Green/Climate

2023-07-07

Russell Brand meets Tucker Carlson.

Who would have thought it?

Well, we don't have to invent it, it's now done.

See what you think!

(80 minutes)

2023-07-07

Despite allegedly becoming cheaper every year, the corporate-political windmills are now turning furiously to demand ever higher subsidies from our government, no doubt to stave off disaster.

"The  budget for fixed-foundation offshore wind alone would need to be at least two and a half times higher than its current level to maximise the capacity which could now be secured in this year’s auction"

Unforeseen costs it seems may be to blame. At least, they are being blamed. But who should have foreseen them? And were those that did foresee them ignored and sidelined?

What has the Department of Energy / Department of Energy and Climate Change / Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy been doing since 1974, apart from changing its name, consuming lots of resources, devising incomprehensible power auction schemes,

2023-07-05

A calm discussion comparing the status of energy provision in Australia with the state that pertains in the UK and Europe.

The discussion may be calm but the upcoming consequences of the current political trajectories may be a very long way from calm.

The northern hemisphere has been subjected to what we might call accelerated shock in terms of energy supply (due to the sanctions in support of the Ukraine) which has had some effect in concentrating minds.

"... they are telling the armed forces to decarbonise... "

How are matters likely to unfold in the future?

As usual, the issue is dominated by the politics, but might the market respond and save the day?

Maybe not, but perhaps we can buy our energy from overseas ... ?

This doesn't seem to be about to end well any

2023-07-05

At last - somebody who has crunched the numbers on what it will take to achieve all the legal targets that have been set world-wide to keep "global warming" within the magical 1.5^oC, even assuming that that's what we need to do.

Can it be done?

"Current renewable energy systems generally have a lower Energy Returned on Energy Invested ratios (ERoEI) than current fossil fuel-based systems. They may not be productive enough to replace fossil fuels.  As such, they may not be the energy foundation for the next industrial era, but a steppingstone to some other kind of energy generation system not yet identified"

How can we do it?

"This is actually a mining problem"

"There is no other source for those metals"

"The idea of being managed from a central point is almost never going to

2023-06-30

"Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit... Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them"King James Bible Matthew 7: 17-20

Oxford City Council should pay attention. Their reworking of Broad Street in furtherance of their Net Zero ambitions that we should all get out of out motor transport (and what exactly?) doesn't inspire J Sorel:

"The new sitting area... isn’t a paved-over section of its own, but is instead grafted straight onto the tarmac itself – this is not an attempt to build something, but to deface something else"

"The purpose of this place isn’t for people to sit, but simply to obstruct the street"

"The ... bollards are irregular in shape and irregularly placed, forming a jagged line.

2023-06-29

We may have to try harder to keep up - Norway has now joined Sweden in rejecting unreliable energy from "renewables" but unlike Sweden is reverting to oil and gas.

Well, I suppose they have to keep the lights on somehow.

Who will be the next to break from the ranks of the green man?

2023-06-29

Net Zero Watch publishes a paper which analyses the code behind NASA's Model E Climate simulation.

We have written about the relationship between computer modelling and science before. That article was occasioned by the failure of Prof Ferguson's Covid modelling, but at the end of the day any computer model is simply a computer program written in order to simulate a specific system according to the understanding of the modeller. That understanding may or may not be based on science - or more specifically, on the scientific method.

Models may be simple or they may be extremely complex, but of itself, complexity does not equate to "science"!

So here's a surprise -

Climate Change Battle Taken to Council

2023-06-28

"Swedish Parliament, Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson warned that the Scandinavian nation needs “ 'stable energy system' "

Who would have thought it?

"... wind and solar power are too 'unstable' to meet the nation’s energy requirements... "

"Swedish Government is shifting back to nuclear power and has ditched its targets for a '100% renewable energy' supply"'

Well, that took some time. Still, there's more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repents than over the ninety and nine just men.

I wonder how long the other European nations will hold out?

2023-06-26

It's only when it hits us in the pocket that we take note.

As if it hasn't hit us hard enough yet in the pocket (despite years of unproductive subsidy), the wind farms are showing their true (lack of) mettle.

To engineers it probably isn't a surprise that a turbine that has to work safely and productively in multifarious wind conditions from storm-force to flat calm (not to mention similar directional variability, bird strikes etc) may exhibit reliability problems (ie: break down). They are subject to such wide and uncontrolled conditions of operation that failure is an ongoing problem. The latest news from manufacturer Siemens would seem to confirm this.

But will any of "our" representatives in Parliament and local government notice?

"The implications for the UK’s Net Zero policy, built around an assumption of ever cheaper wind power, are profound"

2023-06-26

Ivor Cummins, whose excellent contributions to keeping us sane throughout the Covid years were huge, here discusses the origins of the New World Order with Dr Jacob Nordangard. Unlike his Covid presentations there is no discussion of numbers on charts and graphs - it's a comfy relaxed fireside chat this time - albeit quite a long one - but there are a lot of conspiracy theories scams to cover...

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2023-06-23

Sandi Adams of Glastonbury Council fame, interviewed by Brian Gerrish of UK Column, explains her view of current developments (some might say undevelopments) which appear locally but which seem to emanate (via various obscure routes) from UN Agenda 2030.

Whilst Agenda 2030 is discussed at UN level, or even at national level, Joe Citizen doesn't take much notice, but when it comes into Joe's own backyard he sits up and takes notice. 

And it is now coming into our backyards everywhere.

The countryside's farmers are going to be replaced by countryside management - but management on behalf of whom? One thing seems for sure, it won't be for those who actually live on the land.

(68 minutes)

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2023-06-21

If you can't debate them, ridicule them.

The Climate Alarmists are an anti-intellectual lot who prefer to insist that "the science is settled" rather than to debate the issue, even though climate science is quite possibly the most complex topic in the universe, and if it really was settled then man would already rival God in the intellectual stakes.

Maybe they think that the IPCC is God, I don't know.

Still, John Robson of Climate Discussion Nexus reports on one of the many holes in climate theology in his usual entertaining manner.

Worth a look (as is all his work).

2023-06-13

Dane Wiggington has been pointing up the assertions of the so-called "Chem-trails" being sprayed in our skies for years, the assumption being that this is associated with the climate change nonsense so beloved of the UN agencies and WEF.

Maria Zeee now unearths some documentation relating to some of this madness - from an official website of a US Government agency, the NOAA.

"As part of Public Law 92-205 (1972), all non-Federal weather modification activities must be reported to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, via the NOAA Weather Program Office"

... from which we may infer that additional unreported federal weather modification activities will also in all likelihood exist...

Apparently all in the name of solar radiation management - for the next 200 years. Assuming we last that long.

"No Environmental Impact Statements

2023-06-10

Like the Ukraine War, the Net Zero "plans" simply fall apart when put to the test.

Why is this?

The Net Zero cult, like any cult, is long on emotional dependency and very very lacking in rational analysis.

Its end is inevitable.

And approaches ever faster.

Hopefully as does the end of the war in the

2023-06-07

It seems that it it isn't just in the UK where the promises of alternative warmth from non-fossil-fuel sources are lacking in the actual delivery.

All around the world the actualité is coming home to roost and even the politicians, try as they might, are finding that they can't spout sufficient hot air to keep their constituents warm and cosy.

It's a sad story, but obviously it can't be their fault, since being politicians they can surely find someone else to take the blame?

"There’s a lot of talk of a “transition”, and a lot of enthusiasm for it. There’s just no transition"

"... atmospheric CO₂ continued to rise, indeed rose faster than at any point since 1850 yet the increase in temperature stopped"

Neil Oliver On A Roll (or two!)

2023-05-27

Will Lord Frost be the last honest politician standing?

"Lord Frost delivered the 2023 Annual GWPF Lecture to an audience in central London on the evening of Thursday 25th May"

"... 30 years dealing with the EU gives you a very good nose for bad economics, for lobbying, rent-seeking, for la pensée unique, for corporatism, and indeed for a suspicion of capitalism and markets... "

"... whether we in the West can sustain the confidence to face our challenges and to succeed as the world’s leading economies and societies... "

Quite so.

Where does confidence come from? 

Do we become

2023-05-25

The fight is moving from the national level to the local level.

Local councils will now be in the firing line, and Cornwall has thrown down the gauntlet, "pledging its support for local farmers and the role they play in the local economy".

"There is no county farm that survives solely from arable in Cornwall"

"The motion in Cornwall was first proposed by Conservative councillor... and was passed almost unanimously"

Tories take note.

2023-05-17

A useful review of the Climate narrative (as currently pushed by the UN IPCC World Bank etc) in the context of colonialism - and the new eco-colonialism...

Those who would turn off the "fossil fuel emissions" and free the impoverished colonies should take note - freeing them from the dread fossil fuels also frees them from the burden of reliable power supplies, without which prosperity will always remain elusive.

(21 minutes)

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