Politicians have long championed the electric car.

But now the House of Commons Transport Select Committee has raised serious concerns about their widespread use.

According to these MPs, electric cars could place so much demand on the National Grid that it won’t be able to cope. Huw Merriman MP, chair of the committee, argues that in parts of the country electric cars may even cause blackouts.

Seven years after its last report in 2014 on the state of climate science (AR5) the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) will publish a report on Monday, updating the global public on the latest data, observations, and predictions about climate change.

But will it acknowledge reality?

Britain’s climate tsar was accused of hypocrisy last night for flying to at least 30 countries – and not isolating afterward.

Alok Sharma has traveled tens of thousands of miles over the past seven months to prepare the ground for the COP26 global environment summit this autumn.

But despite visiting at least six countries on the travel ‘red list’, he has been given a ministerial exemption from hotel quarantine each time.

Yale University — which has a center devoted to climate change communications — and George Mason University issued a series of reports about what action Americans are taking to fight so-called climate change and found that only a small minority of Americans have signed a petition or donated money for the cause.

The academics behind the latest poll emphasize the majorities found among Americans, such as 52 percent who say they have purchased an energy-efficient kitchen appliance and 89 percent use energy-efficient lightbulbs in their homes, “including about seven in ten (71 percent) who say ‘all’ or ‘most’ of their lightbulbs are energy efficient.”

On Thursday, President Joe Biden signed yet another executive order, this one to do with what the White House in a fact-sheet describes as an “ambitious target” when it comes to making 50 percent of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles.

Below are a series of fact-checks of the 13 most common climate claims such as those made in the recently released Fourth National Climate Assessment Report.

The authors of these reviews are all recognized experts in the relevant fields.

For each claim, a brief summary of the relevant rebuttal is provided below along with a link to the full text of the rebuttal, which includes the names and the credentials of the authors of each rebuttal.

Climate-Change-Claim Fact-Checks With updates through 07/29/21.

The gas-guzzling private jet owned by climate czar John Kerry’s family has already taken 16 flights this year alone, online records show.

Flight Aware data indicates the most recent flight on Kerry’s family jet was on Wednesday when it traveled from Idaho’s Friedman Memorial Airport to Boston.

Trips were also made earlier this week between Idaho and California.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its cost estimate of the bipartisan infrastructure deal.

The CBO, like the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget two days ago, found that only about half of the $550 billion in new spending is paid for by the legislation.

Because of the CBO’s methodology, it’s possible it is still underestimating the ultimate impact on the deficit. It gives credit for $51 billion in savings for delaying the implementation of a Medicare prescription drug rule that has never been in effect, to begin with.

Last week, the website Ecowatch reported the Greenland ice was melting so fast, there was enough new water to cover Florida two inches deep.

The article began:

“Ice sheets in Greenland are melting so rapidly due to high temperatures in the Arctic that the amount of ice melt from Tuesday was enough to cover all of Florida in two inches of water, according to the researchers at Polar Portal.”

The Biden Administration goal of net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050 faces some troubling supply-chain issues, like child labor in the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and, not to put too fine a point on it, slave labor in China.

One case in point is polysilicon. Polysilicon is one of the basic building blocks for solar panels.

And solar panels are the basic building blocks for the part of the net-zero economy, you know, the economy that has no gas cooktops, gas water heaters, Bunsen burners, or gasoline-powered cars.