Green/Climate

2021-03-05

Did Conservative ministers mislead the people about the true estimated costs of the UK achieving "net zero" emissions by 2050?

The Sun believes so.

Now it is true that these figures as now reported were the result of computer modelling by "scientists", so we must hope that their modelling skills were better than those employed at Imperial College for the Covid estimates, but the good news is that if these estimates were indeed overblown by a similar magnitude then the government was probably too cautious in publishing an estimate only £20bn below the modelling result.

Sadly however I am aware of no evidence that the likely error would be on a par with that achieved by Imperial College, so the Sun may well be correct - I guess it all comes down to the likely motivation which led the government to allegedly quote a lower figure

2021-03-01

We all read about the severe weather conditions in Texas recently, and we may have noticed various reports that this "snow" didn't melt when exposed to a flame (but did blacken). But I notice that like snow everywhere, after a few days it disappeared.

So was there any reality to this odd story? I don't know, but in view of the considerable belief that man-made weather does in fact occur all over the world (floods in China etc) maybe it's worth some consideration.

The USA Watchdog site has the story.

2021-02-19

Texas freezes in the grip of very unaccustomed sub-zero temperatures, accompanied by widespread electricity black-outs as the power grid effectively collapses due to inadequate supply.

Wind turbines are frozen stiff, solar panels snowed over, natural gas coal and nuclear generation are maxed out but nowhere near making up the loss of renewables.

Oh, and the planners didn't plan for unusual but not unprecedented severe winter weather.

Doesn't that sound a bit like the UK?

Sounds like just the same green energy planning mindset as in the UK.

Makes you think . . .   will we be next?

Here is another report from Texas, this time from Del Bigtree of

2021-02-19

The Global Warming Policy Foundation reports on the latest accounting information for the new wind farms so beloved of the elites who govern us.

And sobering reading it is.

"Since 2017, renewables advocates have argued that offshore wind power is now very cheap. However, closer examination of their claims reveals a different story"

"The levelised cost (LCOE) remains 3-4 times that of a gas turbine running flat out"

"Ministers and the media 'must stop deceiving the public'"

Amen to that.

Maybe they, like us, need to

2021-02-08

The Green movement will no doubt be pleased to hear that their worst fears are proving groundless, "according to a study for the Global Warming Policy Foundation by independent scientist Dr Indur Goklany".

This good news is brought to us by James Delingpole writing for Breitbart.

The Great Climate Catastrophe has been rather pushed out of the news of late due to another more immediate crisis, but of course we should not assume that it has gone away. Perhaps Boris will be pleased to hear that all the change and disruption involved in implementing his new Green New Deal at breakneck speed may turn out to be less urgent or even unnecessary; or perhaps not, time will tell.

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2020-12-30

This is absolutely a message for our times - don't miss it, and if you saw it back in the summer, watch it again - remind yourself what life is all about (90 minutes).

Thanks to Del Bigtree of the Highwire for this outstanding interview.

Happy New Year!

2020-12-22

. . . The World's Greatest Climate Hypocrite!

The Global Warming Policy Forum unveil their competition in their latest newsletter - somehow I don't think they will have any shortage of suggestions.

A festive story to warm the heart - get nominating!

2020-11-23

The Institute for Responsible Technology has released a rather scary film about the dangers of GMO release.

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2020-11-23

The Conservative Woman publishes an article by John Mortimer which dissects the governments fig-leaf veneer of incompetence (to somewhat mix my metaphors).

Last February / March there was room for doubt, but for me that doubt disappeared in July when we were told to wear face masks (a) without any supporting evidence and (b) despite the fact that the virus had been at that point defeated without any need to wear face masks throughout the thick of the first lockdown. Something else was going on.

This feeling is confirmed as the government continues to refuse to publish any assessment of the risks inherent in lockdown to the national economy, the national health (not the NHS!), and the myriad livelihoods dependent on the success of small businesses. They know that such a risk assessment could not stand public scrutiny, yet feel confident that they will not be

2020/11/20

The GWPF (Global Warming Policy Forum) reacts to the Boris Green Leap Forward/Backward/Sideways or whichever ways it ends up. The government can't even manage an NHS Test and Trace app so what chance of restructuring the entire economy without mishap?

Who asked for this Great Reset anyway? If we are a democracy, shouldn't we insist on a referendum to determine if we want to embark on such a huge change? Otherwise we will have top-down government by diktat for ever.

The PM should remember that it isn't the expenditure that matters (even if it is on "jobs") - it's what you get for that expenditure that matters, and no government that I can recall

2020/11/06

The GWPF (Global Warming Policy Forum) calls for an urgent inquiry as our National Grid is reportedly running out of "system margin" (ie: low levels of wind and clear weather bring frosts, meaning that the demand for power rises just as supply of wind power reduces to very little).

This is OK until it's not, then blackouts ensue.

View/download the report here.

2020/10/23

The Spectator asks a good question - the UK is supposed to be leaving the EU, and yet . . .  our new post-EU agricultural policy is said to be developing along similar lines to the revised CAP, not so much to reward the production of food (although the removal of "green" requirements may help by enabling some land to return to agricultural use), but to reward the agri-businesses who may profit from claiming subsidies without much need to actually produce anything other than a claim on the Rural Payments Agency.