Volvo ditches electric car plans
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Volvo has ditched plans to sell only electric cars by 2030 amid waning demand for battery powered vehicles. The Swedish carmaker blamed the move on changing...
View Article£9 Billion Subsidy Bill For Latest Round Of CfDs
By Paul Homewood AR6 Auction Results https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contracts-for-difference-cfd-allocation-round-6-results I’ve now worked through some costings for the new batch of...
View ArticleMiliband’s empty energy promise-Spectator
By Paul Homewood Though not quite up there with history’s great political texts, Ed Miliband’s letter this week to the director of the ESO, which runs Britain’s national grid, is a rather important...
View ArticleFloods Data For 2023/24 in England
By Paul Homewood The Environment Agency has just published its latest annual report on flooding in England:...
View ArticleProperties At Risk Of Flooding
By Paul Homewood https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/floods-data-for-2023-24-in-england/ BTW – I meant to compare the above chart on the number of properties flooded each...
View ArticleWhere Did The Month’s Rain Go, BBC?
By Paul Homewood https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/clywr9zq0lwo After all of the Yellow Warnings, rainfall failed to live up to the BBC’s hype: The highest rainfall they could find was 44.4mm...
View ArticleMiliband’s SOS
By Paul Homewood https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66cda5c1e39a8536eac0532e/sos-chris-stark-letter-clean-power-2030.pdf . This is Miliband’s SOS letter that I mentioned the other day....
View ArticleGreenland Ice Mass Balance Update
By Paul Homewood Just to complete the situation with the Greenland Icesheet, I now have data for calving losses: http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/ As I noted yesterday,...
View ArticleEd Miliband ‘considers scrapping wind power target
By Paul Homewood h/t Doug Brodie Well I did not expect my prediction to come true quite so quickly!!! Ed Miliband is preparing to scrap the UK’s much-vaunted target for building 55 gigawatts (GW) of...
View Article440 jobs at heat pump factory are put at risk
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness So much for those vaunted green jobs! An MP has said he is “deeply concerned” about the risk of 440 jobs being lost at a West Lothian electronics factory due to...
View ArticleClimate change is already forcing millions of people to migrate – Bill Gates’...
By Paul Homewood More Bill Gates funded propaganda: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/climate-change-forcing-millions-of-people-to-migrate/ Meanwhile back in the real...
View ArticleEd Miliband considers scrapping planned nuclear plant
By Paul Homewood h/t Doug Brodie Plans to build a large nuclear power station in Wales are at risk of being scrapped as Ed Miliband seeks to accelerate Britain’s switch to a net zero electricity...
View ArticleStudy finds higher heart attack risk days after cold exposure
By Paul Homewood It’s amazing how they still manage to find a link to climate change! Hospital admissions for heart attacks increase after exposure to lower air temperature and cold spells,...
View ArticleBritain spending record £250m a month on electricity imports
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Britain is importing record amounts of electricity from abroad at a cost of £250m a month following the closure of coal-fired and nuclear power stations, new...
View ArticleThe bus-sized battery farms threatening to blight Britain’s countryside
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Wind mills, solar farms and giant batteries. How to wreck the English countryside for no good reason! Mega projects designed to store renewable energy are...
View ArticleRenault CEO says sector could face billions in fines as EV sales slow
By Paul Homewood h/t Hugh Sharman Europe might not have a ZEV Mandate, but car makers still can’t escape the clutches of the eco loons: PARIS, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Europe’s autos industry could...
View ArticleEast Anglia 1 Generation
By Paul Homewood https://www.scottishpowerrenewables.com/pages/east_anglia_one.aspx I have analysed the output from the East Anglia 1 offshore wind farm, using daily data from the CfD database for...
View ArticleThe Problem Of Too Much Wind
By Paul Homewood FES 2024 As well as the problem of not having enough wind power at times, there is also the issue of having too much at other times. Consequently we have to pay generators to...
View ArticleBBC AMOC Myth Exploded
By Paul Homewood Myth v Fact The Gulf Stream system of warm ocean currents could collapse as early as 2025, a scientific study has warned. The end of the system, which drives the Atlantic’s...
View ArticleBBC Blame Child Marriage in Bangladesh On Climate Change
By Paul Homewood Another silly piece of propaganda from the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct5ws3 Apparently more extreme weather, caused by climate change, is making farming impossible...
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