Those who wonder how low scientific integrity can go at the UK Met Office must continue to wonder. Surely by now it would have withdrawn its 2018 UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) report when it used only a RCP8.5 computer pathway to suggest UK summer temperatures could rise 5.1°C by 2070. Preferably with the fulsome apology for all the harm and concern caused after the IPCC ruled the notorious pathway was “implausible”. No chance. In fact, it seems to be doubling down.

Bill Gates released a video arguing that persistent aircraft contrails are “just clouds” but still warm the planet, and that airlines can avoid making them. He framed contrails as a major piece of aviation’s non‑carbon impact and suggested that cutting them could shave a meaningful share off warming. The claim touches a nerve. Many Americans distrust top‑down climate fixes from billionaires. They also want straight answers that do not empower unelected global players.

With the first East Coast snow of the season having already hit the ground at Mount Washington

“Major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas ... by 2020!" reported The Guardian in 2004. But wait, 2020 was six years ago! No cities are underwater. In this video, I debunk activists' claims about polar bears, droughts, bees, food shortages and more: https://t.co/3CBpG6TjtE

— John Stossel (@JohnStossel) October 10, 2026

The recent criticism of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) is not an issue of climate skepticism or denial. There is no denial of facts that the planet is warming and what may be the consequences. As much as activists want to paint the crisis along the lines of a right-wing v left-wing political conflict, this emerging scandal is a result of unethical academic behavior by a small group of highly-paid climate attribution interest groups.

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump takes huge VICTORY LAP after the climate change "experts" at the United Nations announce they were WRONG "GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that “Climate Change” is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG!

The cost of paying Britain’s wind farms to turn off has soared past £1.5 billion so far this year – according to new figures that will infuriate households squeezed by soaring energy bills.

Analysis shows the sum has already gone past the £1.47 billion total for last year, with three months still to go.

On windy days, turbines can produce more power than the local grid can cope with – so operators are paid to turn them off.

In addition, gas-fired power stations closer to urban areas where demand is greatest are paid to turn on, to replace this lost energy.

It may be raining cats and dogs in the lower elevations of Taos County, but it is snowing at a fairly good clip on the Highline in Taos Ski Valley, live web cams showed Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 30). The Highline Ridge, at about 12,000 feet above sea level, offers access to some of the best black diamond ski trails at the resort.

Hours after this story was originally posted, rain turned to snow in the Kachina Basin nearly 2,000 feet below the Highline. The Bavarian Restaurant, fairly the landmark edifice in the Kachina Basin, is approximately 10,000 feet above sea level. 

A call for the controversial Jackdaw and Rosebank projects in the North Sea to be given the go ahead has been rejected by Holyrood – with the Tories accusing both the SNP and Labour of “dogmatic ideology and virtue-signalling” on oil and gas.

Scottish Conservative energy spokesman Liam Kerr led a debate in the Scottish Parliament in favour of developing the Jackdaw gas field to the west of Aberdeen and the Rosebank oil and gas field, which is in waters north west of Shetland.