Green/Climate

2023-08-18

Climate Catastrophe! 

Lock up your daughters! There's too many humans on the planet already!

We've all heard it for decades, so they've got it right, right?

Well, only if you ignore the primary evidence - evidence of climate cycles (up and down), the CO₂ relationship with planetary temperature change (not what you might think), not to mention the absolute need for CO₂ to support vegetation without which all life on this planet would... die.

Net Zero anybody?

And of course the secondary evidence... that the IPCC's climate research is primarily funded by politicians and foundations that are all pushing the climate scare. Might that have something to do with it?

Tellingly, they don't base their arguments on evidence - they base them on "models" - and we all know how good Neil Ferguson's Covid

2023-08-11

CLINTEL (Climate Intelligence - an independent foundation in the fields of climate change and climate policy to generate understanding of the causes / effects of climate change and the effects of climate policy) bring us their studious assessment of the recent AR6 report from the IPCC.

They have written (download) to Professor Dr. Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC, to express their specific criticisms, concluding:

"We regrettably conclude that the IPCC has failed to follow this advice and the AR6 exhibits the same flaws as before, namely biased selection of evidence, failure to reflect genuine controversies and failure to give due consideration to properly documented alternative views"

Strong stuff.

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2023-08-10

The United Nations isn't known for underestimating either its omniscience or its incredible management abilities to deliver whatever it deems necessary for the unfortunate peoples of the world - peoples that its sponsors seem to consider supernumerary - a gigantic overload on the capabilities of mother Earth to support them all.

So its latest proposals to set up an "Emergency Platform" for taking world control by the scruff whenever any "Complex Global Shock" is deemed incoming is only the logical and sensible action to take, and no doubt grateful national leaders all around the world will happily endorse this proposal (a) because it's the easy thing to do and (b) because they prefer to listen to the charlatans at the UN than to their own populations.

I note the weasel word "complex" snugly ensconced within the incoming verbiage.

Meaning of "complex":

"don't you worry your simple

2023-08-08

Dr Patrick Moore, "Dr. Patrick Moore - Co-Founder and former President of Greenpeace, Director of the CO2 Coalition, Senior Fellow of The Heartland Institute, and author of 'Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom' "

In this video he brings a much-needed historical perspective to global temperatures, CO₂ levels, polar bears, ocean temperatures, carboniferous deposits on the ocean floor, and the way in which humanity may (or may not) have been responsible for saving the planet from a disastrous CO₂ famine.

Not to mention the Great Barrier Reef... the Great Pacific Garbage Patch... etc etc

Unmissable.

(81 minutes)

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2023-08-06

What's up with the wind farms?

Why does our power now cost an unaffordable arm and leg?

Our modern industrial civilisation depends absolutely on a ready supply of affordable energy.

Ah, but "climate change"! We must "save the planet"! We must build wind farms and solar panels instead of burning "fossil" fuels!

Well, we've been building wind farms and installing solar panels seemingly for decades and to what net result?

Why do all these wind farms not provide enough power? Have they made any impact upon the need for fossil fuels?

With all these economical windmills working heroically night and day (when the wind blows), why have our power bills gone through the roof?

Did those dreadful Russians take them all out?

Or could it

2023-08-03

Rather a good analysis of the contributions made by "sustainable" energy "solutions" from someone who worked in the field.

Have you ever wondered why wind turbines still rotate even in the mildest breeze?

So is it all a load of hot air? You decide...

(91 minutes) 

2023-07-14

There is no way that I am qualified to comment on matters horticultural, but simple logic would assert that Gardeners' Question Time probably had it right with their famous quote "Well, I think the answer lies in the soil".

Stands to reason really - if the soil isn't right then plants will have problems.

So how to get the right soil? Well, how did techniques work in times past?

Richard Vobes investigates...

(64 minutes)

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2023-07-14

The WEF-UN partnership has become infamous for its gatherings at Davos wherein they talk about all kinds of far-fetched nonsense a long way from one's everyday life, and it's tempting for us feet-on-the-ground plebs to treat it as nonsense whilst we get on with our said everyday lives.

Still, they are an exceptionally well-connected bunch, they have no concept of recognising democratically elected governments (except to "penetrate" them to work in the WEF-UN's own interests) and seemingly have all the money in the world to spend to bring their fantasies to fruition, fantasies that we are beginning to realise threaten our lives in countess ways.

Stop World Control has done a neat job of pulling together the threads by which their power-grab will be accomplished, and a salutary presentation it is.

"The billionaires who claim they want to save the planet, are the very ones who have been destroying it"

Should the IPCC Cloud its Thinking?

2023-07-11

Were they becoming too popular?

Transport Secretary Mark Harper has reportedly cut new funding for such schemes.

What is going on? Has the government suddenly found a new taste for noticing the will of the people?

Mahyar Tousi reports.

(7 minutes)

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2023-07-08

In summary, don't.

That's all you need to know (but don't forget the fire risk from exploding lithium-ion batteries) about the green transition.

To make appreciable emissions savings over the life of an electric vehicle is next to impossible by many estimates - and those estimates may be optimistic. Does it really make sense to spend money retooling the entire automotive industry (money that may well not be costed into these estimates) on this basis, for a transition that may well turn out to be unfeasible due to the specific resource constraints?

Still, if you need more convincing, Matt Ridley writing for the Daily Mail

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?