Wednesday 31 May 2023

PENSION FUNDS MUST NOT BE USED FOR POLITICAL CAUSES

New York City leaders have boasted about using worker retirement savings to advance their climate agenda. They may come to regret it after several city workers this month sued their pension funds for putting climate over financial returns. 

A Lawsuit To Protect Pensions From Climate Socialism - Climate Change Dispatch

Tuesday 30 May 2023

WORLD TEMPERATURES TO REMAIN STEADY AND THEN DECLINE

Here are some predictions made in the article below:

Global warming completely stopped in 2018. Temperatures will likely remain steady until 2025 and may decline slightly by 2030.

A strong El Niño in 2023 is unlikely. These are courageous claims and I am neither agreeing with them or dismissing them. Time will tell!

 Why A Strong El Niño In 2023 Is Unlikely - Climate Change Dispatch

Monday 29 May 2023

CO2 WARMING EFFECT EXPLAINED CLEARLY AND SIMPLY

There has been little or no attempt by the media to explain the actual science behind global warming. The reason for this is probably because the scientific explanation actually shows that, while the effect is real, the alarming extent of it is not backed up, and it would not hold up to scrutiny. The explanation in the link below is clear and simple.    

In Search Of A (Near) Perfect CO2 Global Warming Analogy - Climate Change Dispatch

Climate alarmists and their political hangers on want you to believe that the small amount of warming is somehow magnified by a number of knock-on effects which are far from clear and simple.

Sunday 28 May 2023

BBC GUILTY OF BIAS AND PROPAGANDA ON CLIMATE ISSUE

This new report highlights the alarming number of one-sided reports and factual inaccuracies being put out by the BBC. Mind you, ITV are no better, but at least they are not funded by the license payer. Read the summary below and a link to the full report: 

BBC’s Institutional Alarmism | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Saturday 27 May 2023

EL NINO - IS THIS THE MAIN DRIVER OF GLOBAL WARMING?

It was mentioned in the TV news recently that scientists are confidently predicting that the 1.5 degree C increase in the world's temperature will be exceeded in the next five years, due to an El Nino event happening in the Pacific ocean. The point that is not mentioned is that CO2 levels in the atmosphere cannot explain the coming of an ocean event because the radiation wavelength emitted from the CO2 molecule is unable to penetrate into water beyond a depth of 1mm. Understanding the El Nino event is very well explained in the following article, which includes a video of a lecture as well. I recommend you to study it.  

 El Nino: Nature’s Ginormous Climate Change Battery - CO2 Coalition

Friday 26 May 2023

JAPAN LEADS THE WORLD - BACK TO COAL!

 We are constantly being told that the world is moving away from fossil fuels and that renewable energy is the future, but that does not match the reality, according to the report linked below. In fact you can see that there is actually a move by several nations, lead by China and Japan, to go back to coal. The world plays lip-service to renewables, but knows that, in reality, they simply cannot provide the reliability that is vital to a modern economy.

Unreliable Green Energy Has The World Running Back To Coal And Nuclear - CO2 Coalition

Thursday 25 May 2023

RECORD CROP YIELDS DEFY THE CLIMATE DOOMSTERS

 Here is a very welcome statistic which confounds the doom-mongers who keep predicting the demise of the planet due to "climate breakdown". How long before the people wake up to the failed predictions. Read the good news here:

Record World Cereal Outputs Forecast for 2023/24 | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com) 

Wednesday 24 May 2023

THE LONGER THE REPORT THE LESS IT GETS READ

 Ever Expanding: In discussing the Sixth Assessment Report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, AR6, 2021 to 2023), researcher Andy May produces an interesting statistic – the ever-growing length of the reports. The first assessment report was 168 pages, the second 572 pages, AR5 was 1535 pages and AR6 2391 pages.


May also shows a graph of the “5-Year Running Mean of Tropical Temperature CMIP5 Anomalies of 300-200 hPa [units of pressure related to altitude] Layer (1979-2019) by Ross McKitrick and John Christy (2020). The difference between the temperature trends projected by the models and observed atmospheric temperature trends is increasing. So, the reports get longer as the physical evidence supporting them gets weaker. True bureaucracy in action.

Tuesday 23 May 2023

WHAT CAUSES CLIMATE CHANGE?

The CO2 Coalition is a very interesting website with a large number of informative posts. Here is one of them:

 Opinion: What Causes Climate Change? - CO2 Coalition

Monday 22 May 2023

WHY CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT AN EMERGENCY

  On May 27 the Conservative Princeton Association is sponsoring a hard-hitting panel discussion on “Why Climate Change is NOT an Emergency”. Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace and Dr. Bruce Everett, climate economist, and Princeton physicist William Happer will be presenting data and analysis which show that adding CO2 in the atmosphere will be beneficial, that the atmospheric temperature is relatively insensitive to addition of CO2 and decarbonization is unnecessary, undesirable, impossible and not happening.


This event will be streamed live on Saturday May 27 from 11 am to 12:30 pm from Princeton University during Reunions Weekend and can be viewed at:
https://mediacentrallive.princeton....

The event will also be available live on Zoom:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/820313440...

These links will be public and will not require passcodes.

UPDATE:
Sabotage: 

The event was live streamed from Media Central Live, at Princeton University. There were difficulties with the broadcast of the presentation by Patrick Moore. Then, as William Happer began to talk, someone else took control of the media presentation. Several cartoons were drawn on the slides, then an obscene, juvenile one. Just before the video went dead, Happer politely said: “You can see what we are up against.”

These people are against rational discussion and fear it. We appear to be no longer in an age of reason.


LORD FROST MAKES A LOT OF SENSE

 In an exclusive interview with the Daily Express, Lord Frost insists: “Everyone can see we’re not ready [for net zero]. The [electricity supply] grid is not ready, the costs are too high; all we’re doing is needlessly causing problems for our own industry.”


Not only that but the poorest are hit hardest by the transformation.

“We are told constantly that net zero 2050 is not only something that must be done, but it’s also something that’s going to be good for you and is going to increase economic growth and everyone’s going to be better off,” he says.

“I don’t think that is true. We are replacing a lot of perfectly good ways of generating electricity with gas and nuclear for bad ways of generating it with wind and solar, so why would you not expect costs to go up?

“If we’re requiring poor technologies like heat pumps to be installed then that’s going to hit the poorest worst. If it’s good technology, people will install it anyway.

“If it’s bad and expensive technology, the Government has got to make people do it.”

Once dubbed the “greatest Frost since the Great Frost of 1709” by Boris Johnson, the 58-year-old is considered by many Tories to be a leading voice of common sense and even a potential future party leader.

A ­former diplomat, civil servant and Minister for State, he will be giving the annual lecture next week at the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

He strongly believes the Government’s policy of net zero going too fast will cause considerable damage to the UK economy, making us all poorer, especially the less well-off.

Lord Frost does not dispute that climate change is happening. Nor is he repudiating the need for green policies to combat global warming.

“But that’s not the same as saying we’re in climate crisis or emergency, and it’s not the same as saying the only choice we have is to do net zero by 2050,” he says.

“Those are political choices – they’re not scientific choices. And with all political choices, you’ve got to weigh up the pros and cons; the costs against the benefits. And that’s what we’re not doing. You don’t have to deny science to say we need to look at the way we’re going about this and whether it makes sense.”

Lord Frost says what’s especially frustrating about this debate is that many people assume if you’re sceptical about net zero then you’re not interested in protecting the environment. “They’re not the same thing at all,” he insists.

“We all want a cleaner environment. That has nothing to do with the net zero ideology. When this country was first industrialising, the environment was much more polluted than it is now. What has enabled us to improve the environment is economic growth; more efficient ways of doing things. When we get richer, we can spend on clearing up pollution.”

Sunday 21 May 2023

ITALIAN FLOODS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF AN EXTREME WEATHER EVENT

While the media including the BBC are quick to blame climate change for the Italian floods, the data show that flooding in this area is a recurring problem. 

BBC Blame Bologna Floods On Climate Change | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Saturday 20 May 2023

ANNUAL CLIMATE DISASTER STORY SURFACES YET AGAIN

This story about 1.5°C threshold has no basis in science and is just a political invention designed to hasten the implementation of Net Zero. Suggestions that the planet will encounter ‘tipping points’ are pseudoscientific fear-mongering produced by climate models fed with improbable climate data. Read it all here:

 ‘1.5°C Temperature Disaster’ Story Makes its Annual Media Appearance – The Daily Sceptic

Friday 19 May 2023

EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS USED TO MISLEAD THE PUBLIC

Most of the public do not understand the difference between weather and climate. This gives those pushing the climate alarm narrative the opportunity to pick out an extreme weather event and use it to try and convince the public that the climate has changed dramatically, when the long term data does not show it.

Every time there is a major cyclonic event, the media fan fear of climate change and argue that human-induced emissions of carbon dioxide are causing more extreme weather. However, an examination of relevant data shows such reports to be misleading. Have a look at the data in the linked article below:

Cyclone Mocha: Don’t Fall for the Climate Bait | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Thursday 18 May 2023

CLIMATE FORECAST - HOT OR MAYBE COOL!

I often watch the weather forecast and when it's finished I find myself none the wiser. There are often conflicting forecasts on different channels! In the link below you will see that there is exactly the same problem with their long range predictions. 

Hot Summer? – Met Office Clowns Have Not Got A Clue! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Tuesday 16 May 2023

THE GERMANY PROBLEM

What is happening there will soon be affecting us here unless we have political leaders who have the courage to stop it. Read on to see why. 

 The international press has maintained near-total silence on the escalating insanity of what is happening in Germany.

 
Media outlets that routinely celebrate German progress towards energy transition don’t want you to know that Europe’s dominant industrial power has entered a deeply destructive political and administrative spiral from which it may never recover. The fault lies with the self-defeating and unworkable energy policies that have a death grip not merely on the Scholz Government, but on the entire administrative state. Since completing the nuclear phase-out in the midst of an ongoing energy crisis and avoiding winter catastrophe thanks only to the accident of mild weather, our rulers are now forcing devastating changes to the so-called Gebäudeenergiegesetz, or the Building Energy Act, which regulates energy consumption in residential and commercial structures.

That sounds bland and boring, but it’s not. This latest turning of the screws aims to phase out traditional gas and oil heating by mandating that all new heating systems installed after 2024 use no less than 65% renewable energy. In most cases, this can only be achieved by installing electric-powered heat pumps. Particularly in the case of many older buildings, the associated renovation costs will prove catastrophic, and unless they’re drastically revised, the rules will simply upset the housing market and destroy a great deal of personal wealth. Nor does the grid have any hope of powering these new heat sources, now or in the future.
 
In the midst of growing alarm and the seeming futility of all opposition, even some German establishment media have begun to voice unease. On Friday, Der Spiegel (of all magazines) published a lengthy piece on the origins, funding and rise to power of the ‘Eco Network’ currently controlling German energy policy, and I want to discuss it in detail, because it is so revealing about so many things. It pulls together many separate threads, to show how policy behemoths originate and are set in motion in modern managerial states, and how they can remain impervious and even contrary to popular opinion even in allegedly democratic systems.
 
The Spiegel reporting takes a close look at the careers of several key characters behind the energy transition, among them the Green politician Rainer Baake, and Robert Habeck’s scandal-riddled right-hand man Patrick Graichen, who is the policy brains driving most of the current insanity.
 
"The rise of the environmentalists in the Ministry of Economics began a full decade ago. For a long time, the view was that the state should impose as few rules as possible on the corporate sector. … According to this logic, environmentalism and economic policy were seen as nearly mutually exclusive. It was not until 2013 that the dominance of free-market civil servants began to crumble.
 
At this time, Sigmar Gabriel of the SPD became Minister of Economics and appointed an unusual State-Secretary for Energy: Rainer Baake. … The move was a surprise, because Baake is not a Social Democrat, but a Green. … As State Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment … Baake helped orchestrate the first legislation on Germany’s nuclear phase-out. …
 
In 2012, Baake founded Agora Energiewende, probably the most influential think-tank advocating a carbon-neutral society in German politics. Patrick Graichen was at that time already Baake’s protegé. …"
 
As the old-guard industry-friendly civil servants in the German bureaucracy began to retire, Baake filled their posts with Green technocrats wherever possible, such that when control of the Ministry passed to the centre-Right CDU in 2018, the damage was done. The institutional momentum had already shifted towards climate change and begun to gather strength under its own power. The catchword for Baake’s political vision was the so-called ‘All Electric World’, one in which a grid powered entirely by renewables drives cars (electrical vehicles), heats buildings (heat pumps) and even powers industry (though here the solutions are much vaguer).
During his five-year tenure as State Secretary, Baake appointed Graichen to head the Agora think-tank, which began churning out policy papers, sponsoring Green scientific research andgathering an ever-growing crowd of loyal advocates and technocrats. This paid off:
 
Whenever energy and climate were discussed in Berlin [in the years after Baake’s resignation from the Ministry of Economics in 2018], Graichen’s name came up, often peddling unwieldy terms that only experts understand. The “merit order principle”, for example, or the “locked-in effect”. The red-haired man with the sonorous voice knew his way around this specialist world like no other. …

The ability appears to have come naturally to him. His mother worked in the Ministry of Development, his father for a while in the Ministry of Transport. He himself became involved in environmental issues as a schoolboy, initially in the youth organisation of BUND. In 1993, he began studying at the University of Heidelberg. In 1996, he joined the Green Party. In 2001, he became a consultant for international climate protection… and helped draft the Kyoto Protocol.

Graichen is straight from the German political establishment, and his was the first generation that saw significant Green penetration in the years around the turn of the millennium. We are witnessing the fruition of long-term environmentalist activism, stretching back to the 1970s.
 
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Monday 15 May 2023

FRACKING RESTART URGENT FOR UK

In this time of uncertainty amid threats to peace it is vital that the UK has all the fuel and energy options available hence the call to restart fracking:

 Net Zero Watch calls for emergency restart of fracking - Net Zero Watch

It is becoming increasingly clear that global warming is not an urgent threat, unlike the potential threat from Russia or China.

Sunday 14 May 2023

NEW STUDY APPEARS TO SHOW GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT CAUSED BY CO2

Here is an interesting paper which shows that the observed global warming is likely to be caused mainly by a reduction in cloud cover, with only a very small proportion caused by man made CO2.  

New Study: 90% Of Recent Warming Is From Shortwave Cloud Forcing…Humans Contributed 0.03°C (notrickszone.com)

Saturday 13 May 2023

LATEST IPCC REPORT FULL OF ERRORS AND BIAS

The IPCC ignored crucial peer-reviewed literature showing that normalised disaster losses have decreased since 1990 and that human mortality due to extreme weather has decreased by more than 95% since 1920. The IPCC, by cherry picking from the literature, drew the opposite conclusions, claiming increases in damage and mortality due to anthropogenic climate change. These are two important conclusions of the report The Frozen Climate Views of the IPCC, published by the Clintel Foundation.

 New Analysis Highlights Serious Errors And Bias In Latest IPCC Report | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Friday 12 May 2023

JET PLANES STILL FIT FOR THE FUTURE

 Ryanair has unveiled its biggest-ever aircraft order as one of its top executives said the switch to hydrogen or electric powered planes will not happen “in my lifetime”.


The budget carrier has agreed a $40bn (£31.7bn) deal with Boeing to buy 150 of the manufacturer’s 737 Max 10 jets with an option for a further 150.

The planes will be delivered by Boeing to Ryanair between 2027 and 2034 and be powered by conventional aircraft engines.

Neil Sorahan, Ryanair’s finance chief, who was in Washington to sign the landmark deal with Boeing, said that the deal was a clear sign of what the future held for commercial aviation.

The 51-year-old said: “They [hydrogen or electric powered planes] may be the future. But I’m not sure they will get there in my lifetime,” he said, before likening hydrogen jets to space rockets that carry a handful of passengers with huge tanks of fuel.

Unlike sustainable aviation fuel, made from used cooking oils and other waste, hydrogen was not a “drop-in solution” and would require “massive investment in the infrastructure”, he added.

“So I’m afraid it ain’t going to get there,” Mr Sorahan said. “Batteries don’t have the capacity at this stage to get the range that is needed.”

Full story

Thursday 11 May 2023

UK ENERGY 6TH MOST EXPENSIVE IN THE WORLD

 Fresh research has shown Britain has the sixth most expensive energy rates in the world


As the cost of living crisis rumbles on in the UK, households continue to be wary about their energy consumption.

Although the government extended its Energy Price Guarantee for homes until June, which brings the average energy bill to £2,500 a year, the cost is still eye-watering. Now, new research has revealed that Brits pay nearly twice the European average per kilowatt of energy.

Figures from The Underfloor Heating Store show that, at 39p per kilowatt, Britain has the sixth most expensive energy globally, after the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Benin, Denmark and Germany. On average, Europeans pay 23p per kilowatt of energy - almost half of what we pay in the UK.
 
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Wednesday 10 May 2023

TACKLE METHANE EMISSIONS FIRST

Satellite observations have revealed that two major fossil fuel fields in Turkmenistan are emitting vast quantities of methane – 4.4 million tonnes a year – which because methane is 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide means a global warming effect greater than that of the UK, and most other countries. 

So the answer to those who believe that we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions is surely to tackle these huge methane emissions. 

 Prioritise methane to tackle GHG emissions - Net Zero Watch


Tuesday 9 May 2023

EVs ARE TOO HEAVY FOR CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE

 In the UK, as many as 1 in 20 bridges may be too weak to handle the load. Perhaps it’s lucky then that there aren’t enough minerals in the world to make all those EV’s. If it takes us 200 years to dig up the copper required, that may give us time to rebuild the carparks and bridges.

Given the higher wear and tear from EV’s obviously their registration costs and licensing and some tax on charging should be more expensive than lighter normal fuel cars. Someone has to pay for the road damage and rebuilds.

A heavier “fuel tank” needs a heavier chassis to hold it. And a heavier car means heavier buildings and bridges for it to drive on, and all that means more concrete and steel and more emissions. 

So they are not so green after all.

Monday 8 May 2023

CLIMATE CHANGE DISCUSSION WITH A READER

Today I looked at the stats for the blog and was amazed to find there were  over 7000 viewers for just today which is a record. The odd thing is that they were not reading my latest post. So what has made this sudden jump. Is it you, Dave? 

I am reproducing the post below, of a discussion I had with a reader back in October 2021. Any comments welcome.  

 My position is that there is a modest amount of global warming, which, as the IPCC report says, is about 1.1 degrees C since around 1850, which was at the end of the Little Ice Age. (I don’t think anyone would think that this was an ideal climate!) Some of this warming is natural – most of that before 1950 and about half of that post 1950 is what scientists have estimated. So approximately half a degree C can be attributed to man. That is very modest and cannot by any means be called an emergency.     The problem is that politics has taken over from the science and this issue has now been captured by extremists, such as Extinction Rebellion and, unfortunately, the government has listened to these extremists and they are now fully embarking on a very costly policy of trying to eliminate fossil fuels, regardless of the fact that other major industrial nations, such as China and India, are increasing their fossil fuel usage which means our costly efforts will be wiped out.  Unilateral action is pointless, just as with nuclear disarmament.  

The language now being used is very extreme with terms like “climate emergency” being used as an everyday phrase.  It is the use of this extreme language, along with almost daily clips of extreme weather events on our main news channels which is designed to convince a sceptical public that the vast expense of decarbonisation (government estimate is £1.4 trillion up to 2050) is justified

Extreme weather has always occurred and the data show it has not increased in either severity or quantity when measured over the long term.   I am very concerned for the residents of the UK who will have to pay heavily for this and so I believe it is very important to speak up as a voice of reason.

My reader I Walker replied as follows:
Hi,
I'm struggling to follow your logic.

The IPCC report says "Human-induced global warming has already caused multiple observed changes in the climate system (high confidence). Changes include increases in both land and ocean temperatures, as well as more frequent heatwaves in most land regions (high confidence). There is also (high confidence) global warming has resulted in an increase in the frequency and duration of marine heatwaves. Further, there is substantial evidence that human-induced global warming has led to an increase in the frequency, intensity and/or amount of heavy precipitation events at the global scale (medium confidence), as well as an increased risk of drought in the Mediterranean region (medium confidence)."

This appears to contradict your opinion that there is no emergency. Are you contesting the credibility of the IPCC's report?

My resonse:

As I wrote, the global rise in temperature caused by humans is only about 0.5 degrees C. The rest is natural, so is it credible that this tiny change could cause the changes in climate being claimed? Also note that 1850 was the end of the Little Ice Age. If we go back to the Medieval Warm Period, there is good evidence that temperatures were warmer than today. For example Greenland was able to have a human settlement which farmed the land. It was then vacated as temperatures dropped. At several locations evidence of forests have been found beneath the retreating glaciers which have been dated as only a thousand years old. Again indicating higher temperatures within that time span. What you need to note is that the IPCC is a politicalz organisation, not an independent scientific body. What we have is a man-made emergency driven by political expediency.

Mr Walker replied again as follows:

The IPCC’s role is to analyse the science, they use levels of ‘confidence’ not shape it to a political ideology. In any case, NASA also agrees with the conclusions (that the rise in temperature is driven by man, not nature), as do most scientists. To suggest that the temperature rise is normal puts your opinion in opposing to mainstream scientific understanding. What qualification or credible source do you use to justify this position, other than your personal, subjective opinion?

1 October 2021 at 16:57

 
Blogger Derek Tipp said...


My final response is below:

The IPCC's role is to identify and quantify the human role in changing the climate, which, unsurprisingly it does. - If it did not then it would not be justifying its existence. There can be no doubt that this subject has now become a highly political one and it is quite impossible to separate the science from the politics. The actual science proving that the temperature rise is mainly down to CO2 is very weak, as there are many other factors that are simply not understood. For example the role of clouds. Research into this is simply ignored because it throws doubt over the whole CO2 driven hypothesis. My views are shared by a number of highly qualified experts on the subject. You need to read more widely on the subject and get informed on the very credible alternative hypotheses. Have a look at the Global Warming Policy Foundation website.



Sunday 7 May 2023

CLIMATE SCEPTIC WINS COUNCIL SEAT

 Been rather busy lately standing in the New Forest District Council elections. Thankfully I was re-elected though quite a few of my Conservative colleagues were not. Clearly  there was a national  trend of anti Conservative feeling. For the first time three Green party councillors were elected. All the constant climate propaganda is playing right into their hands. It will be interesting to see whether they are willing to play a full sensible part in running the Council, or be a one track distraction.   

When I was Council Chairman in 2021 I was reported prominently in the local press for my sceptical views on climate change, see the link at the end of this post.

It seems that the public are willing to support candidates who set out sensible views which are in tune with the views of many of them. 


 Here is a link to the article which appeared in the print edition of the paper:

Senior NFDC Tories at odds over climate change urgency (advertiserandtimes.co.uk)

This post has been updated to give a good link. Thank you Dave for pointing out the deficiencies in the old link.

Saturday 6 May 2023

LONG LIVE THE KING

 Today we are crowning King Charles and we know that he is passionate about the environment. With the current obsession with climate change it should be a strong positive for him with the public. But  this is a very controversial area and the public can change its mind when climate policies start to affect their everyday loves in a negative way. For example organic farming may sound like a wonderful thing, working in harmony with nature, but when food becomes scarce and expensive because we stop using man made fertilisers and GM crops are banned the result in Sri Lańka was a disaster.  People were very angry ànd the economy crashed, the government fell and the  President had to flee the country. 

I like the New King and I wish him well, but he needs to be very careful wah he promotes.

Thursday 4 May 2023

EV's NOT A GOOD INVESTMENT

Yet another reason not to buy an electric vehicle. Those batteries are the problem, still very expensive with all those rare earth metals in them. I expect we will end up like Cuba with many of us still driving second-hand petrol and diesel vehicles long into the 21st century, until someone comes up with a really good answer to the battery problems.

 Electric cars losing value twice as fast as petrol vehicles – drivers may lose £25,000 | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Wednesday 3 May 2023

CLIMATE MODELS FAIL TO PREDICT OCEAN TEMPERATURE RISE

We are only just beginning to understand the role of the oceans in the world's climate. Something which the general public are not being told, as obviously it would undermine the political will to carry out the extreme measures needed to end the use of fossil fuels. The following link is to an article looking at the recent rise in ocean temperatures: 

 Rapid ocean temperature rise puzzles scientists - Net Zero Watch

One thing that scientists do not seem to do these days is state what the margins of error there are in the measurements, something that is crucial

Tuesday 2 May 2023

A SENSIBLE LOOK AT SEA LEVEL AND COASTAL EROSION

Over at NALOPKT (Not A Lot etc.) they have some very interesting articles on the erosion of the English coast in Norfolk and the way in which it is now being attributed to "climate change", when the real reason is completely different. The problem for the climate alarmists is they seem to think that every environmental issue has only one cause. Something which can easily be debunked by looking a little more deeply at the real underlying cause. Scientists used to consider all aspects of a problem. Now most seem to simply blame climate change. 

 Norfolk’s “Climate Refugees” | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Crumbling away – Is dredging the villain in the drama of Britain’s eroding coasts? | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Monday 1 May 2023

THE NOT SO BRIGHT FUTURE OF NET ZERO

It is amazing how the government continually pts out the idea that we will somehow achieve net zero by 2050 with just a few minor tweaks of our current lifestyle. That all we need to do is recycle a bit more and cut back a little on flying and driving. Below is a link to a report produced by a serious body which is given £5 million of government funding. 

This report seems to be letting the cat out of the bag when it says:  The future of construction should be based on stone, earth and timber, along with components “reused and repurposed” from demolition. Recycled steel, cement and bricks can be used, although this will be “constrained” – rationed might be a better word. In the Brecon Beacons, a new college called Black Mountains (BMC) is promoting its new climate breakdown university degree. One short course offered by this seat of learning is ‘Composting Toilets‘.    

"No Bricks, No Glass, No Cement" – What Net Zero 2050 Demands According to Government-Funded Report – The Daily Sceptic

This is surely suicidal for any democratically elected government to bring in. Once demand for construction materials is rationed in this way the economy will shrink and millions would become unemployed. People will surely vote out any government which brought these measures in, and yet so far there is no opposition party with any hope of forming a government which is offering to repeal the disastrous net zero policy.