UK GOVERNMENT - GAS GRID WILL STILL BE HERE IN 40 YEARS

Here is an interesting exchange between Sir Christopher Chope MP and the Government Minister, Michael Shanks. 

 Sir Christopher Chope: Why are we subsidising the expansion of the electricity grid to this enormous extent when we are also facing the need to apparently eliminate the gas grid? Eliminating the gas grid is going to add enormous costs to the gas consumers as that process goes on.

 Michael Shanks:  The gas grid is one of this country’s most important assets. Unlike the electricity grid, the gas grid has been invested in quite significantly over the past few decades. It is very resilient—as is the electricity grid—and it will continue to be important for decades. Some 80% of homes have a gas boiler. We are not going to shift overnight to a different position. We want to look at what happens as people start disconnecting, as they are, from the gas grid. How do we maintain the overall grid until the very last customer has come off? I am not closing down the gas grid; it is a really important asset and will remain so for decades. In 30 or 40 years from now the grid will still be doing the role it will be in that time. but it will change over the coming years.

GULF STREAM COLLAPSE NOT VERY LIKELY

Take your pick.

 There is no real evidence for a diminishing trend of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (2016). (2) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: New study finds that critical ocean current has not declined in the last 60 years (2025). 

Another ‘Atlantic currents could collapse this century’ study – but other studies take a different view | Tallbloke's Talkshop

LESSONS FOR TODAY'S CLIMATE DEBATE

Read this important lesson from our recent history, packed with information. It tells us an important truth, which is that our climate varies naturally and even though CO2 may contrbute to warming it is not the only factor. Those who try to make us believe it is, are lying.

Great Famine of 1876: Lessons for Today's Climate Debate

BEAN COUNTERS THE WINNERS IN THE CLIMATE GAME

You might think that accountancy was about financial matters, such as reporting profits to the revenue department. Today it has gone way beyond that. Companies have to report on all manner of things other than finance. Now CO2 emissions have been added to put up the cost of business, which will end up being passed on to all of us as customers. It's not only business. Here in the UK local councils are also having to collate information about CO2 emissions, employing full-time staff to do it. It all adds to the cost and hence our taxes, though it makes no difference to the total CO2 in the atmosphere as the amounts are insignificant (and of course no difference to the weather or climate).

 BINGO — Another billion dollar industry arrives to feed off  “The Climate Crisis™” « JoNova

STERN REVIEW A CHECK ON ITS ACCURACY 20 YEARS ON

The Stern Review dramatically over-predicted economic losses from extreme weather events, and that flawed prediction was based on the misreading of a white paper. Since 1990 there has been no upward trend at all in total losses from weather extremes as a proportion of GDP.

Over 2006 to 2025, the Stern Review’s projection implied $7.0 trillion in weather losses based on Munich Re’s data, in 2026 dollars. Actual losses were $4.3 trillion, $2.8 trillion less. Using Aon’s data, the shortfall is $1.5 trillion.

 The Stern Review’s $2.8 Trillion Miss - by Roger Pielke Jr.

THE TRUTH ABOUT WILDFIRES

From mainstream media, you woud imagine there has been a dramatic rise in wildfires caused by global warming, or climate change as it is usually described. The truth is that this is not the case. There is no scientific evidence that wildfires today are any more frequent or severe than anything experienced in the past. 

Wildfire Trends: Are Fires Becoming More Frequent?

EU TO PREPARE FOR "4 DEGREES OF WARMING"

But that is a vague term which does not mean anything because we don't know what the weather will do. It makes sense to prepare for extreme weather, provided the cost is bearable. That is a common sense approach. 

 Brussels wants Europe ready for four degrees of warming | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

UK LABOUR BACK GAS DRILLING IN NORTH SEA

Even though the newly appointed Energy Minister (replacing Ed Miliband) was a former supporter of Green policies, she has agreed to allow the gas field to be developed. When it comes to energy cost matters. This is the only logical decision,  

Britain’s North Sea Gas Field Approval Marks Another Win for the Iron Law of Electricity - Watts Up With That?

CAN A GRID RUN ON RENEWABLE ENERGY ALONE?

This is what Western governments are claiming they will achieve. In practice it is very difficult and costly because you have to allow for long periods when the wind does not blow sufficiently and that means back up. The cost of having sufficient back up makes it prohibitively expensive. An experiment to find out has been carried out on the island of El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands. The linked post explains how it has gone.

 El Hierro Renewable Energy: Why 100% Remains Elusive

LEARNING FROM THE OLD COMMUNISTS TO UNDERSTAND WHY WESTERN ENERGY POLICY FAILS

Communism failed because it did not harness the knowledge and energy of the people. Instead they believed they (the leaders) knew best, any other ideas were simply ignored and, if necessary crushed. The article below claims that today's (Western) leaders are doing the same thing with energy by moving to renewables in a big way, despite many experts warning of the dangers. I can see the similarities, though there are also differences, such as the communist leaders use of violence and force to get their way.

 Donald Trump has shown us that there is an alternative, something we should learn from.

Energy Policy Failures: Lessons from Mao's Great Leap Forward

STATISTICS CAN PROVE WHAT THE FACTS CAN'T

Science has become much too dependent on using compute models rather than the actual data. Why should we believe them?

 Climate Death Toll: Batteries Not Included - Watts Up With That?

UK WEATHER COMPUTER - CAN IT BE PROVED TO WORK?

Below is a limk to a video produced by the UK Met Office which attempts to explain how they claim they can tell us what the temperature was at any place in the UK. It is a very slick presentation, but does it stand up to scrutiny. They claim it has been "peer-reviewed", but do not say how or by whom. I made a comment under the video in the form of a question, which was:

If the claim is true it must be able to be tested by an independent person taking actual temperatures at a secret location, and then getting the computer programme (Called Hadcrut) to reveal its answer from the computer. If they will not put it to the test then we cannot trust it.

How We Map the UK's Climate - UK Weather - Met Office Explains

There is more about this here:

East Anglia – Home of the Zombies? A critical look at Met Office gridding and their interesting semantics. | Tallbloke's Talkshop

BBC PUSHING A LEFT-WING AGENDA TO CHILDREN INCLUDING NET ZERO

The BBC was accused of 'brainwashing' children after a Mail on Sunday investigation revealed its education website is pushing 'extreme' Left-wing views on migration, Net Zero and inequality to millions of pupils.

Pupils are encouraged to campaign for controversial Net Zero policies and join human rights groups such as Amnesty International – while the website praises the divisive Black Lives Matter movement and Left-wing activists such as Greta Thunberg.

 Schoolchildren 'brainwashed by Left-wing BBC': Demand for inquiry as education website used by millions encourages pupils to back contentious open borders and Net Zero policies | Daily Mail Online

MORE ON THE AUSSIE TEMPERATURE DATA ERRORS

Jennifer Marohasy gives an update about the scandal surrounding the temperature records of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. Its digital file showed August 1867 and August 1907 as identical on all 31 days, to a tenth of a degree. But that’s not the only problem.

 Australian Temperature Records: Duplicate Data Found

HOW BLACKOUTS MAY OCCUR AND WHY THEY ARE MORE LIKELY

Paul Burgess explains how a blackout could occur and why it is becoming more likely. Finally how we can recover the supply, but only at a huge price. A really well-produced video, easy to understand. 

The Anatomy of a UK Blackout - The UK Electricity Grid Walking On A Tightrope!

SCIENTISTS MUST TRUST NO ONE - RAW DATA MUST ALWAYS BE REVEALED

A big story in the Autralian press at the moment is the one about the many errors in the data produced by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology It seems to be gaining traction. We really need something similar over here in the UK. A huge "well done" to our friends down under! 

‘Trust me’ approach must end: climate scientists should release raw data to restore public trust « JoNova

CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT THE HYPE

The link below is to a comprehensive report looking at the global climate. Its conclusions show that climate change is small and manageable. Nothing to be alarmed about and can easily be coped with by being better prepared. we should stop panicking  and shouting about emergencies. Instead adjust to prepare for extreme weather events.

 Climate4you_September_2026.pdf

HOW LONG CAN THE UK MET OFFICE HIDE FROM SCRUTINY?

So far the government has managed to hide the failings of the Met Office by evading the questions that it has been asked, bur Super Sleuth, Ray Sanders, has not stopped digging into the state of the UK Weather Stations and the way our surface temperatures are measured.  

Vallance’s Vanishing Act: Official Response to Stationgate | Tallbloke's Talkshop

Recently Ray has found a station (Altnaharra) which has managed to produce records going back to 1961, even though the station did not start recording until 1993. This might seem odd to you and me, but the Met Office normally explain this by claiming that they calculate these figures by using "well-correlated nearby stations". The only problem is that there aren't any such stations available for this one.

Altnaharra No 2 WMO03044 – 30 year climate averages derived from 1960 for site only with readings from 1993. How “Well Correlated” can they really be? | Tallbloke's Talkshop

AUSSIE MET OFFICE IN DATA FIDDLING SCANDAL

In science, the raw data is sacrosanct, but a new type of analysis shows hundreds of anomalies and oddities in BOM (Australian Bureau of Meteorology) Raw data, and whole months of supposedly raw records have been cut and pasted, in one instance as far as 40 years earlier.

Tom Berger is a specialist in data-based deception analysis who has assisted the FBI in the past. So he has analyzed the BOM raw data in new very detailed ways. He found adjustments in one site were predictable in a machine-learning way from another site 800km away, suggesting that “the adjustments were following a systematic, network-wide pattern”, not just with an issue at a single station.

 BOMs Scientific Scandal: the Raw Data is Not Raw « JoNova

USA TO SCRAP BIDEN ERA METHANE REGS

Former President Joe Biden’s EPA finalized sweeping methane regulations in 2023, later establishing the super-emitter program as part of its 2024 oil and natural gas rules. The administration projected that the broader regulations would prevent approximately 58 million tons of methane emissions between 2024 and 2038.

“In an upcoming proposal, which is currently under review by the Office of Management and Budget, U.S. EPA will take an important step in easing regulatory burdens and unleashing the Nation’s domestic energy supply. 

EPA wants to scrap Biden-era regs that pose ‘monumental threat’ to natural gas - CFACT

UNINSURABLE HOMES - NEXT CRISIS?

No doubt there are homes that are uninsurable due to repeated flooding, for example. For those affected it is a crisis, but these cases are a very small percentage of the market, so to describe it as a "financial crisis" is a vast exaggeration, like so many other claims made about the climate. 

Next financial crisis ‘to be triggered by uninsurable homes’ | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

GREAT BRITISH WIND FARM SCANDAL

Something which appears to have been overlooked is the cost of  removal of wind turbines at the end of life. The short video linked below gives the details of this hidden scandal. 

The Great British Wind Farm Scandal

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY FLOODING PREDICTIONS LOOK IMPOSSIBLE

The claims are based on the Met Office’s UKCP18 climate projections, now known to be worthless junk, as they are based on the “implausible” emission scenario, RCP8.5. All this talk of doom will only turn more people into climate sceptics.

 8 Million Properties at Risk of Flooding by Mid-Century –Environment Agency | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

MORE EXPERTS WARN OF UK BLACK OUT RISK INCREASING

The article below is a very easy to understand explanation of why our risk of blackouts is increasing. No doubt our leading  politicians are prepared to tke the gamble, but they have not explained this to the peope. 

Britain is Heading Towards Blackouts – The Daily Sceptic

CLIMATE LAWSUIT - STATE OF MICHIGAN v OIL COMPANIES - DISMISSED

The extraordinary lengths to which climate zealots will go amazes me, and with such power behind them. But, at least the judges in the USA seem to be solidly based in common sense. Will this ruling now deter others?

Michigan Climate Lawsuit Against Oil Companies Dismissed

AUSSIE RED TAPE AS BAD AS UK

Red tape is throttling economies all over the developed world, slowly driving out investment and destroying jobs. Here is another example of how this is applied to climate change policies in Australia. 

 The High Court says we have to ask our miners if they can stop people in China or Japan burning our coal or gas « JoNova

In a way it is amusing to read this nonsense, but it is actually very serious. Governments must simplify laws and thereby rein in lawyers who are the only winners in all this.

ARE GERMANY AND CALIFORNIA CHINA'S USEFUL IDIOTS?

 The world’s third- and fourth-largest economies have become a climate vanguard. Berlin has pledged, for the first time, to end fossil fuel use by 2045. It is not clear whether this is on a ‘Net Zero’ basis or if it actually means no fossil fuel use at all. Mr Newsom says California has run on 100% clean electricity on nine days out of 10 this year. The US Department of Energy has put the point without ornament: about 15% of California’s primary energy comes from renewables and more than 75% from oil and natural gas. The California Policy Center has called the Governor’s clean-energy claims “transparently false”.  

Germany and California’s Energy Policies Benefit China

UK HAS ONLY 42 DAYS OF DIESEL RESERVES

The UK has only around 42 days of diesel reserves, among the lowest in Europe, and imports 54 per cent of the diesel it consumes. If diesel prices go up, it costs the farmer more to grow our food: it costs the lorry drivers more to transport it. The Government, by issuing a simple exemption to the ETS and cutting fuel duty, has it in its power to make a serious start on reducing Britain's strategic vulnerability and containing the cost of living crisis. 

 Labour could easily cut diesel prices. It is doing nothing - Yahoo News UK

UK REFINERIES BEING SQUEEZED OUT

Britain lost two oil refineries last year – Grangemouth closed in April 2025 and Lindsey followed in August, leaving just four operating sites: Fawley, Humber, Pembroke and Stanlow. In 2025, we imported 15.5 million tonnes more petroleum products than we exported, the largest deficit since Britain became a net importer in 2013.

…since 2009, approximately 30 refineries have shut down continent-wide, leading to a 37% contraction in refining capacity over the past decade. Industry forecasts now indicate that 60% of Europe’s total refining capacity is at high risk…

“… we are currently paying £70 million to £80 million a year in CO2 costs. That will go up to £150 million in the next four or five years, and our competitors are not paying any. That is the cost delta that we are suffering versus our competition, and that is what is causing refineries to shutter in the UK. We have lost two recently. You are therefore effectively driving even more imports to come in, and they can compete against us because they are not paying the CO2 costs,”

– Paul Greenwood Managing Director, ExxonMobil UK 

New report into the refineries sector concludes we need to abolish the UK ETS - Watt-Logic

(ETS is Emissions Trading Scheme - a tax on emitting CO2)

ARE WORLD LEADERS TIRED OF ATTENDING CLIMATE CONFERENCES?

News from the latest climate conference seems to show that political leaders are no longer as interested in attending these events. Perhaps they realise that they just don't achieve very much and that the public are fed up with seeing their leaders jetting off to some exotic location. Why don't they save fuel and do it on Teams?

 A $20 million dollar Pre-COP Flop to entertain two leaders and hundreds of hanger-ons? Elitist holiday camp? « JoNova

IS GERMANY ON THE BRINK OF SOCIAL UNREST?

Germany’s unilateral approach to energy places it at a competitive and technological disadvantage relative to global rivals. “The energy transition is not a transition, but a retreat. Anyone who shuts down progress shuts down the future,” 

Green Energy Debacle: German Expert Professor Fritz Vahrenholt Warns of Severe Economic and Social Consequences - Watts Up With That?

FAWLEY REFINERY TO SHUT DOWN FOR 3 MONTHS

This is for planned maintenance, but with UK refinery capacity at low levels to start with this is another blow to hit us on top of the general shortage of diesel fuel here. No one can say that fossil fuels are not essential to our way of life for the foreseeable future and yet the government here will not make a decision on whether to allow more drilling in the North Sea until after next week's bye election, as they are afraid of losing votes to the Green Party. It is all rather pathetic

 Fawley Refinery Major Maintenance Shutdown Scheduled for September–December 2026 | Fawley Contractor Stays

WHERE ARE ALL THE PREDICTED ATLANTIC HURRICANES?

 Back in the spring, you couldn’t open a weather app without reading about the “supercharged” hurricane season headed your way. Bigger storms. More of them. All courtesy of a warming planet.

We’re now well past the statistical peak of the season. And on September 11th, the Atlantic quietly made history.

That was the date the basin had to beat to avoid the record books. Twice before – 2002 and 2013 – the Atlantic had gone as late as September 11th without its first hurricane, and never later. This year, September 11th came and went with nothing on the board.

No matter what forms between now and the season’s official end on November 30th, 2026 already owns the title of the slowest start to hurricane season since satellite tracking began in 1966.

(The scientists still found a way to make this your fault. Give me a second to explain.)

The Washington Post ran the numbers and landed on this gem: rising atmospheric “stability” in the tropics “may be connected to a changing climate.” So for thirty years, an active season was blamed on climate change. Now a historically dead one is climate change too.
Heads they win. Tails you lose.

No Atlantic hurricane through September! - CFACT

THE PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY BRIEFING'S HARMFUL PROPAGANDA

 The People’s Emergency Briefing is a roughly 50-minute film. The first showing of it was at Westminster Central Hall in November 2025 to an audience of MPs, It is now being shown in village halls, churches, workplaces and similar rooms. Organisers keep the film off the open web. Hosts are expected to follow a screening pack, run a guided discussion, and have someone on hand if people become distressed. Attendance is recommended from age 16. The political ask at the end is to lobby for a prime-time television briefing introduced by the Prime Minister, delivered in a similar way as the COVID broadcasts.

Paul Burgess exposes the propaganda in this video:

Paul Burgess Head to Head with founder of the People's Emergency Briefing

USA SLASHES MORE EMISSIONS REGULATIONS

The Trump administration on Monday announced it was slashing rules that had been aimed at reducing CO2 emissions and boosting electric vehicles.

Monday’s move follows the Trump administration’s rollback of the government’s ability to impose requirements to track, report and limit CO2 emissions from cars and trucks. 

Trump wipes out the EV car mandate — cars don’t have to try to change the weather « JoNova

MET OFFICE SCAREMONGERING

On June 23rd, the Met Office produced a weather forecast for 2056 showing how the summer temperature in England under a “plausible” computer model scenario could hit 45°C along with nine consecutive days where 40°C was recorded somewhere in the country. 

The Met Office did not specifically identify which “plausible” scenario it used but the figures were remarkably similar – in fact slightly hotter – than claims in UKCP18 that summer temperatures could rise by 5.1°C by 2070. UKCP18 was based on the infamous RCP8.5 computer scenario, responsible for most mainstream climate doomsday copy over the last 15 years, now recognised by  the IPCC as “implausible”, 

RCP8.5 stands for Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 which means a concentration of CO2 which would cause an increase in warming of 8.5 watts per square metre, now understood to be implausible.

 Met Office 2056 Weather Forecast Draws Criticism

ONE INTREPID CLIMATE REALIST TO GO ON 1000 MILE WALK

This guy has certainly put a huge effort to get the message out that there is no climate emergency. Take a look at this very impressive website. 

1000 Mile Walk - The Great Climate Con

Paul Burgess has interviewed him here:

One Man -1,000 mile walk against Net Zero

MORE FIBS FROM THE MET OFFICE

The Met Office announced a new record high temperature this week, except they conveniently overlooked an older higher record from 1895! An article in the Times 15 years ago, following a warm spell of weather, reminded readers that it had been much hotter in September 1895! Their archived news reports revealed that temperatures had reached 30.6C (87.1F) on both 25th and 27th of September in Strathfield Turgis, Hampshire.

https://www.thetimes.com/travel/advice/weather-eye-a-topsy-turvy-year-d5m85g66ztd

 Met Office Caught Fabricating Daily Temperature Record Claims | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

CLIMATE REPARATIONS DEMANDED BY FLOODED NATION

The perennial cry of "reparations" for any perceived wrong is now common place. It started with slavery and now has moved on to climate change. The problem for these people is that they must prove a direct connection, which in the case of climate change is impossible. 

Nepal Flood Sparks Debate Over Climate Compensation

A VERY CONVENIENT WARMING BOOK REVIEW

This website was started to provide evidence to support those who did not believe the scare stories that were rampant back in 2007. Now as the blog reaches its twentieth anniversary this is more needed than ever. This recently published book (2024) does an excellent job and no climate activist can credibly ignore such information, as you will see from reading this book review.  

A Very Convenient Warming: Book Review

There is more about the book here. It would make a greatpresent for anyone who is interested in seeking out the information that is never seen on the mainstream media.

GREEN HYPOCRISY IN EVIDENCE

The Green Party leader of Bristol council flew to New York for a climate change conference just days after the authority banned flight adverts in the city.

Tony Dyer was pictured alongside Zohran Mamdani at the Urban20 Mayors Summit in Manhattan on Sunday as 50 representatives from around the world discussed climate action.

 Green council bans airline adverts – then flies leader to New York - Watts Up With That?

IS CHINA FUNDING WESTERN CLIMATE ACTIVIST GROUPS?

It is clearly in China's interest to stop the West from having cheap reliable energy so this gives them the motive and now evidence is emerging as the article explains.

 How much Climate Change™ angst is propped up by China or is even a Cold War weapon of statecraft? « JoNova

CHINA TO USE EVEN MORE COAL!

Next time someone explains that China is going over to renewables tell them about this article. 

China Wants More Coal | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

ANOTHER BUSINESS DECIDES DIESEL IS MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN ELECTRIC

Transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables was never going to be as easy as some politicians tried to make out. When the reality becomes clear the decision is easy.

 BHP says each Battery Truck will cost 1,000 hours in productivity — it will keep diesel and delay Net Zero « JoNova

TRAPPED INSIDE THE CLIMATE CULT - HOW A REPORTER ESCAPED

As a young journalist, Lucy Biggers wanted to do good but gradually lost confidence in her own judgment. She now describes how group pressure, guilt and fear of exclusion shaped her climate reporting.

 Lucy Biggers: How climate reporting became biased

GO GREEN AND GO BROKE

This just shows that it is high risk to take new technology before it has been fully tested and thoroughly assessed. These elected officials should be booted out by the voters.

Aberdeen Paid £556k Per Hydrogen Bus. Five Years Later, First Bus Is Paying £30k - CleanTechnica

ISLE OF MAN ELECTIONS - KEY MESSAGE

Paul Burgess has got very involved with the Isle of Man power plans involving wind farms. Now they have elections for their government and the cost of this is a big issue. Paul is urging voters to look at the policies of the different candidates and see whether their figures add up.

Message to Isle of Man before election

AFRICAN RAIN SORCERERS IN BIG TROUBLE

Climate change is raising expectations they cannot meet, leaving rainmakers increasingly blamed for drought — and in extreme cases, killed by mobs. Not a good career choice!

Claim: African Rain Summoning Sorcerers are being Murdered because of Climate Change - Watts Up With That?

WILL THE USA GET RID OF CO2 EMISSIONS REGULATIONS?

Trump’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, is expected to announce today that they will scrap the limits set for ‘climate pollution’ from US power plants. This is bound to lead to a battle in the courts, the result of which could determine the future of climate change laws for decades to come.

 Slaying the Bureaucratic Blob: Trump expected to tell US power plants to emit as much CO2 as they want « JoNova

USA HOTTEST SUMMER

,Just because summer 2026 may have had the highest average temperature on record nationwide does not mean that it was the “hottest summer on record,” as widely reported by legacy media. It also does not tell the full story in terms of the conditions that the vast majority of people actually felt.

Reporting that it was the “hottest summer on record” implies that average Tmax was highest on record, not the average Tmin or overall Tavg. By Tmax, 2026 ranks fourth behind 1936, 1934, and 2012, respectively.

 Hottest Summer on Record? A Closer Look at US Data

LABOUR HIRES "INFLUENCERS" TO SELL NET ZERO

Labour has spent more than £170,000 of taxpayers’ money on paying social media influencers to promote net zero, it has emerged.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has paid for 16 influencers to use sites such as TikTok and Instagram to promote green power.

Figures released under freedom of information following a request from the Scottish Conservatives showed that no payments were made to promote any other form of energy.

The Tories accused the Government of using public funds to promote its net zero “obsession” while household energy bills were surging.

 Labour gives influencers £170k to promote net zero | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

COST OF UK GRID EXPANSION GOES ON RISING

Rising network expansion fees push up bills as projects suffer HS2-style cost inflation

The subsea cable known as Eastern Green Link 1 will slip into the water at Torness, east of Edinburgh, before resurfacing near the coastal town of Seaham, County Durham.

It is often referred to as a “bootstrap” by energy insiders. But that doesn’t do the project’s scale justice.

Developers say that by 2029 the 120-mile electricity “superhighway” will help unlock Scotland’s renewable energy reserves by transporting enough power for two million homes southward.

At an estimated cost of £2.5bn, it is probably one of the most expensive infrastructure schemes you’ve never heard of – perhaps because it lacks the visibility of a railway, road or bridge.

Yet amid severe delays and escalating costs, Eastern Green Link 1 and schemes like it are now beginning to attract more attention.

The cable and its sister project, Eastern Green Link 2, were originally meant to cost a combined £3.4bn, a figure that has since doubled to an estimated £6.8bn.

 Net Zero Grid Upgrades Running out of Control. | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

MET OFFICE TEMPERATURE STATIONS EXPOSED

A brand new video from Paul Burgess is aimed at the alarmism coming from the Met Office.

 Record Summer Super El Nino Trust in the Met Office

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET GAINING MASS

According to a new study published in a Nature journal, from 2020 to 2024 the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) gained mass at a rate of +67.5 Gt/yr, reversing the modest 2003 to 2019 mass loss (-100.6 Gt/yr) trend.

 New Study: The Antarctic Ice Sheet Gained Mass From 2020-2024 Due To Staggering Snow And Ice Accumulation - Watts Up With That?

GREENLAND ICE BALANCE

We are constantly told in the news that the Greenland ice sheet is melting away and how it will cause rapid sea level rise.  The article below looks at the long term ice balance which tells a very different story.

 Greenland ice sheet gained a little mass in 2025/26

HEAT-RELATED DEATHS EXAGGERATED BY STATISTIC MODELS

It is an inconvenient fact for climate activists that cold weather kills far more people than hot. It now seems that the Office for National Statistics is trying to reduce that difference.  

ONS Peddling Fake Heatwave Deaths Scare | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

TIME FOR A BALANCED REPORT ON CLIMATE

The National Climate Assessment does not give a balanced view of climate change and CO2. This is about to change as the following article explains. 

National Climate Assessment amendment rejects extreme scenarios

NEW REPORT SAYS EXPANDING HEATHROW IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH NET ZERO

This should be no surprise to anyone. Paul Homewood reminds us of exactly what kind of future we would have to endure if we were serious about actually achieving net zero. What he explains is not something he has made up, but another report which went into great detail. It includes such things as a complete ban on flying, never mind an expansion of Heathrow! Time for the government to come clean and be honest with us. It is time to scrap the Climate Change Act altogether, or we will get bogged down in court actions while our economy goes down the pan. 

Heathrow expansion incompatible with UK legal climate targets, major report finds | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

IRAN SHUT DOWN A UK POWER PLANT WITH A CYBER ATTACK

We are living in increasingly dangerous times as a new kind of warfare goes on, while the politicians try to pretend all is well. However some damage cannot be hushed up as these attacks impact peoples lives. Here are some details:  

Iran shuts down a UK power plant for four days, but that’s no biggie… « JoNova

PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY BRIEFING COUNTER PACK

Here in the UK there is a series of meetings showing a video being put on in village halls organised by a group of people who can only be described as climate doom-mongers. The first link shows where these meetings are taking place. The video is presented by Chris Packham who presents TV nature programmes here in the UK. A few other TV personalities also feature to propagate a feeling of Armageddon, unless we "act now" to reduce our CO2 emissions. Sadly no scientific evidence is put into it

National Emergency Briefing

Paul Burgess has produced a good rebuttal in his video below.

 The people's emergency briefing - pure propaganda - no evidence - YouTube

FARMS AND WILDLIFE SACRIFICED FOR CLIMATE POLICIES

New York is tearing up rural communities, wiping out wildlife sanctuaries, and burying prime agricultural soil under solar installation in the name of green energy. The root of this campaign is New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) of 2019, which demands that renewable sources supply 70% of the state’s electricity, that greenhouse gas emissions fall 40% below 1990 levels, and that the state build at least 3,000 megawatts of storage.

 New York solar farms threaten wildlife and farmland

TOP PHYSICIST REFUTES BASIS OF CO2 CLIMATE THEORY

In this complex paper a physicist explains why the whole hypothesis of  CO2 causing global warming is wrong.

The IPCC's carbon cycle model is being called into question

NEPAL GLACIER DISASTER - POSSIBLE CAUSES

 Before it is blamed on "climate change" let's look at the facts.

Nepal-Tibet Glacier Disaster: First the Facts

MET OFFICE TEMPERATURE RECORDS ARE WORTHLESS

Paul Burgess does first class videos which put over the facts about climate change in a clear, simple way. This new one looks at how Met Office temperatures are made.

 The truth behind that 38 1°C record on the 13th of August

THE TREE THAT PROVES WARMING HAS HAPPENED MORE THAN ONCE

We are constantly fed a story that we are in a uniquely warm period over the past 100,000 years. The finding of this tree in the Alps shows that there was a time 10,000 years ago when this region was warmer than today. 

Morteratsch Glacier tree challenges the climate narrative

USA COMPANY CLAIMS TO SCORE CLIMATE RISK OF HOME-OWNERS

Climate risk company, First Street, claims to score property-specific loss predictions, due to climate change, that have depressed Nebraska’s real estate market and made it difficult for Nebraskan homeowners to sell their homes. That really is orwellian. Can you imagine this happening in the UK? 

The Attorney General is now taking action to prevent this company from making such unfounded allegations.

Attorney General Hilgers Files Lawsuit Against First Street for Harming Nebraska Homeowners - Watts Up With That?

UK PATIENTS AT RISK FROM NHS NET ZERO DOGMA

From April 1 next year, drug companies seeking major new deals to supply NHS medicines will be forced to meet tougher Net Zero rules covering global supply chains – or risk being rejected for the contract. Under the regulations, major suppliers will have to publicly report emissions from worldwide operations, commit to reaching Net Zero by 2050 and set out what they are doing to cut emissions.

Companies which fail to meet the minimum requirements will not qualify to go to the next stage of the buying process. However, two of Britain’s leading cancer specialists warn the new requirements could drive up costs and shrink the pool of companies prepared to compete to supply drugs to the health service. 

You may have noticed the date when this is due to begin is April 1st, but this is no joke. The UK could be refusing to buy essential drugs from the cheapest supplier simply because they don't follow all the net zero policies. Utter madness! 

 Net Zero ideology ‘putting NHS patients at risk’, warn top doctors | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

GLOBAL WILD FIRES AT A RECORD LOW THIS YEAR

While the media obsesses about record wildfires, the satellite data shows the opposite – worldwide, wildfire area is at the lowest for time of year since records began:

 Global Wildfires At Record Low This Year | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

JACOB REES-MOGG EXPOSES THE "CHEAP RENEWABLES" MYTH

Watch Ex Conservative MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg in this 8 minute speech demolish the arguments for the net zero policy here:

 The Green Con Exposed

DON'T BE FOOLED BY ANYONE CLAIMING THAT CHINA IS QUITTING COAL POWER

China is building scores of highly advanced ultra-supercritical coal plants.  Last year the country ramped up construction of new coal plants, adding a gargantuan 78GW of new capacity. They added more new plants in a single year than they have any year since 2007.

This feat was three times Australia’s entire coal fleet. China is adding as much coal power as our national grid has every four months. And these are hot new efficient machines, while we torture ourselves about how fast we can close ours down. 

China’s coal boom is roaring back — 78GW of new coal plants last year is the highest for 18 years « JoNova

CHINA SHOWS THE WAY TO GET THINGS BUILT

We’re so used to the glacial pace of Western production it is hard to even remember a day when such things were possible, but satellite photos show the pace of construction and finished plants. See The GEM site for more.  

Say What? China is building Ultra super critical coal fired power plants in just three years… « JoNova

FLOODS NOT BECOMING MORE FREQUENT

 The figure below shows flood levels of Germany’s Danube River recorded in the town of Passau over more than 500 years. As the caption states, the highest flood level over this period was back in 1501, and only two of the nine severe floods occurred during the last 70 years.

Germany in fact has been battered by devastating floods many times during the last few centuries, including a 1717 Christmas Eve flood that killed 13,700 people. More recently, the Ahr valley in Germany, which was struck in July 2021, experienced major floods in the same locations on 12 June 1910, when at least 52 people were killed. 

Flood Trends: No Evidence Floods Are Becoming More Frequent

MASSIVE COST OF RENEWABLE POWER

The policy at the heart of the net zero agenda is shown to be responsible for the huge cost of UK electricity which is causing serious damage to the UK economy.  

 New Report Says Miliband’s Clean Power Plan Will Cost £320 Billion | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

LABOUR GOVERNMENT RESORT TO SUBSIDIES FOR GAS

Taxpayers face paying billions to subsidise the gas supply as Ed Miliband's net zero crusade drives energy firms to pull investment from Britain.

Ministers are drawing up plans for taxpayer-funded grants to stop gas providers from scaling back their capacity because of the Government's focus on renewables.

They are also considering proposals for new state-funded gas storage facilities to avert the threat of blackouts during periods of high demand.

 Labour plans multi-billion-pound gas subsidies to keep lights on

CONSERVATIVE SHADOW ENERGY MINISTER TO ABANDON NET ZERO

 Claire Coutinho on X: "Today I'm launching the most detailed energy analysis ever produced in British politics. It compares the cost of a Net Zero electricity grid to one that prioritises cheap power. The Cheap Power system saves consumers £320 billion and is still 80% clean. https://t.co/yIUtXiAPVe" / X

NET ZERO PRISON ARRIVES LATE AND MASSIVELY OVER BUDGET

Another net zero disaster. This time it is a net zero prison that is 10 years late and four times the cost. It will house just 200 prisoners. Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona used to put them up in tents! Cheap and green

Joe Arpaio - Wikipedia

 Net Zero prison to be £150million overbudget and deliver just 200 jail places | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

TWO KEY POINTS THAT NEED TO BE STRESSED IN A DISCUSSION OF CLIMATE CHANGE

 The first is that climate is not the same thing as weather. It is quite wrong to say that the climate has changed because we have had two or three hot dry summers. Those are simply weather. Climate change requires there to be an increase in the number of hot dry summers over a thirty year period, when compared to a previous thirty year period.

The second is that even if there has been a change as described above, we cannot simply say that the whole of that change is due to an increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. There is good evidence that warming may also be caused by a change in cloud cover. Or changes in the circulation of the ocean currents. There is still a lot of argument about what proportion of warming can be attributed to each component. 

To argue these points is not unreasonable. It is unreasonable not to accept them. You cannot be a climate change denier if you accept that climate can and does change. The evidence must be based on sound statistics.

IS THIS THE DAWN OF A NEW NUCLEAR AGE?

A year ago Donald Trump decided to reignite nuclear power research –– his goal in June 2025 was to develop three new advanced nuclear reactors and get them to reach criticality by July 4th this year for the 250th celebrations. In the end they got four across the line. One of them, created by an Australian Bobby Gallagher, was a latecomer to the race, but managed to build a new microreactor design, with some help from the US Energy Department,  in an awe-inspiring 150 days. 

Trump’s race to launch Nuclear Microreactors changes everything – (An Australian led team built one in just 150 days) « JoNova

WHAT CAN THE JASON ARDAY STORY TELL US ABOUT UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS?

 Even though we can all feel very sorry for the fact that Jason Arday has committed suicide due to the huge adverse publicity he had over the plagiarism accusations and other achievements he claimed which were questionable, to say the least, the fact is that because Cambridge University wanted to believe him so much that they failed to carry out the necessary due diligence before appointing him. It appears that universities have their own woke agenda and Arday fitted what they wanted. Contrast this behaviour with the attitude towards scientists who challenge the prevailing orthodoxy. People like Henrik Svensmark from yesterday's post, or Peter Ridd who questioned the state of the Great Barrier Reef. There have been many others. 

This article by Nathan Cofnas gives the background to the Arday story.

DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge

SCIENTIST WHO DEVELOPED THE CLOUD THEORY OF GLOBAL WARMING IS FIRED

A senior university scientist who has spent decades studying the formation of clouds from solar radiation has been fired. Apparently there is no interest in looking at any cause of global warming other than CO2. This one track approach is not how science should be carried out. Science can only truly develop by studying all possible effects. 

 Henrik Svensmark Fired After Years of Climate Research

CLOUD CHANGE EFFECT LIKELY CAUSE OF MUCH OF THE EARTH'S WARMING

I wonder why there is so little attention paid to research into the effect of changes in cloud cover. It seems an obvious thing to be checked, but it seems the politics has come down on one answer which is CO2 increase and nothing else is allowed to blur the picture. 

Another New Study Links Modern and Past Global Warming to Natural Changes in Cloud Clover, Not CO2 - Watts Up With That?

DECLINING WIND SPEED ACROSS THE UK - AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

When the data comes up with the "wrong" answer the UK Met Office simply ignores it, as evidenced by their latest Annual Climate Report. Luckily eagle-eyed sceptics have spotted this, as the article below explains.

 Cherry-Picking Met Office Drops Declining Wind Speed Chapter From Its Latest Annual Climate Report - Watts Up With That?

PUTTING THIS SUMMER IN PERSPECTIVE

This excellent article gives us the statistics that are kept hidden from us by those pushing the climate change agenda. What they show is that, although it has undoubtedly been above average it is still within the range that we can expect in terms of temperature and rainfall. 

 Why Has It Been So Hot This Summer? | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

OUR SINKING CITIES

Thailand, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, China, and Indonesia are among the countries experiencing the highest relative sea level rise. Their population-weighted coastal averages range from roughly 7 to 10 millimeters per year.

Some cities are sinking, not merely twice as fast, but six times faster than the seas are rising. Ponder that a thousand tide gauges around the world showed seas are only rising at about 1mm a year. (Beenstock). In a funny coincidence the original raw satellite data in the 1990s showed a 1mm rise. Then it got adjusted up to 3mm using one sinking gauge in HongKong. If we look at 60 beaches in Europe and isolate the most stable one of them — that also shows seas are rising at 1.25mm/year. (Mörner) Real sea level rise is … really  small. Read the full article here: 

The real sea level crisis the UN won’t mention: The sinking cities « JoNova

COMPARING ANTHONY FAUCI WITH MICHAEL MANN

In this thought-provoking article the similarities between the pronouncements of Fauci, the Covid "expert", and those of Mann, the Hockey-stick guy are documented. In both cases the people have been told falsehoods. 

Covid and Climate: When Science Gives Way to Ideology

MORE POOR PRACTICE AT UK MET OFFICE WEATHER STATIONS

The more one looks at the way the UK Met Office runs its weather stations the more poor practice is uncovered. The article in the link below is a classic case in point. There is no doubt that the network of weather stations is a very amateurish effort which is completely inadequate for the task of studying the climate, upon which the whole basis for very costly policy intervention depends. 

“Climate Champions Who Can’t Keep Their Own Weather Stations Running.” – The Field Studies Council and their 13 Met Office official weather stations | Tallbloke's Talkshop

STEVEN KOONIN NEW SHORT VIDEO

Steven Koonin is a superb ambassador for scientific truth, as he has unimpeachable credentials. In this short video he lays out in a calm and convincing way how we are being misled by exaggeration and half-truths.

 Everything you think you know about Climate Change vs. The Truth

RAY SANDERS - A MAN ON A MISSION

In his latest podcast Ray update us on his project to look at all the UK weather stations and see which are the good ones. With over 300 to cover it is a huge undertaking and I admire his determination and energy.  He deserves a medal, but instead he gets completely frustrated by the UK Met Office who regard him as vexatious. 

Ray Sanders #418

INDIA DECLINES TO HOLD IPCC CoP MEETING

I don't recall this news being broadcast on the news. It is nevertheless a significant development, indicating that they are not willing to sacrifice growth in order to cut CO2 emissions, and who can blame them. In the end we must all admit that we do not control the climate and so we will have to adapt instead.

 India Rejects Net Zero and Climate Summit Agenda

THE CLIMATE DEBATE - FROST v STANLEY

 I think you will find this a very interesting discussion between Lord Frost and Tim Stanley, who is a writer with the Daily Telegraph. The teleprompter is a bit annoying as it types out every stutter and repetition, but the argument which is about whether we should adapt to any extremes of weather, or just accept the need to transition away from fossil fuels was well made by Lord Frost. Stanley made a good effort, but his argument was not able to withstand the logic of Frost.

Tim Stanley Loses The Plot | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

GREAT BARRIER REEF IN GOOD SHAPE

Here is the latest information from reef expert Professor Peter Ridd. What he reveals in this video is just how public opinion can be manipulated by hiding key information which do not support the story the institutions don't want you to hear.

 2026 Great Barrier Reef Statistics: They told us a fairy tale.

MAN-MADE GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT A PROBLEM SAYS LEADING METEOROLOGIST

This interesting article looks at the basic arguments for man-made global warming, and hence climate change, being a major problem, and concludes that the data does not support the idea.

 Chris Martz: No Real Fingerprints of Man-Made Global Warming

ED MILIBAND WANTS TO GIVE OUR AID CASH TO FOREIGN CLIMATE PROJECTS

Ed Miliband, the newly appointed UK Foreign Secretary wants to splash the cash from the foreign aid budget (and no doubt increase it!) on foreign schemes to reduce CO2 emissions, even though the country's finances are in dire straits.

 Net Zero Watch on X: "“The issue I think I have with Ed Miliband doing this, is I don't really have any confidence that the governance of any of this will be done properly." Our Campaign Director @MDC12345678 reacts to Ed Miliband's new climate priorities at the Foreign Office. https://t.co/wmjDBX1Nzu" / X

WHISTLEBLOWERS WARN THE PUBLIC "THE GRID IS ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE"

We all know the story of the boy who cried "Wolf" - He said it so many times that no one believed him when the wolf came. The point being that the wolf DID come in the end. The "boys" in this case are actually working in the industry.

 PressReader.com | Black­out fears after insiders claim power grid on brink of crum­bling

£40 BILLION PER YEAR - THE COST OF NET ZERO BY 2030

 Britain currently has the highest industrial electricity prices and the fourth-highest domestic electricity prices in Europe. While high gas prices contribute to wholesale costs, this paper argues that the dominant driver of elevated electricity bills is the cumulative impact of policies designed to accelerate renewables deployment and achieve Net Zero.

Electricity subsidies (Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs), Contracts for Difference (CfDs), Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs), and the Sizewell C Regulated Asset Base (RAB) levy) have risen from £0.5bn in 2010/11 to £11.8bn in 2024/25 and are forecast to reach £14.9bn by 2030/31. Grid integration costs—covering transmission network charges, balancing services, and the Capacity Market—have increased from £2.8bn to £8.0bn over the same period and are projected to rise sharply to £25.3bn by 2030/31. Combined, these subsidy and grid integration costs have grown six-fold since 2010/11 to £19.8bn in 2024/25 and are forecast to exceed £40bn annually by 2030/31. This will be equivalent to more than £1,400 per household.

This report was cited in the Daily Mail. The report itself can be read in full here:

Good Money After Bad: The Spiralling Costs of British Green Energy Initiatives and What We Can Do About It  - Prosperity Institute