No, BBC, Atlantic Hurricane Season Did Not Break Records
By Paul Homewood The BBC claim that this year’s Atlantic hurricane season broke records. https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cp87g4p73kxo .Needless to say, they are lying again. Despite claims of...
View ArticleMiliband’s £300 Energy Saving Is Smoke & Mirrors
By Paul Homewood Ed Miliband has been doing the rounds again this week. When challenged on the BBC Today programme about Labour’s promised £300 cut in energy bills, he doubled down. Apparently, he...
View ArticleNorway Wants To Cut Energy Links To Europe
By Paul Homewood The National Grid made a song and dance about their North Sea Link interconnector from Norway to Blyth, which began operations in 2021. It has capacity of 1400 MW, and is designed...
View ArticleOCR Want Climate Indoctrination Put Into School Curriculum
By Paul Homewood https://teach.ocr.org.uk/striking-the-balance It is a sign of the times that, despite all of the failures and problems in UK education, the latest curriculum review by the OCR has...
View ArticleSystem Balancing Costs
By Paul Homewood David Rose had a good article on wind constraint payments the other day on UnHerd. You can read it here. He began with the example of the Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm, commissioned two...
View ArticleHouseholds Drop Out Of Energy Rationing Scheme
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby https://www.neso.energy/publications/clean-power-2030 You will recall that the NESO told Ed Miliband that we would need about 12 GW of demand flexibility come...
View ArticleWhy Wind Farm Constraint Payments Are Not The Same As CCGT Ones
By Paul Homewood Further to the post on constraint payments, it is worth reading John Constable’s excellent explanation below. It ha\s often been claimed by the wind lobby that gas generators are...
View ArticleDarragh Stronger Because Of Global Warming–BBC
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk There’s another pseudo-science Weather Attribution organisation to add to the list, called ClimaMeter, which the BBC has been bigging up lately. According to the...
View ArticleDo Insurers Know What A Storm Is?
By Paul Homewood Further to the BBC article on Storm Darragh, just posted, it is worth pointing out that ABI, the Association of British Insurers, also talk of 55 mph gusts: Storms Windstorm is the...
View ArticleMad Miliband’s Carbon Capture Will Be Funded From Energy Bills
By Paul Homewood As we guessed, it appears that most of Ed Miliband’s £21 billion bung to carbon capture projects will end up being paid for through our energy bills. The Telegraph report...
View Article6.3 Million Properties At Risk Of Flooding–Say Env Agency
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness We’re all going to drown! The Environment Agency has today (Tuesday 17 December) published new data showing 6.3 million properties across England are based in...
View ArticleIEA Coal Outlook Bad News For Miliband.
By Paul Homewood https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2024 According to the latest IEA report, consumption of coal is set to hit a record high this year, and continue to grow till 2027. No forecasts...
View ArticleForeign Office Don’t Know How Much COP29 Pledge Will Cost UK
By Paul Homewood The Foreign Office sent me this in reply to a query about funding the $300 billion a year promised at COP29: In essence: Miliband signed up to the aid pledge without anybody...
View ArticleAntarctic Sea Ice Volume Higher Than 1980s
By Paul Homewood Antarctic sea ice extent has been relatively low for the last couple of years, but has recovered since this time last year https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index But when we look at...
View ArticleMore Polar Bear Propaganda From The BBC
By Paul Homewood The BBC has been running its annual “Polar Bears Are All Going To Die” propaganda again: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg344zz1ro Having been forced to apologise for lying...
View ArticleWebsite Problems
By Paul Homewood As many of you aware, there have been strange goings on in the website recently! Now that things are hopefully settling down again, I can briefly explain what happened. A couple of...
View ArticleLike Net Zero–But Worse
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness A new Private Member’s Bill is winging its way through Parliament currently, innocently called the Climate and Nature Bill. It poses a very real threat to our...
View ArticleTotalEnergies Halts Offshore NY Wind Farm
By Paul Homewood h/t Hugh Sharman https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha_Ventus_Windmills.JPG Offshore report that TotalEnergies have paused development of the 3 GW Attentive Energy wind farm it...
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