Green/Climate

2022-12-04

Love him or hate him, David has been at the forefront of the exposure of the global project to convert the world into a global-corporate-fascist-government slave colony, seemingly from time immemorial.

He is also very articulate and clearly expresses his views. We may not always agree with everything he says, but does he have the right to say it?

Free speech has become a bit like Brexit - of course we are all free to express ourselves - or to live free of control by the EU - but of course (!) there are limits (which may be invented/interpreted differently to suit the elite at any time).

It used to be that the law clearly recognised that the freedom to only speak without offending anybody is not worth having. In recent years the invention of "hate speech" and other more or less elastic definitions of speech that some people won't like has reached an incomprehensible level of ever mutating convolution, designed to keep us constantly confused and scared to

2022-12-03

This site has never made a secret of our distrust of the Green narratives. None of the apocalyptic predictions of rising sea levels, overheating climate, polar bear extinctions etc have come about, and the "great and the good" still buy waterfront mansions with complete insouciance - don't they know that rising sea levels will wash them away?!

Now the self-inflicted energy crisis is concentrating the minds of industrialists, if not yet (or ever) of politicians, and it is dawning on them that the proposed switch to EVs is unsustainable without the gas to power them (and of course there is the comparatively minor matter of getting enough lithium... ).

Sensibly China India et al are not at all inconvenienced as they (rightly) have no qualms about building coal-fired power

2022-12-02

Opponents of fracking say it's 'too dangerous'.

The cold and miserable say 'do it - we're cold and winter is upon us'.

The government says 'we'll regulate it'...

The people say 'you think we're going to trust you?!'.

Stymied!

And yet...  nothing is without risk.

And I'd bet that there must be plenty of fracking projects that don't pollute.

So if mistrust in the government is the stumbling block, can we take them out of the equation?

Why should it be the government that regulates everything? Could not the local populace reach an agreement with the oil explorers concerning who would

2022-12-01

We haven't historically heard much about the global warming effect of nitrogen but the Dutch are hearing about it in a big way.

Now nitrogen can indeed be involved in warming (nitroglycerine being a cause of extremely rapid warming being a case in point) but nitrogen in gaseous form in fact constitutes the major part of the atmosphere and doesn't normally burn in oxygen at all (just as well!). That hasn't changed any time recently to my knowledge.

Nitrogen is also the central constituent of ammonia, which is asserted to be a greenhouse gas, but the principal greenhouse gas is (drum-roll please!) water - and I await with interest the WEF-UN's plans to remove this primary threat to the planet from the planet.

Perhaps in time we will be informed that the useless windmills which have been erected all around our shores in the vain hope of providing abundant reliable green power to our nations will soon be repurposed to drain the oceans...   (and,

2022-11-21

Another riotously successful climate conference concluded, with much material for awaiting journalists to report to their eager readerships.

Not to be outdone, NetZero Watch add in their two-pen'orth for good measure - and some might say bring some much-needed realism and humour (not specifically in that order) to the topic.

The dreadful truth of course is that the War on Climate was the front-runner for the War on Terror, and lately the War on Pandemics - none of which can ever be determined to be won, since how would you define "winning"?

To measure the changing climate with any accuracy is a fools errand, given the chaotic nature of the contributing weather patterns; we might need accurate statistics spanning a century before a real trend could be determined and even that might not be enough.

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2022-11-18

Arthur Firstenberg, author of "The Invisible Rainbow", probably knows as much about the effects of electromagnetism on the planet as any man alive. In his book, he documents the effects of introducing electrical technologies over the last couple of centuries, and illuminating reading it is. From the very first experiments with electricity to the rolling out of military radars and civilian cellular telephone systems, little escapes his scrutiny, and a compelling case he makes without a doubt - even if there is (as with all human endeavour) the possibility of error in regard to specific instances.

Nevertheless there is abundant scientific literature to confirm that EMFs as we know them today can be

2022-11-17

"What is COP27? A serious intellectual conference, a visit to the fleshpots, or a giant tribal show of solidarity and fierceness? To try to find out, we contacted Canada’s Ministry of Climate Alarmism to ask four simple questions"

OK, this is not a report from a committed climate-zealot, but it does illuminate the underlying self-important incoherence and obfuscation of our climate elites (or should that be "their elites"?) rather nicely.

"... spew money, spew carbon and then spew excuses... "

Would you buy a used car from these people?

On the face of it, It might be a better deal.

2022-11-17

Given all the subsidies that governments around the world have been lavishing on the "Green" agenda for decades, we are now within sight of the much vaunted Net Zero, right?

Climate Discussion Nexus brings us up to date on the state of play in the US:

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2022-11-14

"The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) sounds a warning over a problem it caused in the first place, namely food disruption. How? By talking nations into restricting nitrogen fertilizer to grow bountiful crops"

Whilst we in the affluent West (well, most of us anyway) have never know what it is to go hungry, many in less affluent countries (and some in the more affluent) could well be about to find out.

This is what happens when global politicians declare "climate emergency", blame CO₂, and then switch gears to abruptly take out supplies of... nitrogen fertiliser? No, me neither.

It appears also to have escaped their notice that if they would only increase the amount of CO₂ in our air, the green crops would thank them by growing enough food to feed the world (there's a reason that commercial greenhouses feed their plants extra CO₂), but that's by the by.

Macron - Climate Change - Clif High

2022-11-10

Apparently, it can happen, and indeed has happened, and to a very senior politician at that.

Who would have thought it?

“For too long the costs of Net Zero policies have not been given adequate attention by policy makers or the media. There is far too much wishful thinking about pressing ahead with decarbonisation as quickly as possible, and too much demonisation of those who are asking legitimate questions”

Amen to that.

The Global Warming Policy Forum reports.

2022-10-22

Jeff Taylor blows his stack over the recent gluing of "Eco-loons" to London roads, to the evident satisfaction of the police in attendance.

But he also draws attention to a real problem (plus more) with electrics cars...

"These costs are xx times the benefits, even when using the government's own valuations of the environmental benefits"

... not to mention a few problems with our politicians.

The overall "carbon reduction"? Hmmmm.

And the final comments on our political systems? That's for all of us to judge.

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2022-10-20

Round-Up (for those unaware) is a herbicide that (a) farmers spread over their crops and (b) contains glyphosate (commercial product only) which courts have found to be a carcinogen and have awarded damages accordingly.

Big Agri has also developed GMO crops that are glyphosate-resistant, so they score twice - sell the farmers a herbicide and sell them herbicide-resistant seeds!

(Not so different from Big Pharma, whose doctors end up prescribing drugs to mitigate the side-effects of other drugs... )

The IRT (Institute for Responsible Technology) suggests that this isn't such a good idea, and put forward pertinent points in support of their case.

I suggest that heaping technology solution upon technology solution is an inherently idiotic approach (unless you are

2022-10-16

I guess that this title was one of the most memorable quotes from the BBC's Gardener's Question Time, and probably the most insightful. Not being a gardener, I never deliberately listened to that programme, but nonetheless the quote has embedded itself firmly in my psyche. Why? Well, isn't it a simply outstandingly obvious truth?

You want better plants? Firstly, cultivate better soil.

So why do farmers persist with using artificial fertilisers on exhausted farmland to compensate for poor soil conditions?

Charles Eisenstein writing for The Defender (Children's Health Defense) reports from the heartland of US farming, Kansas.

The collapse of the land's fertility led to the collapse of the communities that lived there.

"I got the impression that the heartland is like a supersaturated solution ready for a phase transition. A mote of dust, a small vibration touches

2022-10-16

Fortune provides a downbeat analysis of Europe's options for energy supply in winter 2023/24...

"Any hope that flows along the Nord Stream could resume before next winter were effectively dashed at the end of September when the pipeline was damaged and began leaking hundreds of thousands of tons of methane into the North Sea"

(but note that apparently one of the four pipes may still be operational)

But while Nordstream may remain largely inoperable for a time even if Ukraine makes peace with Russia, there is more downside to come if they don't:

“The main fear is

2022-10-14

This is a UK Column News edition that you won't want to miss...   although those of a depressive disposition might prefer to pass over it.

"... they can't build the solar panels and... the windmills because the cost of energy is too much"

Still, forewarned is forearmed, so plunge in(82 minutes).

2022-10-11

"No-one did the homework"

The UK is held up as an energy basket-case, a warning for all Aussies. Not to mention a warning for us.

Not for the first time, Sky News Australia speaks truth unto power.

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2022-10-10

"This is the full interactive seminar with Paul Burgess, a climate specialist who has been developing a mathematical model of climate change for the past 30 years! In this mind blowing 1 hour and 45 minute lecture, your eyes will begin to open as you see the way they have twisted the stats to try and prove climate change is real"

Paul Burgess talks climate change for Students against Tyranny. He has made it his job to investigate and work out the truth about climate change (in so far as that may be within the capabilities of any one man). He isn't just repeating what others have told him.

Pay attention - the first two graphs set the scene most eloquently.

(103 minutes)

2022-10-07

Net Zero Watch tells it like it is, but will anybody listen?

Relying for energy on those whom you regard (rightly or wrongly) as enemies doesn't seem like a good idea.

Exploiting your own domestic energy supplies is therefore the key to prosperity.

It's a testament to the relentless brainwashing of past decades that this needs to be said at all, but it's also a truism that we don't appreciate what we have until it's taken away from us.

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2022-10-07

No normie in their right mind takes a blind bit of notice of the proceedings at the WEF-United Nations, couched as they invariably are in dry and frankly turgid UN-speak, using words and phrases that seem wholly unobjectionable, even desirable, to any normal thinking person. Behind these phrases however lurk specific agendas and intentions which if spelt out would incite disbelief and fury.

The Brownstone Institute republishes a Substack article by Dr Robert Malone, who points up the wholly unscientific idea that the UN now believes that it controls "the science" and can demand that no "other science" should be accessible.

In other words, group-think officially guaranteed.

If this isn't the pinnacle of absurdity and arrogance I don't know what is.

The implication is that only UN-affiliated "scientists" trained and paid by UN-affiliated institutions can be allowed to voice their UN-approved opinions in the