The true cost of Labour’s net zero plans is slowly being revealed – and the...
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby . At least the Telegraph is starting to dismantle Mad Miliband’s crazy agenda: . Sir Keir Starmer has promised that a new Labour government would decarbonise the...
View ArticleHull East Park
By Paul Homewood https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/observations/weather-extremes While that high quality site of Heathrow coincidentally records yet another daily high, let’s turn our attention...
View ArticleLeconfield’s Solar Farm
By Paul Homewood https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-synoptic-and-climate-stations The Met Office has two weather stations in the Hull area – Leconfield and Hull East...
View ArticleVast salt caverns to store hydrogen under former Royal Navy base
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Vast salt caverns designed to store hydrogen are to be excavated under Britain’s biggest former naval base as part of plans to bolster the country’s energy security....
View Article‘My electric car has been soul-destroying – I can’t wait to go back to petrol’
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Ray Bestwick bought an electric car last May in the hope of hassle-free motoring. But with eight trips to the garage in little more than a year, the 62-year-old...
View ArticleShell to pause Dutch biofuels project as market sags
By Paul Homewood There is no viable commercial market for biofuels. It only survives because of government subsidies and diktat. LONDON (Reuters) -Shell will pause construction work at one of...
View ArticleHurricane Beryl
By Paul Homewood It did not take long for the wretched BBC to blame Hurricane Beryl on climate change! . At least one person has died after Hurricane Beryl made landfall in several countries in the...
View ArticleEd Miliband prepares to wage a wind-powered war on the shires
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk . Will somebody rid us of this demented idiot? . Britain’s march of the wind turbines is about to resume. Ten years after the rural backlash that forced David Cameron’s...
View ArticleWhat Happened To That “Wettest Summer”, Met Office?
By Paul Homewood The Met Office has briefed the Government and transport chiefs to prepare for at least 50 days of rain in the next three months, leading to fears over further flooding in the UK...
View ArticleTale Of Two Weather Stations
By Paul Homewood Below are photos of two weather stations in Hull. One is run by the University of Hull’s Environmental Department, the other is used by the Met Office for climatological purposes...
View ArticleGreat Barrier Reef hits record coral cover third year in a row
By Paul Homewood Sixty percent of all human CO2 emissions have been emitted since 1985 but today the corals are healthier than ever In 1985 humans were emitting only 19.6 billion tons of CO2 each...
View ArticleFarage bursts the green bubble
By Paul Homewood This is a great analysis, not just of the fact that renewables cost much more than fossil fuels, but also of the political and media response: British democracy is under threat....
View ArticleFITs Cost £1.7bn Last Year
By Paul Homewood A few years ago, the OBR stopped including Feed in Tariffs in the cost of Environmental Levies. They gave no good reason, and quite clearly they are as much of a levy on energy bills...
View ArticleYAWN!!–Climate Change Pushing Up Food Prices (Again!)
By Paul Homewood h/t Patsy Lacey . For millennia, food production and pricing have been disrupted by the weather, with one-off events such as heatwaves, droughts, flooding or frosts cutting harvests...
View ArticleWas Beryl Only A Cat 4?
By Paul Homewood . We’ve now got more data in for Hurricane Beryl, and as we have seen many times recently, it appears that the wind speeds have been grossly overestimated. According to the official...
View ArticleMet Office Still Opening Junk Weather Stations
By Paul Homewood . . As we know, 77.9% of the Met Office’s temperature station network is junk Class 4 and 5. But how many of these have been added in recent years? The Met Office have now sent me...
View ArticleSadiq Khan to impose congestion charge on electric vehicles
By Paul Homewood Sadiq Khan is extending London’s congestion charge to all zero-emission vehicles from the end of next year. The move, which will extend the £15-a-day tax on motoring to...
View ArticleFarage Attacks Net Zero With Facts
By Paul Homewood Finally we’ve got some common sense in Parliament! . https://twitter.com/i/status/1807687079918256358
View ArticleUHI In Phoenix
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness An exposure of just how strong the UHI effect can be: . A recent NASA map provides a stark visualization of the extreme temperatures that pavement can reach in...
View ArticlePress release: Starmer holding Net Zero time bomb
By Paul Homewood London: 8 July 2024 Starmer is holding a Net Zero timebomb Net Zero Watch has warned that Net Zero is an issue that could blow up in Keir Starmer’s face at any moment. The campaign...
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