The public are being seduced into buying a heat pump to replace their gas boiler, but before doing so they should read the following article to see what is likely to happen in the near future as the government tries to recover the vast subsidies they are currently paying out.
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Saturday 27 July 2024
Friday 26 July 2024
UK NEW LABOUR GOVERNMENT ENERGY POLICY EXPOSED
A new video by Paul Burgess exposes the madness of the net zero policy of the new government. A policy driven by Ed Miliband.
Thursday 25 July 2024
NEW PAPER SHOWS CENTRAL EUROPE WAS 2 TO 5 DEGREES WARMER IN THE RECENT PAST THAN THE PRESENT
Yet another study shows that our present climate is not exceptionally warm. Time to wake up and stop all the angst over a one degree increase and slow down the phase out of fossil fuels. There is no need to panic.
Wednesday 24 July 2024
SCARE TACTICS EXPOSED AS MERELY HOT AIR
Jo Nova's excellent blog is constantly reminding us of how ridiculous the dramatic headlines are which reference some new climate record. When you see what is going on with the temperature measurements from our Met Office (see previous days posts) you realise what nonsense all this talk is. Read her latest post to understand what is really happening.
It is quite possible to accept that CO2 is causing some warming while still being sceptical of whether that warming is a serious threat as opposed to merely one factor among many which can lead to changes in our climate. What we need to do is recognise that many of the factors affecting the climate are beyond our control. We need to learn to adapt and mitigate the most extreme weather and stop trying to control it.
Tuesday 23 July 2024
UK MET OFFICE - THE FACTS ABOUT THEIR NEW WEATHER STATIONS
Whilst it may be understandable that the Met Office has some legacy old sites in locations which have become compromised over time, it cannot be acceptable for new stations to be poorly located from the outset.
Monday 22 July 2024
UK MET OFFICE UNDER SCRUTINY - PART 3
Let's take a look at exactly how the Met Office observes and collects its raw data.
Sunday 21 July 2024
MET OFFICE UNDER SCRUTINY - PART 2
Following on from yesterday's post here is a second misrepresentation of "data" by the UK Met Office.
Long term "Historic Data"
The above indicates 37 long term sites quoting monthly "Data". Note that 3 sites on the map are coloured blue with the key, indicating these stations have closed. The remainder are coloured orange indicating "open" stations.
Saturday 20 July 2024
UK MET OFFICE UNDER SCRUTINY
The public and our government place much reliance on the government funded UK Meteorological Office. Most people would expect their data to be the "gold standard" with every care taken to ensure no errors were presented. In fact a comprehensive investigation has revealed this is simply not true. Read on for the details:
1. How "Climate Averages" data was presented by the Met Office.
Friday 19 July 2024
PAUL BURGESS GIVES THE CLIMATE FACTS
In his latest video, Paul looks at his recent appearance on GB News where he debates the UK energy situation and how safe it is under the new Labour government. He manages to list a good number of reasons for doubt which his opponent, Jim Dale is unwilling, or unable to refute. Instead he resorts to bluster and claims that the argument over renewables has been won as a result of the election. As Paul says near the end the fact is that it is simply not possible to completely do away with fossil fuels without having major power outages. Something Jim and our political leaders seem to have over-looked.
Thursday 18 July 2024
NATIONAL GRID WAKE UP TO REALITY
While our political leaders continue to make impossible promises to decarbonise our electricity production, the people who are tasked with delivering them are at last speaking out.
Wednesday 17 July 2024
CO2 AND A MILD WARMING ARE NOT PROBLEMS - SAYS NEW PAPER
The paper concludes:
The infrastructure to replace fossil fuels does not exist and likely cannot be built in a short time. Current realistic estimates of future energy use suggest that fossil fuels will still supply half our energy in 2050 and beyond. Yet, no credible evidence exists that this is a problem or will become a problem. Recent research into climate change has suggested that nature plays some role, and certainly greenhouse gas emissions may play some role as well. What we do not know is how much of climate change is human-caused and how much is natural. No drastic changes to our economy are justified until we can figure this out.
Read the paper here:
Carbon dioxide and a warming climate are not problems - Clintel
Tuesday 16 July 2024
NEW UK LABOUR GOVERNMENT OVER-RULE PLANNING INSPECTOR ON SOLAR FARMS
We are seeing that Ed Miliband (Labour Energy Minister) is determined to push his beloved solar and wind farms through the planning system against the wishes of local people and to the detriment of our food security.
Monday 15 July 2024
CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE
While I am sure this is technically possible, the questions are: what will it cost? How will those costs be allocated? And, will this actually make any difference to the world's temperature or weather, given that it can only be used to remove a tiny percentage of the world's total emissions. Is it not, in fact simply a token gesture or virtue signalling.
Sunday 14 July 2024
WHERE WILL THE MONEY COME FROM TO UPGRADE THE GRID?
That is the essential question that must be answered by the government before embarking on policies to get rid of all fossil fueled electricity generation by 2030. It looks like they are heading for failure.
Saturday 13 July 2024
A JUDGE AND JURY GET TOUGH WITH JUST STOP OIL PROTESTORS
At last!
All defendants have been found guilty by unanimous verdicts in the trial of five
protesters at Southwark Crown Court this morning. They were accused of conspiring to cause public nuisance through their protest actions on the M25 in November 2022. In remarks at the end of the trial, Judge Christopher Hehir made his personal views very clear, congratulating the jury, and describing climate concern as "single issue fanaticism". Earlier in the trial he had ordered the arrest of supporters who sat quietly outside the court with banners proclaiming "Jurors deserve to hear the whole truth". Today he backed down and dropped that charge. Sentencing for the five will take place next Thursday 18th, and the judge has indicated he will be delivering 'very long' prison sentences. The trial was observed last week by Michel Forst, a UN Special Rapporteur deeply concerned over the persecution of climate protesters. The judge ruled out ANY defence in the trial, and repeatedly arrested defendants within the court for attempting to speak to the jury about the overwhelming evidence that humanity is facing an extreme existential crisis, and that civil disobedience is essential to achieve the changes required to mitigate.Friday 12 July 2024
WIND FARMS - THE PIT FALLS
In his latest video Paul Burgess looks at the actual data from wind farms to challenge the figures that are given for their output and hence the actual cost of the electricity. You will not be surprised that he concludes that they have been vastly optimistic with the output and massively underestimated the real price of the electricity.
Ed Milliband, Calderdale Wind Farm and Financial Disaster (youtube.com)
Wednesday 10 July 2024
LONDON TO BE AS HOT AS SOUTH OF FRANCE IN 60 YEARS?
Those responsible for promoting the "climate change emergency" meme must believe that the public as a whole is insufficiently frightened, to put out this piece of propaganda:
London To Relocate To South of France! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)
As the article above shows, the real data does not support any of this. But the mainstream media still feature these type of articles prominently. If you read the comments under the article though, you can see that many readers regard it as ridiculous.
Tuesday 9 July 2024
CHINA'S COAL CONSUMPTION PUTS EVEN INDIA IN THE SHADE
Everyone knows this is true, but it is hardly ever mentioned in the mainstream media. This is obviously because it completely undermines the efforts of us in the West to reduce our CO2 emissions. It is actually the key point against our policy. Not only are we undergoing serious costs and restrictions, with much more to come, but there is actually no benefit to be gained.
China is the coal furnace of the world, and everyone is fine with that « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
Monday 8 July 2024
NIGEL FARAGE SPEAKS OUT AGAINST NET ZERO
Now that Nigel Farage is in parliament will he be able to highlight the huge problems with the net zero policy? He appears to be making a good start.
Saturday 6 July 2024
NIGEL FARAGE SPEAKS OUT AGAINST CLIMATE POLICY
A very interesting discussion between Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform and Jordan Peterson is well worth listening to. If you want to pick out the part where they discuss climate policy then go to about 17 minutes in. I think Farage has got it right and I hope that the remains of the Conservative Party is able to come to an accommodation with him before the next election. Until we do there is no chance of the centre right coming back to government here in the UK.
I expect the contradictions within the current climate policy here to come to a head within the next few years as energy prices go on increasing to the point where there is a real crisis and the government is forced to reset, if not abandon its targets.
Conservative Failings and the Reform UK Party | Nigel Farage (youtube.com)
Friday 5 July 2024
COAL REIGNS SUPREME IN INDIA
India now consumes more coal than Europe and North America combined, making Australia and the UK, and everyone except China, just so irrelevant. When President Modi wants electrical generation fast, he doesn't say “quick, build 50,000 wind mills, with batteries, gas plants, high voltage lines and pumped hydro. He wants affordable, reliable energy
Thursday 4 July 2024
WIND FARM PROJECT FIGURES FOUND TO BE A FANTASY
Paul Burgess has been examining the figures which lie behind a wind farm project being proposed for the Isle of Man. This is the result of his investigation:
Isle of Man Population is being Deceived Part 2 The Delusion (youtube.com)
Wednesday 3 July 2024
FARAGE BURSTS THE GREEN BUBBLE
The following is a really good look at the way the true cost of renewable energy is being hidden by a plethora of subsidies cleverly disguised in a variety of ways. Well worth reading.
Farage bursts the green bubble | James Compton | The Critic Magazine
Tuesday 2 July 2024
HYDROGEN AS A FORM OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
Is hydrogen a viable form of renewable energy to get us to net zero? Read the answer here:
Monday 1 July 2024
FRENCH VOTERS SEEM TO BE REJECTING NET ZERO
Marine Le Pen, the former presidential candidate, railed against “Brussels,” which “forces you, almost overnight, to change your boiler for €15,000,” against the “authoritarian reductions to agricultural land” and against the “heartless European Commission.”
“Don’t they have as their objective the reduction of human activity as a whole?” she asked, before connecting the issue to her obsession with French people’s daily lives, a strategy that has brought the RN to the threshold of coming to power. “It’s always the same logic of degrowth, which leads them to ban the sale of internal combustion engines in 2035, and thus deliberately program the sacking of our automotive industry and dependence on China,” she continued.
After this there has to be a back track on the ruinous net zero policies that Western governments have been following or else there will be riots on the streets.
Sunday 30 June 2024
THE TRUE COST OF LABOUR'S ELECTRICITY DECARBONISATION POLICY
Simply staggering. Why would anyone vote for such a thing? Unfortunately the Conservatives cannot attack it, as they are pledging to do the same thing in five extra years - so shifting the pain a little further down the road.
Saturday 29 June 2024
MALDIVES NOT SINKING REPORTS NEW YORK TIMES
In the end the truth will come out. It is inevitable, but in the case of facts which weaken the story about a "climate crisis" they avoid it as long as possible. The problem is that when the truth comes out people start to question other things which they have been told are indisputable facts, such as that hurricanes and wild fires have increased, when the truth is they haven't.
Six years later, New York Times mentions that the Maldives is not sinking - Clintel
Friday 28 June 2024
CLIMATE IS CONTROLLED BY THE OCEANS, NOT CO2
Climate Catastrophe! Science or Science Fiction? – Andy May Petrophysicist
A very interesting book. Here is a short extract from the linked article:
"The IPCC report states on page 7 that they present “clear and robust conclusions … that the science now shows with 95 percent certainty that human activity is the dominant cause of observed warming since the mid-20th century.”
There are several problems with these ideas. Most heat transfer in the lower atmosphere, where there is a lot of water vapor, occurs via convection. Water vapor (and water) have a high heat capacity and carry a lot of latent heat, they transport most of the thermal energy near the surface in the so-called atmospheric “boundary layer.” CO2 has a low heat capacity. It is infrared active and absorbs and emits IR radiation, with a small delay, whereas latent heat can be carried by water vapor for weeks before it condenses as rain and emits it. At high altitudes, where there is little water vapor, CO2 is responsible for emitting most of the IR to space as thermal radiation. But, near the surface water vapor does the cooling.
99.9% of the heat capacity is in the oceans and 0.1% is in the atmosphere. The oceans are very cool, with an average temperature of about 4 degrees C. As stated in the quote, they contain 1,000 times the heat capacity of the atmosphere and provide a huge buffer that limits the Earth’s surface temperature. Most of the solar thermal energy that reaches the surface is absorbed by the oceans. The warmest part of the ocean is the surface of the tropical Pacific."
The question remains; why has the Western world been captivated by such a foolish and damaging notion?
Thursday 27 June 2024
WIND ENERGY IS NEITHER CHEAP OR RELIABLE
Just ask the residents and business owners in Victoria, Australia!
Cold, windless Victoria may run out of gas before the end of winter « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
I wish our political leaders would read the above message and have the courage to stop the crazy road to net zero. But, alas, whoever takes over as our Prime Minister will blindly carry on to the cliff edge ignoring the lessons. The only thing that will stop him is that the task of getting to net zero will prove to be impossible, but trying to get there will still cause a lot of pain and suffering
Wednesday 26 June 2024
WILD FIRES - FACTS VERSUS DODGY THEORY
There is a lot of desperate stuff being put forward to try and claim that "climate change is happening now", but the problem is that these claims do not agree with the facts. Luckily these facts are published and can be accessed by those who know where to look. (I am sure a lot of climate change extremists would like these data to be removed).
Wildfires Getting Worse, Even When They’re Not! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)
Tuesday 25 June 2024
KENYAN FARMER SMEARED FOR CLAIMING FOSSIL FUELS ARE NECESSARY FOR A GOOD LIFE
Jusper Machogu, a Kenyan subsistence farmer, is climate and energy realism’s rising star. This has led to him being attacked by those who fear he is undermining the importance of reducing the use of fossil fuels. Machogu’s core argument is simple. “Do I and a billion and half other Africans deserve a good life? Bet ya!” he says. “But can we do that minus access to life saving Fossil Fuels? A big no!” Read the story here:
Monday 24 June 2024
THE SCANDAL JUST GETS BIGGER AND BIGGER
We have seen over the last few days how the media has spotlighted the " betting scandal" in which a few Conservative Party candidates and officials have placed bets on the timing of the election. But at the same time some people have been uncovering a much more worrying scandal, that the UK Met Office have been using low standard weather stations to claim record temperatures in the UK. The difference is that the media has not focused on this scandal at all. They have simply ignored it.
Sunday 23 June 2024
MORE NONSENSE FROM THE MET OFFICE
Again we can see that there are some very odd things going on which are certainly not widely known or reported by the mainstream media. Read more about it here:
Hull East Tops The List Again | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)
Saturday 22 June 2024
DANSGAARD-OESCHGER EVENTS
Dansgaard–Oeschger (D–O) events do not get mentioned in the mainstream media. The reason is that they show that extreme weather events have occurred naturally over the past 100000 years many times. The temperature variations were much greater than anything dreamt up by a climate scientist. The question is; what is the point of wasting trillions of pounds to stop the current small change, when such large naturally occurring changes cannot even be explained, let alone stopped?
Friday 21 June 2024
WHY ARE THE MET OFFICE OPENING NEW LOW CLASS WEATHER STATIONS?
It is a little known fact that the Met Office are even now opening weather stations that are classified as "poor". Unbelievable, and they are using the unreliable data from these stations to claim high temperature records. Read it here:
Class 4 Neatishead–Opened in Dec 2022 | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)
Thursday 20 June 2024
WORLD ENERGY IS 81% FOSSIL FUELED
There's a fact to conjure with. Net zero has no hope of being achieved anytime soon. Whatever the weather does we certainly have no control over it. Not that achieving net zero would have the slightest effect anyway.
A reduction of a measly 0.5% from 2022 to 2023.
Tuesday 18 June 2024
WE CAN STILL AVOID THE NET ZERO TRAP
Read the essay linked below to find out how. I am not very optimistic at the moment.
Monday 17 June 2024
EV TRANSITION IS SLOWING DOWN
The price decline has been dramatic over the past year. In June 2023, average used EV prices were over 25% higher than used gas car prices, but by May, used EVs were on average 8% lower than the average price for a used gasoline-powered car in U.S. In dollar terms, the gap widened from $265 in February to $2,657 in May, according to an analysis of 2.2 million one to five year-old used cars conducted by iSeeCars. Over the past year, gasoline-powered used vehicle prices have declined between 3-7%, while electric vehicle prices have decreased 30-39%.
Read it in full here: Not the Transition they expected: People paying thousands more for second hand petrol car rather than equivalent used EV « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
Sunday 16 June 2024
WHY UK ELECTRICITY IS AMONG THE MOST COSTLY IN THE WORLD
This video looks at how the UK has become one of the most expensive places in the world for electricity.
Saturday 15 June 2024
HOW CLIMATE DATA HAS BEEN RE-WRITTEN
Earth was much warmer 5,000 years ago when atmospheric CO2 levels were lower – so people whose income depends on climate alarmism had to rewrite history. In the following video Tony Heller shows how the real facts have been erased and replaced with data that supports the CO2 hypothesis.
Thursday 13 June 2024
NET ZERO COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT WANT US TO SEE
Net zero, according to the figures from the IPCC will cost the world a quadrillion dollars (that's a one followed by fifteen zeros) and cool it by almost 0.3 degrees Celsius. Read about it here:
Wednesday 12 June 2024
HYDROGEN COSTS LOOK PROHIBITIVELY EXPENSIVE
The idea of using hydrogen as a replacement for methane looks to be highly unlikely if the current costs cannot be substantially reduced. The latest figures can be seen in this report:
Updated Hydrogen Costings | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)
Tuesday 11 June 2024
NEW REPORT CONFIRMS HURRICANE ACTIVITY IS NOT GETTING WORSE
Yet another climate myth has been debunked with the facts, and yet the media do not report it. If it isn't scary they don't think it's worth reporting.
Monday 10 June 2024
ANOTHER CLIMATE REPORT IS DEBUNKED
In this new video by Paul Burgess he looks at a new report by the Isle of Man Climate Change Committee (yes, they have one as well) and explains where it is wrong using the evidence in scientific reports by highly respected institutions including the IPCC. I doubt they will listen to him or change anything, but it is still a very instructive video. The points he raises are equally valid for any other climate body.
Exposing the madness in the Isle of Man net Zero Pathway (youtube.com)
Sunday 9 June 2024
WE WILL ALL PAY A HEAVY PRICE FOR TRYING TO ACHIEVE NET ZERO (AND FAILING)
The article, below, contains a lot of points about how our lives are going to be restricted in the attempt to reach net zero, but the main point about the rich paying a heavy price is not quite right as we will all be paying a heavy price, but it is the middle class who will face the worst of the restrictions as it is they who will find they cannot afford to run their car, heat their home, go on holiday. The rich will still be able to do these things, as a complete ban on private jets, heated swimming pools, etc. would simply drive the rich abroad and no government would want to risk that.
The only way the government will be able to claim they have achieved net zero is by claiming that vast amounts of CO2 have been removed from the atmosphere. This will result in a number of schemes coming forward to do this, but this will come at a huge price leaving the question of how this money will be found. I expect some will come from the taxpayer in the form of subsidies and some added to our bills.
I will wait and see how they try to hide it. I make one prediction, which is that these schemes will lead to scams as a result of either they will simply not work, or even worse they will prove completely fraudulent, as have some of the schemes to "off set" carbon emissions.
The rich will soon pay a heavy price for net zero | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)
Saturday 8 June 2024
NATIONAL GRID RESORTS TO PROPAGANDA
It is hard to know what to believe in the media these days, particuarly on anything to do with climate change and associated policies such as replacing conventional coal and gas generators with wind and solar. The following article debunks a series of attempts by National Grid to show that renewables are cheaper and just as reliable as the traditional coal and gas plants.
National Grid Resorts to Propaganda - by David Turver (substack.com)
Friday 7 June 2024
MORE PROOF OF LIES AND PROPAGANDA BY THE UN ON CLIMATE SCARES
We know there is a relentless campaign to scare people into believing that the climate is causing an increase in extreme weather events. Here in this article is the proof that this is completely wrong.
Global deaths and disasters down: UN shameless lies, up « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
Wednesday 5 June 2024
NO LINK BETWEEN AIR TURBULENCE AND GLOBAL WARMING
That is what the data says, as shown in this video from Paul Burgess:
Air turbulence Putting the myth to bed on GBnews (youtube.com)
Tuesday 4 June 2024
MET OFFICE STRETCHES CREDULITY BEYOND THE LIMIT
A lot of people simply cannot understand how the Met Office can claim that the UK has had a record warm May, so this piece is a clear look at what the facts behind this are and what the public think of it:
Hottest May! Believe Us, Not Your Lying Eyes! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)