https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/26/the-weather-outside-is-frightful-so-is-labours-climate-forecast/
Drill now, apologise later.
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Three days of back-to-back storms – Austen on Friday, followed immediately by Boelo – caused flooding, power cuts for almost 83,000 households and travel chaos across swathes of the UK. Winds of over 80mph were recorded, roads were blocked and flood waters surged in apocalyptic scenes. Two men were killed by falling trees.
After a summer of extreme temperatures, drought and a food production crisis, with more than 2,800 excess deaths due to consecutive heatwaves in May and June alone, you’d think the government might be taking a more muscular approach to the climate emergency.
But just days before the UK was plunged into killer-storm territory, Andy Burnham’s government approved new North Sea drilling in the form of the Jackdaw gas field.
Climate experts are clear: no new oil and gas fields are compatible with keeping global heating around the 1.5°C mark. Jackdaw and the as-yet-unapproved Rosebank oil field, the two new North Sea projects previously halted in the courts over their climate impact, are not an exception.
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And congratulations might be in order for the climate-wreckers once again, with Whitehall ‘sources’ briefing on Saturday night that Burnham and chancellor John Healey are set to “defy eco-zealot Ed Miliband” and approve Rosebank, despite energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh insisting she’s the only one who can make the final decision.
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https://novaramedia.com/2026/10/26/the-weather-outside-is-frightful-so-is-labours-climate-forecast/
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