Reeves to make Bank of England put climate change and growth on equal footing
By Paul Homewood So much for the Bank’s much vaunted independence! Rachel Reeves is planning to make the Bank of England take climate change as seriously as growth, as the Chancellor seeks to use...
View ArticleLost Silk Road Cities
By Paul Homewood Archaeologists have found the remains of two medieval cities in the grassy mountains of eastern Uzbekistan, a discovery that could shift our understanding of the fabled Silk...
View ArticleFlash Floods In Spain
By Paul Homewood https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckmgmdxg254t Yes, the flash floods in Spain have been devastating. And, yes they have happened before. But the BBC weatherman also claims that...
View ArticleValencia Floods Update
By Paul Homewood https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31400639/spain-flooding-map-areas-worst-hit/ As the waters recede, we need to put the Valencia floods into perspective. According to Wikipedia:...
View ArticleExtreme Drought Triples–BBC Lies
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk Yet more lies from the BBC: The area of land surface affected by extreme drought has trebled since the 1980s, a new report into the effects of climate change has...
View ArticleGrid Companies Bracing For Power Cuts
By Paul Homewood The Grid companies now seem to be getting serious about the risk of blackouts this winter. I got this today: To simply use “bad weather” as an excuse is just silly. We have...
View ArticleValencia’s Floods in 1957
By Paul Homewood I came across this footage of the 1957 floods in Valencia. There does not seem to be any film of the floods themselves – no doubt the authorities had more things to worry about back...
View ArticleTV host slams ‘climate alarmism’ among Western media
By Paul Homewood Chris Kenny slams climate alarmism:
View ArticleEnvironmental Levies To Cost £108 Billion By 2029/30
By Paul Homewood The OBR is very explicit about the new budget!! Spending up by £70 billion (so much for “black holes”!), tax up by £36 billion and borrowing by £32 billion. https://obr.uk/ But the...
View ArticleA History Of Catastrophic Flooding In Spain
By Paul Homewood Some people believe we never had floods before fossil fuels: . But real scientists know that there is a long history of catastrophic floods in Spain: ....
View ArticleAdvance Briefing for COP29 Baku 2024
By Paul Homewood Ron Clutz has the low down on what to expect at COP29 this month: https://rclutz.com/2024/10/31/advance-briefing-for-cop29-baku-2024/ . As Ron points out, there is no direct...
View ArticleWot? No Wind?
By Paul Homewood I’ve just looked at the BBC weather forecast, and it appears that high pressure is going to continue to dominate throughout this week and well into next. The Met Office agrees: ....
View ArticleBritain importing record amounts of electricity from Europe
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk Meanwhile we are becoming ever more reliant on imported power: Britain is importing record amounts of electricity from Europe to keep the lights on, as the...
View ArticleClimate Change Brings Record Breaking Threat To Health–Lancet
By Paul Homewood https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01822-1/abstract . Yes, it’s the same old pack of lies they roll out every year, trying to convince that global...
View ArticleMining Industry Needs $2.1 Trillion Dollars in New Investment to Meet...
By Paul Homewood Just another trillion or two! Despite the growth in metals supply over the last decade, BloombergNEF’s (BNEF’s) annual Transition Metals Outlook finds that there are still...
View ArticleNESO Say We Must Keep All Our Gas Plants Going
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Well, the report into the feasibility of 2030 net zero targets from the electricity system operator, NESO, requested by Ed Miliband, has landed on his desk: ....
View ArticleMiliband Lies About NESO Report
By Paul Homewood Ed Miliband has been caught out making two big fat lies: https://x.com/Ed_Miliband/status/1853717438296203271?t=oJHPfvHmQviGJy39PecrFg&s=19 “Clean Power” is not achievable...
View ArticleGas Power Will Remain Crucial
By Paul Homewood This chart from the NESO report is worth a look: In simple terms, the gray bits represent unabated gas generation. Each season gives an illustrative seven-day cross section, ie a...
View ArticleMet Office is “Inventing” Temperature Data from 100 Non-Existent Stations
By Paul Homewood . . Hats off to Ray Sanders, who has been doggedly pursuing this scandal: Shocking evidence has emerged that points to the U.K. Met Office inventing temperature data from over...
View ArticleIf net zero means letting Britain go dark, Labour are finished
By Paul Homewood Getting up in the middle of the night to run the washing machine will help. Downsizing to a slightly smaller TV might make a small difference. And of course switching off your...
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