Smart meters could soon cost you a whole lot more
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby I was going to write about this, but Ross Clark has beaten me to it! What remarkable power climate change has to turn the usual rules of fairness on their head. The...
View ArticleScotland to ditch key climate change target
By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public The Scottish government is to ditch its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030. The final goal of reaching "net-zero" by 2045 will remain,...
View ArticleWhy Worry About Facts, Sky?
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Apparently subjective opinions are now more important on Sky Weather: A record amount of rainfall was said to have caused "absolute carnage" in Dubai on Tuesday –...
View ArticleColdest, Wettest & Stormiest – The Good Old Days Before Global Warming
By Paul Homewood By the 1970’s, the Earth had experienced three decades of declining temperatures, which Hubert Lamb described as “longest-continued downward trend since temperature records began”....
View ArticleElectric car demand plunges across Europe
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby The car of the future!! Electric car sales plummeted across Europe last month as demand dried up despite the EU’s push to ban petrol and diesel vehicles by the...
View ArticleThey Never Used To Have Heatwaves in Mali!
By Paul Homewood The usual disinformation from the BBC: A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was "impossible" without human-induced climate change, scientists say. Temperatures soared above...
View ArticleAEP Away With The Fairies Again
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby AEP is away with the fairies again! A cardinal fallacy reigns over the debate on green energy and global decarbonisation. It taps into deep Malthusian instincts and...
View ArticleHow Global Cooling Threatened The World’s Food Supply
By Paul Homewood It was not just the US which had catastrophic weather in the 1970s. This article in the NOAA magazine of April 1974 shows just how worried scientists and governments were about...
View ArticleSahel Monsoon Rains
By Paul Homewood Further to the post on the Sahel drought, HH Lamb included this graph in Climate Present, Past and Future: It is a powerful reminder of the effect of global cooling on monsoon...
View ArticleAEP Needs To Read The CCC’s Reports
By Paul Homewood I did not have time yesterday to fully dissect this latest piece of juvenile nonsense from AEP: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/18/rich-world-needs-less-energy-net-zero/...
View ArticleCost Of Hydrogen Cars Is Still Sky High
By Paul Homewood h/t Doug Brodie The cost of hydrogen mobility is “sky-high” and “far from being affordable”, the CEO of the world’s third-largest automaker Stellantis told an online event...
View ArticleQuestions for Claire
By Paul Homewood h/t George Heraghty Laura Kuenssberg has been giving the kid glove treatment to the whiney Chris Stark: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68863796 At the end of the article, the...
View ArticleCatastrophic Hurricanes In The 1970s
By Paul Homewood The 1970s were a terrible decade for typhoons and cyclones too: https://wmo.int/media/news/worlds-deadliest-tropical-cyclone-was-50-years-ago Cyclone Bhola, which left an...
View ArticleLeaking Gutters? Blame Climate Change
By Paul Homewood h/t Dave Ward It has now become the norm for our faceless bureaucrats to waste money by blaming climate change: A court building which dates back centuries is to undergo renovations,...
View ArticleGerman minister threatens ‘indefinite driving bans’ on weekends
By Paul Homewood It has been obvious for some time that the powers that be want to get us out of our cars: Germany’s transport minister is threatening to ban driving on weekends to meet climate goals...
View ArticleNational Grid Resorts To Propaganda–David Turver
By Paul Homewood h/t George Herraghty https://davidturver.substack.com/p/national-grid-propaganda David Turver takes apart this latest bunch of lies in the Guardian: Full story here. We are of course...
View ArticleThe War On Cars
By Paul Homewood h/t Doug Brodie As you know, I have been warning about this for years: In a fit of self-loathing, the European Union has begun to destroy the economic engine that pays its bills....
View ArticleSwitching to green power could add £29 billion a year to household bills
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk Even Emma Gatten has to admit the truth! Switching to green power could add £29 billion a year to household bills, analysis suggests. And the net zero investment could...
View ArticleThe West’s electric car giants now risk destroying themselves
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness It’s nice to see that Ben Marlow has finally woken up to reality, after years of promoting Net Zero: For an industry built on the quiet purr of its expensive...
View ArticleWind Power Scarcity Data Analysis
By Paul Homewood One of my regular contacts has analysed wind power data over the last five years, using the official half-hourly National Grid data. The analysis highlights just how intermittent...
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