Green/Climate

2024-11-22

Are renewables sinking beneath the waves of new unpredictable threats?

Does Ed Milliband have a solution? Could we afford it?

And what does this mean for the security of subsea internet connectors? 

If the power goes and the internet goes, then modern life may become impossible in short order.

Fortune and Freedom reports...  (NB - this is not financial advice)

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2024-11-20

Baku, Azerbaijan hosts the COP29 meeting of the great and the good, although possibly not (according to our source) the brightest and the best.

Still, it's important for the Project that the man on the Clapham omnibus shouldn't feel too obliged to actually understand what goes on at such gatherings, because then he might get the impression that it's all a rather incompetent and ineffective snouts-in-the-trough kind of jamboree, and that would risk being counter-productive; so Baku being a long way away with no convenient transport links to Clapham is probably an ideal location for the venue, especially when we factor in the language problems.

Unhappily for the Project, doughty Canadian Dr John Robson took up the challenge of (a) actually getting there (all the way from Canada!) and (b) reviewing the turgid nonsense on display for our education, amusement, and downright horror that so much could be expended on achieving so little. That man deserves a medal.

Brave New Weather?

2024-11-13

Bev Turner provides a round-up of the current state of play in the ongoing war of minds between those who would centralise control over the minutiae of our lives at the global level, and those of us who believe that one-size-fits-all at that level means the death of  individual inspiration and aspiration.

Make of it what you will...

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2024-11-12

It's an old joke, and of course the answer is:

"when we see his lips move"

Of course it's not as simple as that...

... or is it?

II have to confess that on all the major issues of our day, it seems that both the politicians and the "free" press (mainstream) have consistently "been mistaken" and determinedly continue to "be mistaken".

It's your view that counts.

2024-10-30

It's hard to argue with Neil, so I won't.

Yes, we've heard it all before, but this is as close to throwing his toys out of the pram that I have seen our normally serene and civilised Neil approach.

"The legal definition of genocide is the committing of acts with the intention to destroy a people"

But is Ed Miliband stupid? (Is he even real?)

See what you think.

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2024-10-30

Dr John Robson does a splendid job of entertaining us all with perfectly simple, logical expositions illustrating just how idiotic the climate change policies are.

He's been doing it for years and yes, it's an easy target... perhaps too easy if you ask me.

You don't have to think very hard to understand the inconsistencies, and we've all had many years to get to grips with the obvious flaws in the logic. Yes, I know that some people will never "get it", but eventually the majority will "get it".

So what was the purpose behind it? Why bother to foist such a vast scam on the public for so many years that we've all become inured to it?

Is it simply to drive us all bonkers by the unrelenting idiocy being so capably presented by our politicians, to the point where maybe we feel obliged to riot in

2024-10-29

One might believe that the World Bank would have enough bean counters to keep track of its expenditures...

... but maybe one might be wrong about the involvement of bean-counters.

Given that climate finance has been a largely political hot potato seemingly since time immemorial, perhaps after all it's no surprise that politicians have taken their eye off the ball, but is the World Bank controlled by politicians or by bankers?

Bankers one might suppose to be well-versed in the ways of auditing, so it's a bit of a surprise to note this Oxfam report  that uncovers such a gaping hole in the World Bank's climate disbursements.

(But are Oxfam not supposed to be countering famine rather than counting expenditure designed to reduce CO₂ emissions? Are they yet another outfit that has been somehow distracted from their founding purpose?).

Clearly there is

2024-10-17

A mainstream UK politician in the running for party leader:

"... legally binding carbon budgets would have to be done away with"

Oh my! How long have we waited for this statement of the obvious?

To be frank, it's never been clear who would be sent to jail when inevitably the legal targets are not met, so the whole business of legally enforceable  targets always was a theatrical pantomime - but then parliament has been a pantomime for a long time now, and especially since the infamous Brexit referendum.

Welcome this straw of good sense whilst it lasts.

2024-10-16

Dr John Robson of Climate Discussion Nexus interviews Dr Judith Curry, providing a reasonably wide-ranging discussion which inevitably focuses on the complete lack of common sense in our political circles, both national and global.

Yet still the unanswered question remains - at what point do we stop attributing the global insanity to mere incompetence, and start to seriously consider whether other factors may be a better fit to the observed situation? 

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2024-10-07

Well, maybe it's not such a daft question after all... some have already suffered such a fate, although in that particular instance the problem was reportedly caused by natural causes rather than human activity. I doubt that was of much consolation to the people affected.

The Daily Sceptic reports.

2024-10-03

A dollop of long overdue logic from Nick Hubble of Fortune and Freedom to blow the clouds of obfuscation away from our "green" but flaky energy future.

What are the practicable solutions for our seemingly intractable national electricity supply problems?

Well, local electricity generation, obviously.

Take it out of the hands of national government and free ourselves of their ridiculous dogma, their oft-demonstrated ability to screw up large scale infrastructure projects, and their total disconnection from real-world engineering reality.

Read all about it.

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2024-09-22

"Word Salad" in general means a collection of imposing-sounding words which communicate no sensible message.

Certainly no precise coherent message.

The art of the word salad has been refined over many years by that putative global fascist dictatorship known as the New World Order.

It's a long and carefully executed attempt to bamboozle the world population into accepting their pronouncements without argument, because... well, how do you argue with an interminable pile of nonsense?

The people pushing it always have more labyrinths of nonsense to send you around!

The pile simply has to be rejected in toto.

Happily I am spared the need to dive in and demonstrate the meaninglessness of the pile of garbage because the inimitable Ivor Cummins has done the demolition job already.

Net Zero Unaffordable? Not to Government ...

2024-09-06

Well, some think that the much-hyped "renewables" will never be clean enough - and it's not just the natural environment that will suffer either, but also a problem of potentially "pandemic" proportions... well, I'll let Nick Hubble explain:

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2024-09-04

Another blast of reality to disperse the miasma of fear uncertainty and doubt about Climate Change, from the ever evidence-based John Robson.

Full report here.

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2024-08-31

May the Lord be praised, the government is reported to be asking National Grid for advice on how they can support the Net Zero religious cult's objectives.

With not long to go before the 2030 deadline, will they ensure that the "Fourth Turning" becomes an extinction event, or will they listen to the advice proffered and adjust Net Zero expectations accordingly? (No prizes for guessing the correct answer) 

Go on, you know you want to!

(NB: this is not a party political article taking aim at the current governing party. We regard all the parties as equivalently compromised in their support for "Net

2024-08-31

"Green" hydrogen? Hydrogen is hydrogen isn't it? "Green" simply indicates the method of production, usually by electrolysis, the splitting of water into its constituents hydrogen and oxygen.

So wind farms can be used to generate electricity when the wind blows (but not too hard!) and the power can be stored as hydrogen gas. Sounds pretty simple really, so where is all this additional CO₂ supposed to come from?

Well, perhaps it's not actually CO₂ that's the problem here...

And lest we forget, even if we in the UK do miraculously achieve "Net Zero" (whatever that is and by whatever astronomical cost in economic and human survival terms it might be achieved) by 2050, it won't make a measurable difference to global temperatures even on the IPCC's highly dubious

2024-08-29

"Biomass" (or "wood" to you and me) Is essentially the product of chopping down trees, and drying and pulping and pelleting them (using energy in the process).

The resulting nuggets / pellets / however you want to describe them are then shipped across oceans (using more energy) and burned in power stations such as Drax in Yorkshire (creating as much CO₂ as from fossil fuel).

How is this more sustainable than just burning coal (or better yet gas or oil since these can be transported by pipeline whereas coal needs to be shipped like wood pellets)?

We might as well have created the same amount of CO₂ from burning fossil fuels and left the trees alone to remove it, saving everybody much expense! 

And are we really replanting and regrowing the "biomass" sufficiently fast to replace the "biomass" that we are burning away? Is anybody checking, or are the loggers just coining it? And if

2024-08-20

Jacob in Q&A mode reviews the history of the global elite's scheme to rule the world.

A useful and accessible discourse that shows how their obsession with world control has been advanced at the highest levels in the most boring way possible, probably in order to evade the scrutiny of the rest of humanity. Well, that's my interpretation anyway.

There can't be too many people by now who haven't heard of the Rockefellers, the Club of Rome, the Trilateral Commission, the Atlantic Council, the Committee of 300, the Bilderberg Group, the World Economic Forum etc etc...  the list is intentionally extensive and irrelevantly but portentously named in order to discourage casual investigation.

Nevertheless there exist heroic sleuths who have penetrated the turgid prose of their never-ending reports to unearth their true agenda, now with us in the form of the equally uninformatively-named UN Agendas 2050 / 2030.