Below is another great video of a second speech to Colchester Council questioning their policies on climate change with some very well put arguments.
ROUND 5 - Answer us! Residents vs Colchester City Council - YouTube
You can see all the videos in this series here:
Below is one of a series of excellent videos, showing how a small group of citizens attended council meetings to put their case:
Round 7 - Climate Emergency or Eco-Terrorism? Residents vs Colchester Council - YouTube
A new Norwegian paper has found that the effects of man-made CO2 emissions are not strong enough to explain global warming in the last 200 years, implying that natural factors must play a large role:
In 2023, charcoal and firewood remain the dominant fuel for many households in Africa. Rapid population growth has seen an exponential rise in demand. Trees are not being cut down by people who don’t care about the environment, but by those with few alternatives. In countries such as Malawi, where deforestation is especially serious, the trade in charcoal is banned, but continues openly. A mix of corrupt officials and buyers desperate for the product make it hard to enforce the law. On a continent marked by poverty and a shortage of electricity, consumers either have no alternative to charcoal, or can’t afford it. Cutting down a tree is free. In Africa, an area the size of Switzerland is cleared of forest every year, with an estimated 90% of the wood used for cooking or to heat the home. Read the rest here:
Africa's Burning Issue: Charcoal and the loss of forest - Net Zero Watch
Most of us suspected it anyway, but now the wind industry has itself admitted that wind farm electricity cannot compete with gas turbines and prices must rise by 70% for it to be viable. So, thanks to the net zero policy our electricity will become a lot dearer, which of course means heating and transport will become dearer as well.
Offshore Wind Demands £95/MWh | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)
We all know that the establishment sticks together and here is a classic case of it:
There is one way to expose this unfairness and that is to use the courts. It can only be done by those with access to substantial funds, but it can be very effective as was shown when a case was brought against the government's decision to show Al Gore's propaganda film, An Inconvenient Truth, in British secondary schools. Link:
Who would have guessed?
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Thanks to improvements in hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling “Crude oil is set to become the largest export item for the United States this year for the first time in history.” “In August alone, the value of U.S. oil exports, at $10.3 billion, had
the highest share of all American exports with 6%, followed by gasoline and
other fuels, per WorldCity data. In terms of tonnage, oil's share was also
the highest—at 24%, followed by LNG and gasoline and other fuels. So much for net zero! |
That is the view of the head of our gas network, as he is quoted in the article linked below in today's Daily Telegraph (paywalled)
"In 2022, the wind didn’t blow enough or at all for 262 days. And in those 262 days, we would have had rolling blackouts, or a full blackout across the UK if it wasn’t for gas.”
There are a number of interesting charts in the article which show the size of the shift the government are hoping to make. Currently 86% of our homes have gas central heating. That is 25 million gas boilers. The big question that no politician will answer is "who is going to pay" - when the public find out it is them, I suspect they may be a bit cross!
There is no doubt that many glaciers around the world are retreating, though it's also interesting to note that some glaciers are advancing, which shows that although the world as a whole may have warmed a little over 1 Degree Celsius, there are are parts which have cooled. The link below looks at this in more detail. It also highlights an interesting anomaly whereby some glaciers appeared to be melting when the world's temperatures record shows it was at the lowest point and yet the same glaciers were growing when the temperature was at its highest point! Tony Heller explains it clearly in the short video below:
This is money that we could have spent on useful things like education, police, hospitals, sea defences etc.
"Most of that trillion will go on replacing petrol cars with electric ones and gas boilers with electric heat pumps, and on generating, transmitting and distributing the extra electricity needed for these two uses. It also includes a host of other capital projects, including better household insulation. With all that electric demand, we would need extra power stations, extra pylons and upgrades of household electrical circuits. And we would need subsidies for installing the heat pumps and buying electric vehicles."
"There is, of course, one benefit we will supposedly get from this spending: a lower risk of disastrous climate change. So what will climate change cost by 2050? That's a figure known as the 'social cost of carbon' — technically speaking the economic damage done by each additional ton of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere. You almost never hear this discussed any more. Why not? Because all the estimates are embarrassingly small — far smaller than the cost of decarbonising."
This story is hardly a good advertisement for electric vehicles:
When a Nobel prize winning physicist speaks out to say the science of global warming ignores a key variable and so is unreliable, you would expect there to be a lot of discussion in the media and on the news, but not in this case. There is no mention of it at all. What he highlights is the obvious factor that anyone would think was basic - the change in cloud cover. This one variable could completely wipe put the effect of CO2 and yet it is poorly understood. This article gives the details:
Nobel Winner Refutes Climate Change Narrative, Points Out Ignored Factor - CO2 Coalition
Statistics can sound scary, but the reality is that the numbers may be explained as being quite normal, Take the melting of Antarctic ice. The fact is that trillions of tonnes of ice are lost every year, due to both calving and melt. That is what ice sheets and glaciers do. And the loss is replenished by snowfall over the Antarctic continent.
Those who say one thing and do another are called hypocrites. This term appears to fit with the way the BBC has treated those who oppose the climate change policies of the main political parties in the UK, as opposed to the very amenable attitude they have adopted in dealing with those who sympathise with Hamas. The argument is very well put in this article:
All over the media and in political institutions we are bombarded with the phrase "trust the science", whatever that means. It is a glib phrase which means "you are too uninformed and must take my word for it". I prefer the Royal Society's motto "Nullius in Verba", which means take nobody's word for it. In other words do your own due diligence. The article below discusses the trustworthiness of the science applied to climate change.
Judith Curry is a leading climate scientist who once subscribed to the main tenets of global warming but subsequently changed her mind. That alone makes her new book, Climate Uncertainty and Risk, exceptional. The following link to a review of her book explains why it is well worth reading.
Book review: Climate Uncertainty and Risk, By Judith Curry - CFACT
There has been a lot of media pronouncements saying that because this year has been particularly warm in many places that this proves there is a "climate emergency". Of course anyone who studies climate seriously knows that it takes at least 30 years of data to show any change in climate and that any one year, or even four or five, is simply "weather". Below is a good article to explain this in more detail.
If we are going to have a nation which has a good standard of living then it is essential that we have reliable low cost energy. In a fossil fuel free economy that is a very difficult issue. Without a big increase in nuclear power it becomes hard to believe that it is achievable at all. A new report by the Royal Society claims that hydrogen storage can be the solution, but this has been debunked by the author of this study:
Sea level has been rising for the past two hundred years threatening our coastal communities. According to tide gauge readings the rate of rise has remained the same for the past century and yet the predictions given out by the UK Environment Agency claim that the rate will accelerate by around 200% by the end of this century due to global warming. All this has big implications for plans to protect our coastline. The following article looks at examples from the Norfolk area where much of the coast is unger threat.
This happens about every eleven years as sunspots reach their maximum. Read the details here:
DATA: THE SUN’S MAGNETIC POLES ARE VANISHING • Watts Up With That?
The devious goings on by large investment companies is undermining the ability of Exxon and probably others from carrying on their business. As this article, below, explains, this interference can lead to nations losing their independence in terms of energy supply. Also it can simply be an excuse to manipulate the market for profit. What a murky world we are living in.
Some people try to claim that renewable energy is cheaper than traditional coal or gas. But if this were the case there would be no need to pass on any extra costs.
Which ever way the government try to hide it, the cost of renewable energy is going to cause pain to the public, as this piece explains:
This looks like a serious issue that has had no publicity yet.
Failing underwater cables “pose global threat to offshore wind” « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
Anyone thinking of buying an EV ought to read this first:
EV kidnaps the driver at 30 mph, runs amok « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)
It seems silly of the official weather bureaus to make claims of records, only to find that they are not actually records at all. On the other hand if they want to get a headline and are willing to deceive the public to do it, then it makes perfect sense. Most people will never know that it wasn't an actual record because the media rarely, if ever, give an apology or a retraction.
It seems that, rather than being ‘rather low’, Net Zero is actually going to be ‘costly’. Indeed, we are warned, the investment required is ‘not in the billions, but in the trillions’ – ‘vast amounts of money’. Find out why by reading the linked article:
Fingers pointed over failure of Net Zero (netzerowatch.com)
The whole net zero policy has had no real scrutiny because no one in power wanted to ask any difficult questions. It was simply like declaring war - except that there was no visible enemy. No one wanted to admit that serious sacrifices would have to be made, so it was passed off as being easily achieved at a cost which would hardly be noticed.
It is very odd how most climate change campaigners concentrate all their efforts into closing down their own nations fossil fuel plants, yet make no mention of what is happening in China and India.
The US has the world’s largest coal reserves, and Michael Bloomberg wants to shut down US coal and gas. But for some reason he isn’t trying to stop 100 new coal fired power plants in China per year.
With all the headlines telling us that the world is warmer than it has been for as much as 100,000 years, it must be a bit embarrassing to find that there is yet more evidence that it was in fact clearly warmer as little as 3,300 years ago. Of course there has always been climate change, which I fully accept, but I don't accept that we can predict the future weather as there are too many unknown variables.
