Green/Climate

2024-03-10

Does anybody really understand AI?  Doubtful.

Is AI really exemplified by the AI apps that have so far been released by the Googles and Microsofts of this world for the public to play with?  Very Doubtful.

Are "they" really planning to build an internet of AI that can monitor and control, even generate,  everything we can see and everything we can upload, even (eventually) everything we can think? Tick.

Isn't that insanely technically challenging and probably untestable?  Tick.

And could it work?  Maybe, in parts...

So it will take them for ever to get it to that point? Probably.

So we have time...  Sorry, Nope.

The truth is that it wouldn't matter to

2024-03-08

I suspect, I hope, I have faith that political life in this country is growing up.

In many places now we see the stirrings of disillusion, the crumbling of the assumption so assiduously cultivated until now, that having a choice of political parties at elections equates to freedom of choice.

What matters to the man on the Clapham Omnibus is not the colour of the party in power, but whether its policies are to the overall benefit of the people. We see now more clearly than perhaps ever before that on the policies that matter to the WEF, all major parties are at one with the monarchy.

There was a time when Parliament was happy to project the views of the people to the monarch and act as a restraint upon the monarch's power - Charles I took the fall in 17th century to achieve that status quo, yet here we are in the twenty first century with Charles III in close cahoots with the WEF corporate global oligarchs, and a supine Parliament in full lockstep with

2024-03-08

Definition of insanity: - keep doing the same thing and expecting different results.

After innumerable years of government subsidy for developing "renewables" as a power source to replace "fossil" fuels, one might begin to understand that if we don't have progress now that "fossil" fuels are as expensive as they have been for many years (thanks to our benighted leaders' obsession with weakening Russia by all means possible) then it seems reasonable to suspect that "renewables" are not going to cut the mustard. Not now, not ever, certainly not any time soon.

So since the convoluted strike price mechanism so clearly failed, the government is taking action to reprioritise fuels that workdouble down on renewables by increasing the subsidies. Evidently, despite telling us all

2024-03-07

What do we want our farmers to do?

Do we want them to grow food?

Or do we want them to curate the countryside, growing trees and wildlife at the expense of food, so that we can live as stone-age hunter-gatherers?

Most European farmers seem to have concluded that they don't want to return to the stone age, and they suspect that we wouldn't want to either.

They also suspect that growing plants that take up CO₂ isn't the disaster that has been portrayed.

I can't think what has possessed them to think that way when the great and the good at that fount of global instruction the WEF, have so clearly determined where they want us to go, but perhaps we should, in the interests of inclusivity, listen to their

2024-03-02

Humanity is at the cross-roads - and on board a bus being driven as hard and fast as possible into a future that nobody has tested for safety - despite "our safety" being the go-to excuse of our elites to lock us down, jab us with who-knows what, feed us with who-knows what, confine us to quarters, and generally ride roughshod over all our traditional time-honoured freedoms.

Have we noticed yet?

Or are we still too busy playing ever more responsive silly games on our phones?

Do we the people have to separately investigate, conduct our own safety trials, determine any effects detrimental to the environment, document and prove the harm that any and each of these novel technological marvels may do to us and/or the environment, to the satisfaction of a legal system that takes forever, charges exorbitant fees, and may not even be fair and even-handed?

If so, then what are our

2024-02-29

"Global Radiation Emergency is a just-formed coalition of individuals, organizations and scientists on six continents whose mission is to save Planet Earth"

"The Radio Wave Packet... will be a basic tool with which to penetrate the wall of denial, to place wireless technology alongside climate change on the world’s agenda of greatest assaults on life and most immediate threats to survival"

This international initiative is formed to "do what it says on the tin".

"We are an international coalition of organizations, scientists and individuals calling for an end to cell phones, Wi-Fi, cell towers, satellites, and other forms of wireless communication"

I know this sounds like another scare by the WEF designed to ensure our compliance with their all-controlling agendas - except that these EMFs are integral to their own control

2024-02-27

OK, I admit it, Nick Hubble is my favourite financial adviser - not, I should add, because of his financial advice (we don't do that on this site), but because his political analysis is so pointedly accurate. Perhaps he should be relabelled as a political commentator.

On second thoughts, given the lamentable state of "left, right, left, right, left right left!" party politics to which official commentary confines itself in this country, it probably wouldn't be doing him any favours.

No, he isn't party political, but he is a realist with his finger on the pulse of both the politics and the populace.

"I’ve never seen so many top-down initiatives flop in such rapid succession"

"For those of you who feel vindicated by all the changes happening around you, don’t. Because they aren’t finished with you yet..."

2024-02-27

This alleged "name fraud" probably isn't limited in scope to the DVLA, it may be endemic to legal systems of the Crown in general, but we are discussing matters motoring here, so I'm not going to quibble.

Who am I? Who are you?

These are pretty basic questions in normal life, but rather more complex in legal definition. Indeed, some suggest that this question lies at the heart of much legal chicanery, as the man-on-the-Clapham-omnibus understandably fails to note the subtle legal distinctions at play in his legal identity.

It's time to learn them - you may not legally be who you think you are!

2024-02-23

Continuing on from Colchester Council - Starring on YouTube...

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2024-02-22

We haven't heard much from our farmers here in the UK, despite the fact that European farmers across the board contnue, shall we say, to make their displeasure known. 

Richard Vobes sets out to remedy this situation.

Some very interesting points are raised here - our farmers too have been psy-opped in ways that we might not suspect!

"... the challenges for the general public are astronomical..."

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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

2024-02-19

The cynical might say that beyond 2030 our wonderful "decarbonised" grid as promised by a certain political party not noted for its mathematical prowess (so take your pick of a wide range) will provide a wholly rosy future of CO₂-less power on tap - provided that we don't need it when it doesn't happen to be there.

Not so, cries the Head of Energy at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (an oxymoron if ever there was one), who it appears may be similarly afflicted in the maths prowess department.

So what is the truth of it, as far as the available evidence suggests (the future being an inherently uncertain field where predictions are concerned)?

David Turver reports for the Daily Sceptic (warning - numbers and graphs incoming! Those of a non-numerate persuasion should bolt for their "safe space" now. The rest might be well advised to

2024-02-13

A Colchester activist explains how to attend council meetings and support them in taking decisions that are well-informed and in tune with their public.

Don't start from where you want them to get to, start from where they are and guide them. It's a process, not a sprint.

Rachel Matthews explains how they developed the art of working with their council for better outcomes, by making sure that they understand the issues and do the due diligence before committing to expensive action that may be unpopular.

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2024-02-13

With the European (plus British and Irish) farmers on the march against government overreach, now is perhaps a good time to review the kind of steps that can be taken legally to discourage heavy-handed government measures based upon pretexts that may not actually stand up to scrutiny in depth.

For example, take Bovine Tuberculosis, the cause of which is/was said to be the "reservoir" of the disease in wild badgers, which prompted the extensive culling of badgers in recent years. 

Being not a farmer myself, I haven't heard of any particular widespread situation related to Bovine TB, and as far as I know the WEF has not yet mandated the destruction of our cattle for any reason other than excessive flatulence.

But in case I am behind the curve here, I draw attention to the Bernician's

2024-02-12

So the Trial has ended in Washington DC, and justice has been served... or rather, Mark Steyn has been served with hefty punitive damages for daring to point up the unlikely "science" behind the by now age-old hockey-stick graph. 

The Daily Sceptic has a useful report, noting the disparity between the $1 million punitive damages awarded and the actual damages award (think of the same amount but minus the "million" qualification). We may all come to our own viewpoint on whether or not this represents actual justice as we would recognise it.

Mark Steyn's own website makes some excellent points, including that he (like Julian Assange?) might as a journalist have been thought to be protected by the First Amendment.

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2024-02-10

Whilst we are on the mundane topic of traffic tribunals...

... we rise up to take a birds-eye view of the likely course of future city interventions, courtesy of Laura Dodsworth.

It's not a vista conducive to wanting to move into the great metropolis of tomorrow in the same way that people moved into the metropolis of my youth - attracted by the bright lights, good times, funky clothing (yes, I did have a pair of flared trousers... though never drainpipes), and the sense of "happening". It was mostly myth of course and it didn't take me long to move away, housing becoming insanely expensive and traffic ridiculous. 

Although that last bit is still true today, the dull compliance with all things rules-and-regulations that is required these days probably doesn't compete with the "happenings" of yesteryear. It is all going in the wrong direction, from bottom-up freedom to top-down one-size-fits-all coercion. Don't enter the hatched area, drive the right

2024-02-09

Have the farmers won?

Has the EU Commission finally met its match?

Where would that leave the UK?

And what is the "Next Big Thing"?

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2024-02-06

"A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater than conventionally grown produce"

They're coming for our cabbage patch!

Patrick Wood (Technocracy News and Trends) reports...

The totally irrational war on carbon is already destroying farmers all over the world because, they say, “the food system generates about 35 percent of total global man-made greenhouse gas emissions.” Now they are claiming that your urban garden is SIX TIMES WORSE! Brace for an all-out effort to ban or limit urban gardens for personal food production. I can already hear the climate crazies chanting, “Eat ze bugs!”

Univ. of Michigan spun this study out of

2024-02-03

Yes you've guessed it - this is another UN initiative to bring more levers of power within its grasp.

Duck dive or weave, there will be no escape if you live on planet Earth.

All for our safety and enjoyment of course.

"... this year’s Summit of the Future... will be held September 22–23 at the United Nations headquarters in New York"

To "take action to safeguard the future for present and coming generations"

"We are at a moment of acute global peril" etc - you get the drift.

Jacob Nordangård comments.

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2024-02-03

Our newspapers and media stations don't report on what they don't see as relevant, but German politics, like seemingly all nations' politics these days, is apparently controlled by the WEF-UN "partnership". It is very similar to British politics, in as much as the political classes are all parroting the Climate Change propaganda as though they unquestioningly believe it. Diversity is good, except for diversity of opinion, and especially diversity of politics.

It's a religion, or perhaps more accurately the biggest cult we have ever encountered, whereby the cult leaders brainwash everybody to believe (and obey) their leadership unquestioningly, and heretics (those who do ask awkward questions) are not tolerated. They have the cheek to call this new form of politics "democracy". "Autocracy" might be closer to the truth.

Germany is the stand-out example of a leadership that brooks no opposition and ...