"Climate Change" was one of the major planks of Blair's project to alter our governance model from one where the people are sovereign to one where the elites cement their position of power through deception, gaslighting, and, when they fail, outright lies and coercion.
Why doesn’t anyone band on about the fact the UK contributes 0.7% of global CO2. Even if CO2 is the cause of climate change (which I do not believe) the UK could reduce our emissions to zero and it would have NO IMPACT. Worth reading There Is No Climate Crisis by David Craig. Packed with EVIDENCE.
I don't believe it either - nor do many of the scientists (there's a famous comment about climate being a non-linear coupled complex system in one of the early IPCC reports). Unfortunately the BBC has closed down sceptical voices for 2 decades and most MSM outlets have followed suit.
Iaian: "Global Warming" was invented by the late Sir John Houghton, former Head of the UK Met Office, founder member of the IPCC and Editor in Chief of the First Assessment Report. His father taught me at school and was a neighbour. The family were fervent Methodists (Plymouth Brethren) and Sir John is widely on record stating his belief that global warming is a warning from God to mend our ways. So much for Climate Science.
I'm struggling here. The first graph with the orange line marked 'actual' is nothing like the trend line for the data on the blue line. The writer has simply added a straight line to a curve!
It's not a credible claim.
You can get Excel to add a trend line to a graph easily. It would not show a straight line - try it!
Net Zero (or as critics call it - Nut Zero) is all part of managed decline and the imposition of world Marxism. Britain, as a signatory to UN Agenda 2030 is dedicated to levelling-up the world and transferring the wealth of the West to the Third World, a policy that can be seen in action all around us, as we import millions of penniless immigrants who have to be supported by the tax-payer, and buy countless billions of pounds worth of 'green' products from China, to replace the products that we used to make, but can no longer afford to do so, due to the energy costs imposed by Nut Zero, including the wholesale replacement of home-produced cars by cheaper alternatives made in China using electricity generated by coal-fired power stations.
The media have been absolutely complicit in this deception, towing the line spun by the governing Elite, and refusing to allow critics a voice, or rubbishing anything that is raised in opposition to the madness. When distinguished scientists like Professor William Happer or Dr Judith Curry attempt to expose the lies surrounding this, they are cancelled and lose their jobs as punishment. Thank God for President Trump who would not accept all of this nonsense.
I work in the energy industry and the amount of hypocrisy and virtue-signalling is far worse than it even appears from the outside, most of which the public has no idea about because it’s very poorly covered.
I could give plenty of examples across a range of different markets. They all reflect the desire of governments and companies to appear clean/virtuous while not really caring about the substance of the policies or understanding the effects of what they are implementing.
The UK celebrated cutting its CO2 emissions by 50% since 1990. The truth is a lot of the reduction was driven by switching from coal to natural gas (i.e. one fossil fuel to another), and by closing heavy industry and importing more from China, where those emissions continue to grow, of course.
The EU banned Russian crude oil imports after 2022. However, this crude oil was simply redirected to countries like Turkey and India, which then refine the crude oil and send the finished products back into the EU. They pocket the profit and Russian oil still effectively finds its way into Europe. The diesel you put in your car may well be Russian-origin but refined in Turkey, for example.
Germany closed its nuclear power plants for environmental reasons, and then imported additional power from France, which produces the majority of its electricity from… nuclear.
Various European countries ban fracking, but we continue to import enormous quantities of US natural gas, which is produced from… fracking.
Europe has developed enormous wind power projects with steel produced in? You can guess.
I could go on and on, but it’s all part of the same story - bad decisions made by incompetent leaders who either don’t understand the industry, or only care about how policies look to the electorate, which is unfortunately completely misinformed.
Brilliant words! I don't know who is the bigger political fool, economic ignoramus, or ideological toady: Ed Milliband? Or that clown Boris who followed his dad's green blatherings and Carrie Antoinette's vacuous musings. Boris is a cheer leader not a leader. The uniparty is a progressive, ideological cult and a curse on the UK.
A good person to interview on how we got into this mess is Lord Peter Lilley.
He gave an interview a few years back on a channel on YouTube called maneco64. He said the Tory government itself was leading & driving this agenda. Many EU states were very hostile, particularly those still having a manufacturing and industrial base.
It's much worse than this, the entire 'climate change/global warming/CO2 bad' bondoogle is a long, long term psyop by China, hiding behind the UN's communists, feeding the narrative to countless Leftist actors in the media. The BBC/Met Office have been caught out multiple times with FOI's fiddling 'record temperature' nonsense. If you want a very simple example, go to the coast this weekend and try to find those killer 'rising sea levels' we've been repeatedly told about. 'Net Zero' is a brilliant plan to deindustrialise the West, whilst we mugs buy Chinese solar panels and other goods to fund their massive military expansion.
Well, I'm watching that, but it doesn't amount to anything. For example, he says that children are not taught about why it's winter in January. Yes, they are. I was a science teacher. The problem is that the explanation is very difficult for a 13-year-old to understand. I remember having a bulb in the middle of the classroom (the sun) and moving around the classroom with a globe showing how the shadow changes due to the angle of the tilt.
Explaining 'CO2 causes climate change" is a much easier task, so, no wonder more children remember that.
Then he goes on to talk about weather stations which do not exist. The explanation is simple. The Met Office had 300-odd stations and had built its weather model using them. Later they realise that they don't need 300, 200 will give the same result because the readings from the other 100 (historically) could always be interpolated from the nearby one. But the model still needs 300 inputs, so they interpolate.
This is not evidence of fiddling the figures. You could have 6 stations in UK and see that climate is changing.
Wew've just had the hottest June on record. Last year it was one moth the wettest on record. Heat waves in the Med. Wake up and look oiut of the window.
Except that "CO2 causes climate change" is almost certainly not true. It is clear from a basic understanding of climate that it is far too complex a system to be affected catastrophicly by one variable.
It is a simple "cause" and works well for soundbite media and politicians, but is rather far from reality.
Here in Australia, almost exactly the same scenario applies. We have an energy grid teetering on collapse. Both sides of politics are hooked on Climate Change and Net Zero by 2030. Inexplicably, we have Labor re-elected in May 2035 with a huge majority so they are riding high, imposing all sorts of tax increases to help pay the gigantic bill for the transition to ‘renewables’. Productivity is in the rubbish bin. Secondary industry is a thing of the past, Agriculture is on the nose, don’t even dare mention nuclear base load power, Inflation is through the roof, migration is bringing in close to a million per year as we hurtle towards Armageddon.
The one thing we do not have is a party anything like Reform, so there is very little hope indeed over here.
Great article Matt. Tice can be very good and in some ways seems to be able to bring contentious items across in a more detailed and coherent way, rather than the ramataz of Farage!
It's remarkable how so few of our politicians and commentators are able to see what should be obvious: that the net zero policy is insane. The UK is the source of a mere 0.7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, in order to ‘tackle climate change’, our political ‘leaders’ have adopted a policy that, by the elimination of fossil fuels, aims to get that 0.7% down to 0.0%. However, because most world economies – economies that are prioritising economic development and energy security over emission reduction – are the source of about 85% of global emissions, the policy is utterly pointless as it would make no practical difference to global emission levels. Yet, unless abandoned now, it will be socially and financially ruinous.
And all while making Billionaires out of freeloaders like Dale Vince, not surprisingly a major Labour Party donor and antifa supporter, raking in the moola while pensioners go cold and die. And of course while Ed Milliband’s crooked brother gets even richer with consulting for his Labour Minister brother. It stinks.
I think Dale Vince has retreated some from Labour after a couple of so months of them in Govt, having seen what unreliable, dangerous eej its both Starmer and Mili are.
All of the above is unquestionably true and both Matt here, Ricard Tice and Reform UK should be applauded for taking a public stand! However, not only is it unaffordable on the basis of ANY evaluation, but the sheer, rank stupidity of the whole idea can be seen with instant clarity, that the objective of NetZero per se is utterly UNACHIEVABLE, because whatever action is taken to reduce Carbon Footprint is seismically overwhelmed by World Population Growth as follows, just check it out, AFTER ALLOWING FOR DEATHS : https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Roughly speaking it's 150 a minute, 9000 an hour, 215,000 per DAY, that's 78 MILLION EACH AND EVERY YEAR! Bear in mind that's World Population INCREASING by 10 million more than the entire population of the United Kingdom EVERY SINGLE YEAR!
Roughly speaking the accepted CO2 footprint is a World AVERAGE of 5pcta which is also roughly that of UK. If we could achieve Net Zero in one year, UK population is 68 million x 5 = 340 million pcta total woud be blocked, but guess what, World Population increase in the same year produces 5 x 78 = 390 million! So the efforts of UK citizens who can't afford the cost, are eclipsed by one YEAR's INCREASE of carbon footprint from the world's population growth, PLUS another 50 Million Cptca and can do no more, as they watch world population grow by 2 Billion over the next 25 years, aiming for a "Target" which in itself is now admitted unachievable. We DO NOT HAVE A "Democracy", we have a DICTATORSHIP, forcing the cost of this lunacy on those who can least afford it, in order to achieve absolutely NOTHING! And this, even if the so-called "Science" pushed by the "Green" idiots were true and Science is ALWAYS argued, in perpetuity!!
Ian, did you just before contributing to discussion, add in to the maths the U.K. population numbers of double figures even treble figures in thousands of the secretly brought in Afghans over last years since ISAF withdrawal from Afghanistan? …… 😡
There needs to be an international conference, NOT the IPCC, bringing together all the physicists, geologists, and climate scientists who have been trying to shout from the rooftops for years that CO2 is NOT the "climate control knob". Their voices have been suppressed by the powerful global elites, but they need to be platformed. There is an excellent YouTube channel that shows many of these scientists doing long form presentations that prove their theories - Tom Nelson's podcast. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/@tomnelson2080
"Climate Change" was one of the major planks of Blair's project to alter our governance model from one where the people are sovereign to one where the elites cement their position of power through deception, gaslighting, and, when they fail, outright lies and coercion.
Why doesn’t anyone band on about the fact the UK contributes 0.7% of global CO2. Even if CO2 is the cause of climate change (which I do not believe) the UK could reduce our emissions to zero and it would have NO IMPACT. Worth reading There Is No Climate Crisis by David Craig. Packed with EVIDENCE.
I don't believe it either - nor do many of the scientists (there's a famous comment about climate being a non-linear coupled complex system in one of the early IPCC reports). Unfortunately the BBC has closed down sceptical voices for 2 decades and most MSM outlets have followed suit.
Any policy based upon the premise co2 is the problem will in the end fail.
The science going back millennia simply does not support the narrative and indeed the gulf between projections and reality steadily grows.
I have no doubt the climate is changing, I can see such, but it has done since God was a boy and the link to co2 simply wrong.
That the MSM and others refuses to debate such is a sign of a very weak argument.
What is however very clear is that the U.K. is now well down a road to economic ruin through power shortages.
What a shame that so few politicians have the guts to say what you have here in a few short words.
Iaian: "Global Warming" was invented by the late Sir John Houghton, former Head of the UK Met Office, founder member of the IPCC and Editor in Chief of the First Assessment Report. His father taught me at school and was a neighbour. The family were fervent Methodists (Plymouth Brethren) and Sir John is widely on record stating his belief that global warming is a warning from God to mend our ways. So much for Climate Science.
"the gulf between projections and reality steadily grows." can you give a reference or example of this?
There is masses of data to support that statement but as a recent sample have a look at the graph here showing actual v projected temps.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-climate-scaremongers-another-deluge-of-dross-from-the-met-office/
I'm struggling here. The first graph with the orange line marked 'actual' is nothing like the trend line for the data on the blue line. The writer has simply added a straight line to a curve!
It's not a credible claim.
You can get Excel to add a trend line to a graph easily. It would not show a straight line - try it!
Actual is of course the trend to 2100and no one I know of doubts there has been a slight increase in temp.
( you should however seek out the data pre circa 1850 which oddly is never shown)
The projected is what the climate modelling predicts not what’s taken from the blue line.
So far none of the models I’ve seen bear any relationship to the modest increases actually seen. There is no “ existential threat”
Net Zero (or as critics call it - Nut Zero) is all part of managed decline and the imposition of world Marxism. Britain, as a signatory to UN Agenda 2030 is dedicated to levelling-up the world and transferring the wealth of the West to the Third World, a policy that can be seen in action all around us, as we import millions of penniless immigrants who have to be supported by the tax-payer, and buy countless billions of pounds worth of 'green' products from China, to replace the products that we used to make, but can no longer afford to do so, due to the energy costs imposed by Nut Zero, including the wholesale replacement of home-produced cars by cheaper alternatives made in China using electricity generated by coal-fired power stations.
The media have been absolutely complicit in this deception, towing the line spun by the governing Elite, and refusing to allow critics a voice, or rubbishing anything that is raised in opposition to the madness. When distinguished scientists like Professor William Happer or Dr Judith Curry attempt to expose the lies surrounding this, they are cancelled and lose their jobs as punishment. Thank God for President Trump who would not accept all of this nonsense.
I work in the energy industry and the amount of hypocrisy and virtue-signalling is far worse than it even appears from the outside, most of which the public has no idea about because it’s very poorly covered.
Can you say more?
I could give plenty of examples across a range of different markets. They all reflect the desire of governments and companies to appear clean/virtuous while not really caring about the substance of the policies or understanding the effects of what they are implementing.
The UK celebrated cutting its CO2 emissions by 50% since 1990. The truth is a lot of the reduction was driven by switching from coal to natural gas (i.e. one fossil fuel to another), and by closing heavy industry and importing more from China, where those emissions continue to grow, of course.
The EU banned Russian crude oil imports after 2022. However, this crude oil was simply redirected to countries like Turkey and India, which then refine the crude oil and send the finished products back into the EU. They pocket the profit and Russian oil still effectively finds its way into Europe. The diesel you put in your car may well be Russian-origin but refined in Turkey, for example.
Germany closed its nuclear power plants for environmental reasons, and then imported additional power from France, which produces the majority of its electricity from… nuclear.
Various European countries ban fracking, but we continue to import enormous quantities of US natural gas, which is produced from… fracking.
Europe has developed enormous wind power projects with steel produced in? You can guess.
I could go on and on, but it’s all part of the same story - bad decisions made by incompetent leaders who either don’t understand the industry, or only care about how policies look to the electorate, which is unfortunately completely misinformed.
Brilliant words! I don't know who is the bigger political fool, economic ignoramus, or ideological toady: Ed Milliband? Or that clown Boris who followed his dad's green blatherings and Carrie Antoinette's vacuous musings. Boris is a cheer leader not a leader. The uniparty is a progressive, ideological cult and a curse on the UK.
Really interesting.
A good person to interview on how we got into this mess is Lord Peter Lilley.
He gave an interview a few years back on a channel on YouTube called maneco64. He said the Tory government itself was leading & driving this agenda. Many EU states were very hostile, particularly those still having a manufacturing and industrial base.
It's much worse than this, the entire 'climate change/global warming/CO2 bad' bondoogle is a long, long term psyop by China, hiding behind the UN's communists, feeding the narrative to countless Leftist actors in the media. The BBC/Met Office have been caught out multiple times with FOI's fiddling 'record temperature' nonsense. If you want a very simple example, go to the coast this weekend and try to find those killer 'rising sea levels' we've been repeatedly told about. 'Net Zero' is a brilliant plan to deindustrialise the West, whilst we mugs buy Chinese solar panels and other goods to fund their massive military expansion.
If you're busy, just watch 4 minutes of this:
https://open.substack.com/pub/corbettreport/p/the-met-office-is-scared-of-ray-sanders?r=8swye&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web×tamp=322.0&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Well, I'm watching that, but it doesn't amount to anything. For example, he says that children are not taught about why it's winter in January. Yes, they are. I was a science teacher. The problem is that the explanation is very difficult for a 13-year-old to understand. I remember having a bulb in the middle of the classroom (the sun) and moving around the classroom with a globe showing how the shadow changes due to the angle of the tilt.
Explaining 'CO2 causes climate change" is a much easier task, so, no wonder more children remember that.
Then he goes on to talk about weather stations which do not exist. The explanation is simple. The Met Office had 300-odd stations and had built its weather model using them. Later they realise that they don't need 300, 200 will give the same result because the readings from the other 100 (historically) could always be interpolated from the nearby one. But the model still needs 300 inputs, so they interpolate.
This is not evidence of fiddling the figures. You could have 6 stations in UK and see that climate is changing.
Wew've just had the hottest June on record. Last year it was one moth the wettest on record. Heat waves in the Med. Wake up and look oiut of the window.
You've really swallowed the lies, well done. Hottest June? Complete rot.
So, is what I said about what children are taught also rot?
You provide no evidence to support your claim, just abuse.
Let's have a conversation based on reality.
Except that "CO2 causes climate change" is almost certainly not true. It is clear from a basic understanding of climate that it is far too complex a system to be affected catastrophicly by one variable.
It is a simple "cause" and works well for soundbite media and politicians, but is rather far from reality.
Here in Australia, almost exactly the same scenario applies. We have an energy grid teetering on collapse. Both sides of politics are hooked on Climate Change and Net Zero by 2030. Inexplicably, we have Labor re-elected in May 2035 with a huge majority so they are riding high, imposing all sorts of tax increases to help pay the gigantic bill for the transition to ‘renewables’. Productivity is in the rubbish bin. Secondary industry is a thing of the past, Agriculture is on the nose, don’t even dare mention nuclear base load power, Inflation is through the roof, migration is bringing in close to a million per year as we hurtle towards Armageddon.
The one thing we do not have is a party anything like Reform, so there is very little hope indeed over here.
Great article Matt. Tice can be very good and in some ways seems to be able to bring contentious items across in a more detailed and coherent way, rather than the ramataz of Farage!
You will see at top of essay, - ‘ This is a guest post by Maurice Cousins, Campaign Director at Net Zero Watch …’
It's remarkable how so few of our politicians and commentators are able to see what should be obvious: that the net zero policy is insane. The UK is the source of a mere 0.7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, in order to ‘tackle climate change’, our political ‘leaders’ have adopted a policy that, by the elimination of fossil fuels, aims to get that 0.7% down to 0.0%. However, because most world economies – economies that are prioritising economic development and energy security over emission reduction – are the source of about 85% of global emissions, the policy is utterly pointless as it would make no practical difference to global emission levels. Yet, unless abandoned now, it will be socially and financially ruinous.
As I’ve said, policy is insane.
And all while making Billionaires out of freeloaders like Dale Vince, not surprisingly a major Labour Party donor and antifa supporter, raking in the moola while pensioners go cold and die. And of course while Ed Milliband’s crooked brother gets even richer with consulting for his Labour Minister brother. It stinks.
I think Dale Vince has retreated some from Labour after a couple of so months of them in Govt, having seen what unreliable, dangerous eej its both Starmer and Mili are.
Not before trousering a few bob off them beforehand though Sarah.
It makes total sense if you stand to profit from any of those companies. Everything is a taxpayer-funded wealth transfer Ponzi scheme.
Remember the let's aim is to destroy capitalism, create an emergency to justify authoritarian socialism.
They are right on track here.
All of the above is unquestionably true and both Matt here, Ricard Tice and Reform UK should be applauded for taking a public stand! However, not only is it unaffordable on the basis of ANY evaluation, but the sheer, rank stupidity of the whole idea can be seen with instant clarity, that the objective of NetZero per se is utterly UNACHIEVABLE, because whatever action is taken to reduce Carbon Footprint is seismically overwhelmed by World Population Growth as follows, just check it out, AFTER ALLOWING FOR DEATHS : https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
Roughly speaking it's 150 a minute, 9000 an hour, 215,000 per DAY, that's 78 MILLION EACH AND EVERY YEAR! Bear in mind that's World Population INCREASING by 10 million more than the entire population of the United Kingdom EVERY SINGLE YEAR!
Roughly speaking the accepted CO2 footprint is a World AVERAGE of 5pcta which is also roughly that of UK. If we could achieve Net Zero in one year, UK population is 68 million x 5 = 340 million pcta total woud be blocked, but guess what, World Population increase in the same year produces 5 x 78 = 390 million! So the efforts of UK citizens who can't afford the cost, are eclipsed by one YEAR's INCREASE of carbon footprint from the world's population growth, PLUS another 50 Million Cptca and can do no more, as they watch world population grow by 2 Billion over the next 25 years, aiming for a "Target" which in itself is now admitted unachievable. We DO NOT HAVE A "Democracy", we have a DICTATORSHIP, forcing the cost of this lunacy on those who can least afford it, in order to achieve absolutely NOTHING! And this, even if the so-called "Science" pushed by the "Green" idiots were true and Science is ALWAYS argued, in perpetuity!!
At top of article, - This is a guest post by Maurice Cousins, Campaign Director at Net Zero Watch …
Ian, did you just before contributing to discussion, add in to the maths the U.K. population numbers of double figures even treble figures in thousands of the secretly brought in Afghans over last years since ISAF withdrawal from Afghanistan? …… 😡
There needs to be an international conference, NOT the IPCC, bringing together all the physicists, geologists, and climate scientists who have been trying to shout from the rooftops for years that CO2 is NOT the "climate control knob". Their voices have been suppressed by the powerful global elites, but they need to be platformed. There is an excellent YouTube channel that shows many of these scientists doing long form presentations that prove their theories - Tom Nelson's podcast. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/@tomnelson2080
To be honest none of this governments policies make any sense to me