The Real Environmental Cost of EVs!
By Paul Homewood Nothing much new here, but it’s something that’s worth sharing with friends:
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Give Us Your Money, Says Maldives President
By Paul Homewood h/t Patsy Lacey From the Guardian: For the Maldives, the existential threat of the climate crisis, particularly sea level rise, has been a reality we have grappled with for...
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Gas bills could rise by £1,000 to pay for wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Gas bills are projected to rise by around £1,000 to pay for wind power under official plans currently being considered by the Energy Secretary. Claire Coutinho...
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Green activists don’t care how many people will die from zero fossil fuel use
By Paul Homewood h/y Dennis Ambler From the NY Post: We endlessly hear the flawed assertion that because climate change is real, we should “follow the science” and end fossil fuel use. We...
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Met Office Creates Warming Out Of Thin Air
By Paul Homewood Chris Morrison keeps the pressure up on the Met Office: Interest and concern continues to grow about the numerous retrospective adjustments that the U.K. Met Office has made to...
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Electric car drivers face astronomical costs to replace tyres
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby I knew it would be bad, but not this bad! Electric car buyers should be aware of the “astronomical” costs required to regularly replace short-lived tyres,...
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London To Buy 100 Electric Buses From China
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby From TimeOut . Cleaning up London’s air is clearly on the agenda of London’s newly re-elected mayor Sadiq Khan – and those emission-reducing ambitions were recently...
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Heat pumps ‘too expensive for ordinary families’
By Paul Homewood h/t Patsy Lacey Heat pumps are too expensive for ordinary families to install and run, the Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho has been warned by MPs. The Government must urgently make...
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Poorly Sited Stations Undermine Met Office’s UK Temperature Claims
By Paul Homewood Whenever the Met Office publish their UK temperature charts, they never show any margins of error. This in itself is poor statistical practice. And as we now know, most of the...
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Nonstop Rain In 2034, Say Weather Attribution Models
By Paul Homewood h/t Patsy Lacey These weather attribution scamsters are now just making it up as they go along: It’s November 2034 and it has been raining for a week straight. The downpours...
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By Paul Homewood Excellent interview with Rupert Darwall:
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Offshore wind needs bigger subsidies, warns government adviser
By Paul Homewood State subsidies for new offshore wind projects may not be generous enough to drive the projects needed to achieve targets for boosting clean energy, a leading climate adviser to...
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The amount of copper needed to build EVs is ‘impossible for mining companies...
By Paul Homewood Copper cannot be mined quickly enough to keep up with current policies requiring the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), according to a University of Michigan study. Copper is...
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How weather extremes worsened by climate change are now a major national...
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness I’ve come across plenty of junk climate studies, but this has to be one of the most amateurish: The study, led by the University of Bristol and published today in...
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Net Zero Watch says SNP U-turn would leave Labour looking like ‘eco-extremists’
By Paul Homewood London: 28 May 2024 Net Zero Watch says SNP U-turn would leave Labour looking like ‘eco-extremists’ Campaign group Net Zero Watch has welcomed suggestions that the Scottish...
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UK set for ’50 days of rain’ in one of the wettest summers in over a hundred...
By Paul Homewood . h/t Mike Rennoldson . It’s the turn of the Leftwing Broadcasting Company to make a fool of itself: . Forecasters are predicting a summer of persistent rain and wet weather for...
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The Two Faces Of EVs: Brilliant In Town, Hopeless In The Fast Lane
By Paul Homewood . Neil Winton, regular contributor to this blog, has a new article on Forbes. His comments on EV range are particularly pertinent: Electric vehicles are mainly overpriced city...
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The Lithium-Ion Battery ‘Energy Storage’ Facility Blaze You Hadn’t Heard...
By Paul Homewood h/t Dave Ward . It’s not a laptop in first class or a cheap Chinese scooter smoking ominously in the plane’s cargo hold. Nor is it a massive commercial ship packed to the gills with...
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Farmers are being booted off their land in a drive for more solar power,...
By Paul Homewood h/t Patsy Lacey The former head of Britain’s farming union yesterday spoke out against large-scale solar farms, declaring ‘there’s a huge amount not to like’. But Minette Batters...
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Met Office Should Put 2.5°C ‘Uncertainties’ Warning on All Future Temperature...
By Paul Homewood It is “abundantly clear” that the Met Office cannot scientifically claim to know the current average temperature of the U.K. to a hundredth of a degree centigrade, given that it is...
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