Green/Climate

2025-11-07

OK, I'll keep this short.

We are now many years into the age of climate catastrophes foretold by the sages of yesteryear, yet I'm still wracking my memory hole to find a single prediction that accurately (even sort of) predicted something that then did indeed happen.

Other than COPnn boondoggles of course.

Polar bears are still gambolling in waters too cold to contemplate, New York is still above water (is their latest electoral triumph a wheeze to try to submerge it after all?), and renewables still can't compete with fossil fuels and government-contrived green "support" schemes.

Most such failures can be overlooked but that last one threatens not only our winter comforts but also our nation's prosperity, so we (and the government) overlook it at our peril.

If the person on the

2025-10-26

I used to understand that the UK had the highest electricity prices in Europe, but it's NOT TRUE!

The UK is not in Europe!

That honour goes to Germany, still busy deindustrialising and determinedly destroying nuclear power plants that could have been reopened.

Or not - it's a close-run contest!

Perhaps we could lend them Ed Miliband to assist in their project whilst we reverse course, reopen North Sea exploration and invest in some SMRs before the AI nerds book the next 30 years production?

2025-10-25

This particular Ed has made many promises with regard to the costs and benefits of "renewables" and  how these would lead to a reduction in our power bills.

As our bills have only gone up since then, Roger Arthur notes one or two inconsistencies which some believe pertinent to Ed's future prospects of delivering on those promises.

"it surely makes sense to run those generators continuously, more efficiently and stably, than to continue to heavily subsidise intermittent wind"whilst running the said backup generators, likewise intermittently and inefficiently, on standby... 

Unless of course Ed is deliberately targetting the worst of all worlds...

With even Tony Blair contributing his two-penn'orth, perhaps it's time Ed listened, even ideally

2025-10-22

Freedom good, colonialism bad, right?

Colonialism can take more forms than simple invasion and occupation (possibly even genocide) such as at least one middle eastern country seems to have practised ever since its founding.

But additional forms might be described as concealed colonialism - do as we "suggest" or there may be "consequences". There has been plenty of that over recent centuries.

And a favourite - accept this financial "assistance" / "bail out" and for ever be on the hook for usurious repayments... that cannot ultimately be met without further "bail outs"... and if you stop letting us mine your natural resources then we will call in the loans.

But the latest form is even worse - emotional blackmail at its finest - stop using fuel, or the planet will overheat and we will all die! This is a good wheeze - nobody can prove that it's happening, so nobody can prove that it isn't happening, so to "be

2025-10-15

What should we be using farmland for?

Growing food, or harvesting sunlight for power?

Which would we rather live without?

"Once operational, the site will generate enough renewable electricity for up to 300,000 homes when the sun is shining"

Sounds good. But the sun shines for less than half the day for half the year...

"Opponents object to the destruction of farmland, the “industrialisation” of a quiet rural area and the loss of treasured landscapes"

Sounds bad.

But is it really either/or?

Can't we have food, landscapes, and power like we used to?

Not according to the climate doomsters whose predictions so far (ice-free arctic, NW York under water, no polar bears

2025-10-15

What we See is Not What They Got, because apparently they didn't get diddly squat in the first place.

Have they been taking modelling tuition from Professor Ferguson?

Dr John Robson spills the beans on our very own Met Office.

2025-10-15

Whilst on the topic of the Climate Change project that never changes, and hot on the heels of the latest exercise in rogue green democracy in Hamburg, Dr John Robson brings us up to date with Canada's newer version of Climate Czar Ed Miliband, and potentially a rival for the title of "not only the most useless energy minister of all time but also the most destructive". Mind you, I might be wrong about that as it's one of the most crowded fields of ministerial misgovernance world-wide, and a comprehensive assessment of every candidate is clearly prohibitive.

It would be funny if it were not also tragically serious.

2025-10-14

The Historic Hanseatic port City of Hamburg may be in for a battle.

Apparently its population has just voted for citycide by deindustrialisation.

In their noble quest to expunge production of the gas of life from its environs, and probably entirely oblivious of the fact that absent the production of CO₂ neither beer nor bread will be to be had, they have just voted for oblivion. Probably very happily.

If this is what it takes to convince the masses that Agenda 2050 is a non-starter, then so be it.

Bring it on.

A good day's work chaps.

Just don't mourn the lack of everything when reality seeps unbidden into your world.

2025-10-05

The EU already has recalcitrant Hungary and Slovakia on its hands, so news that another dreadful populist has won a national election (isn't that what elections are for?!), in the Czech Republic, has them scrambling.

Some might unkindly suggest that their thinking is scrambled already, but in that case another election may not make all that much difference.

Sebastian brings us up to date.

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2025-10-01

Well, it's a few days ago now, but Trump's speech at the UN in New York was ... Trumpian. No holds barred, no concessions to the hair-trigger sensibilities of the politicariat, no oblique manoeuvring delicately around the insanity that dares not permit questioning, just the plain truth spoken bluntly, defying anybody that would somehow still contrive to mistake his meaning.

"The primary effect of these brutal green energy policies has not been to help the environment, but to redistribute manufacturing and industrial activity from developed countries that follow the insane rules that are put down, to polluting countries that break the rules and are making a fortune. They’re making a fortune"

Quite so.

And Eugyppius is the practised reporter who well understands the game, having been schooled by the experts in German politics.

2025-09-25

As so often I find myself with too little time to cover the major updates of the day, yet along comes someone who has had a stab at that already.

Fall of the Cabal makes of pretty good fist of the week so far, and keeps us updated with the current progress of Revelation... at least as has been unfurled in America by the Donald.

I doubt much of that will make the mainstream news though... 

2025-09-24

He doesn't care what people think, he cares what they should think.

His wake-up call to the UN makes for easy criticism ("He's deranged!") but hard listening ("are we really doing absolutely everything wrong?").

I didn't sit through it all, but I know somebody that did.

2025-09-18

Two of the most influential characters in their own fields, this has to be an informative 50 minutes.

"... the strategy of the Empire is crafted out of the City of London... "

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2025-09-15

Nigel Farage is "preparing for power" (where have we heard that before?!).

And he has a man to lead that process - Danny Kruger, newly joined from the failing Conservative and Unionist Party.

The video featured today covers this announcement. It was an interesting announcement, although it did little more than set out a few ambiguous hints and tips that may or may not produce fruit in due course.

We on this site don't do party politics, but this is an appropriate occasion for us to draw out a few pertinent points of relevance to the UK political scene.

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2025-09-13

Michael Tellinger is as smart a guy as one might hope to meet - and he tells a fascinating story, and asks an extremely pertinent question:

"What is going on here?"

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2025-09-09

No, really. Liz Truss proved that it can happen to any party that's in office but not in power.

And that observation really sums up the state of play in politics all around the world - nothing is as it seems.

It is however illustrative of the folly of central banking. Not enough money from taxes for the government? So borrow more fake money (newly invented with a few keystrokes) from the Central Bank and repay the loan with interest (from genuine money from the product of the taxes on your labours). Central bankers like this because they make a killing.

Still in trouble? So borrow more fake money (newly invented with a few keystrokes) from a Global Bank like the IMF and repay the loan with interest (from genuine money from the product of your labours, via our obliging government's taxes). Global bankers like it because they make a

2025-09-07

Yes, Tony Blair gets a mention, and of course "Human Rights". In fact, name any prominent left-wing politician of today or yesteryear and he's likely to be connected to the Fabian Society.

If you're on the "Left" but not a Fabian today, then maybe you need to take stock... as you may be a revolutionary Marxist (Fabians like their march to power to be slow and incremental, Marxists like it fast and furious). 

"They are not the best lawyers... "

"It's... a cult that offers the not-very-able an easy access to public life... "

I'm somehow not convinced that this video is going to come out in their favour, but if the above observation is correct, it could go some way to explain the inadequate quality of left-wing MPs, of which the current parliament has a serious over-abundance. That's not to imply of

2025-09-04

Andrew Bridgen, who was perhaps our only conscientious MP in the last Parliament, comments on his experiences in Parliament and outside.

"Every Institution that's there to protect the public interest has failed"

"We don't need reform, we need a radical change in the way that we are governed... we are going to have to have a reckoning for all of this... there'll have to be some very severe punishments given out... that's the only way the public is going to trust any of these institutions again... "

Quite so.

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2025-09-03

No, "Zero Net Zero" isn't the latest thriller documenting some daring SAS adventure, it's the ongoing yawn-a-thon regarding the quest for Net Zero, doomed to play interminably until the UK government finally collapses of its own staggeringly complacent idiocy, or gets taken down by a very cold and exceedingly angry populace.

Net Zero isn't coming any time soon - not whilst we have electricity in the grid anyway.

That's the only conclusion that seems rational, given that Ned Sillyband won't come clean on how and when, but it doesn't rule out that the whole mess will collapse and there won't be any electricity for the likes of you and me to be had from the grid. Not given the governments obsession with setting up innumerable shiny new but power-hungry AI Data Centres. 

Although I don't doubt that even then, we will still be burning fossil fuel somewhere, maybe everywhere that diesel

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