This article explains how the new USA administration is keen to take the lead on stopping CO2 emissions. When will they understand that this action is futile and will have no measurable effect on temeperature or the climate.
From Hyundai to Tesla and BMW, battery fires turn the heat on electric cars
Reuters, 19 November 2020
is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and blogger. His award winning blog can be found at www.neilclark66.blogspot.com. He tweets on politics and world affairs @NeilClark66
Compare and contrast. On the issue of whether Britain should leave the EU we’ve had:
In fact, for the period May 2016 until March 2020, it seemed MPs were talking about nothing else.
No one can say that Brexit, if it indeed finally happens at the end of this year, hasn’t been properly discussed, or that it hasn’t had democratic endorsement. The ‘Leave’ side won the referendum vote and then in 2019 the Tory government was re-elected on the promise of ‘Get Brexit Done’. Traditional ‘Red Wall’ Labour seats went Tory for the first time in 2019 largely because of Brexit.
Contrast this with the Great Reset/Fourth Industrial Revolution. The UK government, like many others in the West, is clearly trying to implement the Klaus Schwab/WEF programme, under the guise of fighting a virus, but unlike Brexit, not only is there no public vote, there is not even a debate.
How can this be right? The Great Reset/4IR (and the closely linked UN 2030 Agenda) represents not only the most radical changes ever proposed in our lifetimes, but the most radical changes to everyday life IN HISTORY.
The Great Reset/4IR is actually about redefining what it means to be human.
For centuries, it has been accepted that man is a social animal. That meeting up with other people is good for us. That we have certain freedoms which are inalienable. But the Great Reset/4IR threatens all of this.
Klaus Schwab says “What the fourth industrial revolution will lead to is a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identity.”
Wow. A fusion of our physical, digital and biological identity. That’s Transhumanism. Cyborgs. I Robot. That represents a slightly bigger change to our lives than anything argued about in the Brexit negotiations.
So will the abolition of private property, except for a privileged few. The WEF predicts that by 2030, “You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy.”
Is this what the public really wants? Ditto a ‘cashless society’? Humans have been using cash banknotes and coins for millennia, now we’re told they have to go. The civil liberties repercussions of a cashless society are truly terrifying as they mean anyone can be ‘cut off’ from the system for non-compliance. Eliminate cash, and you eliminate freedom.
Then there are the draconian changes to our lives on the grounds of ‘sustainability’. The Conservatives had pledged to ban the sale of diesel and petrol cars from 2040. But this week, Prime Minister Johnson, again without any public debate, brought the date forward to 2030. Again, where’s the democracy here?
The Great Reset/4IR means that the golden age of travel for ordinary people will be at an end. The WEF has been promoting digital health passes raising the very real prospect that only those who have had Covid-19 vaccines or negative test results would be able to leave their country, or indeed attend a sporting or cultural event.
Combine that with the collapse of the airline industry, the mass closure of all but the most expensive hotels, the end of cheaper petrol-fuelled cars and the advent of ‘smart’ motorways where access can easily be restricted, and most people will be stuck in their homes. But not, of course, Davos Man. Davos Man doesn’t use Easy Jet. Davos Man uses Private Jet. He’ll still be flying to Switzerland to elite conferences where fellow billionaires discuss further how they can use hi-tech methods to restrict the travel of everyone else, to ‘save the planet’.
What life would be like in Britain under the Great Reset was laid out for us in Boris Johnson’s ‘socially distanced’ speech to the Tory Party Conference in October.
It was an oration which could easily have been written by Klaus Schwab. “From internet shopping to working from home, it looks as though Covid has massively accelerated changes in the world of work… as old jobs are lost and as new jobs are created… The Covid crisis is a catalyst for change,” Johnson enthused.
Previous generations were told that the world was their oyster, but under the Great Reset, horizons are much narrower. “Instead of being dragged on big commutes to the city,” people can “start a business in their home town… and bring up their children in the neighbourhoods where they grew up themselves,” Johnson went on. But of course, the elites will still be moving around, it’s just the plebs who will be grounded.
The premise of the Great Reset is that there is absolutely no going back to the lives we enjoyed prior to March 2020. “The people assume we are just going back to the good old world which we had and everything will be normal again in how we are used to normal in the old fashioned. This is, let’s say, fiction, it will not happen, the cut which we have now is much too strong in order not to leave traces,” says Schwab.
Now of course, some people might like the idea of working permanently from home (that’s if they’re lucky enough to have a job), ordering everything they need online (to arrive by drone), having to have a continually updated digitalised health pass to go anywhere, owning nothing and having their biological, physical and digital identities ‘fused’, but shouldn’t they be consulted about it first?
And what about those of us who actually miss the ‘old-fashioned’ normal of mixing freely with people, of paying in cash, of driving petrol-fuelled cars wherever we want to go, and being in crowded pubs? Most of us care about the environment, but are suspicious that, like Covid-19, ‘sustainable development’ has become a Trojan Horse to introduce regressive changes to our lives that most definitely are not to our benefit.
A referendum on the Great Reset/Fourth Industrial Revolution is urgently needed so that the ‘Build Back Better’ brigade can put their case directly to the electorate. If what they are proposing really is so great, then what on earth are they frightened of?
UK plans to charge motorists for every mile they drive to fill £40billion tax hole left by the switch to electric cars
Daily Mail, 16 November 2020
The Climate Assembly UK which has been brought together by the government to drive forward their climate change agenda has just issued a report. The government are now asking people to send in their views via a survey, so why not tell them what you think?
This assembly seem to think we should be eating less meat and buying less new items and recycling old things more. Do you think this is the business of the government?
Share your answers via this online survey You should return your responses by Friday 20th November 2020. Information provided in the survey will be used to inform the select committees’ ongoing work on net zero greenhouse gas emissions.Here is an example of a council squandering large amounts of taxpayers cash in order to make out they are being virtuous about climate change, but in practice achieving very little.
This article points out the utter futility of attempts to cut global warming. We learn that if Biden spends $1.7 trillion it will reduce world temperature by a staggering 0.1 degrees C.
| |||
London, 9 November: The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has today written to the chairman of the Treasury Committee of the House of Commons providing new evidence for their inquiry into the Net Zero target.The letter presents data from windfarm accounts showing that the wind industry has overestimated the technically accessible wind resource around the UK. This new information shows that it will be necessary to introduce greater separation distances between wind turbines and wind farms, at greater costs. This will force a move further away from shore, into much deeper water, and with a higher share of floating turbines, both increasing costs significantly. The letter draws attention to evidence in the audited accounts of Burbo Bank Extension wind farm, recording payments made to another wind farm nearby, in compensation for reduced output caused by so-called “wake effects”. In effect, the Burbo Extension turbines have been taking the wind out of its neighbour’s sails.  Photograph showing the “wake effect” at the Horns Rev off-shore wind farm off the shores of Denmark. Source: Hasager et al. (2013) The new evidence reveals that the industry has overestimated the density at which wind farms can be constructed, even at sea, an error that has serious implications for the Prime Minister’s aspiration for an additional 30 GW of offshore wind by the end of the decade. GWPF director Dr Benny Peiser, said: “Boris Johnson’s utopian wind ‘vision’ for 2030 was always going to be extremely expensive, but it now seems his plans may require spreading the wind turbines over a much bigger area, and in deeper water, with very significant environmental and economic implications. This is unlikely to be feasible, let alone affordable.” Letter to the chairman of the House of Commons Treasury Committee (pdf) Contact Dr Benny Peiser benny.peiser@thegwpf.org |
This piece explains what some extremists are asking the government to do. I can imagine they might just do it, as they are desperate to increase the tax take to recoup all the expenditure on fighting corona virus.
This article explains the extreme measures that are being taken by the Irish government to try and remove a little CO2 from the atmosphere. They are returning farm land to its former bog land state.
When the wind drops and the turbines slow down to a trickle, where will all the electricity to power our homes in the cold winter days that lie ahead? This article looks at this scenario.
Economic growth is bad for the climate, Europe’s Science Academies claim
GWPF, 30 October 2020
This article explains the evidence which the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has submitted to the government. No doubt it will be ignored like all the other evidence that their policy will wreck the economy, because the real damage will come later well after they have left office. They hope that the slow creeping cost increases for energy won't be noticed and they can blame them on something other than their policies, such as the energy companies or world conditions.
This article looks at the simple fact that the temperatures in the Arctic can vary greatly from year to year, as well as the cyclic patterns which operate over decades. It is totally unscientific to cherry-pick starting points or individual years to try to argue that the climate is changing dramatically.
This article explains what is going on in Dubai with respect to energy. With China's help they have decided to build a modern coal-fired power station. They want cheap reliable energy, just like we used to.
This article reports on the latest decision taken by the normally climate change mad institution. Even the EU cannot satisfy the latest demands of the climate extremists.
This article explains how the rush for so-called renewable energy from wood is in fact causing forests to be felled in Africa - not something you will ever hear on the main TV news bulletins which would far sooner take up their time interviewing people on the street to ask their opinions about any subject under the sun.
This article blows the consensus on this issue. You will see that in practice there is no one measurement and so it is impossible to give an accurate average.
Emmanuel Macron reacted furiously to Boris Johnson's claims that trade talks are "over" between the UK and EU. Mr Macron has played hardball in the talks on fisheries, insisting on Thursday that French fishermen would "not be sacrificed" for the sake of a deal.
This piece looks at the hearings for the proposed Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, made by President Trump. It particularly looks at her answers to questions on climate change where she is studiously non-committal, which seems to inflame the climate lobby.
This article looks at the latest pronouncements on the Great Barrier Reef, and compares their findings with those of Prof Peter Ridd who has surveyed the reef with the Australian Institute of Marine Science for the last 35 years and has found that its condition remains broadly the same.
Andrew Montford: How Is Britain’s Most Efficient Windfarm Doing?
GWPF Energy, 14 October 2020
This report explains why. A report so bad that it contradicts its own data.
This piece shows clearly why renewable energy will never be able to give us the reliable energy that we currently take for granted.
This Article was a two page spread in Saturday's Daily Mail. It confirms what has been said for many years, that wind energy is not cheap. No doubt there are many other equally stupid schemes out there. Our energy bills are set to treble in the coming two decades as more and more unreliable and very costly wind farms are added to the grid. When will enough people wake up and demand a change of policy?
This post explains the UK Chancellor's idea. Yet more madness from our Conservative government. Why can't they see through this climate madness and get back to good conservative ideas for lower prices driven by free competition. We are being stifled by state control driven by left-wing ideologues.
Here is an example of the many conferences that go on year after year to preach to the converted and encourage them to carry on trying to control the climate by cutting out CO2 emissions.
This piece looks at the decision by the government to commit the UK to a large increase in wind energy in the next few years. Sadly they have ignored the growing evidence that this decision will prove very costly as well as potentially very unreliable.
This article explains what happened. It seems to be a daft decision as the mine would produce specialised coking coal needed for steel production and unless we are intending to close our steel-making down then we would have to import this coal anyway.
This article refers to the unseasonably cold weather. I know that weather is not the same as climate, but still if the alarmists can use it then why not the realists?
This report explains the huge amount of extra electricity that will be needed to power our motoring needs and the woefully inadequate plans being used to supply it. I don't know about you, but I will be keeping my petrol car for as long as possible. Millions of others will do the same.
This article looks at the significance of the change taking place in the Pacific Ocean. It is too early to predict what will happen, but we know it can have a strong effect.
This piece explains how the public and the government have had to make big changes to their priorities as a result of the pandemic. Clearly the huge, costly and probably futile effort to beat the virus has had a massive effect.
Here is the evidence which shows how cherry-picking the start date can give a completely misleading picture of what is happening, in this case with wild fires in California. What this does is undermine our trust in everything these people do.
Here is a link to the background to this and the opportunity to give the government your views, if you think it is even worth bothering. The idea is to use biomethane to replace some of the naturally occurring methane. It is claimed that this will save 6% of the emissions of CO2 from the heating sector which in turn is about 30% of the UK emissions total. The government claim the levy will only add a small amount of up to £7 per year to gas bills, but is it really worth it to save such a relatively small amount of emissions, particularly when they are planning to phase out methane gas altogether?
This new short video gives a brief overview of why renewable energy is not nearly as green as it is made out to be.
Corona-Induced CO2 Emission Reductions Are Not Yet Detectable In The Atmosphere
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 21 September 2020This article shows exactly why we can have no faith in the official temperature data. Why do the scientists persist with such flawed and unreliable data?
This short video explains what is really happening to USA glaciers. It is a totally different story to the one put out in the media.
This article reveals the reality of so-called green jobs. Yet more disappointment as local businesses are unable to compete with our Chinese counterparts. When will the people wake up and see the reality of the Green Deal. It is just a con!
This article mentions that the UK has once again had to rely on coal power for its electricity generation.
Terry McCrann, The Herald Sun
Back in June, they separately sprung tweet-style to deliriously hail the ‘end of coal’ in the UK.
[Former Aussie PM, Kevin] Rudd tweeted: “For anyone who thinks it cannot be done: the UK has not produced any electricity from coal for the last two months — the longest period since the Industrial Revolution. Let that sink in,” he concluded with all the deadening portentousness he could muster.
But then it got warm, calm, and everyone wanted to use the air con:
..not only did the Brits go back to coal to keep the lights on – and, as they baked in a mid-20s ‘heatwave’, the aircons as well – they really shovelled some coal.
At its peak this week, the UK was getting nearly 3000MW from coal, well more than three times the 800MW or so coming from all the wind turbines, both those that despoil the British landscape and those parked equally hideously offshore.
Where are the headlines: Victorious coal saves the day?
This report using official data, gives us the reassuring news that the USA is experiencing a very slight change of climate which is not at all alarming. Of course there have been examples of extreme weather events, but these have always happened and always will no matter how much we reduce our CO2 output. Of course the media is not interested in publishing such a "dull" outcome with no scary headlines.
This article confirms what we suspected, that smart meters are simply a way to control and ration electricity use. Time for the people to wake up and see the future that our leaders are planning for us.
