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2024-04-09
Has the onward march to our Net Zero future got bogged down in the quicksand of government "incompetence"?
Every passing day it seems that more reasons emerge to indicate that Net Zero is the impossible dream.
The latest dive behind the scenes into what is actually going on (or not going on) comes courtesy of Fortune and Freedom.
"Renewable energy projects are taking decades to connect to the electricity grid. High voltage lines are proving as popular as wind farms"
You could say that it's gridlock.
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2024-02-20
It seems reasonable to assume from their name that the Good Law Project is all about good law.
It isn't therefore necessarily about good climate science, but the Government in its all-knowing wisdom has enshrined its binding net zero targets in law, I suppose because that's the only thing they know how to do.
Of course, that doesn't mean to say that the targets will actually be met, but there's a good chance that it won't be this government that's in place when the targets fall due and the lawsuits begin to fly.
Anyway, the Good Law project, mindful no doubt of the sometimes lengthy nature of legal proceedings, has shrewdly got its retribution in first and compelled the government to disclose its assessments of the risks that may bedevil these now legally binding targets - and I guess to nobody's surprise, insubstantial these risks are not.
Regular readers of this site will know what we think of these targets already.
It's a pity that the Good Law Project chooses to illustrate its article with a needlessly alarmist picture of a world consumed by fire, but we must hope that's just to placate the green lobby.
However, we do support their endeavours to hold the government to account for legalising a bunch of make-believe targets in order to grandstand to a green lobby totally besotted with the UN-WEF's make-believe about a demonstrably bogus climate catastrophe. Politicians that set legal traps for themselves to walk into are welcome sources of merriment and ridicule, not to mention lawsuits and easy copy for journalists, and we should make the most of them.
A real question arises though - when these targets are missed, who gets arrested?
Of course the risk is that the government will now initiate a desperate and wholly unworkable attempt to bring forward all its unaffordable and ultimately doomed projects to install innumerable off-shore wind farms around our coasts and on-shore wind farms in all the opposition's constituencies, all to net zero effect when the wind doesn't blow.
This will further confirm their stupidity (sadly at enormous cost) but it will also help to bring home that stupidity to the population.
In the end however, since one parliament cannot bind a subsequent parliament, the day that the government is forced to concede defeat and repeal this damaging legislation before they all get arrested perhaps draws that bit closer.
2024-02-21
Climate Change Committee “deceived Parliament and the British people”
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2024-01-31
As the label on Waitrose-reduced items says, this is "too good to waste".
A veritable compendium of modern madness gets the Nick Hubble treatment today.
"The whole net zero pitch is looking so implausible that I increasingly expect it to simply fade away altogether"
and to be honest, I am with him. "Transition" will simply transition imperceptibly into a new meaning - we will be for ever transitioning, burning fossil fuels in the interminable and ultimately hopeless quest for "green", simply because the green mirage will, like all mirages, simply fade further away before ultimately disappearing before we get there.
Don Quixote, you were just an amateur.
This is now so obvious that even some parliamentarians are "getting it"!
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2024-01-01
And it may be best if you make sure you aren't driving it when it dies ...
Zerohedge reports on a winter driving experience that the author probably wished he hadn't had, but it highlights the quite simple primary reasons why EVs as currently powered by battery simply aren't a very workable idea, unless you just want to use it as a local runabout. Even then, can you afford a new battery when the original battery dies?
There was much talk originally of swapping batteries in and out at service stations, which would solve some of these problems at a stroke and seems to be being adopted in China's EV market (although I don't remember just now where I read that). But western manufacturers never adopted that solution, which seems somewhat perverse, although the problems of swapping multiple physical battery sizes at service stations would quickly become impracticable should more than one size be involved.
Maybe EVs are a solution in search of a problem? It certainly seems that they are fast becoming a solution in search of a customer now that the market needs to expand beyond the too-rich-to-care crowd that have already bought them.
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2023-12-03
Many may view COP28 as a sideshow, taking place as it does in the UAE which many of us may struggle to pinpoint on a map of the Middle East.
Nevertheless as a sideshow it must rank right up there with the main shows, boasting as has been variously reported either 70 thousand perhaps 97 thousand "delegates" and possibly an influx of around 140 thousand persons altogether. And no, they didn't come by bicycle.
The COPs are, as my learned readers will know, charged to work out the practical steps necessary to achieve the Net Zero objectives as set by the luminaries at the UN-WEF "partnership" and their many "stakeholders". Nevertheless, the politicians being much in evidence, the primary discussions reported seem to be centring around the language to be used in that awkward final communiqué - should they talk of phasing fossil fuels "out" or phasing them "down"?
As the COP28 President no less (host nation UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber) has stated (reportedly slightly testily) that "there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels" one can only imagine how this discussion will end.
Whether there will be time left to devote to determining any kind of actual action plan beyond the usual pious pontificaions remains to be seen, but it's early days perhaps - after all, this is only the seventh COP to be held with this objective.
I'll leave it there.