THE RENEWABLES TRAP

Below is a link to a most interesting article by Andrew Montford. He claims that we are so far into the use of renewables that the high cost of electricity is already "baked in" and the only way out is to abandon them altogether, which he admits is such a drastic option that it looks impossible, as there are so many contracts and treaties that we are signed up to. It looks like we have at least 10 to 20 years of high cost electricity and who knows beyond that? What is more we will continue to be uncompetitive compared to places that have not gone down this road such as India, China, the USA and many others.

Happy New Year!  

The renewables trap

TAXPAYER FUNDED DISINFORMATION BY THE UK MET OFFICE

 Here is a classic example of how to manufacture a large increase in surface temperatures, which is completely independent from any increase in CO2 levels. Thanks to Ray Sanders' meticulous work we can see exactly how the figures are manipulated by the development of a site causing a clear increase in the Urban Heat Island Effect, for which the Met Office have not taken into account. This gives a whole new meaning to 'cooking the books'. 

Ray has issued a challenge to the Met Office to prove him wrong - No chance of that!

Killowen DCNN9220 – The explanation for its excessive rise in mean minima – why can’t the Met Office see this? | Tallbloke's Talkshop

THE ECONOMY OR NET ZERO?

Some people are so fixated on reducing fossil fuel use that they would rather modern industries which use large amounts of energy were located elsewhere, than grow the economy. AI centres require large amounts of reliable electricity which is not possible from Solar or wind. The government will soon realise this.

 Eco Loons Object To AI Centres in Scotland | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

ELECTRIC VEHICLE COLLAPSE

When an industry is built on subsidies there is always going to be doubt about whether it will ever make it without the subsidies. The Free Market Economy has proved to be the best system and now we can see why. I hope Western leaders will now learn this lesson. 

The Electric Vehicle Collapse: Wow, That Was Quick! — Manhattan Contrarian

HOW CLIMATE ZEALOTS ARE DESTROYING THE PLANET

When the climate zealots take charge they believe they are saving the planet by reducing CO2 emissions, but this can only be done by destroying hundreds of acres of countryside. The following essay contains many examples, many in France.

 Destroying countrysides to save Earth from a climate non-crisis – CFACT

AIR FRYERS - WHAT A GOOD IDEA!

 Air fryers what a great invention. It's a wonder they haven't been banned like the dear old hot filament light bulb.(mind you I still have a stock of them). Here's my tip for some festive cheer. When you next cook a jacket potato, after it has cooked scoop out the potato and having scraped all the potato out, return the jacket to the air fryer and cook it for a further 2 or 3 minutes until it is a crispy golden brown. You won't save the planet, but they do taste delicious and so crispy.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS - A GOOD NEWS STORY

With all the doom and gloom on the main media, here's a good news story to spread during this festive season. The US Climate Reference Network (USCRN) record from 2005 shows no obvious warming over the past 20 years.

The data comes from the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) which is a properly sited (away from human influences and infrastructure) and state-of-the-art weather network consisting of 114 stations in the USA.

These station locations were chosen to avoid warm biases from Urban Heat Islands (UHI) effects as well as microsite effects as documented in the 2022 report Corrupted Climate Stations: The Official U.S. Surface Temperature Record Remains Fatally Flawed. Unfortunately, NOAA never reports this data in their monthly or yearly “state of the climate report.” And, mainstream media either is entirely unaware of the existence of this data set or has chosen not to report on this U.S. temperature record. 

The national USCRN data, updated monthly. To view the graph click on the link here:  

U.S Surface Temperature – Watts Up With That?

HOTTEST YEAR EVER - BUT DID ANYONE NOTICE?

 Apparently the Met Office are claiming that this year will be the hottest year ever recorded in the UK, but only by 2 hundredths of a degree Celsius. How they can claim this with a straight face is difficult to believe, considering that many of their weather stations are only fit to measure temperatures to within as much as 5 degrees C. They refuse to admit that this is the case, but the evidence is overwhelming, as readers can see for themselves here: climate science: MET OFFICE CAUGHT OUT AGAIN!

The whole ridiculous claim is discussed here: Met Office Charlatans Claim Hottest Year by 0.02C!!!!!! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT In this article there is a list of the hottest years and they are all a tiny amount higher than the others. Of course the BBC are making out it is a big deal, but most of the public will shrug their shoulders and say "so what?" Let's see if this is any sort of long term trend and not just weather.  

STEVE KOONIN INTERVIEW

The former scientific advisor to President Obama and writer of the best selling book on climate "Unsettled". He was also one of the authors of a recent report on the climate written for the USA government. He has given an interview which is well worth watching.

 Climate 'Armageddon narrative' starting to unravel | Newsmaker | FOX 10 Phoenix

MET OFFICE CAUGHT OUT AGAIN!

 No matter how many times the Met Office get caught out misleading the public or not maintaining their Weather Reporting Stations properly, it seems that the Government are ready to defend them. The reason why, of course, is because the Government is supposed to be overseeing what they are doing and so they (just as in the Post Office scandal) would also be implicated in the fall-out. A second reason is that all Government Ministers are signed up to the climate emergency scenario and so back anything that furthers their cause.

When I wrote to the Minister in charge of the Met Office (see here: Vallance’s Vanishing Act: Official Response to Stationgate | Tallbloke's Talkshop) The Minister merely denied there was any problem and claimed they did a first class job. Now in his latest survey Ray Sanders has found very poor practice yet again. This time in the maintenance of the immediate surroundings of a station. Here are the details: Keswick WMO03212 – Yet more evidence of Met Office Falsehoods….how fast do trees grow? | Tallbloke's Talkshop 

It is both sad and rather pathetic that such simple errors are found in so many of these measuring stations. You can understand why they are so desparate to deny there is any problem, as doing so would open up a Pandora's box of questions about the reliability of the Met Office's complete set of temperature records, and that must be avoided at all costs.

There is a good update on the whole scandal here:

Government Minister Steps in to Defend Met Office as Fake Temperature Scandal Escalates – The Daily Sceptic 

and here: Government Minister Steps in to Defend Met Office as Fake Temperature Scandal Escalates – Watts Up With That?

LIB DEM MP WRITES WORD SALAD IN "HOUSE" MAGAZINE ON "CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH"

Through a close association with an MP I often get to look at The House Magazine which is specially written by and for MPs. There are often some interesting articles in it, but I have noticed a very strong bias towards the so-called climate emergency. There is no climate scepticism that I have seen.

The most recent edition (15th December) has a piece by a Lib Dem MP, Danny Chambers, which is a master-class in vague sweeping statements which mean practically nothing. Unfortunately I cannot provide a link as it is only available to prescribers. I will produce one paragraph to give you a flavour:

"Universal health coverage isn't a distant goal - it's a lifeline. And right now it needs defending. The UK can choose to retreat, or it can help build a world where climate shocks don't become health emergencies, and where health emergencies don't become preventable deaths, by backing fairer funding and the frontline expertise that makes health systems work."

Of course back in the real world universal health coverage doesn't exist. How does he think "climate shocks" (extreme weather to you and me) will not lead to emergencies (including deaths). What does he mean by "fairer financing"? And how does he hope to achieve it? The whole article reveals someone who lives in a parallel world. There are far too many idealists in parliament. Instead we need practical people who give us down to earth solutions to the everyday problems which affect the daily lives of our own people.

 

WOKENESS AND CLIMATE ALARM UNDER ATTACK IN USA

“The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado," Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said in a statement to USA TODAY. "This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway and any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.” 

Trump moves to dismantle National Center for Atmospheric Research lab

RUSSIA NEEDS MORE GLOBAL WARMING

Russia has, for the first time, deployed its entire fleet of eight nuclear-powered icebreakers simultaneously to maintain winter shipping lanes in the Gulf of Ob and the Yenisei Gulf, underscoring the strategic importance of Arctic energy exports.

 Russia Deploys All Eight Nuclear Icebreakers for First Time to Keep Arctic Export Routes Open

MATT RIDLEY PREDICTS THE CLIMATE CLIMBDOWN

 "To paraphrase Monty Python, the climate parrot may still be nailed to its perch at the recent Cop summit in Belem, Brazil – or at Harvard and on CNN – but elsewhere it’s dead. It’s gone to meet its maker, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. The climatastrophe has been a terrible mistake. It diverted attention from real environmental problems, cost a fortune, impoverished consumers, perpetuated indoor pollution and poverty, frightened young people into infertility, wasted years of our time, undermined democracy and corrupted science. Time to bury the parrot." 

I hope he's right! Read the whole essay at the link below:

The great climate climbdown is finally here

SOVIET STYLE HEATING - NOT THE FUTURE (I HOPE)

As the Telegraph article points out, billions of central govt funding will be funneled to local councils, so they can dig up streets to pipe hot water into blocks of flats in cities across the UK

The Telegraph go on to list numerous examples of Soviet failures in their local heat systems. But most worrying of all is the imposition of state control of people’s home heating systems.

Given the horrifying inefficiency of local government, costs will undoubtedly rocket. And homeowners will have no alternative but to pay the bill, as they will be invoiced on a fixed annual basis, whether they use the heating or not. It sounds like a recipe for high costs, waste and inefficiency.  

Miliband Wants To Introduce Soviet Style Heating | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

WILL CLIMATE CHANGE GIVE A WHITE CHRISTMAS?

While a few degrees might not seem like much, it could mean the difference between snow and rain. “With warmer temperatures being recorded across the nation, the odds of a white Christmas are going down,” says Pete Globe, assistant state climatologist at the Colorado Climate Center. “So there is at least some truth to the anecdote that we’re seeing less white Christmases across a lot of the country.” 

 Time Magazine: Climate Change will Bring More AND Less Christmas Snow? – Watts Up With That?

GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO MET OFFICE FAILINGS

I have been reporting on the poor way in which the UK Met Office have been producing the temperature data which underpins the whole global warming narrative for some time. See these posts for example:

climate science: UK MET OFFICE - THE FACTS ABOUT THEIR NEW WEATHER STATIONS

climate science: MET OFFICE UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT - START DUCKING AND DIVING

climate science: UK MET OFFICE UNDER SCRUTINY - PART 3 

Ray Sanders has been undertaking an in depth look at the 370 weather recording stations located all over the UK. Here is a link to the project: Surface Stations Project | Tallbloke's Talkshop

Ray's work has revealed a number of basic problems and I have tried to get some action from the Government to acknowledge the problems and to put them right. Finally through my MP, Sir Julian Lewis, I have received a response from the Government Minister responsible for the Met Office, Lord Vallance, which I forwarded to Ray. He has published the letter from me and the response here:

Vallance’s Vanishing Act: Official Response to Stationgate | Tallbloke's Talkshop

Far from acknowledging any shortcomings by the Met Office, Lord Vallance has issued a stout defence of everything the Met Office has done. This is not a surprise to me as I would not expect him to accept any criticism of his own people, but in doing so he is endorsing some very poor practice. 

What is needed is a truly independent examination into what is going on at the Met Office, but how can this be done?

UK CONSERVATIVES TO SCRAP BAN ON PETROL AND DIESEL CARS

How are businesses to make any long term plans when the major political parties are all making different pledges on whether to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030 or not? When governments interfere with what can and cannot be sold the economy is bound to be badly affected.

The next election is likely to be in 2029, so we are left in limbo. Manufacturers can only guess. Will we all be forced to have heat pumps? No one knows!

 Kemi Badenoch confirms Tories would scrap ban on sale of petrol and diesel cars as she warns Labour's Net Zero drive is 'economic self-harm' | Daily Mail Online

PAST GLOBAL WARMING MORE RAPID THAN TODAY'S

There are numerous examples of rapid climate change in the historical record, some as recently as the last ice age. One of the best documented is a period of climate upheaval known as the Younger Dryas, which occurred approximately 12,900 to 11,700 years ago and temporarily reversed the earth’s recovery from frigid glacial conditions.

 Past Global Warming More Rapid than Today’s: The Younger Dryas - Clintel

THE GREAT USA CLIMATE POLICY REVERSAL

The common thread among the hardline green states? Scrambling to shield Americans from the price tag of the very green agenda these politicians campaigned on. Even more damaging to the campaign, judges across the country have also widely rejected the wave of climate litigation designed to kneecap the fossil fuel industry in court. And for good reason – the legal theories are weak, but the politics and pocketbook math are worse.

 The Great Climate Reversal: States Unravel Billionaire-Backed Green Policies

LABOUR IS RUINING THE UK ECONOMY

The Government is leading by ideology without debate or logic. As domestic production falters under restrictive licensing policies and the damaging  Energy Profits Levy (EPL), thousands of skilled workers are losing jobs, public revenues are shrinking, and energy security is becoming alarmingly fragile. Domestic production reduces exposure to global supply shocks, transport bottlenecks and hostile suppliers. 

 KeyfactsEnergy

PROF. DIETER HELM: THE NET ZERO LIE

Prof. Helm believes that global warming is a serious threat caused by CO2, but he does not think that the governments of Europe have tackled the problem (as he sees it) in the right way. It is interesting to hear his points in the linked interview. He basically thinks that decarbonising will be costly and political leaders should admit this instead of pretending that it can be done for nothing and things will actually be cheaper. I think he is right in that analysis, but this means it will not happen as people are not prepared to make the sacrifice to achieve this, plus many nations do not have political leaders who are willing to put such policies in place. 

Prof. Helm is convinced that global warming will be dangerous, as he believes that CO2 levels are increasing at a historically fast rate, but this is contentious as we have no data for increases in the past. Also the data shows that, despite what the media proclaims, the climate is actually only changing very slowly. It is extreme weather which is the problem and the data shows no trend. 

Prof. Dieter Helm: The Net Zero lie

BBC - THE GLOBAL STATE PROPAGANDA MACHINE?

Watch this video to see the case for the prosecution. 

BBC exposed: the Global State propaganda machine | Tom's TruthBombs

WHY THE WORLD'S CLIMATE TEMPERATURE RECORD IS CORRUPTED

Here is another fact-packed video from Tom Nelson and Martin Durkin. There is a whole website with a number of other videos on climate-related topics. I have only just come across them and have posted a link on my link list further down the right hand side of this website. 

The Graph That Lied | Tom's TruthBombs

BRAINWASHING THE KIDS

Here is an interesting video on how our children may be being brainwashed by some fanatics. I hope and believe this is more the exception. My own grandchildren do not appear to have had this kind of experience,but I fear others may not have been so lucky.

 CLIMATE BRAINWASH

THE DIRTY SECRET BEHIND THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE'S CLEAN IMAGE

The mass evangelism for EVs and wind turbines is not a noble crusade to save the planet. It is a cynical ploy to enrich a small cadre of green-tech investors and empower global bureaucrats.  The “green” agenda is not green. It is a dark marketing campaign for a self-serving ideology willing to sacrifice whole regions to its toxic byproducts.

Pull back the curtain on the EV supply chain – starting with Indonesian nickel mining and extending through rare-earth mineral processing in China – and there is revealed a far less immaculate picture. The “zero tailpipe emissions” tag is a masterpiece of misdirection, diverting attention away from an environmental hellscape.

 Ignoring EV Pollution for Fake Climate Crisis - Clintel

HOW REPORTERS MISUSE A TRAGIC STORY TO PUSH THE "CLIMATE BREAKDOWN" NARRATIVE

A single storm—even a deadly, destructive one—says nothing about long-term climate trends. Weather is not the same as climate. Weather extremes resulting in floods have occurred in Spain for centuries, well before modern industrial emissions.  

From Storm to Scare Story: How The Guardian Wrongly Claimed Climate Change Caused a ‘Climate Breakdown’ – Watts Up With That?

EUROPE'S ECONOMY IS IN TROUBLE DUE TO HIGH ENERGY PRICES

Europe has succeeded in slashing carbon emissions more than any other region—by 30% from 2005 levels, compared with a 17% drop for the U.S. But along the way, the rush to renewables has helped drive up electricity prices in much of the continent. It is crippling industry and hobbling Europe’s ability to attract key economic drivers like artificial intelligence, which requires cheap and abundant electricity. 

“Very clearly the cost of the transition has never been admitted or recognized,” said Gordon Hughes, a professor at the University of Edinburgh and a former adviser on energy to the World Bank. “There is a massive dishonesty involved.”

Europe’s 20 year reckless Green experiment to control the weather has crippled the economy « JoNova

MORE EVIDENCE WHICH CONTRADICTS THE ALARMIST CLIMATE NARRATIVE

North-eastern China was at least 5°C (and up to 9°C) warmer than today and droughts (and floods) were far more extreme when CO2 levels were a “safe” 265 ppm.

 More Evidence NE China Is Not Cooperating With The Alarmist Global Warming Narrative

IAN PLIMER GIVES A GREAT INTERVIEW ON CLIMATE

Ian Plimer is a geologist with a record as a highly regarded expert who has written extensively on the issue of climate change. 

 Ian Plimer: Climate Change: The Facts 2025 | Tom Nelson Pod #270

OFF-SHORE WIND FARMS HAVE BAD EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT - NEW STUDY

Offshore wind farms set in motion a complex network of turbulence, warming, microplastics, and infrasound. The combination of these factors shifts climatic and ecological processes, shaping both the atmosphere and the marine environment. The results signal that these far-reaching technical interventions can no longer be viewed as isolated or negligible fringe phenomena.  

Ecological Impacts Of Offshore Wind Farms Are Worse Than Expected, New Study Finds