Green/Climate

2024-02-10

Whilst we are on the mundane topic of traffic tribunals...

... we rise up to take a birds-eye view of the likely course of future city interventions, courtesy of Laura Dodsworth.

It's not a vista conducive to wanting to move into the great metropolis of tomorrow in the same way that people moved into the metropolis of my youth - attracted by the bright lights, good times, funky clothing (yes, I did have a pair of flared trousers... though never drainpipes), and the sense of "happening". It was mostly myth of course and it didn't take me long to move away, housing becoming insanely expensive and traffic ridiculous. 

Although that last bit is still true today, the dull compliance with all things rules-and-regulations that is required these days probably doesn't compete with the "happenings" of yesteryear. It is all going in the wrong direction, from bottom-up freedom to top-down one-size-fits-all coercion. Don't enter the hatched area, drive the right

2024-02-09

Have the farmers won?

Has the EU Commission finally met its match?

Where would that leave the UK?

And what is the "Next Big Thing"?

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2024-02-06

"A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater than conventionally grown produce"

They're coming for our cabbage patch!

Patrick Wood (Technocracy News and Trends) reports...

The totally irrational war on carbon is already destroying farmers all over the world because, they say, “the food system generates about 35 percent of total global man-made greenhouse gas emissions.” Now they are claiming that your urban garden is SIX TIMES WORSE! Brace for an all-out effort to ban or limit urban gardens for personal food production. I can already hear the climate crazies chanting, “Eat ze bugs!”

Univ. of Michigan spun this study out of

2024-02-03

Yes you've guessed it - this is another UN initiative to bring more levers of power within its grasp.

Duck dive or weave, there will be no escape if you live on planet Earth.

All for our safety and enjoyment of course.

"... this year’s Summit of the Future... will be held September 22–23 at the United Nations headquarters in New York"

To "take action to safeguard the future for present and coming generations"

"We are at a moment of acute global peril" etc - you get the drift.

Jacob Nordangård comments.

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2024-02-03

Our newspapers and media stations don't report on what they don't see as relevant, but German politics, like seemingly all nations' politics these days, is apparently controlled by the WEF-UN "partnership". It is very similar to British politics, in as much as the political classes are all parroting the Climate Change propaganda as though they unquestioningly believe it. Diversity is good, except for diversity of opinion, and especially diversity of politics.

It's a religion, or perhaps more accurately the biggest cult we have ever encountered, whereby the cult leaders brainwash everybody to believe (and obey) their leadership unquestioningly, and heretics (those who do ask awkward questions) are not tolerated. They have the cheek to call this new form of politics "democracy". "Autocracy" might be closer to the truth.

Germany is the stand-out example of a leadership that brooks no opposition and ...

2024-02-02

"The racket at the heart of wind power is even worse than we thought"

The Nick and Nigel Show delves into the latest revelation from Bloomberg - we pay when the wind blows, we pay for base load power for when it doesn't, we pay when they turn them off because the wind blows too hard or the demand is too low. We assume all the risk, the wind farms assume all the money.

How much? Well, it depends on the assumptions... and guess which party the assumptions turn out to benefit?

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2024-01-31

The penny is dropping, so to speak.

We can fight the climate (and lose!) or fight Mr Putin (and lose). Or of course we can pretend to fight both, but everybody would see through that...  wouldn't they?

War requires energy and in quantity, but "green" doesn't deliver.

And it isn't merely about steel, although that comes into it depending upon whether Mr Putin would allow us time to prepare. 

But why would he? He wouldn't. He strikes me as being very rational, particularly about defending Russia and the Russian Federation. So unless we believe that he is only bluffing about defence (which flies in the face of his track record so far) we would be well advised to negotiate a proper defence understanding with him - you stay out of our back yard (which doesn't include the Ukraine) and we will (for a change) stay out of yours. And allow "mutual" inspection...

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2024-01-31

As the label on Waitrose-reduced items says, this is "too good to waste".

A veritable compendium of modern madness gets the Nick Hubble treatment today.

"The whole net zero pitch is looking so implausible that I increasingly expect it to simply fade away altogether"

and to be honest, I am with him. "Transition" will simply transition imperceptibly into a new meaning - we will be for ever transitioning, burning fossil fuels in the interminable and ultimately hopeless quest for "green", simply because the green mirage will, like all mirages, simply fade further away before ultimately disappearing before we get there

No Such Thing as Green Steel?

2024-01-26

There are so many issues to dissent about these days that it's ridiculous to expect that every dissenting voice is going to agree on all of them.

So to those conspiracy theorists out there who call out other dissenters because they disagree on a specific issue (however important that issue), I suggest that we all bring a level of truth (and awakening) to the specific audience that is most attuned to our own viewpoints, and the audience which is not prepared to listen to our dissent to their particular belief will be catered for by others.

The enemy of progress is indeed the quest for perfection (especially our own idea of perfection!).

So I'm happy to tip the nod to Lawrence Fox for this video, even if we may not agree on all the issues that face us. We do agree on probably the majority, and the rest will come in God's good time as everybody

2024-01-24

London is attracting attention from the Canadians, who have noted a new way for UK citizens to keep warm this winter.

Our governments' serial inability to manifest anything without prodigious and ever-rising expenditure always (unless Big Pharma stand to make the biggest "killing" of all time) delivered after ever more delays and cost extensions, doesn't imply that that which they manifest will actually work. 

Indeed, the green revolution could have been designed not to work, and is now being shown all across Europe not to work as coal plants are being fired up across the continent (a humiliation the UK only avoided by demolishing most of them ahead of time) in a rearguard action to avoid widespread deaths from freezing.

Still, we in the UK are preserved by the Gulf Stream, which usually ensures that temperatures don't fall very much below freezing - unlike Canada where 30 degrees below is the winter norm.

2024-01-23

In response to the farmers' protests and the success of the AfD, the German government has mobilised their own response - counter-protests!

As an an example of double-think it surely takes the biscuit, amounting as it does to "let's take to the streets to defend our democracy against the opposition party that has too much support and will wreck our democracy".

"Failure to support ruinous government policies is thus by definition contrary to democracy and ought to be illegal"

So only the governing party is to be considered democratic? The rest are all wreckers and populist upstarts? If nothing else it should enable savings on the costs of running elections...

Just to make sure the press are also playing their part:

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2024-01-22

I doubt that any visitor to this site is willing to sit through all the speeches at WEF Davos, boring as they deliberately are, so here, courtesy of the ever-reliable Sky News Australia, is a brief rundown of the highlights.

Enjoy!

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2024-01-19

I guess this is a topic in which a large number of motorists will have an interest - if not today, then tomorrow!

With "Low Emission" zones proliferating like the proverbial rabbits, there cannot be many who will never run foul of some restriction or other - even when well signed, it can be well-nigh impossible to scan all the street furniture, identify all the signs, then read and understand them, whilst simultaneously taking care to avoid rear-ending the vehicle in front.

So Martin, having been picked out for driving his (not commercial) van in an area where only private cars are permitted free passage, has decided to contest the claimed infraction on the basis that his van is a private conveyance in all significant respects and is therefore permitted free passage.

Of course, as he digs deeper he uncovers more issues... which seem as if they may have parallels with the Council Tax situation. Quelle surprise!

Ever Wondered How Much CO2 is Released by War?

2024-01-15

In compliance with our policy of encouraging our readers to do their own thinking, we turn our attention today to Tartaria, a region encompassed today by modern-day Russia.

Who were the Tartarians, did they migrate all around the world, constructing magnificent buildings that worked in ways unimaginable to us today? What happened to them?

I don't know the answers, but we do know that much of Tsarist Russia was destroyed by the Bolsheviks, with considerable loss of life.

Much within this video seems plausible to me, but I have no firm opinion. Certainly it may be thought far-fetched, but after the last few years I have learned not to discount on that criterion alone...

Make of it what you will.

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2024-01-10

From the Ministerial Foreword by the Rt Hon Steve Barclay:

"I have learnt that farming is fundamental to the UK’s rural economy, the environment and of course our food security"

"... I am setting out the biggest upgrade to farming schemes since the UK has had the freedom to design our own schemes"

We voted "Leave" in 2016.

The original Agricultural Transition Plan was published in 2020.

By comparison, Covid struck in January-ish 2020, the Coronavirus Act 2020 (348 pages) had received the Royal Assent by July 2020. 

"... we need to see universal adoption of farming regulatory standards and at least 70% of farmers

2024-01-08

The UK 100 aims to co-opt local councils into the WEF's Climate Agenda, and has much success in so doing - even councils that didn't officially sign up do seem to be besotted with the green agenda.

However, not all of these councils have been scrupulously open about this involvement, and I doubt that any of them actually campaigned for election on how this membership would drive them to change the lives of their constituents. 

UK Column discuss these goings on with Ben Pile, with particular reference to the effective bypass of our democratic system. 

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2024-01-01

And it may be best if you make sure you aren't driving it when it dies...

Zerohedge reports on a winter driving experience that the author probably wished he hadn't had, but it highlights the quite simple primary reasons why EVs as currently powered by battery simply aren't a very workable idea, unless you just want to use it as a local runabout. Even then, can you afford a new battery when the original battery dies?

There was much talk originally of swapping batteries in and out at service stations, which would solve some of these problems at a stroke and seems to be being adopted in China's EV market (although I don't remember just now where I read that). But western manufacturers never adopted that solution, which seems somewhat perverse, although the problems of swapping multiple physical battery sizes at service stations would quickly become impracticable should more than one size be involved.

Maybe EVs are a solution in search of a problem? It