Green/Climate

2022-10-22

Jeff Taylor blows his stack over the recent gluing of "Eco-loons" to London roads, to the evident satisfaction of the police in attendance.

But he also draws attention to a real problem (plus more) with electrics cars...

"These costs are xx times the benefits, even when using the government's own valuations of the environmental benefits"

... not to mention a few problems with our politicians.

The overall "carbon reduction"? Hmmmm.

And the final comments on our political systems? That's for all of us to judge.

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2022-10-20

Round-Up (for those unaware) is a herbicide that (a) farmers spread over their crops and (b) contains glyphosate (commercial product only) which courts have found to be a carcinogen and have awarded damages accordingly.

Big Agri has also developed GMO crops that are glyphosate-resistant, so they score twice - sell the farmers a herbicide and sell them herbicide-resistant seeds!

(Not so different from Big Pharma, whose doctors end up prescribing drugs to mitigate the side-effects of other drugs... )

The IRT (Institute for Responsible Technology) suggests that this isn't such a good idea, and put forward pertinent points in support of their case.

I suggest that heaping technology solution upon technology solution is an inherently idiotic approach (unless you are

2022-10-16

I guess that this title was one of the most memorable quotes from the BBC's Gardener's Question Time, and probably the most insightful. Not being a gardener, I never deliberately listened to that programme, but nonetheless the quote has embedded itself firmly in my psyche. Why? Well, isn't it a simply outstandingly obvious truth?

You want better plants? Firstly, cultivate better soil.

So why do farmers persist with using artificial fertilisers on exhausted farmland to compensate for poor soil conditions?

Charles Eisenstein writing for The Defender (Children's Health Defense) reports from the heartland of US farming, Kansas.

The collapse of the land's fertility led to the collapse of the communities that lived there.

"I got the impression that the heartland is like a supersaturated solution ready for a phase transition. A mote of dust, a small vibration touches

2022-10-16

Fortune provides a downbeat analysis of Europe's options for energy supply in winter 2023/24...

"Any hope that flows along the Nord Stream could resume before next winter were effectively dashed at the end of September when the pipeline was damaged and began leaking hundreds of thousands of tons of methane into the North Sea"

(but note that apparently one of the four pipes may still be operational)

But while Nordstream may remain largely inoperable for a time even if Ukraine makes peace with Russia, there is more downside to come if they don't:

“The main fear is

2022-10-14

This is a UK Column News edition that you won't want to miss...   although those of a depressive disposition might prefer to pass over it.

"... they can't build the solar panels and... the windmills because the cost of energy is too much"

Still, forewarned is forearmed, so plunge in(82 minutes).

2022-10-11

"No-one did the homework"

The UK is held up as an energy basket-case, a warning for all Aussies. Not to mention a warning for us.

Not for the first time, Sky News Australia speaks truth unto power.

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2022-10-10

"This is the full interactive seminar with Paul Burgess, a climate specialist who has been developing a mathematical model of climate change for the past 30 years! In this mind blowing 1 hour and 45 minute lecture, your eyes will begin to open as you see the way they have twisted the stats to try and prove climate change is real"

Paul Burgess talks climate change for Students against Tyranny. He has made it his job to investigate and work out the truth about climate change (in so far as that may be within the capabilities of any one man). He isn't just repeating what others have told him.

Pay attention - the first two graphs set the scene most eloquently.

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2022-10-07

Net Zero Watch tells it like it is, but will anybody listen?

Relying for energy on those whom you regard (rightly or wrongly) as enemies doesn't seem like a good idea.

Exploiting your own domestic energy supplies is therefore the key to prosperity.

It's a testament to the relentless brainwashing of past decades that this needs to be said at all, but it's also a truism that we don't appreciate what we have until it's taken away from us.

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2022-10-07

No normie in their right mind takes a blind bit of notice of the proceedings at the WEF-United Nations, couched as they invariably are in dry and frankly turgid UN-speak, using words and phrases that seem wholly unobjectionable, even desirable, to any normal thinking person. Behind these phrases however lurk specific agendas and intentions which if spelt out would incite disbelief and fury.

The Brownstone Institute republishes a Substack article by Dr Robert Malone, who points up the wholly unscientific idea that the UN now believes that it controls "the science" and can demand that no "other science" should be accessible.

In other words, group-think officially guaranteed.

If this isn't the pinnacle of absurdity and arrogance I don't know what is.

The implication is that only UN-affiliated "scientists" trained and paid by UN-affiliated institutions can be allowed to voice their UN-approved opinions in the

2022-10-06

I'm a couple of days late posting these monologues, but they are none the worse for that.

First up - musings on our money ...

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And now, musings on what "green" means in practice...

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2022-10-05

We are grateful to Climate Discussion Nexus for this succinct little video that tells the truth about the success of America's vast investment in "green" energy projects over the last decades, and how much more green energy now contributes to their economy.

So will the US be able to make up the European deficit caused by the destruction of the Nordstream2 pipelines?

"The United States is short of gasoline on purpose... "

"... making the USA the largest natural gas producer in the world... "

"... that extra production allowed the US to [almost halve] its coal consumption ... " 

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2022-10-04

It always struck me as a daft idea that felling and burning  "renewable" forests whilst promising to plant more and more trees wherever there is a "spare" patch of land and paying farmers to grow trees i.p.o. food is good, whilst just burning coal and gas is bad.

Even assuming that you grow as much wood as you burn (highly doubtful - trees take years longer to grow than to burn) you would still get the same amount of CO₂ (or less!) into the atmosphere by not bothering and continuing to burn the coal and gas. Even the pollutant content would be worse from burning wood than from coal and gas. 

Why not just burn the coal or gas and keep the existing forests to take up the CO₂? And think of the fuel (and CO₂) that would be saved by not transporting the wood pellets half-way across the world.

OK I simplify, but I'm in the right ball-park. The BBC admits it all:

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2022-09-28

"As our March 2020 video on the Climate Sensitivity Question explains, a key issue in climate science is how much warming can be expected from doubling the amount of CO2 in the air"

John Robson of Climate Discussion Nexus takes us once more around the scientific mulberry bush that poses as "settled science".

The extent to which CO₂ affects "global warming" would seem to be a critical issue, yet after decades of controversy and innumerable papers scientific and unscientific, the illustrious IPCC still appears unable to get its analysis straight.

"if ECS is down around 2 degrees C the whole

2022-09-26

Will it soon be every European State for itself when the cold weather bites?

Could anyone have seen this coming?

The Global Warming Policy Forum posts an update by a Swiss-based commodities expert, noting that Europe's electricity grid is running on a wing and a prayer that the UK interconnects and Scandinavian hydro can bail them out.

If they can offer a high enough price I dare say that corporate UK could indeed do so even if it would mean running a domestic black-out or two.

After all, are not the Europeans equally as deserving as the British?

2022-09-24

Clif High ruminates on the expected failure of the deep state to comprehend why their plan for world domination will eventually fail.

Failure upon failure.

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2022-09-24

The "Green" movement may need to be renamed - maybe the "Browns" or perhaps the "Yellows".

As everybody used to know before the days of global amnesia, carbon dioxide is the very fuel that enables plants to survive and indeed to thrive. If atmospheric CO₂ were to halve from current levels we would be perilously close to plant die-off and staring at global starvation.

Since it appears that many of us need reminding of this basic truth, the Daily Sceptic reviews some of the latest scientific studies (where would we be without them?) which purport to show that the world is becoming greener than ever despite CO₂ levels that still remain stubbornly close to their all-time (geologically speaking) low. It seems we might comfortably withstand an atmospheric CO₂ level an order of magnitude higher than the present, although we might need to take a machete to the jungle growth in order to get to work.

But

2022-09-16

I guess we'll just have to keep putting articles until somebody does.

This time it's group of "leading Italian scientists" that have reviewed the climate trends and concluded that there's 'nothing to see here'.

"... meteorological categories including natural disasters, floods, droughts and ecosystem productivity show no 'clear positive trend of extreme events' " but "... the scientists note a considerable 'greening' of global plant biomass in recent decades caused by higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere" so that's good for food production globally - provided that our politicians stay out of the business of agricultural controls - but when could a politician not resist the urge to intervene?

The Daily Sceptic has the story.

2022-09-04

Oh what a glorious day!

Are the mainstream beginning to break ranks to tell the unarguable truth - at last?

UK energy policy has been founded on sand, and now that the wind (isn't!) blowing, the whole impracticable edifice is crumbling.

And the media outlets whose job it was to question these policies are starting the scramble to save face.

I can think of a few more chickens that are flapping home roost, but this must be the biggest ...   or is it?

2022-09-01

It has been many years in the making, years when most of our industry was forced off-shore, and most of our energy investment was forced into unworkable green projects - unworkable? If they need subsidies then they are not viable.

Once upon a time there may have been a case for subsidising the initial tranch of green projects but if they still need subsidising after all these years then they aren't working and likely never will.

The knives should rightly be out for policies that prioritise green dogma over national energy security.

It seems that wind farm owners that were subsidised to accept unprofitable prices in past times are now unwilling to sell to the grid at profitable prices when they can sell elsewhere at make-a-killing

2022-08-26

This title does sum up the manner in which our world is being guided into an apparently chaotic and uncertain but very likely not at all tranquil future.

Raúl Ilargi Meijer, featured in Technocracy News and Trends, reviews the European situation (although he apparently wrote this before Boris told us all to pay the higher living costs "for the Ukraine").

Wherever you look (honourable exception: Viktor Orbán), much as they did in response to Covid, politicians are banding together to punish their peoples, this time for Russia's activities in the Ukraine.

Oh wait (nearly forgot) and to punish them for... well, living and breathing and creating CO₂, in contravention of UN Agenda 2030, i.e.: for just being