Sunday 17 March 2024

THE CLIMATE SCIENCE BIG LIE

A South Korean professor of environmental science speaks out in a country where to do so is rare and takes great courage. As more senior scientists break cover it allows others to question the proposition that the "science is settled".   

“The climate-crisis big lie serves to resurrect socialism” - Clintel

Saturday 16 March 2024

ONE OF THE WORLD'S TOP SCIENTISTS SIGNS THE "CLIMATE SCEPTIC" DECLARATION

One thousand nine hundred scientists have signed the World Climate Declaration, which says that the current claim that CO2 is causing catastrophic climate change due to global warming is false. Of course the mere number of signatories does not "prove" anything, other than there is a serious body of opinion which disagrees with the claim. However, there are some people who deserve to be listened to more than others due to their high level of achievement and the latest signatory clearly comes into that category. Patrick Baeuerle is not well known to the general public, but I was blown away by the list of achievements listed in the article below:

 Patrick Baeuerle is signatory nr. 1900 of World Climate Declaration - Clintel

I am honoured to find myself agreeing with someone who has such a brilliant mind.

Friday 15 March 2024

THE COST OF DECARBONISING STARTS TO UNRAVEL

Although I do not expect the country to reach net zero for the reasons stated in previous posts, we will nevertheless spend a great deal of money in trying to get there. In doing so we will miss out on a number of other important measures we could have done instead which would have made a big difference to the lives of many of us. Below is a link to an interesting debate in the House of Lords which looked at the heat pump policy and its cost implications.

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"My Lords, the Minister kindly referred to the social housing decarbonisation fund, but there are something like 2.7 million homes owned by the social housing sector, with a projected cost of £36 billion to decarbonise them. Does he recognise that the fund is far too small to deliver that, and if so, what extra support will be made available to housing associations for them to achieve this for their poorer tenants?" 

Even that estimate of £36 billion seems extremely low as it only works out at £13,300 per house, whereas other estimates Are much higher at around £25,000 per house.  But look at the huge sum to be spent on heat pumps and other measures to achieve net zero and then think about what this means for the future housing provision for those who need it. This vast sum will not be spent on building new homes. Instead it will all go to save a tiny bit of CO2 emissions with nothing to show for it.

 Heat Pumps - Hansard - UK Parliament

Thursday 14 March 2024

NET ZERO IS DEAD

Yesterday I pointed out that the Prime Minister has at last realised that net zero would not be possible. In this article that same point I made has been made by Gordon Hughes writing in the Daily Telegraph. See below: 

Net Zero is dead. Only the fanatics haven’t realised it | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Wednesday 13 March 2024

PRIME MINISTER FINALLY STARTS TO REALISE THAT NET ZERO WON'T WORK

"Mr Sunak, writing in the Daily Telegraph, said new gas power stations were needed to have a reliable and affordable back-up for days when renewables like wind and solar did not deliver." 

But he can't yet admit publicly that this means net zero is not achievable, so he then goes on to say, "It is the insurance policy Britain needs to protect our energy security, while we deliver our net zero transition." Read the BBC report here: 

New gas power plants needed to bolster energy supply, PM says - BBC News

Tuesday 12 March 2024

TREES AND WILD LIFE DESTROYED TO MAKE WAY FOR WIND FARM

"Work has started on the clearing of up to 120,000 trees in the forest, the setting for many of the Brothers Grimm mythical stories, to provide access for an initial 18 giant wind turbines around the Sababurg ‘Sleeping Beauty’ castle. Who is opposing this massive destruction of the ancient forest teeming with wildlife with trees over 200 years old? Certainly not the Green party, now in power at national and local level ". 

It's ironic that they are destroying the very thing they want to save.

Germany Begins Felling 120,000 Trees From 'Fairy Tale' Forest to Make Way for Wind Turbines – The Daily Sceptic 

Monday 11 March 2024

CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITTEE TRY TO COVER UP MISTAKE IN ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT

 Climate chief told staff to ‘kill’ negative net zero story | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Chris Stark,The head of the Government’s climate watchdog, the Climate Change Committee (CCC),  told officials to “kill” a negative news story with “technical language”, The Telegraph can disclose

The article reported a claim by Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith, who led a recent Royal Society study on future energy supply, that the CCC had privately admitted that it made a “mistake” when it only “looked at a single year” of data showing the number of windy days in a year when it made pronouncements on the extent to which the UK could rely on wind and solar. farms to meet net zero targets.

In a presentation delivered on Oct 31 2023, Sir Chris said: “By looking at one year you underestimate storage and you grossly overestimate the need for everything else. That’s exactly what the Committee on Climate Change have done.”

He added: “The Committee on Climate Change, as I already said, looked at a single year and they have conceded privately that that was a mistake. But they are still saying they don’t differ that much from us. Well, that’s not quite true.”

Sunday 10 March 2024

MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD

Anyone who is a denier of the existence of the medieval warm period should read all the evidence at the following link:

 Medieval Warm Period (notrickszone.com)

Friday 8 March 2024

THE ROLE OF UNDERSEA VOLCANOES IN WARMING OF THE SURFACE

 Not one research paper regarding ‘Climate Change’ ever written to this day includes that 50% contribution to global warming coming from the Earth’s core. 100 % of all papers written to date describe the effects of the Sun and Solar Radiation as being the only source of energy. How will that effect our long-term calculations considering this one dramatic alteration to statistical analysis? And how will this one enormous fact change our views of climate change?

axial-sea-mount.pdf (carbon-sense.com)

Thursday 7 March 2024

ECO-TERRORISM BEING "NORMALISED BY WESTERN INSTITUTIONS

 A young girl in a hoodie draws a knife, kneels beside an SUV, and slashes two of its tires.  She slaps a paper on the windshield -- "Why I sabotaged your property."

This is the opening scene of a movie you can stream right now on Hulu, or rent from Amazon, called "How To Blow Up a Pipeline." It is adapted from a book by the same name.Here's the book blurb on Amazon:In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel extraction to stop--with our actions, with our bodies, and by defusing and destroying its tools. We need, in short, to start blowing up some oil pipelines."We have to show how vulnerable the oil industry is by hitting something big, like a refinery," says the hoodie-girl (looking to move up from slashing tires), "what do you know about Texas?"  What do you know about building a bomb?" her friend replies.  Next scene they're wiring a bomb.What better way to normalize eco-terrorism than invite us to follow along and identify with an appealing PC cast of multicultural young people as they attack our nation's infrastructure?Watch CFACT's Marc Morano explain on Fox that government officials are lining up in favor of eco-terror, which has even entered the curriculum at universities. “This is coming not from just some lone nut like the author of the book “How to Blow Up a Pipeline”; this is coming from NPR, Bloomberg, and the New York Times.  It’s coming from NASA. In 2010, NASA’s lead global warming scientist endorsed a different book that called for ridding the world of industrial civilization.  He literally said they should essentially be blowing up dams.  James Hansen, the former NASA scientist in endorsing this book said the author has it right, the system is the problem… This is nothing short of eco-porn in the form of hard core terrorism.""If the American empire calls us terrorists," the movie bomb-maker says, "than we are doing something right."Who will be held accountable when an impressionable young person watches this anti-American call to violence and translates their sick fantasies into action?

Tuesday 5 March 2024

NET ZERO POLICY IS PUTTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AT RISK

It seems so obvious that I cannot believe our political leadership has not realised the threat to our national security. Either that, or they have realised and are prepared to take the risk.

The Port Talbot closure harshly exposes the costs of luxury ‘green’ beliefs. We cannot be dependent on imports for the full range of necessary steels to rebuild our arsenals – the Navy first and foremost – and, most ridiculously, we cannot depend for them on our global antagonists.

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rmore, our armed forces are wholly dependent on oil to keep them in the field, and our electricity grid will collapse without gas. Any attempt to abandon them will leave us entirely at the mercy of hostile powers.

Net Zero an urgent threat to national security (netzerowatch.com)

Monday 4 March 2024

RAPID ICE MELT DISCOVERED IN THE RECENT PAST

Those who claim our modern climate is changing faster than at any time in the past will be shocked to read this study:

 The Elevation Of The Early Holocene’s W. Antarctic Ice Sheet Once Plunged 480 Meters In 200 Years (notrickszone.com)

"New research published in Nature Geoscience (Grieman et al., 2024) assesses the elevation of West Antarctica’s ice sheet fell by ~480 m within just 200 years from about 8,000 to 8,200 years ago, a drop of more than 2 meters per year.

The scientists also document an ice area retreat of 270 kilometers at the study site within only 400 years, from ~7,300-7,700 years ago. That’s an area retreat rate of about 675 meters per year."

Sunday 3 March 2024

Saturday 2 March 2024

MORE BAD THERMOMETER DATA

The only evidence for actual warming of the Earth's surface comes from temperature measurements and yet when the actual position of the thermometers is examined it is often found to be seriously badly sited and so the measurements themselves are unreliable. In this video this is again discovered in the USA.

 Record Bad Thermometer Data (youtube.com)

Friday 1 March 2024

MET OFFICE TEMPERATURE STATIONS DECLARED TO BE VIRTUALLY USELESS

 A large majority of the UK Met Office temperature measuring stations have been graded as practically useless according to a Freedom of Information answer. Over 29% were in the lowest classification possible, meaning that measurements could vary by as much as 5 degrees Celsius. Another 48% could be out by 2 degrees. And yet the Met Office claim that records have been broken by as little as 0.1 degrees. It is completely scandalous and yet the mainstream media will be likely to completely ignore this and the vast majority of the public will carry on being duped.

Read it all here:

Met Office Temperature Network Is Junk | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)  

Thursday 29 February 2024

NET ZERO IS A WAR ON THE WORKING CLASS

  James Woudhuysen: Net Zero is a war on the working class

Spiked, 27 February 2024
 
We are sleepwalking towards a social and economic catastrophe.
 
It’s official. Net Zero will make us poorer. A new report finds that the British government’s climate-change policies are likely to ‘make the poor poorer, and push struggling communities further into deprivation and exclusion’.
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Our Journey to Net Zero, by the Institute for Community Studies (ICS), shows that the transition to Net Zero will cause a rise in unemployment, as carbon-intensive industries are forcibly restructured. Food will become more expensive. And the eco-friendly changes we’ll all be forced to make, such as insulating our homes or switching to electric cars, will be extremely difficult ’for low-income households’. The ICS concludes that the poorest 40 per cent of households are at risk of falling into ‘transition poverty’.
 
As shocking as this statistic is, the report is no rant. A team of researchers from ICS, Trinity College Dublin, and the universities of Leeds and York have thoroughly reviewed the policy changes and instruments – subsidies, taxation and so on – most likely to prove effective in reducing emissions of CO2. And they have concluded that these Net Zero measures will push down living standards for a lot of people in the UK.
 
Essentially, the general effect of Net Zero is similar to that of regressive taxation. Just as a tax that is the same for everyone will most hurt those who earn the least, Net Zero policies mete out more pain to those who are least well-off. This won’t just affect the very poorest though. As the ICS warns, even ‘middle-income households that were not previously experiencing financial precarity’ might struggle.
 
The report also highlights the other depredations brought about by Net Zero. For instance, the added cost and difficulty of car travel will reduce people’s leisure opportunities.
 
The report certainly pulls no punches about the downsides of Net Zero. But it does not challenge the green transition itself. It instead calls for a ‘just’ transition to ease the socio-economic pain caused – a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.
 
Full post

Wednesday 28 February 2024

CHINA WAY OFF TRACK TO MEET EMISSION TARGETS

“Another year of rapidly rising emissions in 2023 leaves China way off track against its target of cutting carbon intensity by 18 per cent between 2021 and 2025,” said Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). “As a result, carbon dioxide emissions would now need to fall by 4 to 6 per cent by 2025 to hit the goal.” 

So the rulers of the West buy their transformers, solar panels and wind turbines from The Coal Giant, while pretending they sincerely want to reduce coal use. And the populace buy their cheap t-shirts, lemon squeezers and avocado-slicers (and their fridges and freezers).  And no one in polite society suggests sanctions or boycotts. (No one suggests “checking the science” either). Everyone wants their cheap stuff. 

The whole thing seems to be a giant charade, except that we are facing a cut in living standards to attempt to reach net zero.

 China built 47GW of coal power last year and is “way off track” to meet emissions targets « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)


Tuesday 27 February 2024

REGULATED TO DEATH IN THE CAUSE OF NET ZERO

 Small manufacturers forced to answer 300 questions on net zero | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Net zero and all that goes with it is causing pain for thousands of small businesses as the article linked above testifies. These extra burdens are causing headaches and costs which must either be passed on in increased prices for consumers or reduce business profits, causing many to become uneconomic. Time for a re-think.

Monday 26 February 2024

Sunday 25 February 2024

EU THREAT TO SCRAP VEHICLES OVER 15 YEARS OLD

 Here's another example of how the slavish policy to reach net zero may lead to draconian new laws that will make us all poorer. 

Will a new EU directive stop us repairing old cars? (youtube.com)

Saturday 24 February 2024

THE TRUTH ABOUT ARCTIC ICE AND POLAR BEARS

One of the most prominent campaigning icons to attract attention to the "climate change" issue is the plight of polar bears, and yet on close examination all the stories of these bears being wiped out are completely wrong, as can be seen when the facts are shown. This is examined in detail in this excellent new video by Paul Burgess which can be viewed here:

A Serious Case of Polar Bear Denial (youtube.com)

Friday 23 February 2024

TIME FOR A RE-THINK BEFORE WIPE-OUT

We could put restrictions and tariffs on Chinese solar panels, or electric vehicles, but how can we do that when we have legally mandated targets to increase the share of alternative energies and motor vehicles?

The price tag is already fearfully high, and we have miserably failed to build up the capacity to make our own equipment at competitive prices. If given a choice between net zero and economic success, our politicians are disturbingly clear which takes precedence.

It’s the same story throughout the economy. We have allowed energy prices to soar, planned to close down our own offshore oil fields, and held back the growth in fracking even as it has delivered economic booms in North America.

We have ignored the fact that these choices are putting companies out of business – and are allowing Chinese rivals with far lower power costs to trample all over European businesses.

The harsh truth is that China has weaponised net zero, and turned it into a way of seizing industrial leadership. America is responding, admittedly perhaps too late, and with too much state control. But Europe and the UK have been left floundering, and their industry is about to get wiped out. Read it all here:

 Europe faces industrial wipe-out | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Thursday 22 February 2024

GOVERNMENT BEING SUED IN THE HIGH COURT BY CLIMATE ACTIVIST GROUPS

As 2050 draws nearer we are going to find that the green activist groups, supported by vast sums of money from wealthy backers will be trying to force the government to take more and more drastic measures to get to the mythical net zero. Having done the "easy" measures first which have not impinged directly on the bulk of people's lives, they are now facing the things which will cause real hardship and real resistance will develop. This ongoing court case is the most recent example:   

'A damning indictment': Lord Deben intervenes in High Court legal challenge against government climate plans | BusinessGreen News

It will be interesting (though painful) to see how this plays out. If the activists win their case, which is quite likely, how will the government respond. If they bring in more draconian laws curbing the freedom of the public, bringing forward large taxes on popular activities, they know they will become very unpopular. The only other way is for the government to amend or repeal the Climate Change Act. I think this latter course is, ultimately, the only way forward.

Wednesday 21 February 2024

TWO WINDFARMS SHARE OVER £80 MILLION TO SWITCH OFF

These massive sums being paid to windfarms are rising year on year as the grid becomes more unstable. You might think this would set alarm bells ringing among government ministers, but apparently not. Short term thinking seems to over shadow common sense.

 Two windfarms share £80 million to switch off (netzerowatch.com)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

MAKING MONEY FROM A SOLAR/BATTERY SYSTEM

The dependence on intermittent forms of electricity has opened up a new market for short term supplies to top up the shortfall. Diesel generators are one type, but they are obviously not the preferred choice so a new type is to use a system consisting of an array of solar panels which charge up a bank of batteries. They can command a high price for the electricity which makes it a good investment. This is another reason why renewables will inevitably lead to highly priced electricity.

 Battery Energy Storage Systems | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Monday 19 February 2024

CLIMATE MODEL FAILURES LEAD TO COMPLETE LOSS OF CONFIDENCE

Day after day we are being bombarded with claims that the climate is at a tipping point and that things are much worse than we thought etc. This is at complete odds with the reality as shown here: 

Scientists: Nearly 4 Decades Of Climate Model Failure Undermines Confidence In Future Predictions (notrickszone.com)

Saturday 17 February 2024

CLIMATE CONTROL ATTEMPTS BY BIG BANKS STARTS TO CRACK UP

Most people have no idea what is going on behind the scenes in terms of the pressure being applied to businesses by huge banking conglomerates acting together. Read the post below and see for yourself the extraordinary power of these enormous cabals. It is all to do with power and money, but, make no mistake, it is costing ordinary people a massive amount in reduced pensions and increase prices. Thank goodness there are political leaders in many USA states who are prepared to fight these undemocratic institutions

 ESG comes undone — BlackRock, JP Morgan abandon “Climate Action 100+” « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

Friday 16 February 2024

POLAR BEAR CLIMATE PROPAGANDA REBUTTED

Here is a good piece by Dr Susan Crockford, the polar bear expert, who lifts the lid on the way climate activists use the old "polar bears are dying because of climate change" story: 

Activists just can’t stop using emotional blackmail to sell the climate change narrative | polarbearscience

Thursday 15 February 2024

METEOROLOGIST CAUGHT OUT GIVING OUT MISLEADING INFORMATION ON THE BBC

Is it any wonder that the public believe that storms are becoming more intense, even though the official Met Office information says this is not true. 


London, 13 February – The UK Met Office has been accused of seriously misleading the public about climate-driven storms in the UK.

 
On 22nd January, the day after Storm Isha, a senior meteorologist from the Met Office stated on BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast that “when we see these storms they are more intense and that’s down to climate change”.

More intense storms down to climate change, meteorologist says

Putting Isha into context, a senior meteorologist from the Met Office has explained that the "more intense" storms the UK is experiencing are caused by climate change.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast, Claire Nasir said: "In 2023, we began on a rainfall deficit and had two intense heatwaves, yet the UK saw the 11th wettest year on record."

She explained this shift between extremes in weather patterns in the UK would continue in the future.


However, after being challenged through a FOI request to provide evidence for the claim that storms have become more intense, the Met Office was forced to admit they have no such evidence. 
 
In its response, the Met Office also referred to its own UK Storm activity report which clearly states that “there is no compelling trend in maximum gust speeds recorded in the UK since 1969.”
 
We call on the Met Office to publish a full retraction of what is evidently a false and misleading claim.
 
Notes for editors 
 
Met Office: Recent trends and future projections of UK storm activity: “This report found that there is no compelling trend in maximum gust speeds recorded in the UK since 1969, measured as the number of days more than 20 weather stations recorded gust speeds above 40, 50 or 60 knots.” 
 
Met Office: State of the UK Climate 2022 (page 47):  “Storm Eunice [in 2022] was the most severe storm to affect England and Wales since February 2014, but even so, these storms of the 1980s and 1990s were very much more severe.” 
 
Paul Homewood: Met Office cannot provide evidence for “more intense storms” claim
 
Contact
 
Dr Benny Peiser,
Director, Global Warming Policy Foundation

Wednesday 14 February 2024

CHINA BUILT 96% OF COAL PLANTS IN 2023

I thought the Chinese were building a lot, but that is a staggering figure, because India is also building a lot too. It makes the UK efforts to decarbonise at great cost to our prosperity seem like a drop in the ocean. 

 China Was Responsible for 96% of Coal Plants Constructed in 2023 | OilPrice.com

Tuesday 13 February 2024

Monday 12 February 2024

CLIMATE DATA CORRUPTION STILL CONTINUES

Take a look at this new video from Tony Heller which explains how USA data is altered to turn a cooling trend into a warming one. 

Climate Data Corruption Business (Part 2) | Real Climate Science

Sunday 11 February 2024

METHANE IS IRRELEVANT TO GLOBAL WARMING - SCIENTIFIC PAPER PROVES IT

The next big change that governments are already trying to bring in is to drastically reduce the number of livestock on our farms under the pretext of the false claim that these animals are causing global warming due to their farts emitting methane. This is going to be devastating and will have no effect according to the latest scientific research, which is being ignored. 

Below is a link to an excellent lecture hosted by the Irish Climate Science Foundation on Sept 21, 2022. In the lecture Dr Sheahen focuses on the work of Professors Will Happer and William van Wijngaarden in their pioneering work in calculating the real-world Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) of the five most common Green-House Gases (GHGs). He emphasizes how their calculations have now been precisely verified by satellite measurements, thus validating their research. These results verify the actual low GWPs of these GHGs, and, in particular, of the irrelevance of the impact of Methane on climate. The results have profound implications, particularly for agriculturally based economies like those of Ireland and New Zealand. He will conclude that there is no scientific basis for regressive agricultural policy; on the contrary, global food scarcity should dictate its further development. Here is the link:

“Methane – The Irrelevant Green-House Gas” Dr Thomas P Sheahen (youtube.com)

Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen holds BS and PhD degrees in physics from MIT. Dr. Sheahen is author of the textbook, “Introduction to High Temperature Superconductivity.” He has authored numerous papers on topics including infrared Fourier spectroscopy for rocket re-entry instrumentation, and harsh industrial instrumentation. His work includes analysis of measurement economics, research program plans, industrial energy conservation and renewable energy technology.

Saturday 10 February 2024

EXTREME WEATHER IS NOT GETTING WORSE

In short:

  • There are no long term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity
  • Hurricanes are not becoming more intense
  • There was a marked decline in hurricane frequency during the 1970s and 80s, partly due to natural variability (AMO*) and maybe also due to reduced pollution.
  • Since 1990, hurricane frequency has returned levels prior to that period of decline.
  • *Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation
  • Read the details here:

 The Truth Comes Back To Haunt Bob Ward! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Friday 9 February 2024

MARK STEYN LOSES HIS CASE AGAINST MANN

This is a sad day for freedom of speech and also a bad day for justice.

 Jury finds in favor of Michael Mann in defamation lawsuit against Mark Steyn, Rand Simberg – Watts Up With That?

The Hockey Stick graph has been thoroughly debunked and yet a Washington DC jury chose to find in favour of Mann. We will have to wait and see what happens next.

ARE BIG OIL COMPANIES LEARNING THAT OIL AND GAS MAKE MORE MONEY THAN RENEWABLES?

That would seem to be the case when reading this article:

 BP lost $1b in wind power and just flipped from cutting oil by 40% to increasing it « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

It would appear that despite all the hype over renewables, there is still a big future for the traditional fossil fuels. Shareholders have had enough and expect companies to boost their profits instead of moving into a risky new market. Of course these companies will not make money by operating in countries with a hostile tax regime and unreliable, expensive electricity.

Thursday 8 February 2024

MANN V STEYN COMING TO AN END

 Some call this the Trial of the Century, yet it has received no publicity in the mainstream media here in the UK. What is at stake is the right to freedom of speech, but also the validity of the much lauded Hockey Stick graph which denied the existence of the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period. Aside from these important items there is also the character of the climate scientist, Mann, which has come under the spotlight throughout the trial. Key passages of the trial have been re-enacted and can be freely accessed at the link here:

Climate Change on Trial on Apple Podcasts

It makes fascinating listening. The verdict may come in the next day or two.

Wednesday 7 February 2024

CLIMATE CHANGE LINK TO MODERN SLAVERY

 That is what I was told in an email sent to me recently. It seems such a ridiculous idea that I read the accompanying blurb to see how they made the connection and who was behind this. Who turned out to be Nottingham University Geography Department along with Nottingham Rights Lab. Here is a brief piece from their press release:

"Changing environmental conditions and slow onset events, such as drought, and rapid-onset events , such as earthquakes, can cause long-term displacement or long-term migration, which can heighten the risk of vulnerabilities that could be exploited."

Clearly people are made more vulnerable when faced with crises like these, but since when were earthquakes caused by the climate? Migration is definitely on the increase, but this is being fueled by many factors much more powerful than a change in climate. War must be by far the biggest, and then there is the fact that the world is so much more connected by the internet and mobile phones. Most migrants simply want a better life and who can blame them for that? Linking this with climate change looks like a way to increase publicity.

Just to prove I am not making this up, here is the link for anyone interested:

News - Combined action on climate change and modern slavery presents new opportunities, research finds - University of Nottingham 

Tuesday 6 February 2024

NAMING HEATWAVES - THE LATEST GIMMICK FROM MPs

Those who are pushing the climate agenda are always looking for new ways to try and convince a sceptical public that the weather is getting much more extreme. So they are now suggesting that spells of hot weather should be given names to make them stand out more. They will probably try and find the scariest names they can find. I can't wait to see the choices!

 Could UK heatwaves be given names this summer? - BBC Weather

Monday 5 February 2024

RENEWABLE ELECTRIC DEALS DON'T ADD UP

Readers of this blog may recall an earlier post about REGOs (climate science: REGOs - WHAT ARE THEY?) A lot of large companies are very keen to demonstrate their green credentials, as explained in the article below:

Amazon’s Deal With Moray West Wind Farm Baffles Silly Telegraph Reporter | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

The problem with all this, as I explained earlier, is that there is only a certain amount of green electricity to go round, so all this virtue-signalling comes at a price. Companies like Amazon who use vast amounts of electricity for their computers are naturally keen to grow and so consume more and more electricity, thus depriving the home-owners and small businesses of their share. Of course many of them are not bothered whether their electricity is green or not. What we are all discovering is that our electricity is getting more and more expensive, and that is a concern to all of us. 

Sunday 4 February 2024

WEATHER WAS JUST AS WARM IN JANUARY 50 YEARS AGO

What we are being told , is that the weather today is somehow dramatically different to that of the past, but any look at the past weather shows that the weather has always had times when there has been unseasonably hot or cold weather.

 Germany’s “Spring in Winter” Lasted Weeks, Reached 15°C In January 1974! – Watts Up With That?

Friday 2 February 2024

Wednesday 31 January 2024

MORE JOB LOSSES TO NET ZERO - WHO IS NEXT?

 Grangemouth oil refinery could cease operations by 2025 - BBC News

There are only a few oil refineries left in the UK. The biggest is right near me in Fawley. As the cost of energy goes on increasing, how long before they all go the way of Grangemouth and we become dependent on imported oil products?


Sunday 28 January 2024

WHY WOULD THE MET OFFICE HIDE GOOD NEWS ABOUT INCREASED SUNSHINE?

 According to the Met Office, UK mean temperatures have been on the rise since about 1980. But during the exact same period sunshine hours have also been steadily rising. In a paper they published in 2006, the Met Office admitted there was not just a connection, but temperatures and sunshine were in fact strongly correlated. The paper, Climate Memorandum No 21, was an analysis of all climate trends. It has since disappeared from the Met Office website, but is fortunately still saved on Wayback:

Rising Temperatures, Sunshine Hours & The Clean Air Acts | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com

It seems strange that the Met Office would remove a scientific paper from their website which is so important and relevant to one of the most contentious issues facing us today, except that it does not fit with the prevailing theme which is that CO2 is responsible for all the warming. Hiding evidence that does not support this contention is dishonest and begs the question - what else may be being hidden from us ?

Saturday 27 January 2024

DID FIGUERES REALLY SAY THIS?

The link below reveals a statement made by Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change which makes sense when you realise the very damaging effect of the policy of net zero. What is surprising is that she feels so emboldened that she would make such a statement publicly. The fact that she did should be a wake up call for those who have, so far, been convinced that net zero is all about "saving the planet from a climate emergency."  

U.N. Official Reveals Real Reason Behind Warming Scare | Investor's Business Daily (investors.com)

Friday 26 January 2024

Thursday 25 January 2024

THE "TRIAL OF THE CENTURY"

The title of this post refers to the case of Michael Mann, the scientist who produced the infamous Hockey-stick graph which denied the existence of the Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age, etc. and Mark Steyn, a journalist who 12 years ago wrote an article in which he basically said that Mann's graph was fraudulent in the strongest of terms, whence Mann sued Steyn for defamation. Now after 12 years of delay the case has finally come to court. You can keep up with the trial on Mark Steyn's website. Here are links:

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury :: SteynOnline   

Week Two Begins :: SteynOnline

After 12 years of frustration, Mark Steyn’s brave battle for freedom of speech reaches court today - The Conservative Woman

On the surface it seems that Mark has coped really well with all the pressure that he must be under. I gather he is representing himself in court, which is a very brave thing to do, although it should save him considerable costs and he is a very witty and confident speaker. 

Mann has already sued another person for defaming him, scientist Tim Ball, and lost! Sadly Tim Ball has died and Mann has disobeyed the court by failing to pay Ball's costs. This time I hope to see Mann get what he deserves. It will be interesting to see if the case gets any major publicity here in the UK. 

Wednesday 24 January 2024

UK ELECTRICITY GRID WOES HOLDING UP GROWTH

The articles below explain the problems the drive to net zero is causing the UK. This is before any large take up of heat pumps or electric vehicles has even started. The government claims that renewables will provide a reliable and cheap source of energy, but the evidence does not look good.   

New homes may be delayed by power grid capacity - BBC News

Renewable energy projects worth billions stuck on hold - BBC News

Grid Capacity Issues Threaten Net Zero | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Tuesday 23 January 2024

EXTREME COLD WEATHER KEEPS THE ALARMISTS QUIET FOR NOW!

Another good piece by Richard North packed with cold records all over the place. It's funny how silent the media are on reporting these weather events, compared with the vast coverage of any floods, droughts or wildfires. 

 Climate change: winter belong to us | Turbulent Times

Monday 22 January 2024

NET ZERO PLAN BASED ON JUST ONE YEAR'S DATA

Here is an astonishing finding which brings home to us all just how foolish our governing establishment is. The decision to go to net zero carbon dioxide emissions was taken on the strength of just one year's climate data. It is now clear that Parliament authorised Net Zero without any proper assessment. The public have been grossly misled, but where is the media scrutiny. There is no debate, no open discussion of what is going on. I suspect the government will wait until there is strong push-back from the public, as has happened in Europe.  

 Climate chiefs admitted net zero plan based on insufficient data, leading physicist says | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Sunday 21 January 2024

NET ZERO CLAIMS THOUSANDS OF JOBS

The government would have us believe that achieving net zero can be done without causing major problems. As we see the reality, I doubt that many will believe this in future. Not only will thousands of jobs be lost, but the UK will no longer be able to make new steel. Instead we will have to import it from countries which are likely to emit just as much CO2 as we would have done had we made it ourselves. So the planet saves zero CO2, but the UK can claim to be nearer to net zero.  

Tata steel: What do plans mean for UK's carbon footprint - BBC News

Saturday 20 January 2024

EVs SUFFER UNSUSTAINABLE DEPRECIATION

Surely this will spell disaster for the electric vehicle market. It is clearly down to the battery being so costly and having a limited life. Why would anyone buy a more expensive vehicle with such a limited life? 

Electric cars suffer ‘unsustainable’ depreciation in second hand market | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Friday 19 January 2024

"HOTTEST YEAR ON RECORD" CLAIMS EXAMINED IN DETAIL

This article shows the actual data that was used to make the claim of the "hottest year ever". When you look at it you realise just how insignificant this claim actually is. We are led to believe that the world is warming as one and that this is a relentless process, but in reality the world is divided into a number of regions which are all warming at quite different rates. The difference between 2023 and the second hottest average year which was 2016 is only 0.15 degrees C.   

2023 “Earth’s Hottest Year on Record” Claims Fail – Watts Up With That?

Paul Burgess has a new video explaining this very clearly. Here is the link:

R I P Hottest Year Ever (youtube.com)

Thursday 18 January 2024

CAN WE RELY ON THE CLIMATE TEMPERATURE DATA?

This new video by Paul Burgess expands on the discussion on his most recent appearance on GB News. It contains some very interesting information, also featuring some clips from Tony Heller. The section on how the temperature data is manipulated by the various weather agencies. 

A sad crazy day - Paul Burgess Nana Akua Show 13th January 2024 GBnews (youtube.com)

Wednesday 17 January 2024

TEXAS GRID ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE

Here is a lesson for those who believe that a grid reliant on wind and solar energy can cope when the wind drops away during cold spells. It is a situation that is becoming more and more likely as the gas generators are shut down. You cannot run a reliable grid without fossil fuel back-up.   

The Texas power grid is on the verge of another fatal collapse. Green energy is absent | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Tuesday 16 January 2024

HERE IS WHAT THE IPCC TELL US ABOUT EXTREME WEATHER

When the TV news tell us that extreme weather is getting much worse due to "climate change" or "global warming", most people may think "it must be true", even though they don't feel it themselves. The link below shows a table from the IPCC report itself (not the Summary for Policymakers).  You may be surprised to see that, as can be seen from the chart, there is no evidence of any increase or decrease, globally or by region, in the frequency, severity or extent of frost, mean precipitation, river floods, heavy precipitation and pluvial floods, landslides, aridity, hydrological drought, agricultural or ecological drought, fire weather or wildfires, mean wind speed, severe wind storms or tornados, tropical cyclones or hurricanes, sand and dust storms, snow glacial or ice sheets, heavy snowfall and ice storms, hail, snow avalanche, relative sea levels, coastal floods, coastal erosion, marine heatwaves, ocean acidity, air pollution weather or radiation at earth’s surface. 

Extreme Weather Assessment by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC) • Watts Up With That?

Monday 15 January 2024

DRAX POWER STATION - A MODERN TALE OF WASTE AND FOOLISHNESS

The drive to reduce emissions of CO2 is now causing extraordinary decisions to be made. One glaring example is in the use of biomass to replace coal in the Drax power station in Yorkshire. The video below explains the details, highlighting the enormous costs and subsidies paid out in order to reach the mythical net zero. These costs are inevitably driving up the price of our electricity, and hence the cost of almost everything we produce here in the UK. Finally let's remember that the whole of the UK is alleged to produce less than 1% of the world's emissions, meaning that these huge costs are having no effect on either the temperature or the climate of the world. 

Drax A Black Hole For Your Money - YouTube

Sunday 14 January 2024

GERMANY IN THE GRIP OF MASSIVE NET ZERO PROTESTS

It's amazing what the BBC and ITV news don't tell us. But they surely won't be able to continue to censor the people from the mass protests against net zero policies for much longer. 

 Net Zero uproar in Germany — mass Farmer protests spread to other workers and other countries… « JoNova (joannenova.com.au)

Saturday 13 January 2024

WIND SUBSIDIES HIT A NEW HIGH

Some people think that wind turbines will produce cheap electricity, but as the article below shows, this is simply wishful thinking on a grand scale. In fact because of subsidies, wind farms rake in the money whether the wind blows or not; their price is guaranteed. It is reliable back-up generators, such as gas and nuclear, which have to pay for this market volatility, and in turn pass this cost on to the consumer, causing us to have expensive and less reliable electricity. 

December 2023 CfD Subsidies | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)

Friday 12 January 2024

NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING SCIENTIST EXPLAINS WHY THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS

 John Clauser is a retired experimental and theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2022 for his work in Quantum Mechanics. 

On June 26, Clauser stated, “I don’t believe there is a climate crisis.” Clauser went on to amplify his view in a lecture on November 14, 2023 by stating “The planet is not imperiled.” He recognizes the work of Will Happer, Arthur Robinson, Willie Soon, Fred Singer, Richard Lindzen, Judith Curry, and many others. He also cited the work of a growing list of advocacy groups including the Heartland Institute, the Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change, Access to Energy, the CO2 Coalition, Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, and Clintel’s World Climate Declaration.

As with Atomic, Molcular and Optical (AMO) physicists William van Wijngaarden and William Happer, Clauser recognizes that clouds – which no one understands – are a critical part of the puzzle of Earth’s climate change. It is foolish to ignore this lack of understanding. According to Clauser, the cloud-sunlight relationship stabilizes Earth’s temperatures and is dominant over CO2. Clouds are highly variable and reflect up to 90% of the sunlight hitting them, while oceans reflect only about 20%. Overall, our planet reflects about 30% of the sunlight out into space. Clauser asks, “What does the earth look like when viewed from space in sunlight? Negligible ice is evident in near-equatorial satellite views (areas that the sun typically illuminates). Painting rooftops white is a waste. Clouds cover 60% to 65% of the land and about 70% of the oceans. Clauser then explores how his cloud-sunlight-reflectivity thermostat mechanism works. He compares his views with those of the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [and equally to its followers such as NOAA and the National Science Foundation which finance the US global modeling efforts at Princeton and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)].

Even though the IPCC shows a heat balance diagram for all skies, its numbers are for clear skies, but not for overcast skies. This is deceptive. Further, according to Clauser, NOAA has demonstrated dishonesty on climate, extreme weather events, particularly in the work of NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco and Tom Karl who provide “An important example of what I call a government-sponsored technical con.” He cites former DOE Under Secretary for Science Steve Koonin’s book Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters in giving examples how NOAA has doctored data to make claims of increasing extreme weather events. One example is EF3+ data suddenly disappeared from NOAA’S Weather and Climate Extremes Index, presumably because these devastating tornadoes are declining. EF is the extended Fujitsu scale for grading tornadoes, where level 3 or higher is considered severe.

Clauser concludes by saying that something is seriously missing in the physics reported by the IPCC (and now in the physics reported by the US National Climate Assessment, which is composed of 14 agencies, including the National Science Foundation). The real issue is an energy shortage, not an excessive use of fossil fuels.

Thursday 11 January 2024

COULD THE WORLD BE ABOUT TO COOL?

Science is never settled. New discoveries have often changed our ideas completely so we must always keep an open mind. This new, longer video from Paul Burgess raises some interesting points: 

Our Future Climate Starting Now - Why we have entered a cooling period for many years to come. (youtube.com)

Wednesday 10 January 2024

DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD PAY TO PARK AT WORK?

 Yes, that is another restriction that the Climate Inquisition have in mind for us! 

Does the council have a workplace parking levy? This is one of the 90 questions used by Climate Emergency UK to "mark" councils on their ambition to achieve net zero. I doubt it would be very popular among the thousands of hard-working constituents in their authority area. No authority has introduced such a levy yet, for obvious reasons.