The existing battery safety standards are grossly incomplete for the huge grid grid scale battery complexes being recklessly built in large numbers.
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April 7, 2025 at 03:58AM
Claims of ‘environmental concerns’ have been overruled. Suffocating tourism has been deemed a poor political option, despite the government’s obsession with net zero policies and the usual objections of climate miserablists.
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The expansion of Luton Airport has been approved by the transport secretary, reports Sky News.
The decision by Heidi Alexander to rubber-stamp the plans, which are for a new terminal rather than a runway, comes despite the Planning Inspectorate recommending she reject the move over environmental concerns.
The government had been considering whether to expand the airport as a means to boost UK growth, following a similar decision to give the green light to a third runway at Heathrow at the beginning of the year.
Luton Airport, the UK’s fifth busiest airport last year, wants to increase its annual cap on passenger numbers from 18 million to 32 million by the mid-2040s, allowing its runway to be used for 77,000 more flights per year compared with last year.
In 2024, 16.9 million passengers travelled through the airport on 132,000 flights.
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Johann Beckford, senior policy adviser at Green Alliance, said it was “a bad case of déjà vu”.
He added: “Doubling passenger and flight numbers will increase emissions, air pollution and noise.
“This latest misguided project does more to undermine UK climate credibility than it does to expand the economy as, once again, the growth impact of the expansion is likely to be overstated.
“With almost 90% of Luton flights taken for leisure, this decision gives priority boarding to British tourists taking their money out of the country to spend abroad.”
Full report here.
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April 7, 2025 at 03:40AM
Climate models struggle to accurately predict climate patterns.
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April 7, 2025 at 02:22AM
Why do these state-run weather departments carry on issuing data for temperature stations which no longer exist?
The United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) was established to provide an “accurate, unbiased, up-to-date historical climate record for the United States,” NOAA states, and it has recorded more than 100 years of daily maximum and minimum temperatures from stations across the United States.
The problem, say experts, is that an increasing number of USHCN’s stations don’t exist anymore.
“They are physically gone—but still report data—like magic,” said Lt. Col. John Shewchuk, a certified consulting meteorologist.
“NOAA fabricates temperature data for more than 30 percent of the 1,218 USHCN reporting stations that no longer exist.”
Hidden Behind Climate Policies, Data From Nonexistent Temperature Stations – CO2 Coalition
Regular readers may remember that this is also happening here in the UK
climate science: UK MET OFFICE UNDER SCRUTINY
Complete honesty and transparency should be the hall mark of science and the availability of data, yet what we see is the complete opposite, with data being manufactured and its source concealed. What possible reason could there be for this, other than to try and portray a false narrative?
via climate science
April 7, 2025 at 01:37AM
