DaveS,

Yes, that statement stood out for me too. Difficult to reconcile with the Energy Minister's statement:

it's clear that there is no strong local support.

"Cadent said it would be "disappointing to the many residents who told us they wanted their community to play a pioneering role in decarbonising how we heat our homes in the UK"."

Oh dear, how sad, never mind.

Turns out that not everybody wants to be in the vanguard to heat their homes with hydrogen.

And here's Tony Heller's latest, on the recent excitement about "highest ever" global mean surface temperature.

tomo,
It used to be a character flaw to go around with a chip on your shoulder, but the rainbow people do it with pride.

Jo's latest shows where we're all headed. The Kiwis are welcome to take the lead. As I commented there, Fahrenheit 451 seems to be a suitable guidebook for this aspect of the madness.

Been busy the last couple of days, unlike this blog...

Listened to the recent Brendan O'Neill podcast with David Harsanyi on the problems with U.S. democracy. Kind of agreed with the general mood of it, but in blaming democracy, he seems to be using a strange definition of the word. His real beef seems to be with government encroachment into every aspect of our lives. Oh yes!

He didn't say what he'd like to replace democracy with.

Followed this link from a comment at Jo Nova's. It sounds interesting, and the Mahle name has good cred, but the article (and the press release it was based on): pure fluff. Modelling is mentioned a few times — are they announcing the results of the real motors, or just the models?

Speaking of electric motors, had an interesting experience driving last night. Road was quiet as I approached a car stopped at traffic lights. I moved to the other lane in the hope they'd go green by the time I got there. No such luck. Evidently the driver of the white Volvo SUV didn't like my effrontery thinking my old jalopy might pass his car. When the lights went green, the Volvo silently dematerialised and was 100m up the road by the time I had the clutch out. It was uncanny, and he fairly showed me! Fun, I'm sure, but what sort of a dent did it put in his range.

Ross Lea,
I'm with you. Steer clear of the statins.

Thanks for the link to the Judith Curry article. Plenty of uncertainty in it, so not the sort of thing the newshounds will latch onto. They like a nice simple message of impending doom.

Did grind my teeth a bit at it referring to "sulfates". I have a vague memory that the world chemistry people made an arrangement with the Americans: Ok, we'll spell it "sulfur" if you'll use "aluminium". The Americans agreed, but have stuck to "aluminum" anyway. FWIW, I find the "sulfur" spelling the more irritating of the two.

That's my first visit to Judith Curry's site in a couple of weeks, so I also caught up with her involvement in the "Our Children's Trust v. Montana" legal case. For a supposedly scientific question, it's impressive how far the debate can stray from science.

In comments to that article was this mash-up video of one Dr. Peter Hotez and his frequent today-show appearances selling COVID vaccines. He may well have been tutored at the P.T. Barnum school, but I don't think he quite made the grade.

This from Jim Johnstone and Judith Curry on why the North Atantic are warmer than usual.

https://judithcurry.com/2023/07/02/whats-causing-the-extremely-warm-temperatures-in-the-north-atlantic/

She who must be obeyed took Statins for a while but suffered muscle weekness and pain and had to give it up. I would not touch the stuff !

I see that I can no longer see Twitter links. Apparently a new policy.

On segregation, my dad (though not yet) did a stint as ship's surgeon for Ellerman Lines in 1954. One of his fellow officers, also young, warned him about catching buses in New York. He had climbed into the back and started to take a seat when he felt hands upon him. He was ejected with the words "Whites sit up front". Neither south nor north seemed to care all that much about the "main motivation" for the Civil War.

Apparently there is a remedy for the side-effects of statins. We had the cure. Now we have the cure for the cure.

A recent EconTalk spoke in glowing terms about The Acceleration of Tranquility, a 1996 essay comparing where we appeared to be heading and where we had come from. A bit on the arty side to me, but I do agree with the general thrust (and live it, to a certain extent, e.g. by eschewing the Internet most weekends).