2025-01-14
Well, it turns out that British weather in British winters can be quite varied. Some years the thermometer hardly dips to zero, let alone below it, and other years the weather gods send us glacial temperatures for days, even weeks on end, amidst flat calm wind conditions such as have been prevalent this winter.
And strange to say, the sun also is at its lowest ebb, the winter days are short and the nights long, and moonlight and starlight fire up no solar panels just as wind turbines hang listless for want of a gust. Naturally this comes as a surprise to many in government, who despite being told of these realities until the tellers are blue in the face (and not just from cold), they have had their attention fixed inexorably on the UN-WEF/IPCC models which perhaps have not actually modelled the variability of the British climate in particular, with sufficient precision.
After Professor Ferguson's models (of Covid pandemic infamy) one is tempted to say that we are surprised at the level of blind faith that still permeates government circles about the reliability of modelling by politically dominated scientists, but alas that would be untrue, as we know that one of the primary traits of government is that those in power cannot question their own orthodoxy, and therefore we must wait for the problem to become so unmanageably huge that everybody else in the land can see it and suffer from it, and only then we can turf them out at the next general election (there has to be a better way!).
Meanwhile, the Daily Sceptic tells it like it is. Apparently even our antipodean cousins know that wind and solar alone cannot power Britain. Who would have thought it?
