SOLAR PANELS DESTROYED BY HAIL STORM

Here's another reason why renewables are unreliable. They are much less resilient to the weather.

 2,500 football fields of new solar panels destroyed by hail in Texas this week « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

MORE STUDIES SHOW SEA LEVELS WERE 5 TO 9 METERS HIGHER 7000 TO 5000 YEARS AGO

 3 More New Studies Affirm Sea Levels Were 5 to 9 Meters Higher Than Today 7000-5000 Years Ago (notrickszone.com)

The inference being that temperatures were somewhat warmer at that period which rather undermines the current climate alarm.

THE EXTRAORDINARY CLIMATE EVENTS OF 2022 - 24

Never before have we witnessed an undersea volcanic eruption with a plume capable of reaching the stratosphere and depositing a large amount of vaporized water. This extraordinary event occurred in January 2022 when the Hunga Tonga volcano erupted. While there was some sulfur dioxide associated with Hunga Tonga, the main impact was from water vapor. Water vapor is a potent greenhouse gas, so the sudden 10% increase in stratospheric water vapor in a single day increased stratospheric opacity to outgoing infrared radiation. Unlike the lower troposphere, where the greenhouse effect is relatively saturated, the stratosphere, well above the Earth’s average emission altitude (about 6 km), experiences a much more pronounced effect from the addition of water vapor. Also, the increased stratospheric water vapor content enhances infrared emissions from the stratosphere, thereby cooling it significantly.

 The extraordinary climate events of 2022-24 | Climate Etc. (judithcurry.com)

CLIMATE TARGETS CRUMBLING UNDER PRESSURE OF REALITY

 Campaign group Net Zero Watch has welcomed the announcement by the Scottish Government that they are considering legislating to water down their Net Zero targets.

Net Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan told Holyrood that, having set themselves a legally binding target of cutting carbon emissions by 75% by 2030, she and her officials were now considering a variety of options to address the impossibility of actually delivering, including legislation.

Welcoming the move, Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford said: "Politicians across the world have set ruinous, utopian targets that are impossible to deliver. Ms McAllan is the first to publicly face up to reality, but she won't be the last. We have reached the high water mark for Net Zero."

Ms McAllan's humiliating climbdown came after a damning report from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) said that the 2030 targets are now "beyond what is credible" to be achieved. Chris Stark, the CCC chief executive added that "there is no plan to hit it".

WIND FARMS ACCUSED OF OVERCHARGING BY £100 MILLION

Wind farm owners are being investigated by the energy watchdog for alleged market manipulation after they were accused of overcharging consumers by over £100m. 

 Ofgem is to examine claims that renewable energy companies artificially inflated compensation payments for switching off turbines on windy days when the grid did not need extra capacity.

 It has been handed a dossier gathered by analysts at the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF), which suggests that wind farm companies could be boosting the price of "virtual energy" they never actually generated. An Ofgem spokesman confirmed that the claims had been received and an investigation has begun into whether any rules were broken. John Constable, director of REF, a charity that has frequently highlighted excessive payments to wind farms, said: "Our evidence suggests that multiple wind farm operators have been charging over the odds to reduce their output on windy days.  

SMART METERS TO BRING IN HIGH CHARGES AT PEAK TIMES

Electricity will be effectively rationed by price in order to try and match demand with supply, which is essential with intermittent renewables becoming the dominant source of electricity. 

Smart meter customers face time-of-day charging plan | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

THE CLIMATE MONEY TREE

Is it any wonder that all the small states are firm believers in the climate change emergency when you see what generous grants there are for them to apply for:

 Earth Observation Technologies for Improved Access to Climate Finance: The Role of Data and Information (napexpo.org)

LIVING WITHOUT OIL 'A FANTASY'

In a radical move, the CEO of an oil giant actually defended oil. The energy transition is falling apart so fast, even the prime targets of hate, the Big Oil Men themselves, are now openly pointing out what a waste of time and money solar and wind power are. Alternative energy sources have been unable to displace hydrocarbons at scale, despite the world investing more than $9.5 trillion over the past two decades. Wind and solar currently supply less than 4% of the world’s energy.

Saudi Oil Giant CEO says world should abandon the fantasy of living without oil « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

NEW FILM ON CLIMATE JUST RELEASED

The film directed by Martin Durkin (who made the famous Great Global Warming Swindle movie) explores the nature of the consensus behind climate change. It describes the origins of the climate funding bandwagon, and the rise of the trillion-dollar climate industry. It describes the hundreds of thousands of jobs that depend on the climate crisis. It explains the enormous pressure on scientists and others not to question the climate alarm: the withdrawal of funds, rejection by science journals, social ostracism.

But the climate alarm is much more than a funding and jobs bandwagon. The film explores the politics of climate. From the beginning, the climate scare was political. The culprit was free-market industrial capitalism. The solution was higher taxes and more regulation. From the start, the climate alarm appealed to, and has been adopted and promoted by, those groups who favour bigger government.

This is the unspoken political divide behind the climate alarm. The climate scare appeals especially to all those in the sprawling publicly-funded establishment. This includes the largely publicly-funded Western intelligentsia, for whom climate has become a moral cause. In these circles, to criticise or question the climate alarm has become a breach of social etiquette.

Go to the following link to watch the film:

 climatethemovie.net

FORGET NET ZERO - THESE FOLK WANT TO GO FOR ABSOLUTE ZERO!

If you think that net zero is a bit of a challenge, look at what these people are pushing the government for:

 Absolute Zero – UK FIRES

By 2029 all airports to close, except Heathrow, Belfast and Glasgow. And by 2049 All airports to close!

Also shipping declines to zero by 2049. What planet are they on I hear you say. This would mean a drastic decline in imports and exports. A permanent recession. What would the population find to do, other than riot to get rid of the government who led them to this.

COUNCILS BEING WATCHED AND CHALLENGED ON CLIMATE POLICIES

 It was in December that I first reported on the fact that in some districts the public were starting to attend council meetings to give a sceptic point of view on climate policies. I have just checked again to find that this trend seems to be continuing as more disliked policies are being introduced like 20 mph zones and the closing of certain roads to reduce car use,

Here is a link to a new you tube channel which holds a number of recent videos:

WELCOME to Colchester Council Watch (youtube.com)

I expect this trend to increase as we see "net zero" policies being pushed by some of the more extreme councils.

THE UN GOES QUIET ON EATING BUGS TO SAVE THE PLANET

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), who is a little known off shoot of the UN, has published a report without mentioning that we should all be eating less meat and instead turning to bugs as an alternative. Is this a victory for our farmers? If so then it just shows what causing a bit of agro can do.

 Academics “bewildered” that UN drops bugs, crickets and fake meat for weather-repair « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

CONTRASTING VIEWS AT A COUNCIL MEETING

Members of the public have a wide range of views and in this short video we see two expressed.  Clearly a few people are very involved in campaigning for and against net zero. Most are not, but once they start to realise the true cost then I think we will see a few more sitting up and asking questions.

Net Zero is a stepping stone… (youtube.com)

THE CLIMATE SCIENCE BIG LIE

A South Korean professor of environmental science speaks out in a country where to do so is rare and takes great courage. As more senior scientists break cover it allows others to question the proposition that the "science is settled".   

“The climate-crisis big lie serves to resurrect socialism” - Clintel

ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOP SCIENTISTS SIGNS THE "CLIMATE SCEPTIC" DECLARATION

One thousand nine hundred scientists have signed the World Climate Declaration, which says that the current claim that CO2 is causing catastrophic climate change due to global warming is false. Of course the mere number of signatories does not "prove" anything, other than there is a serious body of opinion which disagrees with the claim. However, there are some people who deserve to be listened to more than others due to their high level of achievement and the latest signatory clearly comes into that category. Patrick Baeuerle is not well known to the general public, but I was blown away by the list of achievements listed in the article below:

 Patrick Baeuerle is signatory nr. 1900 of World Climate Declaration - Clintel

I am honoured to find myself agreeing with someone who has such a brilliant mind.

THE COST OF DECARBONISING STARTS TO UNRAVEL

Although I do not expect the country to reach net zero for the reasons stated in previous posts, we will nevertheless spend a great deal of money in trying to get there. In doing so we will miss out on a number of other important measures we could have done instead which would have made a big difference to the lives of many of us. Below is a link to an interesting debate in the House of Lords which looked at the heat pump policy and its cost implications.

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The Lord Bishop of Manchester made a very interesting point: 

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"My Lords, the Minister kindly referred to the social housing decarbonisation fund, but there are something like 2.7 million homes owned by the social housing sector, with a projected cost of £36 billion to decarbonise them. Does he recognise that the fund is far too small to deliver that, and if so, what extra support will be made available to housing associations for them to achieve this for their poorer tenants?" 

Even that estimate of £36 billion seems extremely low as it only works out at £13,300 per house, whereas other estimates Are much higher at around £25,000 per house.  But look at the huge sum to be spent on heat pumps and other measures to achieve net zero and then think about what this means for the future housing provision for those who need it. This vast sum will not be spent on building new homes. Instead it will all go to save a tiny bit of CO2 emissions with nothing to show for it.

 Heat Pumps - Hansard - UK Parliament

NET ZERO IS DEAD

Yesterday I pointed out that the Prime Minister has at last realised that net zero would not be possible. In this article that same point I made has been made by Gordon Hughes writing in the Daily Telegraph. See below: 

Net Zero is dead. Only the fanatics haven’t realised it | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

PRIME MINISTER FINALLY STARTS TO REALISE THAT NET ZERO WON'T WORK

"Mr Sunak, writing in the Daily Telegraph, said new gas power stations were needed to have a reliable and affordable back-up for days when renewables like wind and solar did not deliver." 

But he can't yet admit publicly that this means net zero is not achievable, so he then goes on to say, "It is the insurance policy Britain needs to protect our energy security, while we deliver our net zero transition." Read the BBC report here: 

New gas power plants needed to bolster energy supply, PM says - BBC News

TREES AND WILD LIFE DESTROYED TO MAKE WAY FOR WIND FARM

"Work has started on the clearing of up to 120,000 trees in the forest, the setting for many of the Brothers Grimm mythical stories, to provide access for an initial 18 giant wind turbines around the Sababurg ‘Sleeping Beauty’ castle. Who is opposing this massive destruction of the ancient forest teeming with wildlife with trees over 200 years old? Certainly not the Green party, now in power at national and local level ". 

It's ironic that they are destroying the very thing they want to save.

Germany Begins Felling 120,000 Trees From 'Fairy Tale' Forest to Make Way for Wind Turbines – The Daily Sceptic 

CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITTEE TRY TO COVER UP MISTAKE IN ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT

 Climate chief told staff to ‘kill’ negative net zero story | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Chris Stark,The head of the Government’s climate watchdog, the Climate Change Committee (CCC),  told officials to “kill” a negative news story with “technical language”, The Telegraph can disclose

The article reported a claim by Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, who led a recent Royal Society study on future energy supply, that the CCC had privately admitted that it made a “mistake” when it only “looked at a single year” of data showing the number of windy days in a year when it made pronouncements on the extent to which the UK could rely on wind and solar. farms to meet net zero targets.

In a presentation delivered on Oct 31 2023, Sir Chris said: “By looking at one year you underestimate storage and you grossly overestimate the need for everything else. That’s exactly what the Committee on Climate Change have done.”

He added: “The Committee on Climate Change, as I already said, looked at a single year and they have conceded privately that that was a mistake. But they are still saying they don’t differ that much from us. Well, that’s not quite true.”

MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD

Anyone who is a denier of the existence of the medieval warm period should read all the evidence at the following link:

 Medieval Warm Period (notrickszone.com)

SLIGHT COOLING TREND BECOMES "RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE"

 Reading beneath the headline of a recent scientific study we find the reality is somewhat different.

New Alarmist Definition Of A Region’s ‘Rapid Climate Change’ Is A Slight Cooling Trend Since 1960 (notrickszone.com)

ECO FANATICS PLOT TO TARGET MPs HOMES AND OFFICES DISCOVERED

Peaceful protest is being increasingly replaced by criminal acts targeting MPs, their homes and families. This is the result of treating these extremists with kid gloves and issuing feeble sentences in the past.   

Moment Just Stop Oil's 'poster girl' laughs and says 'this is bizarre' as she's arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to burgle after 'plot to target MPs' | Daily Mail Online

THE ROLE OF UNDERSEA VOLCANOES IN WARMING OF THE SURFACE

 Not one research paper regarding ‘Climate Change’ ever written to this day includes that 50% contribution to global warming coming from the Earth’s core. 100 % of all papers written to date describe the effects of the Sun and Solar Radiation as being the only source of energy. How will that effect our long-term calculations considering this one dramatic alteration to statistical analysis? And how will this one enormous fact change our views of climate change?

axial-sea-mount.pdf (carbon-sense.com)

ECO-TERRORISM BEING "NORMALISED BY WESTERN INSTITUTIONS

 A young girl in a hoodie draws a knife, kneels beside an SUV, and slashes two of its tires.  She slaps a paper on the windshield -- "Why I sabotaged your property."

This is the opening scene of a movie you can stream right now on Hulu, or rent from Amazon, called "How To Blow Up a Pipeline." It is adapted from a book by the same name.

Here's the book blurb on Amazon:

In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel extraction to stop--with our actions, with our bodies, and by defusing and destroying its tools. We need, in short, to start blowing up some oil pipelines.

"We have to show how vulnerable the oil industry is by hitting something big, like a refinery," says the hoodie-girl (looking to move up from slashing tires), "what do you know about Texas?"  What do you know about building a bomb?" her friend replies.  

Next scene they're wiring a bomb.

What better way to normalize eco-terrorism than invite us to follow along and identify with an appealing PC cast of multicultural young people as they attack our nation's infrastructure?

Watch CFACT's Marc Morano explain on Fox that government officials are lining up in favor of eco-terror, which has even entered the curriculum at universities. 

“This is coming not from just some lone nut like the author of the book “How to Blow Up a Pipeline”; this is coming from NPR, Bloomberg, and the New York Times.  It’s coming from NASA. In 2010, NASA’s lead global warming scientist endorsed a different book that called for ridding the world of industrial civilization.  He literally said they should essentially be blowing up dams.  James Hansen, the former NASA scientist in endorsing this book said the author has it right, the system is the problem… This is nothing short of eco-porn in the form of hard core terrorism."

"If the American empire calls us terrorists," the movie bomb-maker says, "than we are doing something right."

Who will be held accountable when an impressionable young person watches this anti-American call to violence and translates their sick fantasies into action?

WELSH FARMERS IN REVOLT AGAINST THEIR GOVERNMENT NET ZERO POLICY

This new video by Paul Burgess looks at the regulations being imposed by the Welsh government on their farmers:  

(4) There Is No Welcome In The Hillside For Net Zero Wales - YouTube

NET ZERO POLICY IS PUTTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AT RISK

It seems so obvious that I cannot believe our political leadership has not realised the threat to our national security. Either that, or they have realised and are prepared to take the risk.

The Port Talbot closure harshly exposes the costs of luxury ‘green’ beliefs. We cannot be dependent on imports for the full range of necessary steels to rebuild our arsenals – the Navy first and foremost – and, most ridiculously, we cannot depend for them on our global antagonists.

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rmore, our armed forces are wholly dependent on oil to keep them in the field, and our electricity grid will collapse without gas. Any attempt to abandon them will leave us entirely at the mercy of hostile powers.

Net Zero an urgent threat to national security (netzerowatch.com)

RAPID ICE MELT DISCOVERED IN THE RECENT PAST

Those who claim our modern climate is changing faster than at any time in the past will be shocked to read this study:

 The Elevation Of The Early Holocene’s W. Antarctic Ice Sheet Once Plunged 480 Meters In 200 Years (notrickszone.com)

"New research published in Nature Geoscience (Grieman et al., 2024) assesses the elevation of West Antarctica’s ice sheet fell by ~480 m within just 200 years from about 8,000 to 8,200 years ago, a drop of more than 2 meters per year.

The scientists also document an ice area retreat of 270 kilometers at the study site within only 400 years, from ~7,300-7,700 years ago. That’s an area retreat rate of about 675 meters per year."

UK E-BUSES IN FIRE SAFETY RECALL

Oh dear! Just as the government is trying to push electric vehicles and getting us out of our cars and along comes another battery fire story. Read it in the Daily Mail here: 

Britain's e-bus ticking timebomb: How nearly TWO THOUSAND electric buses worth £800m face urgent recall over fears they could see burst into flames | Daily Mail Online

MORE BAD THERMOMETER DATA

The only evidence for actual warming of the Earth's surface comes from temperature measurements and yet when the actual position of the thermometers is examined it is often found to be seriously badly sited and so the measurements themselves are unreliable. In this video this is again discovered in the USA.

 Record Bad Thermometer Data (youtube.com)

MET OFFICE TEMPERATURE STATIONS DECLARED TO BE VIRTUALLY USELESS

 A large majority of the UK Met Office temperature measuring stations have been graded as practically useless according to a Freedom of Information answer. Over 29% were in the lowest classification possible, meaning that measurements could vary by as much as 5 degrees Celsius. Another 48% could be out by 2 degrees. And yet the Met Office claim that records have been broken by as little as 0.1 degrees. It is completely scandalous and yet the mainstream media will be likely to completely ignore this and the vast majority of the public will carry on being duped.

Read it all here:

Met Office Temperature Network Is Junk | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)