2022-04-21

I am indebted to the Global Warming Policy Foundation for this little newsletter, which reminds us that the climate is not a static entity, and has delivered unwelcome surprises in the relatively (geologically speaking) very recent past.

Namely the Little Ice Age.

As well as being an historically relevant and interesting piece, it demonstrates pretty conclusively that climate changes were nothing to do with burning fossil fuels.

It's enough to make us thankful that we live in comparatively clement times, as well as reminding us that Mother Nature hasn't always been so accommodating.

If it wasn't for all those bossy (and mostly very rich) humans who insist that they and only they know best (so we should all do as we are told), life would be

2022-04-09

Like a scratched record (sorry millenials, before your time) the UN's IPCC keeps replaying the scares of the past with ever increasing desperation.

It won't change the truth, and the truth will out.

CO₂ is not the enemy.

No CO₂ = no plants, no plants = no food. 

More CO₂ = more crops, more food to feed the world's hungry.

We don't need GMO, we need CO₂!

Water is a bigger greenhouse gas than CO₂. How about we get rid of all the water?

Anyway, in case the truth of this still escapes you, the Daily Exposé reviews the latest nonsense from the IPCC.

UK Energy Crisis - Update 5/04/2022

2022-04-03

The climate change alarmists are obviously getting alarmed - is the climate not obeying their models? Did nobody tell the Weather Gods? Or the weather manipulation boffins that some fear are meddling with our meteorology? Were they badly advised?

No matter, following the lead set by the WHO (who are not backward to redefine the term "vaccine" to more accurately reflect their wishes whenever the need arises) the Met Office has evidently decided that heatwaves are not sufficiently profuse and they will now use a different definition.

Of course this is nothing to do with cooking the books, merely a wise precaution in keeping with their ever-vigilant drive for continuous improvement, in this case to ensure that their reports are properly interpreted by the public.

The Daily Sceptic has the

2022-03-27

It's close to crunch time for our energy supplies.

Fortunately spring has sprung and the weather will (bar the usual last hurrah of winter that normally arrives in March/April) now hopefully become warmer. That gives us a six-month break to put together something a bit more robust by way of energy policy.

Net Zero Watch highlights the options, such as remain.

Given the current global geopolitical situation and our government's lamentable lack of competence, I'm not holding my breath.

2022-03-23

Sometimes I think that Dr John Robson of Climate Discussion Nexus does himself no favours by appearing to treat a serious topic with some (deserved) flippancy - after all, if you believe the climate doom-mongers then this won't tempt you to take what he says seriously, and surely he wants to persuade the believers that climate change is not all it's cracked up to be?

Still, if you are in the market for political idiocy and prepared to amuse yourself at the politicos' expense then today's newsletter is a cracker!

Ultimately there may be no substitute for ridicule, and certainly today's world seems richly deserving.

2022-03-13

Does this herald the (eventual) scrapping of the Net Zero agenda?

The Mail Online reports the setting up of a Task Force to invade Russia - no wait, I got that wrong - to boost the UK's energy self-sufficiency and keep energy bills down. It won't come soon enough but it's a start.

The task force's focus will be on oil gas and nuclear. 

Pending the birth of this new elephant, here's an idea - why not make peace with Russia, acknowledge that the "war" is not with the Ukrainians but with the Azov battalions and US bio-labs, accept Putin at his word that he wants self-determination for the Ukraine and offer our assistance to ensure that happens, and open the way to resuming gas supplies from the Russian Federation?

Peace and security all round, by

2022-03-11

We have reported much the same conclusion asserted a year ago by Dr Happer, but it's always good to see independent research which produces supportive results.

Here the Daily Sceptic reports on  "a recent paper from the German physics Professor Dieter Schildknecht from Bielefeld University".

Personally I gravitate towards a comment made beneath that article:

"Unfortunately, not one scientist had the right, and obvious,

2022-03-06

The GWPF (Global Warming Policy Foundation) highlights Sir Iain Duncan-Smith's call for an "honest and open debate on Net Zero".

"politicians have not sufficiently scrutinised the requirements ... they must level with the public about the sacrifices required"

Professor Michael Kelly FRS (report author):

"The scale of this project is, in terms of resource and time, so great that a war footing and a command economy will be essential for its delivery"

I don't recall that being mentioned before, but maybe it's what we will get anyway if we continue to poke the Russian bear over their activities in Ukraine. It strikes me that to attempt both simultaneously might be asking for an insurrection.

Net Zero Planning for Net Zero

2022-02-28

The Daily Sceptic brings us news on rumblings within the Tory party over energy policy.

"Some of the tremors used to justify the moratorium on shale gas exploration in Britain were 'almost imperceptible'" according to the UK regulator. "It should be resumed with 'the vigour of a national war effort', Conservative MPs said last night"

All of which is calculated to improve our trust in neither the regulation of the fracking process, nor in our politicians.

"The 2019 moratorium was announced by Andrea Leadsom, then business secretary, in November of that year “on the basis of the disturbance caused to residents living near Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road site in Lancashire and the 'latest scientific analysis' for the OGA"

"But several other reports, published months later without fanfare on the OGA’s

2022-02-25

Net Zero Watch takes advantage of the situation in Ukraine to emphasise it's thesis that it makes no sense to demonise domestic gas whilst we continue to import LNG from abroad - Russian gas being on the list.

There is a case to be made that the UK has been supporting Russia's military modernisation and now its current adventures in the Ukraine.

Regardless of Russia however, the primary point is that it makes zero sense to close down all possible domestic production whilst continuing to have to import significant quantities of LNG in order to keep the nation warm moving and fed when the wind doesn't blow.

Our energy policy makes Net Zero Sense.

Technocracy News &

2022-02-23

Chris Morrison writing for the Daily Sceptic pulls the plug on the Climate Change hysteria with his latest piece about the "settled science".

"Historically, the claim of consensus is the first refuge of the scoundrel; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming the matter is already settled"

Of course the science is never settled.

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth Horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy" - Hamlet.

Science is progressed by the mavericks that question (and take down and rebuild) "the science", not by the dullards who meekly concur with the "consensus" so beloved of their paymasters.

Albert Einstein seems to agree - "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created

2022-02-19

Only the BBC could invent this?

Climate change: Covid shutdown linked to record rainfall in China

As I recall, super-cooled water vapour remains as a vapour - until it meets a catalyst such as aerosol particles, when it breaths a huge sigh of relief and condenses around them, forming snow particles or water droplets depending on conditions.

It's a bit like a sugar concentrate in water - when the concentration reaches saturation, any disturbance will cause a sudden crystallisation of the sugar, separating it out. 

The same thing happens in a cloud - as warm air rises the pressure drops, the volume expands and the temperature drops, reducing the capacity of the air to dissolve the water vapour. If it was warm enough

2022-02-12

"A Bill to place a duty on the Government to declare a climate emergency; to amend the Climate Change Act 2008 to bring forward the date by which the United Kingdom is required to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions; to place a duty on the Government to create and implement a strategy to achieve objectives related to climate change, including for the creation of environmentally-friendly jobs; to require the Secretary of State to report to Parliament on proposals for increased taxation of large companies to generate revenue to be spent to further those objectives; and for connected purposes. "

Seems to have passed its second reading in the Commons, and is now poised to progress to the Lords.

Keep Calm and Carry On.

Speaking of which - Bring back the Carry On team - Sid James would make an excellent PM, with Kenneth Williams in nbr 11 and Charles

2022-02-10

"Net Zero Watch has called on ministers to overrule the fracking regulator which is trying to terminate any prospect of shale gas developments in the UK"

"Ruling to press ahead with closure described as ‘utter madness’ by Tory MPs who support controversial drilling"

"Net Zero Watch is warning that the government’s approach to the energy crisis remains dangerously incoherent. On the one hand, the Prime Minister is openly calling for increased domestic gas extraction and has brought forward approvals for North Sea developments, while at the same time regulators are preventing lower-cost onshore fields from ever being exploited"

Incoherence from our government? Who would have thought it.

What's the Catch?

2022-02-01

We've reported on this topic before, but it bears repetition - the UK urgently needs to stave off the worst costs of "green" energy levies on our bills.

Net Zero Watch points out that Germany is ahead of us in this.

In support they provide a couple of download documents that make helpful suggestions regarding the short and medium term options that remain available to the UK, should any part of the

2022-01-24

With the ever higher costs associated with "green" wind farms and the ever longer cold windless spell that seems to have been cast of over our benighted Isles this winter, the news that ever-rising energy bills are driving ever-rising fuel poverty seems at last to be penetrating the hallowed halls of government.

Pushing the contractual costs of useless windmills into general taxation will not lighten the overall load on the people but will distribute it away from energy bills and onto everything else - so it's a small gain for some and a general loss all round (unless you happen to own a wind farm or two).

Is there no bad situation that the government cannot make worse through its pernicious meddling?

Still. perhaps, just perhaps, this may be the beginning of the end of the green policy delusions that make no economic sense, no political sense (beyond enabling certain political groups to grandstand their green credentials), and no environmental sense

2022-01-17

Well, we now have 5G in many cities, and 5G in space courtesy of Elon Musk, so where else is there to put it? (and don't say underground!).

"without any publicity, governments, research laboratories, and commercial and military interests were collaborating on plans to create “Smart Oceans” and the 'Internet of Underwater Things' (IoUT)"

"They did not consult the fishes, whales, dolphins, octopuses, and other inhabitants of those depths"

Well, I guess they don't speak the language, so how could they?

"The goal was to enable broadband wireless communication from any point on or in the oceans to anywhere else on the planet or in space"

I suppose that this amounts to a marriage (not for the first time) of extreme cleverness to utmost stupidity. I wonder how long it would be before a pod of orcas would take a dislike to such equipment and