The Speccie often has interesting writers, Germaine Greer and Auberon Waugh for example .I'd imagine they make for a better panel than the brainwashed graduates who write for the leftie mainstream press Grauniad et al.

Minimum wage is USD 16.5 per hour, but most service bots will also get penalty rates (50-100% typically) for working evenings, public holidays or weekends. It is not unusual for cafes and the like to have higher prices at weekends and public holidays.

My 2.2 tonnne Ford 4wd gets 25 mpg. My 1 tonne Ford Escort (1973) got .... 25mpg.

Your mate is wrong.

When I first got a company car it did 12 l/100km. 25 years later the same model of car was grtiing less than 9, despite 25% more par, and meeting tighter emissions regs.

Your mate is wrong.

Except it is publicly funded

The South Koreans built a 5 GW nuclear plant in UAE for $32B. Australia needs about 24 GW, say $200B

As the last graph shows successive estimates have improved the reduction from LULUCF back in time -how convenient. I agree, deforestation was (and is)a blight but Labor have their hands tied by CFMEU and the Coalition doesn't care. Perhaps the new EPA regs will help.

Australia claims to have reduced CO2 emissions by 30% since 2006. If you exclude Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) it has fallen by just 4%, mostly electrical generation. Other sources have increased. LULUCF is a very flaky bookkeeping exercise, easily manipulated.

Sorry, good numbers, but the important number is the minimum, not the maximum. The minimum tells you how much more stuff you need to install. Incidentally the Royal Society's report said that the UK needs 11 weeks of storage to get around one in 37 year dunkelflautes. Or of course as many nukes as you can, done with a will they can be up and running for about $10/W and built in 10 years. This does involve getting rid of a lot of green tape and lawfare. The UK designed the first commercial reactor in 1 year and built it in 3 years.

But China hasn't done it. 87% of their total energy spend is fossil fuels, and 62% of electricity is from fossil fuels. They are fortunate to have a lot of hydro, 13%, meaning that wind and solar came in at 18%. So fossil fuels make up more than 350% of wind and solar.

Fair point, but NYT is just as bad on some subjects- for instance their coverage of the climate apocalypse or whatever they want to call it this week. It's always a good idea to check if your source has TDS, which is usually funny, M(urdoch)DS which is usually paranoid and funny or I(srael)DS which is disgusting.

"Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales maintains that neutrality remains the site's core policy."

Kinda sorta. The hive mind certainly enforces the policies selectively, and is happy to pile on, making it impossible for edits to stay in the article. They are happy to include non peer reviewed primary source stuff in articles that support the woke POV but will insist that primary sources are deprecated if used as a criticism.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. The idiot-in-chief at the UN is correct, it is, and always was, inevitable that 1.5 will be exceeded, and that was before the AI fad. If the entire world had gone all in on nuclear for baseload and a whole bunch of other things (no airplanes for you, more than half of my CO2 budget is flying), then it might have been possible, but that was never going to happen.

"he testing is assuming people are able to easily charge and can be bothered to do it"

Because that is what the test protocol says t do. If they design a better test (they can very easily) then they'll get more representative answers. It is not dieselgate, primarily, as it is not the manufacturers messing about, it is the EU testing authority has its head up its arse (as usual).

And will the Met Office be measuring this with Class 1 instruments or will they carry on using vast numbers of Class 4 or Class 5 weather stations, and the ones they make up?

Did you fly? Then you are the problem, not the solution.