IS CLIMATE HYSTERIA OVER ?

Over a period of just a few months the global sea temperature over a large area of the world’s oceans has shown a dramatic reduction of 0.5°C. It is now back to the level seen in 2015.

What this latest episode of climate hysteria shows is that despite vast amounts of computer power and a huge pool of money, most climate science is stuck in a ‘settled’ dark age. Any departure from a climatic norm is seen by activist scientists and their faithful media messengers as a linear progression to Armageddon. The role of natural variation is constantly downplayed. 

Recent Temperature Falls Likely to Put a Dampener on ‘Hottest Year Evah’ Stories – The Daily Sceptic

CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE PROJECT UNDER ACHIEVING

 This article is from FoS Climate Science Newsletter - 2024 | Friends of Science

Flagship Gorgon CCS Collects Less CO2 in Worst Year

The Gorgon carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) system in Australia commenced operation in August 2019. Naturally occurring carbon dioxide (CO2) is taken from offshore gas reservoirs and injected into a giant sandstone formation two km under the ground. The project is operated by Chevron in joint venture with ExxonMobil and Shell. The Gorgon CCS project was expected to capture 80% of the CO2 emitted, or 4 million tonnes (MtCO2) a year. This report shows that it actually achieved just 1.6 MtCO2 in fiscal year 2024, which is only 30% of its target and the lowest performance since it started in 2019.  The project is costing the joint venture almost $1 billion more in 2023 than it did in FY2019-20 to offset the difference and pay for technical problems. The requirement to buy carbon offsets for under performance and problems injection into the sandstone reservoir rose from $2.5 billion in FY2019-20 to $3.2 billion in 2023. Australian Carbon Credit Units are currently priced around $40 a tonne. “The key reason behind Gorgon’s under performance is issues with the reservoir pressure, which has to stay within a certain range. Chevron has implemented measures to remove water from the reservoir and reduce the reservoir pressure.

UK ELECTRICITY DECARB BY 2030 IS WAY OFF TARGET

The chances of Labour meetings its self-imposed target of decarbonising the UK electricity supply by 2030 is a fantasy, says Richard North in this well-informed article: 

Net zero: fantasy power | Turbulent Times

Not only will the government completely fail to meet their 2030 target on decarbonising the grid, they are also miles away from their heat pump installation target and the their electric vehicle target - which is probably just as well, as if they had met them they would not have nearly enough electricity to power them!

CO2 GOOD FOR THE PLANET SAYS NEW STUDIES

Dramatic evidence has been published in a number of recent science papers that carbon dioxide levels are already ‘saturated’, meaning little or no further warming is to be expected and rising CO₂ levels are all beneficial.

 Science Shock: CO2 is Good for the Planet, Peer-Reviewed Studies Suggest – The Daily Sceptic

ELECTRIC VEHICLES - WHY THEY ARE NOT SO GREEN

 Mark Mills, who spoke alongside Steve Koonin at the debate shown in yesterday's post, is a very good speaker, and here he is again speaking about EVs. It's only a short ten minute video, but well worth watching,

The Unpopular Truth About Electric Vehicles | Mark P. Mills

THE CIVILISED DECARBONISATION DEBATE

I recommend this good-natured debate between some very well-informed speakers.  On the affirmative side were Kerry Emanuel and Robert Pyndick, both authors of books on the subject, and on the negative team were Steve Koonin and Mark Mills, also highly qualified.

MIT Free Speech Alliance Debate: Is Decarbonization Worth the Cost?

You can read a summary of the "no" side here:

The Paris Accords As “Climate Insurance”—Unaffordable and Unnecessary - Clintel

NET ZERO - IS REALITY BEGINNING TO BITE?

Below is an interesting piece from Richard North. He observes that net zero targets are not being met due to public resistance. This is going to lead to a dilemma. Will they try to force costly change and risk even more unpopularity, or will they abandon the targets and push them further ahead?   

Net zero: reality bites | Turbulent Times

NET ZERO IDEOLOGY NOW A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY, SAYS ANDREW NEIL

Miliband's dash to decarbonise the grid by 2030 will put us in hock to the biggest dictatorship of all: China.  He has already approved three huge new solar farms in eastern England, despite the official planning inspectorate concluding that one in particular would involve an unacceptable loss of productive farmland.

ANDREW NEIL: Ed Miliband's Net Zero mania isn't just a threat to energy security. It's making us so reliant on China, he's now a threat to national security | Daily Mail Online

NEW EXPLANATION OF RECENT WARMING

The eruption of Hunga Tonga and natural cycles are the most probable cause according to new studies recently published. 

The results of a new study show that the circulation component of the cloud radiative changes causes decreased sunlight reflection of 0.37 W/m2 per decade. The discovery of this provides a crucial missing piece in the puzzle of the 21st century increase of the Earth’s Energy Imbalance and points to the large effect that even small atmospheric circulation changes have on the Earth’s warming climate. Read more in this lengthy post:

 The Science Is Clear: Warming Since 2000 Is NOT Due To Man-Made GHG Emissions

BEWARE THE BACK BENCH CLIMATE BILL THAT WILL SERIOUSLY LOWER OUR LIFE-STYLES

This bill, should it ever become law, will restrict our freedom like nothing we have experienced since war time. It has an innocent sounding name, but it is a ravenous wolf in sheep's clothing. Amazingly it has the backing of around 180 MPs, but its "ambition" would ruin our economy and put up prices in equal measure. The rest of the world would be more likely to laugh at us than attempt to copy us. 

Read more here:  Like Net Zero–But Worse | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Here is the website trying to get support for it:  

Climate and Nature Bill briefing (6 June 2024)

OCEAN TEMPERATURES RETURN TO NORMAL, PANIC OVER

For the first time in 21 months, global ocean temperatures have returned to levels seen in December 2015—nine years ago. Let that sink in for a moment. After two years of being bombarded with claims that the Earth’s oceans were on an unstoppable trajectory of warming, we find ourselves… back where we were nearly a decade ago.

 Ocean Temperatures and Climate Hysteria: A Lesson in Perspective – Watts Up With That?

THE "TRUMP EFFECT"

Many climate scientists in the USA are worried about whether they will still have a job when President Trump moves into the White House on the 20th January. It will be interesting to see just how much he will change the situation in his second term. What he needs to do is to allow an open debate with time for the sceptics to put their case to the country. 

Anxious NOAA scientists feel Trump’s “target on their back”, drop climate change and call it “air-quality” « JoNova

BBC BLOCKING THE SURGE OF THE ANTI LABOUR NUMBER ONE HOPEFUL

The track by Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers, which mocks Labour’s decision to strip millions of pensioners of the benefit, is topping music downloads charts with a week to go before Christmas Day.  The single is already topping the EE Big Top 40, which ranks songs based on downloads and Apple Music streams.

 BBC Under Pressure to Play Christmas Song by 'Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers' – The Daily Sceptic

CAN WE ATTRIBUTE ANY PART OF GLOBAL WARMING TO CO2?

We are constantly being told that some proportion of any weather event is being made worse by the extra CO2 in the atmosphere by those pushing the idea, but in reality this simply is not possible as this article shows. 

The Unreliability of Current Global Temperature and Solar Activity Estimates and Its Implications for the Attribution of Global Warming | The Heritage Foundation

EUROPEAN ELECTRICITY COSTS AT RECORD LEVELS DUE TO CALM WINDS

There is dismay across Europe as the calm weather drastically  reduces the output from wind farms. It is something that is so obvious and yet political leaders appear to have ignored it.  

Europe Wind power “sh*t situation”: Norway vows to cut cables, Sweden “furious” blames Germany « JoNova

POOR MET OFFICE WEATHER STATION USED TO TRIGGER COLD WEATHER PAYMENTS

The accuracy of Met Office weather stations was not a big issue when these were just filed away, but today they assume much greater importance as they are used to provide evidence of how much warming has been achieved and also whether pensioners receive a cold weather payment. In view of this the poor state of the Met Office weather stations is a disgrace and it needs to be urgently improved.

Here is a link to a review of a typical example:

Bainbridge DCNN 2212 – This would be funny but only if it was not true. | Tallbloke's Talkshop

MET OFFICE TRY TO COVER UP THEIR FAILINGS

Recent changes made by the Met Office to its climate average pages shows that the state-funded operation is fully aware of the growing interest in its entire temperature recording business. This interest has grown because the Met Office is fully committed to using its data to promote the Net Zero political fantasy. But it is silent on the biggest concern that has been raised of late, namely the promotion of temperatures, accurate to one hundredth of a degree centigrade, obtained from a nationwide network where nearly eight out of 10 stations are so poorly sited they have internationally-recognised ‘uncertainties’ as high as 5°C.

 Massive Cover-up Launched by U.K. Met Office to Hide its 103 Non-Existent Temperature Measuring Stations – The Daily Sceptic

WILL THIS SONG BE THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE?

Things are going from bad to worse for the new Labour government as this new song is attracting huge interest from the fed-up public, now having voters regret at having been deceived into voting them in. 

Freezing This Christmas (Parody of Lonely This Christmas by Mud)

ATOLL ISLANDS ARE GROWING, NEW RESEARCH CONFIRMS

This is really good news for all those small island nations, and yet this is not headline news on our TV news bulletins or in the press. It does not fit with the climate emergency theme. Read the linked article and watch the video in it.

 Fake Climate Doom…Recent Research Shows “Vast Majority” Of Pacific Atoll Islands Have Grown In Size

CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY BEHIND GREEN ENERGY PROMOTION IN USA

What lies behind the fanatical push for green energy in the West? One major player has been discovered to be the Chinese Communist Party. Obviously they have a lot to gain by selling their products to us, while at the same time weakening our independence and leaving us with a less reliable system of electricity production. Read all the details here:

 For years the CCP has been sending millions to US universities and NGOs to promote Green Energy « JoNova

MORE UNKNOWNS ABOUT CLIMATE REVEALED

We know that computer models of the climate are not very accurate. If they were, they would all agree with one another and they would be able to predict the future climate with more precision when they are fed with data from the recent past - but they don't. As we uncover more factors that affect the climate we can understand why this is the case. Here is a case in point:

 Amazon forests really are cloud machines (and the climate models had no idea) « JoNova

Isoprene is mentioned in the text and just for the benefit of any who are curious, this is emitted by many broad leaved trees. It is a reactive compound which can form a polymer which is a form of natural rubber.

BBC AND MET OFFICE IN ATTEMPT TO USE STORM DATA AS PROPAGANDA

The Met Office have only been using extremely exposed sites such as Aberdaron and Capel Curig for a few years, both opening in 1993. Pembrey Sands, another regular on the wind gust list was also opened in that same year. It is almost as if the Met Office wanted to make people believe winds were getting stronger! What the BBC refuse to tell viewers is that the storms of the 1980s and 90s were much more severe than anything seen since, which even the Met Office have been forced to admit. Read the details at the links below:

 Storm Darragh | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Storm Darragh’s Winds Were 60 mph, Not 90 mph | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

ANTARCTICA GETTING COLDER

"A group of Korean polar scientists have made the astonishing discovery that summer temperatures in Antarctica plunged by a massive 1°C in just 20 years from 1979-1999 and have since been on pause.  These findings are ignored in the mainstream media, where a simplistic opinion that humans control the climate by using hydrocarbons is the main driver of panic designed to implement the evil Net Zero project. " 

Dramatic 1°C Plunge Recorded in Recent Antarctica Summer Temperatures – The Daily Sceptic

LABOUR ENERGY U-TURN

Below is a clip from Talk TV which features an energy expert quoting statistics about UK energy use and associated costs. It is very sad to hear how badly led we have been over the past 20 years and the opportunities we have wasted. 

The energy u-turn is a recognition that his policy was completely impossible. 

"Environmental OBSESSION!" | Labour's Energy Target 'Back-Track'

AUSTRALIAN GRID - A WARNING OF WHAT IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN IN THE UK SOON

Below is an extract from the latest news from "down under". Read it all at the link.

If your company has agreed to be ready to shut down at a moments notice on a warm day, that’s not being on “Standby to Close” your business is a ““pre-activated” extra reserve.”

In Renewable World, bad is good: your smelter used to make aluminum, but now you can sell “electricity use reduction” as well, and the AEMO (the grid manager in Australia) will call you a “Virtual Power Plant” too. Australian companies can now sell their own blackouts back to the grid.  

Those who control the energy, control the people. Every part of this trend is a step in a dumb direction. We’re paying more for less in every single aspect. More people sit around being useless, or half useful, or distracted. More companies make fewer goods. And more government makes more government which is the worst thing of all…

Grid not-fit-for-purpose: On a warm day, Crazy Australia paid $3.5m to industry to *stop* working « JoNova

THE GREAT DECEPTION ON COST OF WIND ENERGY

The public are being deliberately misinformed about the true cost of electricity obtained from wind turbines. The reason for this is clearly to try to keep people onboard with accepting the blight of these monster structures and the multitude of pylons. But in the end the truth must come out if prices continue to rise. Then support will rapidly turn to anger at the government. Read this article for details:

How civil servants deceived us

BANKING CARTEL TRIES TO CONTROL THE USE OF FOSSIL FUELS IN THE USA

Using the excuse that they were trying to reduce fossil fuel use, three very big banks used their massive wealth to invest in coal and then increase electricity prices. It is an extraordinary story and shows the huge profits to be made while claiming to be saving the planet.

 Bang! 11 US states sue BlackRock, StateStreet and Vanguard for working as a cartel to reduce coal and increase electricity prices « JoNova

THE UK PUBLIC START TO QUESTION COUNCILS ON "CLIMATE EMERGENCY" MOTIONS

 The following short video shows members of the public attending a council meeting to challenge councillors on their "climate emergency" stance, and finds they are now considering taking a fresh look at it. 

Is there a Climate EMERGENCY in Colchester?

EXCELLENT DEBATE ON WHETHER CO2 RISE IS DANGEROUS

 Although this is not a new debate it is still worth watching because the arguments brought out in it are still relevant today and the standard of both speakers is excellent. A vote was taken at the start of the debate and at the end. Both results were only revealed at the end. I will not spoil the ending for you.

Is Carbon Dioxide Endangering the Planet? Craig Idso vs. Jeffrey Bennett. A Debate

METHANE - THE IRRELEVANT GREENHOUSE GAS

In this lecture Dr Sheahen focuses on the work of Professors Will Happer and William van Wijngaarden in their pioneering work in calculating the real-world Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) of the five most common Green-House Gases (GHGs). He emphasizes how their calculations have now been precisely verified by satellite measurements, thus validating their research. These results verify the actual low GWPs of these GHGs, and, in particular, of the irrelevancy of the impact of Methane on climate. The results have profound implications, particularly for agriculturally based economies like those of Ireland and New Zealand.

“Methane – The Irrelevant Green-House Gas” Dr Thomas P Sheahen  

JOHN CHRISTY - THE REASONABLE SCEPTIC

John Christy is acknowledged, even by Michael Mann, to be a reasonable voice for scientists who are sceptical of the constant calling out that we are in a "climate crisis." This voice of reason makes it essential that he is heard. Listen to the interview and judge for yourselves:

John Christy on making sense of data in the climate change debate