Green/Climate

2021-10-28

Whatever your stance on Climate Change, this presentation has much good sense to offer, so pro or anti, this presentation is recommended for you.

Healthy soil and improved crop yield can only be a good outcome regardless of the associated draw-down of that old devil, carbon.

What "Big Agriculture" will make of it all is yet to be determined, but clearly elimination of the over-use of pesticides herbicides and artificial fertilisers may cause indigestion in some quarters. 

Be that as it may, this is a stand-out presentation that demands to be seen. I suspect it may change your view of life on earth for ever.

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2021-10-26

UK Column as always give us a round-up of the current Covid situation, as well as the COP26 "climate emergency" propaganda status.

An excellent programme which we think deserves as wide an airing as possible:

2021-10-25

We rely on our government ministers to know what they are talking about.

After all, if they are not properly advised then who is?

So when they openly tell the most extraordinary fibs we really ought to be worried. And when they fib about the costs of the national energy supply upon which our economy depends and upon which we depend in order to meet our basic needs for cooking, keeping warm, and travelling, then we really ought to be extremely concerned.

It really isn't good enough to say that "Oh, well, it's all about going green and we know that they have been spinning the yarn of all yarns about the need for change and the benefits of windmills and the need to subsidise the initial investment in order to kick-start the market and the world will end in six months if we don't JUST DO AS GRETA TELLS US"... 

This has been going on for so long now that we are well past our brow-beat-by date.

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2021-10-20

LarouchePAC explains what they think is going on at COP26 in Glasgow (not sure where they get the idea that Glasgow is in Switzerland - I hope they don't catch the wrong flight).

This is a conference of the Parties - not of the nations. Who are the Parties? They are whoever is invited by the UN.

"a giant step toward the elimination of national sovereignty... the destruction of national economies, and the killing of hundreds of millions, if not several billion people" 

Don't say you weren't warned.

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2021-10-19

Zerohedge reports on the gargantuan costs of getting to Net Zero over 30 years, as estimated by Bank Of America's latest thematic research report "Transwarming" World.

The five trillion dollars annually for 30 years it estimates would have to be met by - guess what - QE.

In a world already on its uppers due to pandemics (real or imagined) and consequent public upheaval, this I think comes under the heading of "it isn't going to happen", because it can't happen.

"... biggest QE episode in history, one wrapped in the "noble" veneer of fighting for the most important cause in the history of civilization, but in reality it's just the biggest wealth transfer scheme in history"

"it's all one giant spectacle meant for the masses"

There's a lot more in this article than you might think. It really does become apparent that the whole exercise is a vast

2021-10-15

"In fact, it’s just plain stupid. And breathtakingly so"

"But the worst thing about this plan is that it will do virtually nothing to improve the climate while it destroys much of the free-market economy"

"In fact, what is coming to pass was best forewarned by late economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich von Hayek in his seminal 1944 work The Road to Serfdom"

Yes, it's another article critical of "green" energy policies, and well worth reading, not for the green/ungreen arguments but for the unspoken assumptions upon which these arguments are put forward. 

Well, they are spoken of now, and the

2021-10-11

We have heard a lot about Net Zero recently and we will likely hear a great deal more as COP26 bursts upon the media scene at the end of October, so it is entirely fitting that we mark the launch of a new web-site that will monitor and analyse developments in government green policy and its effects on the real world in which we must all continue to live.

So congratulations to the stalwarts at the Global Warming Policy Forum for setting up this initiative, and we wish them every success in their quest to inform public opinion and to bring reason and logic to this otherwise largely religious debate.

2021-10-09

In its latest UK News release the GWPF (Global Warming Policy Forum) warns "our" government that sending heating bills sky high by applying green levies on top of high and rising fuel prices may not be the best way to endear their policies to the people, already bruised and battered financially through lockdowns, pandemic costs, and the associated closures of small businesses.

Being also bruised and battered by the effective curtailment of NHS and private hospital services that have sent waiting lists rocketing and patients both fuming and despairing, they may not be in any mood to indulge his government's reckless pursuit of zero carbon UK, when push comes to shove and the bills drop through the letterboxes of the nation.

Does nobody remember Mrs Thatcher's

2021-09-29

“Government considers temporary nationalisation of energy companies to stop collapse”

"Minister warns of ‘really difficult winter’ amid rising energy costs and food shortages"

Yes, it's that 'conservative' word "nationalisation" again. Sir Kier must be groaning at the pursuit of socialist policies so arrogantly being bandied about by the Tory's - isn't "nationalisation" supposed to be Labour Party property? Maybe (along with the Green Party) he should have a word with the Met about such blatant theft.

Clearly failure of government to recognise failure of government policy is nothing new -  Climate Discussion Nexus has the appropriate rejoinder: "As was once said of Philip II of Spain, 'no experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence'".

So the green zombie policies march unthinkingly on...

2021-09-26

The Sunday Telegraph today carries a report on the way that the costs of transitioning the UK to "net zero" may not have been transparently and independently assessed, leading to a likely misrepresentation of these costs to Parliament.

"Committee on Climate Change spreadsheets only revealed after 2 year freedom of information campaign"

"... analysis of their financial models by the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) shows that key assumptions were not credible even at the time the report was published"

"... but it is now clear that the CCC’s costings were incomplete, biased, and grossly misleading"

"The GWPF’s analysis of the CCC’s costings is ongoing, and further announcements are expected in the coming weeks"

2021-09-24

Nigel returns to the politico-financial fray to talk green and financial - of course the two topics are inextricable, each one feeding off the other in a symbiotic dance of wealth-transfer from the 99% to the 1%.

Nigel being Nigel, he does not beat about the bush:

"The biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich that we've ever seen"

Welcome back Nigel, we have missed you.

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2021-09-14

GWPF gives evidence to the House of Lords inquiry into the Costs of Net Zero

"The GWPF has repeatedly drawn attention to growing evidence that casts doubt on official estimates of the costs and feasibility of renewable energy to reduce CO2 emissions to meet the targets implied in the Climate Change Act (2008) and more recently the 2050 Net Zero target that has replaced it"

Read the full GWPF press release.

This is a very calm and careful inquisition by the Committee of Dr Constable, well worthwhile and can be viewed either by following the link from the press release, or from the link below.

"It's perfectly rational to have a decarbonisation policy, but the decarbonisation policy must itself be rational. In essence, this is

2021-09-08

This success story well illustrates the truth that incessant propaganda over many years can lead even the finest lawyerly minds to join the most dubious of band-wagons.

Of course if

(a) you believe the hype about the "settled" nature of probably the most complex science known to man (settled according to the many climate science models, which inevitably perform exactly according to the wishes of their designers - we have explored how models may not be science elsewhere) and

(b) that legal coercion is an acceptable way to enforce an entirely political agenda, 

then you will share the delight of the climate zealots who still believe that our world

2021-09-07

I know this because I took advantage to get back into the saddle and pedal my way around the local topography, resplendent in green and brown (the farmers were busy harvesting) and generally beautiful to the eye and challenging to the legs in equal measure.

It was a day when the call for power should have been pretty low, since no heating would be required, although perhaps there was some demand for air-conditioning. 

Anyway, the sunshine was abundant and surely all those solar panels would be pumping the electric juice?

Apparently not. It seems that solar was meeting less than 12% of our energy needs, and wind-power not even 2%. Gas was meeting just under 50% of demand but at a high price amid high global demand (if it's high now, how much higher will demand climb in the

2021-09-01

Climate Discussion Nexus investigates - the Antarctic? the Arctic? Greenland? Bangladesh? Well, no - the troposphere. More precisely, the tropical troposphere. 

What were the 2007 IPCC predictions predicting? and what happened according to the temperature data measurements?

"... basic problem with models is that they are not based upon fundamental physics, they are based upon approximations of what happens in the atmosphere..."

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2021-08-20

The GWPF (Global Warming Policy Forum) thinks that it probably does. They believe that the government's prioritising of Wind and Solar renewables (both intermittent and inherently unreliable) over a robust combination of renewables underpinned by reliable thermodynamic power sources such as natural gas and nuclear, will likely cost the UK our geopolitical status, since the affordable and reliable availability of power underpins confidence in our economic and global leadership.

This is a concept that China and India, both intent on building more coal-fired power-stations, fully understand.

I would hesitate to place all our reliable power generation eggs in the nuclear basket however - whilst small modular reactors are fine in principle, Windscale is still home to ponds full of spent nuclear fuel that nobody seems either to know what to do with or to want to talk

2021-08-12

The GWPF (Global Warming Policy Forum) press release notes the oncoming political pressures on the Conservative Party if Boris continues with his stated plans to move the UK to "Net Zero".

As most normal people know, the costs will be vast and will fall disproportionately on the ordinary citizenry.

Even if the government ministers and their advisers haven't noticed, Tory MPs have and are making their views felt.

Whilst this is good news, a loss to Labour at the next election doesn't seem likely to redress the situation in the eyes of the voters since the Left are perhaps even more determined to push ahead with "green" initiatives than the Right, so the calculation may be that the public has no choice and will get the green

2021-08-10

The Global Warming Policy Forum press release puts the case, and restates the reason:

"despite yearly UN climate conferences it is now beyond doubt that renewable energy policies have failed to halt or slow the relentless rise in global CO2 emissions"

"these policies have only destroyed industry in the West and exported production and their CO₂ emissions to areas still using low cost fossil fuels, such as China. The conclusion is obvious. Climate policies are failing not because of a lack of political will, but because the technologies selected are extortionately expensive and ineffective"

In fact, these policies were designed to fail, and fail they have in

2021-07-26

The GWPF (Global Warming Policy Forum) notes the government plans for raising the costs of power in order to pay for EV charging stations.

The point about the switch from coal to oil was two-fold - convenience (oil didn't have to be shovelled) and energy density (you could go further on the same weight of oil) thus minimising the cost of carrying the stuff when used to power transport.

It's true that oil required the additional step of refining to produce a relatively clean fuel, but that cost was worth it. 

Government subsidies to persuade people to make the switch were simply not required.

Electricity has been around for a very long time, however is still tricky to store. It isn't available from wells and mines, it has to be generated at point of use, or transmitted via power lines. So it made perfect sense for railways trams and trolley-buses and powering static homes off a fixed grid, and was widely

2021-07-23

The GWPF (Global Warming Policy Forum) in their 23 July newsletter reminds us of a number of issues, and we are indeed approaching the brink of another UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, COP26 to be held in Glasgow from 31st October. It will be interesting to see how many luminaries come jetting in for the occasion - let us hope that Covid restrictions will not put too much of a dampener on the attendances.

On the other hand the GWPF finds little sign of the much foretold incoming climate disaster in current news, although it must be said that recent adverse weather events including severe flooding in Europe (not seasonal) and China (seasonal), and heatwaves and wildfires along the Pacific coast of North America and Canada