for another year running. The ‘Patriotic Millionaires’ not looking so rosy now… In the 2025 calendar year 47 individuals contributed a measly £88,807.48 to the government’s coffers. In 2024 £643,370 was sent in… In this year so… ## [Hydrogen: Not Market Ready](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/19/hydrogen-not-market-ready/) _2026-08-19 · Guest Blogger · Watts Up With That?_ Recent setbacks with the above in-process projects all but ensure that the original goal of 76 “green” hydrogen projects, part of the Biden-era goal of Net Zero by 2050, will not be reached. The post Hydrogen: Not Market Ready appeared first on Watts Up With That? . ## [Only Half of Eligible Taxpayers File First ‘Making Tax Digital’ Return](https://order-order.com/2026/08/19/only-half-of-eligible-taxpayers-file-first-making-tax-digital-return/) _2026-08-19 · Max Young · Guido Fawkes_ Just over half of eligible taxpayers filed their first of five annual tax returns in the hated new ‘Making Tax Digital’ scheme. This is going to be a disaster… Last year HMRC told more than 864,000 sole traders and landlords that they were required to enter Making Tax Digital for Income Tax from 6 April… ## [Zero-Persistence E2EE (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8kg7v5QApZ2j) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ End-to-end encryption with client-side WebCrypto and volatile memory. ## [The Climate Policy Trap: Why Failure So Often Leads to More of the Same](https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/19/the-climate-policy-trap-why-failure-so-often-leads-to-more-of-the-same/) _2026-08-19 · Guest Blogger · Watts Up With That?_ Group identity, social status, and a credential-dominated policy establishment make the climate narrative increasingly immune to disappointing results, argues Evert Doornhof of Clintel. The result is a climate policy trap in which failure doesn’t lead to reconsideration, but to even more climate policy. The post The Climate Policy Trap: Why Failure So Often Leads to More of the Same appeared first…