Green/Climate

2025-03-03

War requires ice-cold emotionless thinking, accurate and timely military intelligence, and an economy that can support the Forces' needs for munitions and military equipment as and when they need them. Oh, and of course they will need the Forces themselves, trained up and ready to go. 

And where will we get the steadfast national leadership that could lead the nation through such a perilous venture? 

Given the government's track record of sacrificing all of the above in pursuit of the ridiculous UN Green New Deal and the numerous fairy tales that that involves, the chances of this new "peace-keeping" venture holding back a vast well-prepared battle-hardened Russian army with copious supplies of state of the art armaments, look vanishingly small to me.I would go so far as to say that should Russia decide to call our bluff and brush us aside... 

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2025-03-01

With "renewables" leading to ever higher energy costs, nuclear still regarded with some suspicion (and SMRs not yet rolling off the production lines in volume), government-backed mega power-stations seemingly permanently mired in the paralysis of analysis and the perils of politicking, and of course fracking being sent packing, some think that old king coal is poised to make a come-back.

Yes, there are obvious problems with that, but there's problems with everything just now - and just how are all these wonderful new but power-gobbling AI data-centres going to be powered?

"It's a massive coal boom in China ... "

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2025-02-28

What happens when the UN's "Sustainable Development Goals" turn out to be unsustainable in short order?

Read the story of Sri Lanka.

And how our fearless media reported it.

There but for the Grace of God go we all.

2025-02-17

Eugyppius, a German writer on Substack, reviews the Munich Security Conference that "Vice-President" JD Vance addressed last week.

"It’s always dangerous to pick moments from the cacophony of current events and assign them historical significance, but if any singular speech is likely to signal the end of the present political insanity in Europe, it is the one Vance gave in Munich on Thursday"

A fascinating review that majors on pointing up the total hypocrisy (conscious or unconscious) of the European political players, and not merely in Germany.

Not to mention the ever-growing divide between the people and their politicians, something that America has just rectified...

2025-02-06

"The Americans always do the right thing, but only after they have tried everything else"

Well, maybe the re-election of Trump was the right thing (if only when compared with the only other option on offer), or maybe it wasn't, but it seems that Europe is in much the exact same boat. With factories closing left right and centre in Germany, the Germans are grappling with how to resile from their disastrous "green" policies which are decimating their industrial base through lack of affordable power.

Where Germany leads, the rest will follow, because they will have little choice - either their populations will throw them under the bus, or they will be left so far behind that destitution will result.

China, whose workforce is now approaching pay parity with the West, meanwhile must be wondering

2025-02-04

Can AI help us to understand why when politicians meet engineers, the result is not conducive to high standards and best practice?

It seems that it can, although progress may be dependent upon repeated questioning in order to tease out the full reasoning.

And of course, it depends which AI you choose to use. Fortunately, more AIs seem to be sprouting by the day, some with more specialist emphases. Time to dig in and get familiar?

2025-01-22

Tomorrow is the second reading that the Green Blob hopes will send the Climate and Nature Bill speeding its way toward the Statute Book.

So what will it mean for the legendary man on the Clapham Omnibus?

"... Parliament is due to vote on a Private Member’s Bill that could lead to mass starvation, widespread disease and fatalities and the almost certain collapse of civil liberties and society within a few years"

Is that all? And here I was thinking that it might be serious.

"The bill is a thinly-disguised attempt using meaningless climate and nature crisis verbosity to ration and control almost everything that citizens consume"

Well, my parents had to cope with rationing and much else in WW2 (and beyond), and we survived that

2025-01-22

A timely reminder that Davos is still a thing, although whether "of beauty and a joy for ever" may be debatable. 

What tedious extrusions of verbiage must we decode this year? Sadly the event may have been overshadowed by that other show unfolding over in Washington-no-longer-DC (?) that seems to be attracting much global media coverage. Whether the attracted levels of interest are due to the contrasting styles of the chief protagonists, or to the likely success of their respective endeavours, is a question that may be pondered. Time will tell.

See the full timetable here, courtesy of Interest of Justice.

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2025-01-21

Are you a living breathing human being, with family, friends, acquaintances, aspirations, skills, qualifications, life history, health issues, and opinions that have all been hard-come-by?

Or are you a 64-bit sequence of ones and zeroes on a computer database somewhere "in the cloud"?

Would you prefer to deal with another flesh and blood human being, capable of recognising you for what you are, and your circumstances for what they are, or should you just quote your id number to an AI system that has somebody else's values and objectives (not necessarily known to you) built into its code?

"The Open Society, the Gates Foundation, the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, they are in direct control of the UK"

The problems with government are actually many, but the primary problem is that they want to govern.

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2025-01-15

Well, it's certainly an opportune time to review how we got here on a number of fronts, so here is a very useful summary of all the major features of these so far unproven assertions.

"If you still buy into the man-made global warming narrative and are willing to surrender your sovereignty, not just for yourself, but for your family, your community, and your country, to a group of elitist globalists who fear you, then that's truly something"

"If CO₂ were responsible for trapping heat in Earth’s atmosphere, we would see a direct, measurable correlation between CO₂ concentrations and global temperatures. But we don’t"

"The Earth is a self-regulating, closed system. When temperature increases, CO₂ is released from oceans, permafrost, and soil, but it’s the temperature that initiates the release, not the other way around" 

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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

2025-01-14

Shortly to get its second reading in Parliament, this is another Bill to usurp the power of legislation to drive the Climate Change project, removing our essential freedoms, and forcing our obedience to WEF-UN inspired NGOs and assorted other busy-bodies who would compel our compliance "for our safety" - all whilst bypassing the need for further legislation. 

Welcome to the New World Climate Emergency Dictatorship.

It's yet another way to tell us that it's all totally democratic because we voted these numskulls into office, so now we must do as they say.

The fact that whichever main party we voted for at summer 2024 General Election we were going to get a government dominated (by whatever means) by the UN-WEF global bureaucracy is neither here nor there - in practical terms we didn't get the choice.

We had to have a referendum before we could leave the clammy embrace of the EU - I submit that the measures

2025-01-11

Nick Hubble discusses the power sources of the future, and whether the grid will still be providing our power in the future.

Net Zero CO₂ has come to mean net zero power, which would mean a far smaller population able to subsist off its own land. That isn't what we have become accustomed to, nor is it acceptable to the population at large.

So failing the elusive zero-point energy, or the nuclear fusion that we are still being assured is "just around the corner" (as it, like the cure for cancer, has been for around the last 50 years - just bung us a few squillions more dosh and we'll be wheeling it out in no time), how is our power sourcing likely to evolve from here?

2024-12-16

Mark Rutte, the much loved Prime Minister of whom the Dutch have only recently rid themselves, has been appointed to head up NATO (well, there was a vacancy and Mark was available - one can't let senior figures like Mark fend for themselves on the open market).

True to form he is now making waves across NATO with his demand to put the organisation "on a war footing" to deal with the perceived threat from those dastardly Russians. Yes, he's at least five years (probably ten) too late to build the necessary European armaments industry to a size and capability capable of matching the Russians, but like Ed Milliband, he can commandeer as much money as it takes to deal with this existential threat.

"Ukrainians are fighting against Russian swarms of drones. That’s what we need to be prepared for"

But wait - isn't Climate Change also an imminent existential threat?

Doesn't Ed Milliband have priority as the

2024-12-14

I feature this article by James Delingpole, not because he brings anything much new to the (un)popular Bovaer discourse, but because he speaks the truth as might the man on the Clapham omnibus, and handily nails quite a few contemporary idiocies in passing along the ride.

And so say all of us!

2024-12-10

Modelling was in recent times given a bad name by Prof Ferguson of Imperial College, who produced estimates for the impact of Covid so wide of the actualité that they even made mainstream media. 

Mind you, he was only following in the footsteps of the Climate Change zealots of the IPCC, whose predictions were all produced by modelling whatever their climate scientists wanted, resulting in a wide variety of predictions that were usually over and above the climate temperatures / sea levels that actually ensued.

Has the Met Office also caught the modelling bug?

Yes - they have been modelling the weather for a long time.

Are their models accurate? I don't know.

2024-12-02

The Daily Sceptic reviews the tall tales spread by the ever-expanding network of philanthropist-funded NGOs and other assorted "non-profit" (and certainly non-democratic) agencies and special interest groupings 'of the people'.

The UK is steadily being hollowed out to house a subservient population that believes everything they are told, eats what their lords and betters give them, travels only by self-propulsion, and visits only approved destinations such as vaccination centres, abortion clinics, euthanasia parlours, and (if you are lucky enough to have a job) workplaces.

Prepare yourself.

2024-12-01

Mike Yeadon on his Telegram Channel pulls up a couple of interesting articles that go to the heart of the factors that make a scamdemic possible - or in opposition, impossible.

Enjoy!

First up - how they may likely have done it first time around, the 1918 Spanish Flu (and did much the same the Covid time around). At least we were (mostly) spared the spraying of poisonous substances everywhere (unless perhaps we lived in certain parts of China).

Secondly - how to avoid falling for it all. The number one attribute that parents and teachers must develop in our kids to equip them to spot and sidestep these pan-societal illusions with an appropriate degree of nonchalance.

As the immortal

2024-11-29

"... people will have to adjust their habits to meet Net Zero emission goals for 2030"

"After 2030, consider that all beef, lamb and dairy will be banned and 'replaced by new diets' ”

"... there is 'insufficient time for the planning, development and construction of new large-scale infrastructure to contribute to the 2030 target'"

"... wind and solar power creates a problem with intermittency. 'Eventually, this must be addressed by either demand-shifting or storage' " 

For "demand-shifting" read "rationing" or "service outages" or whatever your favoured expression for being 'involuntarily disconnected' / 'priced out' may be.

And the above is

2024-11-23

We have all become inured to the never-ending stream of announcements of climate doom from a vast array of people who hope to sound prestigious but should know better.

It's like an unstoppable river, an ever cascading flood of doomsday predictions designed to put the unwary in so much fear of incoming doom that they will turn to anybody that will proffer a solution (even politicians) no matter how extreme and consequential such solutions may turn out to be.

We are well down that road now, and more or less used to disregarding these emanations as a deluded but inevitable backdrop to daily life - so it is slightly startling to find an article by the apparently eminent Clintel Foundation that unambiguously  

"declares and affirms that the imagined and imaginary “climate emergency” is at an end"

Phew!

This is clearly the end of the era.

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