NOISE ISSUES WITH HEAT PUMPS

 ‘During winter our heat pump sounds like the howl of a small jet engine’ | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

UPDATE:

School Told to Remove Heat Pumps That Are So Loud Neighbours Are “Unable to Open Windows” | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

CLIMATE PREDICTIONS DEBUNKED

 More climate predictions debunked in this new video from Tony Heller:

Settled Science - YouTube

SOUTH AFRICA SHOWS THE HOPELESS TASK OF ACHIEVING NET ZERO

It is becoming increasingly clear that the world is getting further and further away from the timetable of achieving net zero CO2 emissions by mid century. No matter how hard we in the UK, or across the EU and the West push for net zero it will make no impression on world emissions as long as the developing nations continue to burn fossil fuels. That is a fact that is beyond doubt.  

 South Africa to Break Paris Agreement Promises Because It Cannot Shut Down Coal | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

CLIMATE EXTREMISTS DOUBLE DOWN BY CLAIMING "IT'S THE HOTTEST IN 125000 YEARS"

The wild claims being put out by some mainstream media are getting more and more extraordinary. The public are being asked to believe these claims with no evidence. Despite this lack of scientific evidence many people will simply accept the claims as there is never any attempt to challenge them. In this way it is hoped that the public will become so concerned that they will accept the very serious costs of decarbonisation and the other restrictions required to reach net zero. 

The Following article puts this latest claim under the spotlight and exposes its obvious flaws.

 Hottest in 125,000 years say EU scientists — as if Cavemen could measure the temperature to a tenth of a degree « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

FORGET CHEAP OFFSHORE WIND ELECTRICITY

 It would appear that either the government has been completely misled over the true cost of wind electricity, or they have tried to deceive the public. In the end the truth always comes out and we will see for sure when the next round of auctions for development of offshore wind farms are held. Read the facts below.

The myth of cheap offshore wind has been exposed - Net Zero Watch

A MUST WATCH LECTURE ON WHY CO2 IS NOT A PROBLEM

Here is a lecture given by someone with the knowledge and the communication skills to explain difficult scientific concepts in a simple way. Mind-blowing to anyone who has been brainwashed by the overwhelming media and so will never have heard anything like it. Of course you will never see this lecture on mainstream TV. Watch it now before it gets taken down: 

 Professor William Happer IPA lecture – The Crusade Against Carbon Dioxide – September 2023 - YouTube

ELECTRIC CAR SALES FALLING WELL SHORT OF GOVERNMENT TARGET

The new "command economy" that is rapidly replacing the free market in order to try and reach net zero emissions is causing all sorts of problems.

 Electric car sales continue to falter: Demand last month dwindled and manufacturers risk falling short of costly EV targets | This is Money

The more that government interferes in the free market the worse things will get. When governments fine companies there is only one place that money can come from and that is the pockets of customers. Motoring is already becoming beyond the reach of many due to the exorbitant cost of insurance on top of fuel, road tax repairs etc. That is probably what many in government want, but people will soon join the dots and realise that much of it is due to the Net Zero policy. 

WIND TURBINES CAN CONCEAL ENEMY AIRCRAFT

RADAR systems can be confused by the rotating blades of wind turbines according to this article in the Telegraph: 

 Good for our enemies: Wind turbines scramble the Air Force radars, and provide cover for jets « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

No wonder the Chinese are so keen for us to install even more of them! 

CALIFORNIANS LEAVING THE STATE IN LARGE NUMBERS TO AVOID CLIMATE POLICIES

This behaviour will become increasingly common as people discover the huge cost of climate policies

 A third of Californian voters and most Republicans say the state is moving too fast on green energy - new rules pushing motorists to spend $60,000 on EVs will hasten exodus to Texas and Arizona: research | Daily Mail Online

GAS BOILERS - WHAT IS THEIR FUTURE IN THE UK?

There is a lot of concern about what to do about home heating here in the UK. There is an obsession with reaching the magical net zero by 2050 at all costs and to do so would require all home heating to be by electricity, or by using hydrogen gas. In the linked video below a tradesman with a lot of practical knowledge explains the issues.

 Hydrogen Boilers, Heat Pumps & The Future of Heating - YouTube

METHANE'S CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING EXPLAINED

I came across this very interesting short video which explained how our climate has changed naturally over the past million years or so. It also highlighted a recent increase in methane levels which cannot be explained by our use of fossil fuels. 

 New Evidence We Are Entering An Ice Age Termination Event - EXPLAINED - YouTube 

This is yet more evidence that shows how much more we have to learn about the Earth's climate and how it evolves naturally. Yes we have some influence, but nature is much more powerful than we are. Hence we must learn to adapt.

CARBON CAPTURE IS UNECONOMIC

 

Carbon, or more accurately CO2 can be captured from exhaust gases coming from power stations or industrial processes and then pumped underground into porous rock. 

In the UK, it is envisaged that the CO₂ will be pumped into defunct oil or gas fields in the North Sea. Hence, instead of accumulating in the atmosphere, it is disposed of underground. The trouble with CCS is that it consumes a lot of resources, is therefore expensive (cost largely unknown) and provides no tangible benefit for those who have to pay for it, that is us.

 Preferred Carbon Capture Method is Uneconomic | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

EUROPEAN WINTER FORECASTS MILD OR COLD?

There are two forecasts for the European winter. One is for a colder than usual one, while the other is for a mild winter. See the report below for the details.

Veteran Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: “We Got A Cold Winter Coming Up For Europe” (notrickszone.com)

THE BIG PROBLEM FOR NET ZERO - DUNKELFLAUTE

In a Net Zero world, what will we do when the wind isn’t blowing? Environmentalists like to point out that we will have solar power as well, but of course the sun doesn’t shine at night, so windless nights are a big problem.

Next, it is suggested that we can store electricity. But in winter we frequently get long wind lulls, and with the sun low in the sky, there will be little or no solar power either. These so-called “dunkelflautes” mean little or no electricity supply from the renewables fleet. Read it all here:

The crippling problem of renewable green energy cannot be solved | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

COLCHESTER CITIZENS - ANOTHER GREAT SPEECH

 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:

Council Accountability & Environment - YouTube

COLCHESTER CITIZENS BATTLE THE COUNCIL CLIMATE POLICIES

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

NATURE IS THE CAUSE OF A LOT OF OUR CLIMATE CHANGES

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:

 To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

AFRICA'S FORESTS DESTROYED BY CLIMATE POLICIES

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

NOW THE TRUTH IS OUT, WIND ENERGY IS NOT CHEAP!

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)

ONE RULE FOR THE BBC AND ANOTHER FOR GB NEWS

We all know that the establishment sticks together and here is a classic case of it:

 OFCOM Find GB News Broke Impartiality Rules–But What About The BBC? | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

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: 

 Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education & Skills [2007] EWHC 2288 (Admin) (10 October 2007) (bailii.org) 

CRUDE OIL IS LARGEST EXPORT ITEM FOR THE USA

       Who would have guessed?

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. According to the analysis by WorldCity's Roberts published in Forbes, ‘the primary oil category will be the United States' top export when 2023 figures are released early next year.’" So much for net zero!

THE HUGE COST OF NET ZERO IS COMING OUT

There are some people who claim that reaching net zero emissions of CO2 will not cost very much, some even think it will make us money! But when you look at what is involved such claims look ridiculous. Take "carbon capture and storage", the UK government has decided to invest £20 billion in it.

The two projects are Viking in the Humber and Acorn in North East Scotland. Both projects will take captured CO2 from industrial processes and transport it via a pipeline to be stored in former oil and gas fields deep under the North Sea.

In the future, both projects aim to ship liquefied captured CO2 from other parts of the country before it is sent via the same pipes to be stored.The CO2 is separated from flue gas or the exhaust stream using a chemical solvent, a membrane or a solid absorbent, which can then be pressurised and turned into a liquid.

Presumably the £20 billion is just to set up the infrastructure, but just think about the running costs of all this, as opposed to just venting it into the atmosphere for nothing. This is bound to make any process using it far more expensive than it is now. And, of course we don't even know if it will work!

What is carbon capture? (telegraph.co.uk) (paywall)

UK WILL NEED GAS FOR DECADES TO AVOID BLACKOUTS

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.” 

National Gas chief: ‘Britain will need fossil fuels to avoid blackouts for decades’ (telegraph.co.uk) 

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!

GLACIER PROPAGANDA PUSHED BY THE MEDIA

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:  

Grave News About Journalism | Real Climate Science

COST OF NET ZERO GETS BIGGER

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."

 MATT RIDLEY: The official true cost of net zero is the same as spending £1 a SECOND for the next 31,000 years! | Daily Mail Online

"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."

HUGE BILL FOR DRIVING TESLA IN THE RAIN

This story is hardly a good advertisement for electric vehicles:

 Edinburgh couple fume as they are handed £17K bill by Tesla as they ‘drove in rain’ | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

JOHN CLAUSER, NOBEL PRIZE WINNING PHYSICIST SPEAKS OF WEAK CLIMATE SCIENCE

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

ANOTHER STATISTIC USED TO SCARE THE PEOPLE

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. 

Antarctica’s melting ice shelves have unleashed 7.5 TRILLION tonnes of water into the oceans since 1997–Daily Mail | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

BBC GIVE TERRORIST SYMPATHISERS A VOICE, BUT REFUSE TO DEBATE CLIMATE POLICIES

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: 

The BBC's "due impartiality" hypocrisy - Net Zero Watch

WHY SHOULD WE "TRUST THE SCIENCE"?

 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.

Wrong influences give us corrupted "science" - CFACT

CLIMATE UNCERTAINTY AND RISK

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

2023 WEATHER SEEN IN PERSPECTIVE

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.

Climate “out of control”? A reality check - Net Zero Watch

ELECTRICITY LARGE SCALE STORAGE REPORT DEBUNKED

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:  

Dismantling the Royal Society Large-Scale Electricity Storage Report | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

SEA LEVEL RISE PREDICTIONS INFLATE COST OF COASTAL PROTECTION

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.

 Shoreline Management Plans Based On Fake Sea Level Rise Projections | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

SUN'S POLARITY ABOUT TO FLIP

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?

EXXON BOARD INFILTRATED BY CLIMATE ACTIVISTS

 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.

Climate Tales: BlackRock got Exxon to divest oil fields that PetroChina wanted (which BlackRock also owned shares in) « JoNova (joannenova.com.au) 

UK HEATING COSTS SET TO RISE TO PAY FOR RENEWABLE COSTS

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: 

Foisting green levies onto gas bills will cause public health crisis, Sunak warned (netzerowatch.com)

ANOTHER REASON NET ZERO LOOKS SET TO FAIL

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)

THIS MIGHT PUT PEOPLE OFF BUYING AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE

Anyone thinking of buying an EV ought to read this first: 

EV kidnaps the driver at 30 mph, runs amok « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

ANOTHER FAKE RECORD EXPOSED

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. 

 “wettest day on record” | Real Climate Science

PREDICTED COST OF NET ZERO LOOK HOPELESSLY WRONG

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.

WHY DO THE CLIMATE EXTREMISTS IGNORE CHINA?

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.

 The Manchurian Billionaire | Real Climate Science

IT WAS WARMER 3,300 YEARS AGO SAYS NEW EVIDENCE

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.  

It used to be warmer: 4,000 new bits of evidence melt out of Norwegian glaciers « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

COULD A TRUMP RETURN PUT AN END TO THE NET ZERO ERA?

 While in office, Trump boasted about wanting the US oil and gas industry to “drill, baby, drill,” implementing expansionist policies that enhanced the country’s energy security, rendering it almost energy independent before the Covid bust set in during 2020.

Nothing much appears to have changed in Trump’s general approach to the energy question, and he promises if elected in 2024 to quickly reverse much of the Biden Green New Deal approach starting on the day he is sworn into office. There is no reason to disbelieve that commitment.

So, assuming Sunak follows through on the legislative front and further assuming a Trump victory in 2024 (he leads Biden by 9 points in the new Washington Post/ABC poll released over the weekend), would a two-pronged rollback of Net Zero action by a pair of the developed world’s strongest democracies ring a death knell for the entire green energy push?

Read it all here: The Daily Telegraph, 26 September 2023

COAL DEMAND STILL INCREASING ACROSS THE WORLD

 NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Asia's coal sector has gone from thinking they are in terminal decline as the world shifts to a net-zero carbon future to seeing themselves as being a part of the energy mix for decades to come, while raking in profits.

The bullish narrative was on full display at the industry's biggest gathering, the Coaltrans Asia conference held this week on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

What has changed for the coal industry is that they no longer believe that renewable energies can be deployed fast enough, cheaply enough and at sufficient scale to push fossil fuels out of Asia's energy mix.

"The reality is that coal demand will continue to increase," Septian Hario Seto, Indonesia's deputy of investment at its Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment Affairs, told the conference.

NEW OIL FIELD APPROVED BY THE UK GOVERNMENT

The UK government is showing that we will still need oil way into the future by its decision to develop a big new oil field in the North Sea. It is a sensible decision that is driving the climate extremists mad.

 Rosebank: Biggest untapped UK oil field approved by regulators - BBC News

CLIMATE POLICY - A FEW CRACKS EMERGE

There appears to be some signs of dissent among the Western governments, as revealed here:

 The European rebellion against the Sacred Quest for NetZero spreads — Green investors are reeling « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

NET ZERO TORN TO SHREDS

The article liked below is a real tour de force which states the real state of where climate policies are leading us. This section gives a flavour of it:

"The promises of upsides are simply lies. There are no drop-in replacements for the things that make our lifestyles today. That is why the Climate Change Committee told Parliament that up to 62% of emissions reduction is going to come from ‘behaviour change’, which is to say that Net Zero requires government to use the criminal law and price mechanisms to regulate what people can do. That is what Sunak means when he says that previous governments have not been straight with the public." 

The Impossibility of Net Zero (netzerowatch.com)

4 TRILLION A YEAR NEEDED FOR UN SUSTAINABILITY GOALS

That is the eye-watering sum that the UK Foreign Secretary said was needed to be raised, much of it to "fight climate change". How much longer can the UK, or for that matter any other indebted Western nation, go on dishing out billions of pounds before the citizens start to notice a drop in their standard of living?

 James Cleverly Needs $4 Trillion a Year For His Sustainable Development Goals! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

CLIMATE PROPAGANDA GOES TO THE NEXT LEVEL IN OZ

We are witnessing extraordinary levels of behaviour in the battle for hearts and minds in the new religion of climate. In the following link we see how internet propaganda can be used as a weapon 

 Our moral guardians: Climate activists teach children to send cookie malware to skeptical grandparents « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

CHRIS PACKHAM URGES LAW-BREAKING AND VIOLENT ACTION TO SAVE THE PLANET

Will the police be taking any action against broadcaster Chris Packham, for his encouragement to others to break the law? The following link looks at exactly what he has been saying and doing.

 Chris Packham and the eco militants: BBC Springwatch presenter discusses blowing up oil pipeline with green campaigner and praises 'highly-intelligent' protester jailed for bringing M25 to 40-hour standstill in new documentary | Daily Mail Online

"GATES OF HELL" SPEECH AT THE UN

 Welcome to the new fundamentalist religion headed by the high priest giving a tub-thumping sermon to his followers.

UN climate science now at “Gates of Hell” level « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

Surely they must realise that this kind of language is counter-productive and leads to the bulk of the public looking at them as a laughing stock.

WILL GERMANY BE FIRST TO DITCH NET ZERO

Here again we see a country which has made a grand commitment to reach net zero CO2 emissions come up against the harsh reality of how costly it is, as the date gets nearer. When it comes to a choice of severely damaging the economy causing millions to suffer or to defer the date of achieving an arbitrary and meaningless target there can only be one rational decision.  

Ross Clark: Will Germany be the first to ditch its net zero commitments? | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

IS RISHI SUNAK WAKING UP TO REALITY?

Read the latest news from the Prime Minister's spokes people

 Rishi Sunak considering weakening key green policies - BBC News

THE SKEPTICS HANDBOOK VOLUME 2 - WHY CO2 DOES NOT CONTROL THE EARTH'S CLIMATE

I have only just come across this second volume of the Skeptics Handbook which is packed with interesting facts that you will never see in any mainstream publication or on TV. Jo Nova has a great way of putting across difficult material in a simple and direct style. The whole thing is well worth reading, but I particularly like this section:

The one flaw that wipes out the crisis

Carbon dioxide only causes 1.1°C of warming if it doubles. That’s according to the IPCC. Did you know? The real game changer is water. Researchers made guesses about humidity and clouds in the early 1980s and they built these guesses into their models. We now know they were wrong, not about carbon, but about water in the form of humidity and clouds. Here’s how the models can be right about carbon and wrong about the climate. CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and it warms the planet. The modellers guessed that as the world warmed, more water would evaporate, and the rising humidity would lock in more heat. Makes sense. Humid nights are warmer than clear nights. This is called “feedback” — carbon warms us, which lifts humidity, which warms us even more, at least in theory. But water is complex and fickle. Humidity can stay ‘humid’, or turn into low clouds, high clouds, or fall out as rain, hail or snow.

  And they all have a different effect. Every prediction over 1.1 degrees relies on “feedback” of some sort. But what if that extra humidity turned into low clouds? What if it just rained out? What if fewer high clouds formed? Any of these would cool the planet. Without the effects of feedbacks to amplify carbon’s minor warming, there is no disaster, and that’s exactly what the observations tell us. Lindzen found that as the planet warms it gives off more radiation. Spencer found that as the planet warms, we get fewer high clouds. Paltridge found that humidity levels have fallen. The missing hot spot shows the models are wrong. There goes almost all of the warming. The models exaggerate by a factor of six. The 3.3°C scare is really only about half a degree of extra warmth. Who needs to transform economies to prevent half a degree of warming, most of which has already happened? Who indeed? 

Sources: Feedbacks: (projected) IPCC Assessment Report 4, Chapter 8. (Measured) Lindzen et al 2009. Clouds: Spencer et al 2007. Humidity, Paltridge et al, 2009.

the_skeptics_handbook_IIj-sml.pdf (joannenova.com.au)

BLOG READERSHIP AT RECORD HIGH!

I often wonder who the bulk of you, my readers, are and where you come from. Most of you never leave a comment, though Renewable Guy has made up for some of you! Over the years my readership has varied a lot, but this year it has definitely seen a big increase, which is very encouraging. It is interesting because it is now much harder for people to find it because the big search engines, like Bing and Google do not come up with this blog on their first pages, which they used to. Climate sceptic websites are not given any prominence these days. 

Despite all this, my number of hits for this month is already at 43000 with half the month to go and my previous best month was January this year at 42562, so it is going to be a new record. 

I started the blog back in 2007 when many of the now top blogs had not started, like Paul Homewood's superb NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT . Even Watts Up With That?  was only just starting. I started as a means of keeping a catalogue of informative articles for my own use and to show other people that there actually were a lot of scientific arguments to rebut what was being put out by the likes of Al Gore who's new film was gaining a lot of coverage at the time.

Let me be absolutely clear, I have never disputed that the climate has changed in the past and in some parts of the world it is changing now. Of course it could change any time at any place. What is definitely in dispute is that CO2 is a major driver of the climate. It is beyond doubt that there are many natural factors that have affected the climate. Particularly clouds.

Even if man-made CO2 had a measurable effect, the nations of the world could not possibly reduce the level in time to make a difference to the temperature or the climate. The answer must be to adapt to the climate rather than a futile attempt to change it. 

 

CLIMATE EXTREMIST MESSAGE NOT BELIEVED BY MANY

There have been so many extreme climate change messages in our news media that you would imagine that everyone would be completely convinced. Indeed in the political world in public debates this seems to be largely the case. However this consensus is, in reality, false, as in private I find most people actually think more like the comments of Telegraph readers in the article below. 

 Telegraph Scrape The Bottom With Latest Climate Scare | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

GREEN JOB LOSSES - THE TRUE COST OF NET ZERO

We are constantly being told about the new green jobs which are going to be created by pushing for net zero, and yet the reality is the complete opposite. What we see is the loss of good well paid jobs in the traditional economy as we increase the price of fuel and electricity. Here is a prime example: 

Labour In A Spin Over Green Steel Job Losses | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

I have heard some extreme green activists state that saving CO2 emissions should come before economic benefit. This is not the view of the majority of the public.

IT WAS WARMER IN ROMAN TIMES THAN NOW

Nothing at all about the modern era stands out as unusual

 2,500 years of wild climate change in southern Europe: It was warmer in Roman Times than now « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

Thanks to David Whitehouse at NetZeroWatch who has found a remarkable paper: Pyrenean caves reveal a warmer past

The new study on stalagmites in caves of the Pyrenees shows that modern climate change is nothing compared to natural fluctuations in the last 2,500 years, when it was at times  much hotter, colder, and more volatile. Rapid shifts between temperatures were common.

Yet we are constantly bombarded with propaganda telling us our climate is going off the scale. It is amazing how many people pay lip-service to this idea, similar to a religious ideology. 

WHY SCIENCE JOURNALS CAN NO LONGER BE TRUSTED

 Wesley J Smith: Why we can’t trust the science journals

National Review, 5 September 2023

A climate scientist has written that he pulled his punches in a climate-change article in order to be published by the prestigious journal Nature. From, “I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published,” by Patrick T. Brown:
 
"The paper I just published—“Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California”—focuses exclusively on how climate change has affected extreme wildfire behavior. I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell.
 
This matters because it is critically important for scientists to be published in high-profile journals; in many ways, they are the gatekeepers for career success in academia. And the editors of these journals have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives—even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society."
 
In other words, if Brown provided a thorough and nuanced study, it would never have passed the ideological blockade he knew controls the scientific discourse on this important topic.
 
Brown explains why we see such an anti-science paradigm:

"In theory, scientific research should prize curiosity, dispassionate objectivity, and a commitment to uncovering the truth. Surely those are the qualities that editors of scientific journals should value.

In reality, though, the biases of the editors (and the reviewers they call upon to evaluate submissions) exert a major influence on the collective output of entire fields. They select what gets published from a large pool of entries, and in doing so, they also shape how research is conducted more broadly. Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the likelihood that their work is accepted. I know this because I am one of them."

Brown left academia so he could engage in better science. And, that allowed him to write this article. [...]

Brown has done a true service in illustrating how science has been distorted by nonscientific agendas at the highest level of “expert” discourse — aided and abetted by the media. Until and unless that changes, public trust in the scientific and medical sectors will continue to fall. 
 
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ONLY 16% OF UK VOTERS WANT TO PRIORITISE NET ZERO

 Matt Goodwin: The Sun, 8 September 2023 

If Rishi Sunak is to have any chance of winning the next General Election, then he should be doing a lot more to tap into people’s growing sense of exasperation with the spiralling costs of Net Zero.

That’s the message from my latest ­polling on what ordinary people who took a punt on Boris Johnson in 2019 really think about the expansion of green policies such as the Ultra-Low Emission Zone in London, where the owners of non-compliant vehicles must pay £12.50 each time they drive.

Were you to listen only to the expert class, to London Mayor Sadiq Khan or the new elite who dominate the institutions, then you might be forgiven for thinking that these kinds of policies are incredibly popular among the public. But the reality, as my polling shows, is quite different.

Much like globalisation in the 1990s, or the rise of mass immigration in the 2000s and the 2010s, many people today are becoming sceptical, if not outright opposed, to the spiralling costs of this agenda.

Only one in four say they would like to see a Ulez-type scheme operating in their own local area. The vast majority would not.

But it’s the coalition of voters from across the political spectrum who backed Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party in 2019 — many of whom are the same people who backed Brexit — who are especially opposed to footing the bills for things such as Ulez and the creeping influence of Net Zero.

These voters, remember, are absolutely critical for Sunak’s chances next year.  Sunak is currently only holding on to half of Johnson’s 2019 voters.

Ask people whether they want their leaders in Westminster to prioritise Net Zero even if this increases people’s bills or prioritise lowering their bills even if this undermines the quest to achieve Net Zero and the vast majority strongly favour the latter.

Only 16 per cent want to prioritise Net Zero.

Ask Conservative voters from 2019 — the very people who will determine whether or not Sunak remains in power — and just seven per cent want their leaders to prioritise Net Zero while nearly three-quarters (72 per cent) want them to prioritise slashing the cost of living.

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TEXAS ON THE BRINK OF ROLLING BLACKOUTS

 Texas declared its first power emergency since a deadly winter storm two years ago and came close to rolling blackouts as soaring temperatures roasted the second-largest US state.

High demand, lower wind generation, and the declining solar generation during sunset led to lower operating reserves on the grid and eventually contributed to lower frequency,” the grid operator’s CEO said.

The declaration of a so-called Level 2 emergency late Wednesday came in response to shrinking supplies of available power and meant the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state’s grid operator, had to draw on reserves while pushing consumers to curb usage.

Texas hadn’t experienced a grid emergency since February 2021, when a historic freeze triggered blackouts that led to hundreds of deaths, stranded millions inside freezing homes, and paralyzed the Lone Star State for almost a week.

Conditions deteriorated so quickly on Wednesday that the grid operator skipped calling emergency level 1. A level 2 emergency means power reserves have dropped to critical levels and allows the operator to call on more supplies to prop up the grid. It’s unclear what led to ERCOT call a second-tier emergency.

As the crisis deepened late Wednesday, utilities in San Antonio and the state capital Austin warned blackouts might be imminent and urged customers to take conservation efforts such as not charging electric cars and turning off pool filters. Medically fragile residents who need oxygen and similar aids were urged to have backup plans in place.

Spot power prices surged to more than the $5,000 a megawatt-hour, exceeding the price cap, multiple times Wednesday evening, Ercot data show. That was quadruple the cost of power supplies for that period in the day-ahead market.

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IS IT THE END OF MASS MOTORING?

 Over the last few years, the Government has thrown everything it can think of at forcing us to switch to electric vehicles. There are big subsidies on offer, both for the car itself and for a home charging port. There are tax breaks for company vehicles, long since phased out for the petrol equivalent. There are exemptions from resident’s parking permits, and from the increasingly bewildering array of congestion and clean air charges that now mean driving from one British city to another involves almost as much paperwork as getting a visa for North Korea.

And from next year onwards, the auto manufacturers will have to meet a target of selling 22pc electric vehicles, rising to 52pc by 2028, ahead of a complete ban on the sale of new petrol cars by 2030.

There is a problem, however. Despite all the incentives, most of us are not yet convinced about making the switch. According to a survey this week by Auto Trader, only 47pc of drivers believe that an electric vehicle will work for them, while 56pc of drivers felt that they were too expensive to buy. In fact, there are a whole range of reasons why people don’t want them. They are expensive, with average prices above traditional models. The charging network is hopelessly inadequate, especially if, like most people, you don’t have your own driveway. There are doubts over how long the batteries last, minor collisions can cost thousands to repair if the power unit is damaged, and there is even a risk of them catching fire in enclosed space.

And yet, at the same time petrol cars are becoming increasingly unaffordable. There already was a trend for new cars to get more and more expensive: from 2011 to 2021 the average price of a new car in the UK rose by 39pc, compared to a 22pc rise in average wages, according to research by Moneybarn. But as quotas are introduced, that will only accelerate, since the only way the manufacturers can meet the target, at the same time as protecting profit margins, will be to make fossil-fuel driven models pricier and pricier. Add in the soaring cost of insurance, and the vast range of Ulez-style charges, and one point is clear. A petrol car will be a high-end luxury product, restricted to a tiny minority.

The result? Car ownership will soon be following home ownership into dramatic decline, driven off the road by central planning, and short-sighted, chaotic government policies. Instead, people will be forced onto shambolic public transport that might just about work in inner London, and within a few other major cities, but is practically non-existent in the suburbs, small towns or villages. In reality, the end of the car era will be the greatest backward step in living standards in recent memory. In terms of mobility and freedom it will take us right back to the 19th century - and it will be entirely our own fault.

 

CHILLING DETAILS OF THE UK ENERGY BILL

Most of the public seem blissfully unaware of how their government is taking away their freedom in the pursuit of net zero. A few of them may be better informed now, as a result of this article:

 RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: No heat pump? Put your thermals on, you're nicked | Daily Mail Online

ZERO BIDS FOR OFFSHORE WIND

Not net zero - just zero! This should be a wake up call for the government and for the people of the UK. Clearly offshore wind is simply much too expensive. 

Offshore wind auction fails to attract any bids - BBC News

DATA TO MAKE YOU THINK HOW MUCH THE WORLD HAS IMPROVED.

 

We seem to hear nothing but doom and gloom in our daily news. The following is an interesting article taken from a website which answers questions on every topic and is well worth looking at for a wide range of information. The following article by Patrick Boschmann can be found at this link:

(37) Extreme weather is not increasing, and the world is getting healthier and wealthier and safer all the time. Is the whole Global warming/Climate change narrative simply a world-wide experiment in mass hypnosis? - Quora

The world wasn’t broken and it didn’t need fixing. The world was getting healthier and wealthier before the Climate Change© agenda came along and put a stop to all of that.

FATHER OF CLIMATE CHANGE

BBC's EXTREME WEATHER CLAIMS DEBUNKED

The things the BBC forgot to mention in their quest to make us believe that we are facing a "climate crisis"

 BBC’s Extreme Summer Weather Propaganda | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

UK GOVERNMENT MUST STAND UP TO CLIMATE ACTIVISTS

Here in the UK we are reaching the point when the government has to make some very difficult and unpopular decisions. Even though the Conservatives had an 80 seat majority there are enough Conservative climate activist MPs to defeat them with the support of the opposition. One such decision is the ban on onshore wind farms. Faced with defeat, the government is now doing a u-turn to end the ban and pass the buck onto council planners.

 Government divided on climate issues (netzerowatch.com)

WILL NORTHERN EUROPE FREEZE OR FRY? - GULF STREAM IS NOT THE AMOC*

*AMOC = Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

A lot of climate alarmists confuse the AMOC with the Gulf Stream. They are both currents which circulate through the Atlantic Ocean, but they are distinct separate currents, as explained in this link:

 The Guardian's (ocean) circulation problem - Net Zero Watch

Luckily the Gulf Stream is the one which is the least likely to be affected. But that doesn't stop fear-mongering articles peddling the idea that climate change will mean that northern Europe will be driven into an ice-age by global warming. Either we will freeze or fry, it's a win-win for the alarmists!  

COST OF DECARBONISING HOUSING

Anyone who gives a little thought to what is involved must realise that our 38 million houses rely on a lot of fossil fuels to power all our appliances and cook our food and keep us warm. The figures are so huge that doing the calculations is not to be taken lightly. Fortunately the Global Warming Policy Foundation has done the sums and come up with the answer £1.8 trillion extra to the cost of staying with the present system. Read the details here: 

Cost of Decarbonising Housing (netzerowatch.com)

HEAT PUMP SAGA GOES ON

 I don't envy the new minister for net zero, appointed yesterday. The fact is that most people are, understandably, reluctant to spend at least £10000 to change their central heating system from a relatively cheap gas boiler system to a less powerful and more costly heat pump. Even those who can afford it are not buying. Of course the majority cannot afford it. It is hardly sensible to put in a heat pump system unless you have good insulation as they will not give enough heat. Read all the details below.  

Heat pumps: mythology and actuality - The Global Warming Policy Foundation (thegwpf.org)

Net Zero Watch slams Government’s 'desperate' and 'unethical' heat pump proposals - Net Zero Watch

UK FOOD STRATEGY - A POINTLESS ACT OF SELF HARM

The following report is a very comprehensive and interesting read.

UK Food Strategy and Net Zero (thegwpf.org)

Here are one or two highlights:

In 2019, the total CO2 emissions from the UK (i.e. production, not consumption figures) amounted to 369 million tonnes. In 2020, emissions dropped to 329 million tonnes. These figures ignore land use. In 2020, this represented just 0.95% of global emissions, down from 2.64% in 1990 (world CO2 emissions totalled 36.7 billion tonnes in 2019). Consumption-based emissions for the UK in 2019 (the most recent year for which data is available) were 520 million tonnes, bringing the country’s contribution to 1.4% of global emissions. Achieving Net Zero for the UK would be effectively a rounding error in global emissions, which continue to increase. China, far and away the world’s largest CO2 emitter for over a decade, will not compromise its economic growth in the cause of climate change mitigation.

Look at what the UK has achieved in recent decades. Total emissions have fallen very significantly, now standing at about the same level as in late Victorian times. This is for a country of 67 million, compared to about 31 million in 1870.  

To re-engineer the UK’s agricultural sector and food supply chain will inevitably have a massive impact on farmers, the countryside and diets, whether or not people conform to policymakers’ expectations and move to plant-based diets or whether they simply eat more imported meat and dairy produce. Decreeing the effective end of much livestock farming would be devastating. Doing this for the sake of 10% of the country’s overall emissions of greenhouse gases would be pure folly.

WORLD'S "HOTTEST DAY" WAS FAKE NEWS

 Apparently, all those people missed the fact that they were looking at the output of a climate model, not actually measured temperatures. Only one news outlet, The Associated Press, bothered to print a sensible caveat…The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration distanced itself from the designation, compiled by the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, which uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world’s condition….

The AP updated its story on July 7th to include this single yet very important paragraph: “NOAA, whose figures are considered the gold standard in climate data, said in a statement Thursday that it cannot validate the unofficial numbers. It noted that the reanalyzer uses model output data, which it called ‘not suitable’ as substitutes for actual temperatures and climate records. The agency monitors global temperatures and records on a monthly and an annual basis, not daily.”

So, in the space of two days, we went from temperature data that was “totally unprecedented and terrifying,” to temperature data that was not suitable for purpose.

‘Supposed’ Record Temperature In China Not All It Seems– Paul Homewood: “There is a highly coordinated effort taking place to persuade the public that the world’s climate is somehow out of control, with extreme weather everywhere and heatwaves on every continent.” … “Quite clearly, any record temperature set in the Turpan is meaningless and cannot be compared to other locations in China. It is merely the product of a micro climate. There is also a second issue here. Sanbao has no official listing or any historical data…In short we have no way of knowing whether it has been hotter in Saobao in the past, or whether the thermometer there is even properly sited and maintained.”

Read the whole article here:

Top Climate Scientists Rubbish Claims July was the Hottest Month ever – Public being ‘Misinformed on a Massive Scale’ • Watts Up With That?