ANOTHER TAX-PAYER FUNDED PART OF THE CLIMATE BLOB

There is a massive industry which has grown up around the climate change issue. It is costing the UK taxpayer many millions of pounds. Most of it goes unnoticed by the public. Occasionally something comes to the surface like this organisation:  

About Us - Climate Ambition Support Alliance (CASA) (casaclimate.org)

Looking at their website we see their purpose set out as follows:

To increase the capacity and capability of climate-vulnerable country negotiators to engage in international climate negotiations, helping to preserve and enhance the rules-based international system and increase appetite for higher ambition.

Or, in simple terms,  to get third world countries to lower their CO2 emissions and to help them to extract more from the West in return. 

Hat tip to Not a lot of people know that, see here:

More Taxpayer Money Going To The Green Blob | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

NEW SCIENTIST CLIMATE ARTICLE ANALYSIS SHOWS NO NEED TO PANIC

The New Scientist seems to be completely captivated by the climate scare. In this article Dr David Whitehouse analyses their latest article to find some surprising results:

New Scientist: How worried should we be about climate change? - Net Zero Watch

In a New Scientist Climate Special Report senior reporter Michael Le Page asks if climate change is worse than we thought it would be?

It’s first question is: Is the world is warming faster than expected?

In short, the conclusion the article draws is no, it isn’t; 

Next comes the question, are we seeing more extreme weather than predicted?

The jury is still out.” So, scientifically speaking that would be another no.

Then the magazine asks: Are we closer to tipping points than anticipated?

New Scientist says “Yes, we are, though a great deal of uncertainty remains.” In other words, the answer might equally be: No, we aren’t, or We actually don’t know.

Read the full article at the above link.

THE JUST ENERGY TRANSITION PARTNERSHIP (JETP)

 Have you heard of  this? It seems to have received very little publicity. But apparently it involves several Western countries, including the UK providing capital and loans to get foreign countries to agree to end their use of coal. Unsurprisingly the countries are not very keen to give up on cheap energy, as the articles below explain:

Net-zero: Green colonialism backfires | Turbulent Times

Net-zero: dead in the water | Turbulent Times

UK ELECTRICITY PRICE SAGA - ALICE IN WONDERLAND

 Have you ever wondered why our electricity is amongst the most expensive in the world? Well the answer lies in the crazy pricing system which could not be more bizarre if they tried. Read it here from Ross Clark:

Energy prices really are a conspiracy against the public-Ross Clark | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com) 

PAPER STRAWS - ANOTHER ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER!

While plastic straws had their drawbacks, we now find that replacing them is not as easy as was first thought. This is yet another example of rushing to do something without thinking it through. A bit like net zero, though a lot cheaper!

 Paper straws have ‘forever chemicals’ that may be worse for us and the environment than plastic « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

BUY A 40 YEAR OLD CAR TO DODGE ULEZ

This is a tale of unexpected consequences, as Londoners are buying older and higher CO2 emission vehicles which are, ironically, exempt from the ultra low emission zone (ULEZ) charge. As a bonus, these cars are also exempt from road tax. These taxes are driving us into becoming a third world country.  

Sales of old fossil cars are booming in Ultra Low Emission London… « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

HOW SCIENCE IS DONE THESE DAYS

Any serious scientists who wish to write a paper which goes against the hypothesis of man-made warming is finding it is likely to destroy their reputation.

The Climategate leaks showed co-compiler of the HadCRUT global temperature series Dr Phil Jones emailing Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann, July 8, 2004:
"I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin [Trenberth, a colleague] and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

Thanks to a science whistle-blower, there’s now documentation of a current exercise as bad as that captured in the Jones-Mann correspondence. This new and horrid saga – again involving Dr Mann – sets out to deplatform and destroy a peer-endorsed published paper by four Italian scientists. Their paper in European Physical Journal Plus is titled A critical assessment of extreme events trends in times of global warming and documents that extreme weather and related disasters are not generally increasing, contrary to the catastrophists feeding misinformation to the Guardian/ABC axis and other compliant media

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Full story here.

 How Science is Done These Days – Quadrant Online

IS RECENT WEATHER BECOMING MORE EXTREME?

We are being told on a daily basis that our weather is becoming more extreme, but is this born out by the data? Below is an article that disputes this claim: 

Is Weather Really Getting More ‘Extreme?’ - CO2 Coalition

40000 DEATHS FROM DIESEL POLLUTION DEBUNKED

This is a 2017 article, but it gives such a thorough debunking of an oft repeated fake piece of data that I felt it should be included here, in light of the Ultra Low Emissions debate.

 Mortality from Diesel Car Pollution in the UK | Energy Matters (euanmearns.com)

LONDONERS FIGHT BACK AGAINST LOW EMISSION ZONE

It's not only climate extremists that are taking action to support their cause; as you can see below, motorists are also very angry, now they realise the cost of motoring is to rise so dramatically. I am sure there are a few vandals happy to join in to cause mayhem as well. Just imagine how angry the people will become if they are told their gas central heating is going to become obsolete in a few months time! 

 Over 300 “low emission” surveillance cameras stolen or damaged in London since April « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

RELIGIOUS SACRIFICES FROM THE CHURCH OF CLIMATOLOGY

 Here is an interesting article from Spiked Online: 

Net Zero is a neo-pagan religion that is seriously harming people’s liberties and livelihoods.

We look back with bewilderment at the ritual sacrifice of animals by our ancestors. Whether it was the Celtic people’s sacrifice of livestock to appease pissed-off deities or the Ancient Romans’ slaughter of oxen so that Jupiter might be more sparing with his stormy weather, it was all a bit mad. We would never be so superstitious, we tell ourselves. I’m not sure that’s true. Consider the proposed slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cattle in Europe in the holy name of Net Zero. This is the return of pagan lunacy, surely.

Irish farmers are under pressure to ‘cull up to 200,000 cows’ in order that Ireland might meet its ‘climate goals’, reported the Financial Times at the weekend. The Irish government is considering proposals to bump off that amount of cattle over the next three years to help it achieve a 25 per cent reduction in its agricultural emissions. Cows produce methane, you see, and methane is bad. It’s a greenhouse gas. Farming accounts for 40 per cent of Ireland’s greenhouse-gas emissions, so it has become a natural target for the Net Zero zealots. Every EU member state is under pressure to make strides towards Net Zero, and if that entails the sacrifice of livestock, so be it. Save the planet, slaughter the cows.
 
It’s so superstitious. A ‘mooted cow massacre’ to try to offset the angry climatic conditions apparently caused by man? If someone can explain how this is any different to an ancient people’s ritualistic killing of a poor bull in a desperate bid to placate the weather gods, I’d be most grateful. In fact, if anything, the proposed cow-culling in Ireland is worse than the paganistic antics of our ill-educated forebears. At least they were wise enough to offer up only one or two beasts to the gods of thunder – the neo-pagans of the Net Zero cult are offering up whole herds to try to assuage the heatwaves and floods they think furious Mother Earth has in store for us.

And they seem to care little for the consequences of their heathen carbon-offsetting. Irish farmers are seriously worried for their livelihoods. The dairy industry is worth €13 billion a year to the Irish economy. It provides 54,000 jobs. It brought in a staggering €6.8 billion in exports in 2022 alone. What will become of all this fruitful work if cow slaughter in the name of Net Zero takes off? We’re portrayed as ‘climate killers’, complains one Irish farmer. Indeed, eco-activists marched in Dublin with banners saying ‘Meat + dairy = climate crisis’ – a perfect snapshot of out how out-of-touch the urban elites are, who probably never give a second thought to the question of who produced the luscious cream that appears atop the €20 pancakes they scoff for Sunday brunch in a hip Dublin eatery.
 
Full post

UK GOVERNMENT TO OFFER VOTE ON ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES POLICY

 Under plans to reduce new petrol and diesel vehicle sales to zero by 2030 (a so-called “ZEV mandate”), British car makers would from 2024 have to ensure that at least 22 per cent of all their new cars, and 10 per cent of their vans, are electric-powered.

Those manufacturers who fail to hit the target face fines of up to £15,000 per car if they miss the production target and Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch has lobbied for more flexibility on the timetable after complaints from some car firms.

Normally, the statutory instrument used to enact such measures would be passed through Parliament using a “negative” procedure, with little chance for a vote.

But the DfT is planning to use a rare “affirmative” procedure, which would need to be passed by a vote in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The vote would allow rebels to join forces to vote against the plans.

The procedure may be used as a way to allow backbenchers to register a protest, but if the rebellion grows then ministers may pull the whole vote rather than have to rely on Labour votes to get it through.

The 2024 start date for the new vehicles mandate will be followed by a ramping up of production targets to 2030, when no new petrol or diesel cars will allowed to be sold.

So we see, yet again, that the government is getting nervous about the drastic measures which they know would have to be taken to reach the wretched net zero by 2050 target. Most of the public are still blissfully unaware of the costly mayhem that is gradually approaching 

THE INCONVENIENT FACTS THAT GET IGNORED BY THE MEDIA

Amidst all the talk of recent hot weather I have not heard any mention of one possible cause:

Hunga Tonga & Its Role In Rising Global Temperatures ‹ NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT ‹ Reader — WordPress.com

How strange?

NET ZERO: WHAT, WHEN, HOW AND WHO PAYS?

 These are the questions we should all be asking and demanding our political leaders answer. So far we have been given only vague hand-waving style avoidance. To start with what does net zero actually mean? Does it mean we can simply carry on emitting CO2 but pay to have some trees planted somewhere, which seems to be what a lot of companies are doing. Then what about aviation, shipping, and imported goods? Should their CO2 be counted towards our total?

"When" seems to be in 2050, though there are a few targets along the way and as we get nearer to those, people are beginning to realise the full implications. It all seems so easy to say we will accomplish some goal in 5 or 10 years time. Take oil-fired central heating, which is no longer to be fitted beyond 2026; now there is a dawning of the reality and resistance building. This only affects 1.5 million homes. Imagine the enormity of phasing out gas boilers and gas cookers in 20 times as many places. I fully expect this deadline will fail to be met. It is simply inconceivable that it could be, even if the public were all compliant, which they won't be.

This brings us on to "how". How will we muster a large enough workforce of skilled engineers to keep to the schedule? We have failed to even persuade everyone to have a smart meter fitted, and that is a doddle compared with a complete change of central heating system. Then there are gas cookers and gas fires.

Finally there is the biggest question of all - Who pays? In simple terms the answer has to be US, the taxpayers. But a bill running into hundreds of billions of pounds, or maybe trillions, is simply beyond the government to find - on top of the covid rescue, and before that the banking rescue. We are already up to our collective necks in debt. But until they have an answer to that question, we must assume that net zero is just a pipe-dream, albeit a very costly one. For even if it ends in failure we will have invested a huge amount even to get only part of the way.

My final question is - when will the bubble finally burst? Who will be in charge when it becomes beyond doubt that net zero is unachievable and when? There are already some extremists who want us to go even faster, like the "Just Stop Oil" mob. We need strong leadership to resist their lunacy, It is time for a sensible, rational debate.  

THE DEMISE OF GLACIERS AND ICE SHEETS HAS BEEN EXAGGERATED

Read all about how we are being fed exaggerations and lies about the state of our glaciers. Like everything to do with climate it is not simple and certainly not a uniform trend. 

Glaciers And Ice Sheets: Here Today And Here Tomorrow | PA Pundits International (wordpress.com)

UK OFFSHORE WIND LOOKS DEAD

The capital and operating costs of wind power, particularly offshore are still very high. This technology is unattractive and imposes very high system costs when compared to gas generation even at today’s elevated prices. It is completely uneconomic if the gas prices continue to revert to their historic levels. 

UK offshore wind is dead in the water - as predicted - Net Zero Watch

The UK is heading for a very costly energy future which will hold our economy back and increase our whole cost of living. It is self-inflicted damage being carried out with no useful result. It will have no effect on the level of CO2 in the atmosphere and no effect on the climate either here in the UK or in the world as a whole.  

UK PUBLIC SHOW LITTLE INTEREST IN HEAT PUMP GRANTS

Despite the government offering grants of £5000 to "upgrade" their heating system to a heat pump, the take up of the offer has been much lower than they hoped. The second year of the Boiler Upgrade Scheme has seen only 13,766 of the available 90,000 vouchers redeemed. 

The lack of installers and the expenses associated with adequately insulating homes for heat pump readiness have been identified by experts as the primary factors responsible. I would imagine it is not only the cost, but also the major disruption of ripping out and replacing pipe work in every room. This is a massive inconvenience as well as cost. 

The problem for the government is that if they have to force millions of people to replace their heating system they will become very unpopular, which is why they are trying so hard to convince them that climate change is such a danger. Unfortunately they are not winning that argument with the majority remaining sceptical.

Read the details of the scheme here:

 Only 15% of the available Boiler Upgrade Scheme vouchers have been redeemed, Ofgem reveals | Homebuilding

CLIMATE HYPE VERSUS REALITY

Those pushing the climate change scare often claim that the "science" is settled and that no serious scientist disagrees. But, in reality that is far from the truth. Some of the most celebrated scientists have said that they completely disagree with the idea that CO2 emissions control the world's temperature. Fortunately, because of their achievements, these scientists cannot be silenced, though their objections are rarely mentioned in the news. Younger scientists who wish to have a successful career are much easier to control and seldom disagree publicly for very obvious reasons. In the following video the true extent of disagreement is made clear:  

 Climate Fakery Part 17 - NewTube

TIME FOR A DOSE OF REALITY

 Amid the myriad of dire tales of climate Armageddon put out by our TV news reporters, I thought it was time again for a reality check from my favourite climate commentator, Tony Heller. Tony has seen it all before and he has the written records to prove it. Here is a recent short video putting the record straight:

Climate Fakery Part 21 - NewTube 

If you haven't seen his other videos you can see some of them on my Tony Heller page at the top right of the blog.

WILL NEW OIL BOILERS BE BANNED IN THE UK FROM 2026?

 The government is clearly thinking of a ban on all new and replacement oil burning boilers from 2026, but now the date is getting closer they appear to be getting cold feet (just like the folk with no replacement boilers!). A big factor in their consideration will be how to win the next election, so it is likely that this deadline will be deferred. Read the details here:

Plans for oil boiler ban from 2026 dubbed a 'ULEZ' for rural households | Homebuilding  

NATURAL EFFECTS ON THE CLIMATE

With all the media concentrating on "man made climate change" it is easy to overlook the fact that there are huge natural forces at play which can profoundly affect the climate. These forces are far more powerful than the effect of man's CO2 emissions. Here is a link to an interesting lecture on some of them.

James E. Kamis: Geological Impacts on Climate | Tom Nelson Pod #121 - YouTube

WIND POWER - THE BIG LIE

 For years the wind industry have told the public and politicians, incessantly, that wind power is now the cheapest form of generation. In recent weeks, they and their supporters have changed tack, arguing that material price rises and inflation mean that they can no longer make a profit without further subsidies and tax breaks, and that Contract for Difference (CfD) Round 4 developments, such as Hornsea 3, will not come on line unless ministers assent. Industry bodies that have insisted for the last six years that offshore wind can deliver power at less than £50/MWh now expect us to believe that they cannot make a profit. This doesn’t so much strain belief as blow it to smithereens. Market prices have averaged over £130/MWh this year, so even if input prices had doubled, windfarms should still have operating margins of 25%, an extraordinary level of profitability.

Read the whole report here:

Wind-briefing.pdf (netzerowatch.com)

COLD, HEAT, WET OR DRY - IT'S ALL "CLIMATE CHANGE"

 One of the main reasons why the public are so sceptical about the climate change hypothesis is the way any extreme weather is attributed to it. This is  made clear in the following article:

Is Our Cold, Wet Summer Due To Global Warming? | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

BREAKING THE CONSENSUS IN UK

It's starting to crumble:

Conservative voters are starting to push back, with The Times offering details of a YouGov poll which finds that 68 percent of Tory voters are opposed to the 2030 deadline on abolishing the sale of new petrol/diesel vehicles, as against 27 percent in favour.

Even the obsessives in Starmer’s Labour, and in other parties, can’t carry the day: overall, while 42 percent of voters opposed the net-zero plans, only 42 percent backed them.

When confronted with the costs of actually implementing the policy, 55 percent of those polled said that they would be unwilling to accept “additional costs for ordinary people”, while only 27 percent said they would accept extra costs. And this is in the context where none of the politicians (much less the media) are being straight about the real costs.

 Politics: breaking the consensus | Turbulent Times

ANOTHER MET OFFICE FORECAST SEEMS OFF THE MARK

How much can we rely on the Met Office forecasts? The following forecast was made on 19th June during the hot spell here in the UK:

"The Met Office says we can expect the hot weather to continue.

It says there is a 45% chance - significantly higher than usual - that the UK will have what it describes as a "hot summer". The quote is at the end of the BBC article below:

 Climate change: Sudden heat increase in seas around UK and Ireland - BBC News

Since then the UK has experienced cooler than average temperatures with higher than average rainfall.

"HOTTEST MONTH" - NEVER!

In this article we read of top climate scientists calling claims of July being the hottest month ever as "rubbish"! 

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

IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE END?

Interesting thought....

 Is this the week that Net Zero died? - The Post (unherd.com)

BBC CATALOGUE OF DECEPTION OVER CLIMATE

There can only be one reason why the BBC puts out such biased information on climate, and that is because it believes its role is to influence the public, rather than to inform it. They seek to stifle debate rather than to encourage it.  

 BBC still playing fast and loose with climate facts | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

SEA LEVELS WERE 2 TO 6 METERS HIGHER SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

Two new studies have shown this to be the case. The idea that sea levels are rising to unprecedented levels is simply not true as the report below tells us.

 Two More Studies Indicate Mid-Holocene Sea Levels Were 2-6 Meters Higher Than Present (notrickszone.com)

CLIMATE MODELS ARE USELESS - SAYS EXPERT CLIMATE SCIENTIST

Here is yet another scientist coming out to say how useless the climate models are, with much of the world's data being missing until the twentieth century. The whole basis for the very costly policies to reduce CO2 emissions is based on a false basis.

 ANOTHER CLIMATE SCIENTIST WITH IMPECCABLE CREDENTIALS BREAKS RANKS: “OUR MODELS ARE MICKEY-MOUSE MOCKERIES OF THE REAL WORLD” | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

BEWARE THE BEHAVIOURAL INSIGHTS TEAM (BIT)

 The BIT, also known as the Nudge Unit is a body which is tasked by the government to change our behaviour by teaming up with the media to put out articles to get us to follow their preferred actions. 

A report by the BIT in collaboration with Sky TV called "The Power of TV: Nudging Viewers to Decarbonise their Lifestyles" says: "Behavioural change on climate can be driven by TV..... experts now widely accept we must shift the behaviour of millions of people to deliver our collective net zero goals."

There is something rather sinister about the idea of broadcasters plotting to manipulate the public into reaching "our collective goals". Whose goals are they? Why is there no questioning of whether this is in the population's best interests or not? Where are the alternative points of view?

It looks very likely that the BIT is involved in the sudden change in TV weather maps, from pale greens and yellows to vivid reds and deep purples. Even the Foreign Office has now added an "Extreme Weather" section to update the Greece and Spain information, detailing how to stay safe during the heatwave, as though we are travelling to a war zone. 

If the weather was so bad you would not expect anyone to want to to there, and yet despite all this the resorts are packed with tourists, keen to escape from the damp and overcast British weather. 

The BIT have over-reached with their lurid weather maps and their brazen attempt to get us to cancel our summer hols. Rebellion is stirring. People are mocking.

"In Cyprus, we're just about holding our own", report one ironic holiday-maker".

"Locals simply call it summer, but what would they now?" says another pool-side sun-worshiper.

The above article is adapted from a piece by Allison Pearson in the Telegraph for 19th July 2023 

AVERAGE UK TEMPERATURES HAVE NOT INCREASED OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS

The headline has been disputed by someone at news agency Reuters, who have relied on information from the Met Office. The dispute is answered by Paul Homewood as follows:  

“If UK temperatures in the last 20 years were increasing as rapidly as the Met Office suggest, it should be obvious from their own data. Yet according to the Met Office’s State of UK Climate 2022 report, published today, UK temperature between 1998 and 2007 averaged 9.35°C, compared to 9.44°C between 2013 and 2022, a statistically insignificant change.” 

Reuters inaccurate fact check | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Clearly these statistics can be used to show different results depending on how they are used. 

BATTERY BREAKDOWN - BEWARE THE DANGERS!

There is growing concern over the rise in fatalities, injuries and devastating fires from electric bikes (e-bikes) and electric scooters (e-scooters). These are lithium-ion batteries which are widely used in many other devices. Clearly this is a major concern as we move to use more and more battery devices.

Battery breakdown | Electrical Safety First

CLIMATE CHANGE "GOOD FOR BRITAIN"

Read the article, below, giving the views of the man who negotiated the final Brexit deal for the UK to leave the EU. He is highly regarded by Conservative Party members and could even be a future prime minister. Lord Frost has a lot of influence.  

Climate change 'could be good' for Britain: Lord Frost urges Rishi Sunak to ditch 'high cost' green policies as Cabinet rift over net zero grows | Daily Mail Online

GW DATA SO UNCERTAIN THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE RATE OR MAGNITUDE

The compilation of land- and sea-surface [thermometer] uncertainty yield a 1900-2010 global air-temperature record anomaly of 0.86 ± 1.92°C (2 σ), which renders impossible any conclusion regarding the rate or magnitude of climate warming since 1850 or earlier.” – Dr. Patrick Frank (2023)

 New Study: 1900-2010 Global Warming So Uncertain Any Rate Or Magnitude Conclusion ‘Impossible’ (notrickszone.com)

METHANE: NOT A PROBLEM FOR GLOBAL WARMING

While not as pronounced as carbon dioxide’s drop off in heating effect with concentration, the effect is still there such that at the current concentration of 1.9 ppm, each extra 0.1 ppm heats the atmosphere by 0.05°C. With the methane concentration currently rising by 0.1 ppm every 20 years, the atmosphere will get an extra 0.2°C of heating by 2100. 

Methane: Much Ado About Nothing • Watts Up With That?

And yet:

In a remarkable display of ignorance towards the very thing they propose to ‘save’, thirteen nations, including the United States, have entered into a pact that is effectively a death knell to agriculture. They have agreed to stymie food production by closing farms to reduce “methane emissions”, in a bid to combat so-called ‘global warming’.

HEATWAVE CLIMATE PROPAGANDA EXPOSED

Two excellent pieces below expose the rear-mongering coverage by the TV news and weather slots when dealing with the recent hot weather experienced in Europe. I think the public are now getting wise to this and it is being treated as a joke by many, but their laughter will turn to anger when they learn the cost to them of the government's policies which they claim will stop the climate extremes (cue more ironic laughter).

In the video Neil Oliver deals with a number of other issues including COVID and the Ukraine crisis which means less of a focus on the climate propaganda issue which starts 4 minutes in, but his words still ring true. 

 Neil Oliver: Weather maps are among the most blatant forms of fearmongering deployed so far. | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

In this article, link below. Paul  exposes the exaggeration of temperatures used to push the climate change issue.

Record Breaking Heatwave In Europe? | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

DUTCH ELECTION WILL BE A REFERENDUM ON THE GREEN AGENDA

As the climate change policies start to bear down on the people, we are beginning to see a backlash against it, as my recent posts have shown. This looks like coming to a head in Holland in November where they are holding a national election. The people are rallying behind a new political movement started by some farmers.

 The Dutch election will be a referendum on the green agenda - The Post (unherd.com)

WAR ON THE MOTORIST - THE PEOPLE FIGHTING BACK!

Environmental activists are waging war on many fronts including serious attempts to stop motorists having the right to use their cars to go where they please. Below is a link to a very good article explaining what is going on here in the UK. 

The revenge of Britain's motorists - UnHerd

UK OFFSHORE WIND UNECONOMIC AS LATEST PROJECT CANCELLED

If wind power is the future, then the future is looking bleak, or at least very costly for us all. When will our leading politicians wake up to reality, instead of putting their heads in the sand and pretending that we will all get to net zero by 2050 and everything will be fine. 

It's as if the country is suffering from a terminal illness and no one has the courage to say the treatment is not working. However the patient is now beginning to realise, but who can they turn to? 

 UK offshore wind is dead in the water - as predicted - Net Zero Watch

EUROPEAN HEATWAVE EXAGGERATED BY EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA)

This report tells of an extraordinary piece of propaganda. Quite shocking. 

Europe’s “48°C Horror That Never Was”…ESA, Media Sharply Criticized For Manipulative Reporting (notrickszone.com)

More on this here:

Heatwave hysteria - Net Zero Watch

It begs the question - who can we trust?

NEW SCIENTIFIC PAPER SHOWS RAINFALL IS NOT INCREASING IN INTENSITY

 A new satellite study of rainfall suggests that in the last 20 years the intensity of rainfall has mysteriously declined a little in most places. This is despite predictions it would increase, and CO2 itself rising by 41ppm globally during the same period. 

By 2001 humans had cumulatively produced 291,000 Mt of carbon from fossil fuels, and cement production, but by 2020 our total cumulative emissions amounted to 470,000 Mt. (CDIAC data). So from 2001-2020, mankind produced 179,000 Mt of carbon or 38% of all-time homo sapiens emissions. Converting pure carbon to CO2 that means humans have emitted 656,000 Mt of CO2 yet seen either a decline or no trend at all in rainfall intensity.

Global CO2 rose from 371ppm in 2001 all the way to 414ppm in 2020. All the scare stories we are shown daily of floods across the world are simply part of the weather we have always experienced and always will. 

Models wrong again: Looks like Climate Change is making rainfall *less* intense globally « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

UN CLAIMS CLIMATE CHANGE IS CAUSING WORLD HUNGER AS RECORD HARVESTS ARE ANNOUNCED

 London, 15 June - Net Zero Watch has criticised the UN and news media for claiming that 'climate change is pushing millions of people into hunger,' a claim widely reported in the media.

 
A new UN report, “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023”, claims that 122 million more people are facing hunger than in 2019, and that global food insecurity has worsened in recent years due to the pandemic and repeated weather shocks and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine. 
 

 

Whilst Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine have both disrupted food supplies and pushed up energy and food inflation, it is not true that food production is declining because of extreme weather events.
 
Even Pakistan, which was affected by severe flooding last year, has just reported a record harvest.
 

The UN's climate claims are also contradicted by its own data, which shows worldwide food production continuing to climb. New records were set in 2021 for cereal output and the value of agricultural production. Last year recorded the second highest cereal production on record, and this year is now forecast to set yet another new record for wheat.
 

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 7 July 2023

According to the new report's methodology, the UN's claims are not based on actual data at all. Their index for hunger is derived from computer modelling, while their measure for food insecurity is calculated from household surveys.
 
Climate researcher, Paul Homewood, comments:

“The Director of the UN's Food & Agriculture Organisation has remarked that the world's food systems could entirely collapse. This is grossly irresponsible and a complete denial of the remarkable success of the world's agricultural industry.
 
If the UN is concerned about world hunger, maybe they should call a halt to all of the agricultural Net Zero and rewilding projects being undertaken in Europe and elsewhere, all in the name of climate change”
  
The full UN report is here:
https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cc3017en
 
More details and analysis here:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/07/13/war-covid-and-climate-change-push-122-million-more-people-into-hunger-un/

NATURAL DISASTERS ARE NOT INCREASING SAYS RESEARCH BODY THAT RECORDS THEM

 A body which does research and collects data on extreme weather events,The Centre of Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, known as CRED, has just made a statement which tells us what has always been obvious, but was ignored to enable the media to claim that extreme climate events were increasing in number. The statement is set out here in this article: 

CRED Finally Admit There Never Was An Increase In Natural Disasters | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

It is communication technology which is responsible for the reporting of more disasters, not any change in the climate. But I doubt if this statement will put a stop to the endless propaganda. The statement will simply be ignored and buried.

PUBLIC FED UP WITH INCESSANT CLIMATE PROPAGANDA FROM THE BBC

Interesting to compare what the BBC believes to be its top story today and the top ten most read items on their website. Below is what is listed:

Top Stories

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  Extreme heat hits Europe, south-west US and China

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Clearly the public has decided that their top story is not the same as the BBC thinks. I may be wrong, but I think the public are fed up with the incessant propaganda on climate change.  

A SLIGHTLY WARMER CLIMATE IS MUCH BETTER THAN COOLING

 Those who believe we must reverse the trend towards a small warming of our climate should be careful what they wish for. It is simply not possible to control the climate with any precision, even if we tried. The idea that if we were to somehow lower the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere from the present level of around 0.042% to 0.028%(which it was, allegedly, in 1850) that we would end up with a perfect climate, is complete nonsense. There are so many natural variables, some of which we know very little about, which have an equal or greater effect than CO2, that we have no hope whatsoever of controlling the climate. In any case there are so many different climates that a change which might improve one climate would adversely affect others.

Here is a very interesting article which looks at the great benefit of a warming world on humanity over the recent past:

Untold Story of Climate’s Holocene Gift to Humanity - CO2 Coalition 

IS HYDROGEN AVAILABLE UNDER OUR FEET?

Here is an article explaining why this may be the case:

 Limitless ‘white’ hydrogen under our feet may soon shatter all energy assumptions (archive.org)

LIES, DAMNED LIES AND THE MET OFFICE STATISTICS

 Here we go again more fiddling with the UK temperature data, and guess what, it makes the warming much greater than before. Read the details here:

Met Office Doubles Recent U.K. Warming Trend in Just 13 Months, Abolishing 15-Year Flatlining Trend – The Daily Sceptic 

THE CHURCH OF CLIMATOLOGY AND SELF-CENSORSHIP

What lies at the heart of the climate change issue?  At first there was a small group of scientists who put forward a hypothesis that CO2 was going to cause a serious problem of warming. Then this got taken up by a variety of influential politicians and people with a vested interest who promoted it. Very soon the media decided to report it in a one-sided fashion, denying anyone the opportunity to make a reasoned challenge to either the science or the very costly policy of decarbonising the nation.    

We have now reached the point where in many situations people who privately disagree with aspects of the policy decide to keep their views to themselves in order not to lose their job, or chance of promotion, or become an “outcast” in society. Let's be clear, there is massive social pressure to conform.

 Money is at the root of it, as it is with any widespread idea or belief. The climate change phenomenon is much more akin to a religion, whereby the censorship is done voluntarily.

Anything which is forced upon people is only tolerated so long as it is not too uncomfortable. So far the public have not been exposed to much discomfort at all, but the time is rapidly approaching when governments will have to make some very uncomfortable decisions. Certainly by 2030 this will come.

Meanwhile the media are complicit in ramping up the fear as much as they can.

WORLD IS NOT BURNING UP - DON'T FALL FOR THE HYPE

It’s summer, so inevitably some places are hot! But Justin Rowlatt of the BBC wants you to focus on those and ignore all the other places that aren’t.

The full picture tells a totally different story. Across the world as a whole, there is the usual mix of above and below temperatures. The only exception is Antarctica, It is of course winter down under, and temperatures in and around Antarctica are still well below freezing, even though they may be 10C higher than average. So the world is not burning up, it is just another mix of weather. 

Don’t Fall For Justin Rowlatt’s Global Heatwave Con Trick | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

ANOTHER NOBEL PRIZE WINNING SCIENTIST SPEAKS OUT AS A CLIMATE SCEPTIC

There have been a lot of prominent scientists who have spoken out against the idea that we are facing a "climate emergency". Hardly any scientists are household names, but those who have been given the highest honours, such as the Nobel prize deserve to be listened to. In fact, if this were really a debate about science, they would be listened to by our national leaders. You would have thought that the media would also be keen to report the thoughts of such prominent people. The fact that this does not happen should give us all a reason to reflect on why this is so. The answer is that this has now been turned into something very like a religion, where questioning it is forbidden.

Another skeptical Nobel Laureate of Physics — “Climate science has metastasized” « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

USA REPUBLICANS FORCE INSURANCE CARTELS TO STOP HARASSING THEIR CLIENTS

 Important legal battles against insurance cartels trying to force companies to comply with climate change rules are being won. These important legal cases are simply not being reported here in the UK at all.

Global Climate Police Thwarted: US Republican States win against Net Zero Insurance Cartel « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

BEST TO STICK WITH PETROL CARS - I'M WITH MATT RIDLEY

The article below gives the many good reasons why we should not risk buying an EV (electric vehicle) The rush to electric vehicles risks killing our car industry, shackling us to China and bumping up our taxes to reduce global emissions by just 0.044%. It is even possible that we could replace all of Britain’s cars and vans with electric vehicles and still find that carbon dioxide emissions are higher, not lower. Read all the details here:

Why I'll be buying a brand new petrol car just before the 2030 ban, says MATT RIDLEY | Daily Mail Online

 Just as producers need taxpayer subsidies to supply electric cars, consumers need subsidies to buy them. An industry dependent on taxpayer support at both ends of the chain is not sustainable.

Nor can Britain’s electricity infrastructure be adapted easily or quickly to cope with the extra demand implied by the transition — without further subsidies. The whole policy simply does not make sense. The people simply won't buy it, or at least not in the numbers the government is hoping. So what will happen then? Will the government back-track and allow fossil fuel cars to continue? Doubtful, as this will be a massive u-turn and lead to a complete loss of all credibility. So we are on a course leading to disaster with no way out. People will cling on to their old vehicles as long as possible and the car industry in the UK will die. 

GLOBAL TEMPERATURE - A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

 With all the fuss in the media about the global temperature, someone sent me the link below which takes you to a very interesting website which shows measurements of global temperatures calculated by averaging readings from thousands of weather stations around the world. Of course I have no way of verifying the accuracy of these measurements, and I do not know how they are spread across the globe, but they do represent how these measurements have changed since the project began. 

There is no way of accurately measuring the global temperature, as it varies from place to place and minute by minute, so even the best scientists can only measure the change in temperature.

Link: Temperature.Global

CUTTING NATURAL GAS AND OIL PRODUCTION WOULD BE DANGEROUS

There is a huge cost of transitioning away from fossil fuels by 2050 and people are only now beginning to realise this. We need more leaders to speak out now before more extensive damage is done by moving too far too quickly away from the fuel source which has transformed the world into the comfortable and enjoyable place that much of it has become today. 

Look around the world today and the real cause of misery and despair is not the climate, it is either war, or poverty.

Increased demand from China and a cold winter in Europe could push energy prices and bills higher again, and will lead to the cost of living shooting up again. 

Mr Sawan, the boss of Shell,  said an international bidding war for gas last year saw poorer countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh unable to afford liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments that were instead diverted to Northern Europe.

"They took away LNG from those countries and children had to work and study by candlelight," he said. "If we’re going to have a transition it needs to be a just transition that doesn’t just work for one part of the world." 

Oil giant Shell warns cutting production ‘dangerous’ | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com) 

DECEIT AND CORRUPTION OF SCIENCE AT THE HEART OF THE CLIMATE "EMERGENCY"

Tony Heller has done a magnificent job uncovering all this in this video (link below). How can we trust any of this data ever again? Only yesterday the news bulletin claimed that the world's hottest day had been recorded.  Joanne Nova sums up the nonsense behind this in a post showing exactly why it is unbelievable in the post below:

Hottest day “in human history” was cooler than most of the holocene « JoNova (joannenova.com.au) 

Is The Global Temperature Record Credible? - YouTube  (Tony Heller)

NET ZERO PLANS BEGINNING TO CRUMBLE

 As the difference between the policy objective and the actual delivery get wider apart, we begin to see this gulf causing a number of signs of panic show up. 2050 may still seem some way off, but the deadlines for earlier stages, such as the end of petrol and diesel vehicle manufacture are getting much closer. The article below gives a detailed look at this;

Net zero: crumbling | Turbulent Times 

FIFTH HOTTEST EVER JUNE IN UK

 That doesn't quite have the same ring to it, but it is a factually honest statement as shown by this article:

Hottest Evah June! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

What the Met Office conveniently "forgot" was that there is a list of UK temperature data going back much further called the Central England Temperature (CET) record. In that much longer record it can be seen that what happened in June was not a record at all, it was simply an unusual variation in our weather. 

This is yet another attempt at propaganda to convince the uninformed public that the planet is warming at a dramatic rate. It is fortunate that some people still have access to these records, still unaltered by those who wish to wipe out the past, for now. 

TIME TO DITCH NET ZERO

We are rapidly reaching the point where the public will see for themselves the cost of continuing to try and reach net zero CO2 emissions by 2050. Time for the government to look again at all aspects ad change tack. This article gives one reasonable alternative:

 A workable alternative to Net Zero GWPF-launches-workable-alternative-to-net-zero (netzerowatch.com)

CLIMATE MODELS FOUND TO BE SERIOUSLY FLAWED

The world’s climate policies are based on computer simulations of the atmosphere that are thoroughly flawed. That’s the conclusion of a new paper published by Net Zero Watch.

The paper, by US climate writer Willis Eschenbach, describes the results of a review of the computer code inside NASA’s Model E climate simulation. It shows that, far from being based on basic physics, in many places the model incorporates crude corrections to make the output look vaguely reasonable.

 Climate models behind Net Zero policies are 'thoroughly flawed' - Net Zero Watch

"Garbage in - garbage out", as the saying goes.

ANOTHER CLIMATE HYPOCRITE IS CAUGHT OUT

 Another Climate-Savior Alarmist Jetsets To South America – For Two Months Of Vacation! (notrickszone.com)

82% FOSSIL FUELS STILL POWERS THE WORLD

 Despite the green revolution, and record energy use, the world still runs on 82% fossil fuels « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

Total renewables is 7.5% of “Primary Energy” but includes biomass, geothermal, and tidal etc (but not hydro). Stripping away the “other renewables” leaves wind + solar at 6.1%. Wind power now (theoretically) makes 3.75% of total global primary energy. Solar makes 2.4%. This is an incredible statistic that most people would not believe, but it is a fact. There is no way we will reach net zero by 2050. It is simply a non-starter, as these figures show.

EV's MAY CAUSE TWICE AS MANY POTHOLES

 It is not as simple as the climate change doom merchants may think to reduce CO2 emissions by changing to electric vehicles. There are serious questions that need to be answered as explained in this article:

EVs may cause twice as many potholes to save the Planet « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

Apart from anything else we need to consider the massive cost of changing to EV's. There is the huge cost of all the new charging stations and the cost of all the batteries and their eventual disposal. Most of this is glossed over because the public do not think of all this. They will only realise it all when they face the huge costs themselves.

WIND TURBINES COULD POWER NORTH SEA OIL WELL

No, I did not make that headline up. Here is the story: 

UK Rosebank oil field could be powered by wind turbines (offshore-technology.com)