Green/Climate

2025-03-28

"The Federal Republic has boarded an express train to Green socialist purgatory"

So says Eugippius, a German blogger who follows their arcane politics. One surmises that the only reason that their leading politicians are no worse is that Greta Thunberg is unavailable.

He makes the UK government look quite saintly in comparison (although I must add the caveat that this is this week - and a week is a long time in politics...).

2025-03-26

When the onward march of technology meets the onward march of intermittent wind and solar, what will be the result for our power bills? Or indeed, for our supply of power?

In two words, I suggest "not pretty".

But never mind, we will have MHHS to help, so that will be OK, right? And it will all be controlled by energy regulator OfGem ("We work to protect energy consumers, especially vulnerable people, by ensuring they are treated fairly and benefit from a cleaner, greener environment" - remember that "benefit from" bit), so what could possibly go wrong?

2025-03-21

Faith Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, whilst not exactly scrapping "Renewables", has effectively scrapped "Net Zero by 2025".

"There is a need for oil and gas upstream investments"

You don't say.

10:51:33 AM

Now listen up, this is important!

Many believe that the global population is expanding inexorably, and we will soon exhaust all of the world's resources. Humanity is a cancer on the face of the earth.

We must be curbed!

But if the fact is stranger than the fiction, what would be the consequences?

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2025-03-13

A lot of chickens are coming home to roost in the US, and another lot need to come home in the UK to swarm Ed Miliband.

Specifically the Net Zero chickens (and I'm not even talking about the culls for "bird flu", although if Covid was a scam then why would "bird flu" be genuine? Work it out).

How long must we endure stupidity (ie: pay ever increasing subsidies to wind farms that don't produce whilst also paying for standby power from reliable power sources that do produce, to say nothing about destabilising the grid) before the penny drops?

"... we would have saved about £90 billion since 2006 if we had just retained the spread between wholesale and household prices that we had had from 2000 to 2006... we have not seen any benefit to bills from having renewables..."

"... there's also an expectation of demand increasing with electrification, although that's actually being offset... by

2025-03-11

It is reported that the State of Texas is looking at adding "the equivalent of 30 nuclear reactors by 2030" in order to meet the requirements to connect up new data centres to the grid.

A quick glance at relative population levels reveals that the UK has around twice the population of Texas, so if population size is indicative of power requirement, the UK may need up to 60 new "nuclear reactors" over the next 5 years.

The government seems to agree- at least on the need for data centres...

.. but has anybody thought to tell EdMiliband?

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2025-03-10

After many decades of government subsidy to get the green revolution up to speed, we might be forgiven for asking "are we nearly there yet?".

If not, at what point does reality exert its influence on (a) us and (b) our government?

And the answer of course is that governments don't answer to reality, only to the World Economic Forum / United Nations.

Which does rather bring into sharp relief the nature of our belief in our "democracy". Did we really vote for Agenda 2030 / 2050 and all the implications?

And if not, why is that?

The Daily Sceptic shines a light on the Green New Misinformation Deal.

2025-03-03

War requires ice-cold emotionless thinking, accurate and timely military intelligence, and an economy that can support the Forces' needs for munitions and military equipment as and when they need them. Oh, and of course they will need the Forces themselves, trained up and ready to go. 

And where will we get the steadfast national leadership that could lead the nation through such a perilous venture? 

Given the government's track record of sacrificing all of the above in pursuit of the ridiculous UN Green New Deal and the numerous fairy tales that that involves, the chances of this new "peace-keeping" venture holding back a vast well-prepared battle-hardened Russian army with copious supplies of state of the art armaments, look vanishingly small to me.I would go so far as to say that should Russia decide to call our bluff and brush us aside... 

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2025-03-01

With "renewables" leading to ever higher energy costs, nuclear still regarded with some suspicion (and SMRs not yet rolling off the production lines in volume), government-backed mega power-stations seemingly permanently mired in the paralysis of analysis and the perils of politicking, and of course fracking being sent packing, some think that old king coal is poised to make a come-back.

Yes, there are obvious problems with that, but there's problems with everything just now - and just how are all these wonderful new but power-gobbling AI data-centres going to be powered?

"It's a massive coal boom in China ... "

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2025-02-28

What happens when the UN's "Sustainable Development Goals" turn out to be unsustainable in short order?

Read the story of Sri Lanka.

And how our fearless media reported it.

There but for the Grace of God go we all.

2025-02-17

Eugyppius, a German writer on Substack, reviews the Munich Security Conference that "Vice-President" JD Vance addressed last week.

"It’s always dangerous to pick moments from the cacophony of current events and assign them historical significance, but if any singular speech is likely to signal the end of the present political insanity in Europe, it is the one Vance gave in Munich on Thursday"

A fascinating review that majors on pointing up the total hypocrisy (conscious or unconscious) of the European political players, and not merely in Germany.

Not to mention the ever-growing divide between the people and their politicians, something that America has just rectified...

2025-02-06

"The Americans always do the right thing, but only after they have tried everything else"

Well, maybe the re-election of Trump was the right thing (if only when compared with the only other option on offer), or maybe it wasn't, but it seems that Europe is in much the exact same boat. With factories closing left right and centre in Germany, the Germans are grappling with how to resile from their disastrous "green" policies which are decimating their industrial base through lack of affordable power.

Where Germany leads, the rest will follow, because they will have little choice - either their populations will throw them under the bus, or they will be left so far behind that destitution will result.

China, whose workforce is now approaching pay parity with the West, meanwhile must be wondering

2025-02-04

Can AI help us to understand why when politicians meet engineers, the result is not conducive to high standards and best practice?

It seems that it can, although progress may be dependent upon repeated questioning in order to tease out the full reasoning.

And of course, it depends which AI you choose to use. Fortunately, more AIs seem to be sprouting by the day, some with more specialist emphases. Time to dig in and get familiar?

2025-01-22

Tomorrow is the second reading that the Green Blob hopes will send the Climate and Nature Bill speeding its way toward the Statute Book.

So what will it mean for the legendary man on the Clapham Omnibus?

"... Parliament is due to vote on a Private Member’s Bill that could lead to mass starvation, widespread disease and fatalities and the almost certain collapse of civil liberties and society within a few years"

Is that all? And here I was thinking that it might be serious.

"The bill is a thinly-disguised attempt using meaningless climate and nature crisis verbosity to ration and control almost everything that citizens consume"

Well, my parents had to cope with rationing and much else in WW2 (and beyond), and we survived that

2025-01-22

A timely reminder that Davos is still a thing, although whether "of beauty and a joy for ever" may be debatable. 

What tedious extrusions of verbiage must we decode this year? Sadly the event may have been overshadowed by that other show unfolding over in Washington-no-longer-DC (?) that seems to be attracting much global media coverage. Whether the attracted levels of interest are due to the contrasting styles of the chief protagonists, or to the likely success of their respective endeavours, is a question that may be pondered. Time will tell.

See the full timetable here, courtesy of Interest of Justice.

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2025-01-21

Are you a living breathing human being, with family, friends, acquaintances, aspirations, skills, qualifications, life history, health issues, and opinions that have all been hard-come-by?

Or are you a 64-bit sequence of ones and zeroes on a computer database somewhere "in the cloud"?

Would you prefer to deal with another flesh and blood human being, capable of recognising you for what you are, and your circumstances for what they are, or should you just quote your id number to an AI system that has somebody else's values and objectives (not necessarily known to you) built into its code?

"The Open Society, the Gates Foundation, the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, they are in direct control of the UK"

The problems with government are actually many, but the primary problem is that they want to govern.

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2025-01-15

Well, it's certainly an opportune time to review how we got here on a number of fronts, so here is a very useful summary of all the major features of these so far unproven assertions.

"If you still buy into the man-made global warming narrative and are willing to surrender your sovereignty, not just for yourself, but for your family, your community, and your country, to a group of elitist globalists who fear you, then that's truly something"

"If CO₂ were responsible for trapping heat in Earth’s atmosphere, we would see a direct, measurable correlation between CO₂ concentrations and global temperatures. But we don’t"

"The Earth is a self-regulating, closed system. When temperature increases, CO₂ is released from oceans, permafrost, and soil, but it’s the temperature that initiates the release, not the other way around" 

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2025-01-14

Well, it turns out that British weather in British winters can be quite varied. Some years the thermometer hardly dips to zero, let alone below it, and other years the weather gods send us glacial temperatures for days, even weeks on end, amidst flat calm wind conditions such as have been prevalent this winter.

And strange to say, the sun also is at its lowest ebb, the winter days are short and the nights long, and moonlight and starlight fire up no solar panels just as wind turbines hang listless for want of a gust. Naturally this comes as a surprise to many in government, who despite being told of these realities until the tellers are blue in the face (and not just from cold), they have had their attention fixed inexorably on the UN-WEF/IPCC models which perhaps have not actually modelled the variability of the British climate in particular, with sufficient precision.

After Professor Ferguson's models (of Covid pandemic infamy) one is tempted to say that we are surprised at the level of blind faith

2025-01-14

Shortly to get its second reading in Parliament, this is another Bill to usurp the power of legislation to drive the Climate Change project, removing our essential freedoms, and forcing our obedience to WEF-UN inspired NGOs and assorted other busy-bodies who would compel our compliance "for our safety" - all whilst bypassing the need for further legislation. 

Welcome to the New World Climate Emergency Dictatorship.

It's yet another way to tell us that it's all totally democratic because we voted these numskulls into office, so now we must do as they say.

The fact that whichever main party we voted for at summer 2024 General Election we were going to get a government dominated (by whatever means) by the UN-WEF global bureaucracy is neither here nor there - in practical terms we didn't get the choice.

We had to have a referendum before we could leave the clammy embrace of the EU - I submit that the measures

2025-01-11

Nick Hubble discusses the power sources of the future, and whether the grid will still be providing our power in the future.

Net Zero CO₂ has come to mean net zero power, which would mean a far smaller population able to subsist off its own land. That isn't what we have become accustomed to, nor is it acceptable to the population at large.

So failing the elusive zero-point energy, or the nuclear fusion that we are still being assured is "just around the corner" (as it, like the cure for cancer, has been for around the last 50 years - just bung us a few squillions more dosh and we'll be wheeling it out in no time), how is our power sourcing likely to evolve from here?