Green/Climate

2025-06-01

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2025-05-28

This is another magnum opus, a work birthed for our time when confidence in the ancien regime is collapsing on many sides, andfew sensible peoplecare to predict how matters may resolve themselves.

"... how scared the senior police are at the prospect of crucial psychological spells being broken"

Now let me say straight up that I'm not necessarily agreeing or indeed disagreeing with much that he says in this piece, but it's value certainly lies in it being the views of somebody who was very senior in government at a time of great national crisis - he is informed by his personal experiences of how government may react, he has done time in the system.

That said, no two crises are identical, so "this time things may be different". Or not.

Whatever we may think of the man, his views are likely informative at some useful level.

2025-05-26

Ben's report today reviews the steps being taken (or appearing to be taken) to move the world forward into a new world order without irreparably breaking it in the process.

The orderly path to a new financial commercial and military global settlement clearly isn't straightforward, but those who pull the stings behind the scenes do at least seem to be talking still.

On the other hand, the necessary changes will of necessity involve some much-trailed level of disorder, so fear not, life is in little danger of becoming dull and predictable any time soon.

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2025-05-22

The EU has been flirting with nuclear power for years - but mighty Germany has been determinedly anti nuclear ever since the tsunami washed into Fukushima.

But since the Putin-Trump telephone call it seems that it has begun to dawn, even on German politicians, that the Dunkelflaute may not have what it takes to resurrect German industry in recreating the necessary armaments industries to face up to the challenge from the East.

All of which is a welcome if unexpected outbreak of good sense (even if for all the wrong reasons) since if both Germany and France support nuclear then that's probably enough to sway the rest of the EU block.

And it leaves Ed Milliband in an even

2025-05-17

Citizens' assemblies are simply assemblies of citizens. Of course they are assemblies for a purpose, as are all assemblies.

And they have to be funded... advertising, room hire, presentation equipment and materials all cost money, although not necessarily vast amounts - nevertheless the overall cost of assemblies in every town is not insignificant.

I have attended one such myself, on how best to encourage net zero measures in our locality, and where would be best to site them. I went along (a) for the experience and (b) to see how must sense I would be able to contribute. Yes, it was an instructive experience and no, not much sense was permitted, on the grounds that it was a Net Zero meeting and it's purpose was not to argue the case for or against, since that outcome was already established.

I was therefore in the wrong meeting. Not that there was any right meeting arranged where I might have fitted in. Of course I could have called my own "right

2025-05-14

"The UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), established in 2023 with an £800 million purse of taxpayer funds, received a burst of publicity last week when it was unveiled that the agency was planning to “dim the sun” to fight global warming"

Well, they are late to the party because we have been watching the dimming of the sun in our English skies for years already - the photo above was taken in 2022.

And if "they" were not doing it, who was? Will we be seeing a new battle in the skies above us as rival sun-dimming outfits fight it out for the right to stop global warming in its tracks?

"We shall spray over the beaches,

Councils for NetZero? That'l be £2.4 Billion (for now)

2025-05-08

Ed Milliband has a problem - even the already agreed off-shore wind projects must be regarded as questionable given that the Hornsea 4 project has just been announced ditched and dead in the water.

"The combination of increased supply chain costs, higher interest rates and increased execution risk have deteriorated the expected value creation of the project"

Ah well, back to the drawing board...

2025-05-06

The new Mark Carney, new prime minister of "independent" Canada, has invited the head of state of his colonial power to open his new Parliament.

Redacted investigates...

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2025-04-30

Well, it may not be that simple, but maybe it is associated with the management of power fluctuations in a grid which has little to no inertial generators.

Once the initial fluctuation wasn't sufficiently corrected, the grid turned itself off to protect itself from further damage. It's not a simple as that because there probably wasn't a single switch - different parts of the grid would turn off "independently" but trigger adjacent parts to do likewise, resulting in a cascade effect.

This for now seems to be what is being suggested rather than being the result of a formal investigation.

ZeroHedge reports.

2025-04-28

Top for what?

Top for cost, top for inefficiency, top for tax-payer subsidies, top for grid transmission costs, top for ecological destruction, top for government propaganda...  need I go on?

"... a peer-reviewed analysis of full-system levelized costs of competing power sources shows wind power is seven times more expensive than natural gas power and solar power is 10 times more expensive... "

Now I realise that I am likely preaching to the converted (converted as in realisation of the truth, as opposed to realisation of the heat-pump, whilst recognising that the former need not exclude the latter).

But it seems that there are still many global-warmists out there who implicitly believe everything that gets extruded from the vast networks of UN-WEF-affiliated think-tanks, charitable (as in untaxed) institutions, NGOs, and pseudo-populist lobby groupings that seem to have sprung from nowhere to

2025-04-23

The many manifestly idiotic delusions associated with the drive to save the world by the elimination of the gas of life might be sufferable were they to be at least sensibly arguable, but as many are beyond the reach of rational thought, there comes a point at which the inner human must for sanity's sake emit a silent thought-scream - "Please just MAKE IT STOP!".

However as I am conscious that 'we all know' that the Green agenda is vital for the extinction of humanity before the world reaches another 1.5^oC (I may not have that exactly right - it may have been changed to 2^oC whilst I had a momentary lapse of attention - but it somehow feels right) I must draw attention to another unforeseen obstaclewhich I'm sure requires urgent research and investigation lest it impede the important onward march toward green technocracy (donations please to the usual address, and don't

2025-04-23

The last working blast-furnace in the UK is going down.

Can nothing be done to save it?

Short of shipping it to China (where cheap coal is abundant) as a free gift, probably not.

After all, it requires coking coal that it could have had locally from a proposed mine in Whitehaven - but that conflicted with the Government's Net Zero policy so it couldn't.

So instead of giving it a viable source of supply, the government in its infinite wisdom sought to give the Chinese owners a £500m bung (for a totally impracticable "conversion to green energy") if they would only take the problem off its hands, an offer which the Chinese, being sensible businessmen (whether also CCP spies or not), could plainly see wouldn't make the business viable.

2025-04-17

We know that Trump isn't a conventional politician.

So when he talks of "joining the British Commonwealth" it is likely a ploy to provoke a counter-move in the direction that he actually wants to promote.

Still, this move is so out of line with the original intent of the American founding fathers that it demands some sort of analysis - what is he up to?!

1) It may be a straight distraction that he has no intention of progressing through to a finish - but it will set tongues wagging about something that is only there to distract attention rather than wagging about what is really going on behind the publicity. 

2) He could be using it to focus attention on the absurdities of King Charles and the Privy Council, that currently directs matters colonial / ex-colonial. "Canada" springs to mind but it could be more far-reaching.

3) Perhaps it's just an opening gambit in

2025-04-11

This is a bit long in time, but a little short for the task undertaken.

None-the-less Sandi gives us a tour de force which pulls together a great many threads that were necessary for the incoming new global technocracy.

"This is happening" 

Now, and in your area!

The powers necessary were put in place by the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016.

Devolution being something of the reverse of the truth, as smaller councils will be amalgamated into larger "combined local authorities" with directly elected mayors - as clamoured for by nobody other than unelected groups mostly funded by NGOs.

Thus will local government be reorganised to the liking

2025-04-07

This article is written from the American perspective, but politics knows no national boundaries any longer.

As nobody has ever said to my knowledge, but it needs saying so I'll say it:

"Our Creator gave us the most extraordinarily capable organ between our ears, and it would therefore be the height of discourtesy not to use it"

Yet today's education establishments seem to go out of their way to discourage its use.

The tactic is presented as a Left vs Right issue, but that does a great disservice to the many - well, several at least - proponents of "the Left" (for example, Yanis Varoufakis) who assert that the Left should be the champions of the people, and who see no conflict between that ideal and the ideal that we should use our "God-given" gifts to the full to that purpose.

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2025-04-03

Better late than never, but the Tory Leadership (you know - those who from the get-go were far-sighted enough to lead the Brexit campaign and to rubbish the absurd and impracticable stupidities of Net Zero) have... desperately hopefully... and only one suspects because they now have no alternative...finally acknowledged that Net Zero isn't going to happen, and if it does it will destroy the nation's future.

"Today, I’m talking about one of the biggest ways we are destroying our children’s inheritance. Let’s start by telling the truth on energy and net zero. Every single thing we do in our daily lives is dependent on cheap, abundant energy."

Well Kemi, there are, sadly, no prizes for coming last. True leadership is indicated by coming first, but the Tories have

2025-04-03

Apparently BP used to mean "Beyond Petroleum" but now it may need to be rebranded as "Back to Petroleum".

Apparently the bottom line didn't support the speed of transition attempted, so now the priorities have been readjusted to reduce the speed to a more affordable pace. We just don't know (but we can guess) whether that new pace will turn negative soon enough...

CDN reports on this new and (in certain quarters) unexpected reality.

Meanwhile in Germany (where they are more enlightened and do things so much better than in the UK) they aren't at all inclined to go back

2025-04-01

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2025-03-30

Making a welcome return to these pages (or perhaps he actually belongs in a previous blog incarnation...), and once more provoking the question "Why do the most knowledgeable people exhibit the most erratic and confusing styles of presentation?", Ken Wheeler explains the function of the Giza pyramids in the light of the recent discoveries of what is said to lie beneath them, as only Ken can.

Enjoy!

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