COST OF RENEWABLES SKY ROCKETS

Electricity bills for energy intensive businesses could more than double, and households could pay 50 per cent more, amid massive cost blowouts on a project that is integral to the Albanese and Allan governments’ renewable energy rollout.

Energy experts, industry and farmers have sounded the alarm on the VNI-West interconnector after the Australian Energy Market Operator released a report indicating the proponents of the project believe it is likely to cost $7.6bn, with a range of 30 per cent lower or 50 per cent higher, meaning it could cost as much as $11.4bn. 

Cost of delayed Victorian interconnector lifts off and reaches escape velocity « JoNova

NEW NUCLEAR PLANT GETS GO AHEAD BY UK GOVERNMENT

At least it is a reliable source of electricity, though very costly! 

UK gives green light to £38 bn Sizewell C nuclear plant | Tallbloke's Talkshop

USA TO SCRAP "ENDANGERMENT FINDING" FOR CO2

Known as the "Endangerment Finding", the 2009 order from then-President Barack Obama allowed the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create rules to limit pollution by setting emissions standards for CO2. This has been something that has been needed for many years. 

It is removing a log jam which prevents the removal of a whole host of other restrictive measures. In a statement, the EPA said that, if finalised, the move will save Americans $54bn (£40bn) in costs annually through the repeal of greenhouse gas standards, including an electric vehicle mandate passed by the Biden administration.

 Trump to scrap landmark finding that regulates carbon emissions - BBC News

CLIMATE POLICY - ROBS THE POOR TO GIVE IT TO THE RICH

Matt Ridley calculates that even in a best case scenario, with the most generous estimate of how useful a wind turbine might be, the people in the UK are spending £25 billion a year to reduce global emissions of CO2 by 0.00002 or two hundredths of one percent. Tell that to a Just Stop Oil militant! 

Matt Ridley: The Climate boondoggle is the biggest transfer of money from the poor to the rich since Sheriff of Nottingham « JoNova

ALL ABOUT THE MONEY

When any policy is considered in a rational way, whether to proceed or not depends on the cost and the benefits. The only exception is when our very existence is threatened, such as in a war. That is why it was so important to get as many local councils to sign up to a "climate emergency", as this provided the very reason to avoid asking about the cost. Only in this case it is becoming ever harder to maintain the immediacy and severity of the threat. Hence the need for the constant announcements of some sort of "unprecedented" weather event, backed up by a fully compliant Met Office. 

 The Frightening Cost of Net Zero | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

UK ELECTRICITY GENERATION

Here is a very useful website which shows, at any time, how much electricity is being generated in the UK and what fuel is being used to generate it, how much it costs and lots more. All the data is simply displayed and easy to read and understand.

 National Grid: Live

NEW BOOK PRAISES CLIMATE TERRORISTS

 I have just been given a copy of a new book by Jonathon Porritt entitled "Love, Anger & Betrayal". It is a book praising the activists in Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion. Porritt is clearly completely brainwashed in so far as the "Climate Emergency" is concerned and so he believes these folk who held up traffic for hours at a time are heroes. I think the sales of his book will be quite small among the majority of the UK population who thought they were simply nuisances who should not have been allowed to disrupt the country as they did.  I do wonder if Porritt is not breaking the law himself in encouraging this type of action. He needs to go through a programme to re-educate him. 

BONKERS COURT RULES ON CLIMATE "REPARATIONS"

This latest ruling seems to defy reality, in so far as how will they be able to decide how to apportion the degree of damage caused by any individual nation's emissions, let alone an individual company. Also, does anyone seriously believe that Russia or China is going to accept this ruling, or even India or Brazil for that matter. Maybe some of the foolish Western nations might fall for it - but their voters certainly won't. It is complete nonsense. 

Pacific nations applaud 'lifeline' climate ruling | Daily Mail Online

MORE JUNK AT THE MET OFFICE

 Suspicions Mount as Met Office Continues to Open More Junk Temperature Measuring Sites

Evidence continues to mount that the UK Met Office is chasing ‘hottest evah’ temperature extremes by deliberately siting new measuring stations in locations likely to be affected by heat spikes and unnaturally warmed ambient air. In the last 10 years to the middle of 2024, 81.5% of new sites were junk Class 4 and 5 operations with potential internationally-recognised errors up to 2°C and 5°C respectively. 

ROBBING THE POOR TO GIVE TO THE RICH - THE STORY OF WIND POWER IN THE UK

All has been revealed  in a court case between a rich land-owner and an electricity company.

 At the heart of the dispute is an argument over so-called ‘constraint payments’. This term describes cash that is paid to wind farms to compensate them for either switching off their turbines, or reducing capacity, when the grid has become too full to take on more electricity.

The system is designed to cope with power surges during times of high wind speeds. Initially, it was rarely used. 

In 2010, the first year of its existence, ‘constraint’ fees cost consumers £174,000. But as more wind farms have been built in remote areas bottlenecks in the grid have become more commonplace.

As a result, upwards of £300million a year is now being spent under the ‘constraint’ scheme, which has now cost bill-payers the grand total of £1.8billion, according to the REF.

What’s more, critics believe wind farm operators can sometimes make more, under the rules, by switching off their turbines than from making electricity. 

The truth about Britain's taxpayer cash-soaked wind farm industry laid bare in scandalous detail in court papers | Daily Mail Online

WILD EXAGGERATION OF FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDIES

Those seeking to promote renewable energy often claim that fossil fuels receive huge subsidies which exceed the subsidies given to renewables. That is nonsense which is clearly explained in the following article: 

The $7 Trillion Fossil Fuel Subsidy Swindle | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

It is the massive subsidies given to solar and wind that are the problem, plus their intermittency which means you need to have constant back-up supply. But rather than admit this obvious point they would rather muddy the water by claiming that it is the other way round.

WILL FARAGE BURST THE NET ZERO BUBBLE?

More on the story about Reform stopping the funding of renewables and the massive costs being paid in subsidies 

Farage bursts the green bubble | James McSweeney | The Critic Magazine

SIMPLISTIC ANSWERS TO INSOLUBLE PROBLEMS

 Pinchbeck’s Soviet solution

Who is Pinchbeck? I hear you ask. She is the recently appointed chief executive of the UK Climate Change Committee, a body that is supposed to advise the government about how to reach net zero. She is 37 years old and has been in executive positions at the World Wild Life Fund and other green organisations. As far as I can tell she is not qualified in any science,or engineering field, so quite what advise she is qualified to give I am not sure. Is there no one more qualified to advise the government? I hear you say. Perhaps those more qualified don't give the advice which the government wants to hear! The linked article gives more detail, but it is quite alarming.

You can read more about Ms Pinchbeck here:

Emma Pinchbeck: "When I see pylons, I see protection. Not harm" - New Statesman

WHY THE ARTS NEED FOSSIL FUELS

The truth is that fossil fuels are indispensable. Without them there would be no pharmaceuticals, no chemicals, no plastics or – more directly relevant to the arts – no cosmetics, no paints, no synthetic dyes, and no artificial fibres.

The arts flourish here because we are a rich country with millions of patrons to support them. Ordinary people buy their tickets, bringing revenues to venues; they pay their taxes too, and that funds the subsidies that keep high-cost operations such as ballet, opera and arts festivals afloat.  

The arts should learn to love fossil fuels

UK REFORM PARTY POLICY TO DEFUND WIND FARMS

Nigel Farage's Reform Party are currently leading the polls here in the UK, so when they announce a policy it could have far reaching implications. So the announcement that they would stop funding wind farms must cause concern and uncertainty in the market. This is no longer a market-driven economy, it has become a government-driven one and that is a retrograde step.

Net Zero Watch: Clean Power 2030 projects risk becoming stranded assets

IS CLIMATE SCIENCE IN CRISIS?

Given the growing number of observations at odds with the consensus, some scientists have been asking if that simplicity (of the current models) has been deceiving. For example, contrary to all model predictions, the eastern Tropical Pacific has cooled. Also, models cannot explain the increased frequency of blocking weather conditions over Greenland in summer, and although it was correctly predicted that the Arctic would warm faster than the rest of the globe, the observed Arctic temperature is far greater than expected. These are fundamental issues.

 Is climate science in crisis?

MET OFFICE UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT - START DUCKING AND DIVING

The UK Met Office are on the hook and wriggling like mad to avoid answering very simple, but rather awkward, questions. Read all about it in this excellent summary. 

 Simple FOI Requests for Data Said to Back Non-existent Temperature Stations Refused on “Vexatious” Grounds by UK Met Office – The Daily Sceptic

It's not only the Met Office that are feeling the heat, but their boss, the minister who has them in his portfolio. Peter Kyle MP has a choice. He can either defend the indefensible behaviour or he can demand changes. 

I have written to him via my MP to ask three simple questions:

1.   1.   Will he ask the Met Office to issue a public apology for continuing to pass off data as if it was from over 100 weather stations for many years after they had closed them?

2.  2.  Will he call for the Met Office to only use CIMO class 1 or 2 stations to announce record temperatures?

3.   3.   Does he agree that new weather stations should only be approved if they achieve CIMO class 1 or 2 status?

TRUMP HIRES 3 TOP CLIMATE SCIENTISTS

He could not have picked better people. At last there is a chance that the USA will have a sensible policy on climate. 

Trump administration hires 3 outspoken climate contrarians for Department of Energy | CNN

MET OFFICE SCIENTIFIC NONSENSE GOES ON

When will the public finally hear the truth about the disgraceful way in which the Met Office ride roughshod over all scientific principles to feed us with phony temperature records using totally unsuitable weather stations? Never if the establishment get their way, but the truth will out, as they say, and more and more of it is oozing into the public domain. 

The Met Office–Where Science Went To Die | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

LIES DAMNED LIES AND STATISTICS

Paul Burgess has just put out a video about the "acidification" of sea water and how some activist scientists are trying to claim that the change is as high as 25%. Paul goes through the numbers and explains how their reasoning is flawed. Well worth watching.

 When Scientists Deceive

OFF SHORE WIND NOT COMMERCIALLY VIABLE

At the academic safe-space known as “The Conversion” Thomas York explains to baffled renewables fans why wind farm developers are mysteriously pulling out at the last minute. He doesn’t spell out the baby-nature of the economic reality, but we can read between the lines.  

Offshore wind fantasy is crumbling against hard reality of metal, boat, cable, and money shortage « JoNova

REFORM COUNCIL ROOTING OUT CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES TO SAVE MONEY

Nigel Farage's Reform Party took control of Kent County Council in this year's elections and they are now looking at ways to save money. This article explains the details.

 “We are bringing a laser-like focus to saving money now and in the future”, Leader tells KCC Members - News & Features - Kent County Council

Cutting out the climate and net zero policies are a major part of this.

• Scrapping the Net Zero Renewable Energy Programme of property modifications would save £32 million over four years.
• Discarding the Net Zero plan to transition the KCC vehicle fleet to all electric would save a further £7.5 million by 2030.

I wonder if other cash-strapped councils will adopt a similar stance. Will the voters care?

MET OFFICE CAUGHT OUT CHEATING ON TEMPERATURE RECORDS

Super sleuth, Ray Sanders has caught out the Met Office again cooking the books on temperature measurements. This shameless lot are trying to brazen it out, hoping their previous good reputation will make people think they are pillars of society. But as case after case start mounting they will find it gets harder and harder. 

 Wattisham WMO03590 – “we do not attribute unmodified values from one station to another station.” Oh yes you do.  | Tallbloke's Talkshop

COMPARING UK TEMPERATURES IN 2025 WITH 1976

Some people are trying to claim that this summer is comparable to the record year of 1976. Paul Homewood has looked at the details and finds that, so far, 2025 is some way behind.

Comparing This Year’s Heatwave With 1976 | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 

MET OFFICE OBSESSED BY CLIMATE ALARMISM

 Matt Ridley has written an excellent article on this in the Telegraph (4th July) He points out that the Met Office make alarmist predictions based on an impossible scenario called RCP 8.5 which assumes we burn ten times as much coal in 2100 as we did in 2000 and that the world's population grows to 12 billion - way more than any demographer thinks is likely.  Also there is no improvement in technology to make us more efficient - completely mad! In 2020 the BBC admitted that this scenario was very unlikely. And yet the Met Office will not see sense. 

Matt thinks they are using this deliberately in order to scare people by grabbing headlines. They believe their reputation is such that they are untouchable, but they may have miss-judged this and over-reached themselves. More and more people are beginning to look more closely at this taxpayer funded organisation and wondering exactly what are they up to other than weather forecasting.

WILL BERLIN BAN MOTOR VEHICLES?

More restrictions on the freedom of the individual are being proposed, but will enough people vote for it?  Just 12 car trips person per year would be allowed!

The Berlin Constitutional Court has declared the “Berlin car-free” referendum admissible, paving the way for a possible drastic reduction in car traffic. 

Berlin Moves To Ban Autos From Inside The City. Widespread Chaos Looms

YET ANOTHER COURT NO ONE HAS HEARD OF

Time for Donald to cut off their funding!

A group of unelected officials in something called the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has decided that humans have the “right” to a stable climate and thus, you have the right to pay for it.  The court that nobody has heard of says “states have legal obligations to protect people alive today and future generations from the impacts of climate breakdown.”

 A Blobocrat Court rules that perfect weather is a “human right” « JoNova

SHOCK NEWS - CYCLONES HAVE DECREASED AS THE WORLD HAS WARMED

Researchers have studied things like pebble layers, shell fragments, and coral rubble in Fiji to find out what has happened there in the past. Yanan Li and others drilled cores to find debris pushed 120m into the mangroves by the worst of the worst tropical cyclones.  Handily, they also had two bad storms recorded in the last century to calibrate what they found.  Awkwardly, the big storms were more common in the Little Ice Age.

 Blessed be global warming: There were more Big Cyclones in Fiji when it was cold 200 years ago « JoNova

GREENHOUSE FARMING REVOLUTION FUELED BY CO2

Tell that to those who want to ban CO2. Carbon dioxide – the gas branded as public enemy number one – is not destroying the planet. It’s enhancing life on it. Across the globe, elevated CO2 levels are supercharging plant growth and delivering bountiful crop harvests at unprecedented rates.  

CO2 Sustains Greenhouse Farming Revolution – Watts Up With That?

NOT AN ECONOMIC WAY TO RUN THE GRID

 What the National Energy System Operator (NESO) figures tell us is that a third of daily generation will have to be constrained. At an average price of £100/MWh, that works out at a cost of £3.3 billion, just for summer alone.

 Throwing Away A Third Of Our Electricity | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

AUSSIES OFFER VISAS IN LOTTERY TO TUVALU ISLANDERS

 The Australian government has decided to offer 280 “Climate Visas” to be raffled off each year to the 10,000 people of Tuvalu, in case it sinks in 2100AD.  Naturally 3,000 people applied for the lottery, inspiring mass headlines that implied a third of the nation are so terrified of the seas rising that they want to leave.

 In publicity stunt, Australia offers “climate visas” to islanders of Tuvalu, which is not sinking « JoNova

CHINESE INTERFERING IN THE USA LEGAL SYSTEM

All sorts of things are being plotted using the "climate crisis" to conceal the true objective. The Chinese Communist Party can sponsor climate lawsuits that cost US companies big money, tie them up in court, slow them down, and sometimes bankrupt them, and that’s for cases they don’t win.

 China caught funding eco-lawfare suits in the USA to sabotage American energy dominance « JoNova

THE UK MET OFFICE RUNNING "DAD'S ARMY" WEATHER STATIONS

Many of us fondly remember the Dad's Army TV series showing how an army of enthusiastic, but ill-equipped civilians prepared to fight Hitler's army should a land invasion have occurred. It is becoming apparent that our Met Office is also relying on well-meaning amateurs to look after its weather stations as this article shows: 

Carlton-in-Cleveland DCNN2256 – Another back garden amateur site and the public still think the Met Office is “Professional” | Tallbloke's Talkshop

As the article says, it is no fault of the site-owners, but they are being asked to provide the data which are under-pinning the government policy that is asking us all to become worse off. The public are completely unaware that they are being deceived in this way, and the government are complicit in using this poor quality information.

CLOUD LOSS IS CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING, SAYS NEW STUDY

The research, led by the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published in Geophysical Research Letters, analyzed satellite observations to find between 1.5% and 3% of the world’s storm cloud zones have been contracting each decade in the past 24 years, says Phys.org.

The trend has been linked to changing wind patterns, the expansion of the tropics and storm systems shifting toward the North and South poles

 Rapid cloud loss is contributing to record-breaking temperatures, new study shows | Tallbloke's Talkshop

HOW THE COST OF BALANCING THE OK GRID HAS RAMPED UP

If you look at the figures and charts in this article you can see how the costs have spiraled over the past decade. They are now a very significant cost of over £10 per MWh. No wonder renewables aren't cheap!

 Grid Balancing Costs Hit £2.6 Billion A Year | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

UK CLIMATE COMMITTEE URGES GOVERNMENT TO CUT ELECTRICITY BILLS

If only these experts could understand that the only reason our electricity prices are so high is because they are loaded with £20 billion of subsidies for renewables every year. The very consequence, therefore, of the CCC’s own policy advice since the very start.

 Cut Electricity Bills, Says CCC | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

NET ZERO TAXES CUT FOR UK GAS GUZZLING INDUSTRIES

Two months ago the UK Prime Minster told the world Britain would go “all out”to accelerate Net Zero, to bolster energy security and weather control, because “it’s in the DNA of my government”. This week, the same Prime Minister says he will save factories by cutting power bills for more than 7,000 of the most energy-intensive businesses “by up to 25%” by slashing net zero charges.  So the companies that produce the most CO2 will be excused, because they will go out of business, but the rest of the UK can pay even more, because they aren’t going broke yet.

 UK slashes Net Zero taxes on gas guzzling industries to stop the collapse of British Industry « JoNova

THE SPANISH BLACKOUT

It seems that the Spanish government has no intention of revealing the true cause of the blackout of April 28. This thought-provoking essay by a Spaniard reveals how the political consensus is leading to complacency.  

Blackout - Clintel

THE THERMOMETER QUANDRY

The new type of thermometers work in a completely different way to the traditional liquid in glass (LIGT) ones, usually mercury. The new type are platinum resistance thermometers (PRT) which react more quickly to sudden changes in temperature. You can follow the details below in this new (to me) blog. I am adding this blog to my long blog roll as it has some other good articles in it. 

Spikey! Are PRTs actually fit for purpose? – Frayedends Blog

MELTING WILL LEAD TO COOLING - NEW STUDY

Scientists are beavering away coming up with new information all the time, but the mainstream media only focuses on one small part of the picture - that which is fed to them by the climate alarmists. Here is an example of the type of information you will never see on your main TV channels.

 New Study: Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt Will Lead To Widespread Cooling, Sea Ice Expansion

IT'S ONLY WORDS

"It's only words" was the lyric of a famous Bee-gees song, and words are all we have to describe things. As Jo Nova says in the linked article clever people control the language and so they try to shape our understanding and we must not be fooled by this. We need to read into what exactly is meant and make sure that we expose the use of euphemisms and call a spade a spade.

 Liars and wordsmiths don’t demolish and rebuild wind farms they “repower” them « JoNova

3 YEARS TO SAVE THE WORLD

 This was a leading story on the main BBC news last night. Have you noticed how these stories are pushed out whenever we get a spell of hot weather? They are accompanied by footage of animals sheltering from the heat and dogs and people cooling off in the water. The inference here might be that as the situation appears hopeless, we might as well give up - like someone on a diet who discovers that they haven't lost any weight. 

But no, there is still a chance if we keep going we can still make a difference - every scrap of CO2 saved will stop a tiny amount of global warming.  People are unconvinced by such arguments. Why should they continue to deprive themselves while other nations wage war and their leaders swan around in private jets to attend conferences to lecture the rest of us? These messages are largely falling on deaf ears.

Three Years To Save The World! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

WINTER OUTLOOK FOR UK ELECTRICITY DEMAND AND SUPPLY

The UK plans to use the interconnectors linking the UK with France, Holland, Belgium, Norway and Denmark to back up the UK’s own power stations on “tight days” when supplies are stretched.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/18/britain-to-rely-on-france-to-avoid-blackouts-this-winter/ This is all very well, except that they will probably be relying on us to help them. What a farce! Time to stock up on candles and extra blankets.  

 NESO Winter Outlook | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

CANADA TO REVERSE GREEN POLICIES TO FIGHT USA TARIFFS

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government will start pushing legislation that would fast-track ambitious national projects to boost Canada’s economy, now faced with Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Carney said his plan is to narrow down a list of so-called “nation building” projects – like pipelines, nuclear reactors and trade corridors – and create a framework in which the projects would be approved in under two years’ time.

 Blockbuster: Mark Carney, Mr Net-Zero-Banker himself, now uses oil, gas to make Canada an Energy SuperPower « JoNova

THE TRUE SPEND ON NET ZERO

This article looks at the less obvious spending which is going on up and down the country. Drip by drip it can be seen that the net zero tap is  continuing to haemorrhage money both from tax and also in higher prices for a wide range of products. It is all adding to our cost of living while not being obvious to the people. What is clear, however, is that no matter how much CO2 we save it will have no effect on the world's temperature, or the weather, or sea level. It is no more than very expensive virtue signalling.

How Much Does The UK Govt Spend On Net Zero | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

ANTARCTICA STILL AS COLD AS EVER

Antarctica experienced record low temperatures in late 2023, particularly during late winter (July-August). These extreme cold events were observed across a wide area, impacting both East and West Antarctica, including the Ross Ice Shelf and the Antarctic Peninsula, according to The Watchers here.

The irony just couldn’t be greater, as all we hear in the fake media are stories about big icebergs breaking off somewhere, and everyone being (mis)led to believe the South Pole is melting when clearly as a whole it is not.

 Good News (If You Like Freezing)! Antarctica Sees More Snowfall, Record Low Temps!

CLIMATE ACTIVIST-SCIENTISTS PASS OFF EXTREME PROJECTION AS LIKELY

The central role of the RCP8.5 ‘business as usual’ model scenario, much featured in recent IPCC reports has polluted climate model predictions for years with its wild and improbable claims of carbon dioxide emissions and soaring temperatures. A huge number of science papers incorporating the pathway are published by obvious Net Zero activists, and their ‘scientists say’  fairy tales are sped on their way by blinkered journalists in the mainstream press. The science writer Roger Pielke Jr. notes that RCP8.5 has been “falsified” –  but Net Zero must not be given up at all costs.

 The Great Climate Science Swindle Goes On – The Daily Sceptic

CHINESE USE CLIMATE CHANGE TO UNDERMINE WESTERN ECONOMIES

A New York nonprofit bankrolled by Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entities is at the center of a controversial state climate law that could force fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion over 25 years for climate mitigation projects. The Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC), which received millions from Chinese state-owned banks and Washington taxpayer funds, has aggressively backed the “Climate Change Superfund Act,” sparking a federal investigation and constitutional concerns. Critics argue the law, signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in December 2024, threatens U.S. energy security, inflates consumer costs and represents undercover influence by Beijing to undermine American sovereignty.

 Looks like China uses small Green “climate” donations to help create $75b in economic damage « JoNova

CLIMATE PROPAGANDA ON ITV

Ice loss in Antarctica, more intense hurricanes in the Bahamas, rising sea levels - all in the ITV news on one night. All are rebutted by Paul Burgess in his latest video. 

Exposing ITV Climate Alarmism - A Dissection by Paul Burgess

COAL USE KEEPS ON RISING

So much for coal being phased out. This may be the case in the UK and Western Europe, but in China, Russia and many third world countries they haven't got the message as you can see in this article: 

Not dying: Global approvals of coal plants back up to 2015 high « JoNova

MET OFFICE TEMPERATURE RECORDS HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE SAYS NEW REPORT

Substantial evidence has emerged to suggest that the UK Met Office is promoting the political cause of Net Zero by using recently introduced sensitive thermometers to collect 60-second unnatural heat spikes. These pulses are used to promote constant clickbait ‘records’ and claim exaggerated atmospheric warming. 

Furthermore, it appears that these short-term ‘spikes’ are larger in junk sites with massive internationally recognised ‘uncertainties”. Almost eight in 10 of the Met Office’s nationwide temperature measuring stations are in junk CIMO Classes 4 and 5 with possible errors up to 2°C and 5°C respectively. 

Shock New Evidence Shows Unnatural 60-Second Heat Spikes Drive Many UK Met Office Temperature 'Records' – The Daily Sceptic

BUSINESS LEADERS HAVE ONLY GOT THEMSELVES TO BLAME

For years business leaders have been encouraging the government to proceed with their net zero policy and now they have realised that the result is ever higher energy prices which are hitting businesses, making them uncompetitive. Be careful what you wish for! 

Business organisations betraying their members

EUROPE WAS WARMER AND WETTER OVER THE PAST 9000 YEARS

Europe is now dryer (and colder) than at almost any other period in the last 9000 years, according to A new European Alps hydroclimate reconstruction spanning the years 8980 to 2014 CE that has been derived from the stable isotopes of 192 trees (Arosio et al., 2025).

The reconstruction clearly distinguishes centennial-scale warm periods such as the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), Roman Warm Period (RWP), and millennial-scale African Humid Period (when the Sahara was green, lake- and fauna-covered). These warmer centuries (millennia) were accompanied by wetter, much more humid climates.

 New Study: Europe Was ‘Not Only Warmer But Also Wetter During Most Of The Pre-Industrial Holocene’

THINGS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WON'T TELL US

Recent scientific work has found the rate of greening has actually been increasing since the turn of the century. Ask Grok for recent coverage of this important trend in the BBC and Guardian, and the answer comes back with none since 2016. Global greening heads a long list of taboo subjects for captured journalists promoting the political Net Zero fantasy. Also on the not-to-do list is the pause of the Arctic sea ice extent since 2007, the continued strength of the Gulf Stream, record growth for three years of coral on the Great Barrier Reef and North American wildfires in the last 100 years running at barely a quarter of those recorded back to 1600.

 Global Greening From Higher CO2 Hits “Striking” New Heights – but the Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You About It – Watts Up With That?

CLIMATE SCAREMONGERING ON CROP YIELDS

Organisations, like Carbon Brief only exist as a result of funding from rich donors who push the climate scare and so they obey their paymasters and push out one-sided stories. Unfortunately for them they are easily debunked by the data, as in this case.

 Global wheat yields would be ‘10%’ higher without climate change | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

AI DATA CENTRES CHOOSING FOSSIL FUELS

Larry Fink, head of BlackRock, claims people don’t care about renewables now, they just want power:

The reliance on gas power for data centers is a departure from previous thought, said Larry Fink, founder of global investment firm BlackRock, speaking to a crowd of industry executives at an oil and gas conference in Houston in March.

About four years ago, if someone said they were building a data center, they said it must be powered by renewables, he recounted. Two years ago, it was a preference.

“Today?” Fink said. “They care about power.”

 Forget “renewable energy” — new AI data centers are building their own gas plants in Texas « JoNova

THE FAKE COST OF NET ZERO

 Estimates of the cost of net zero are about as reliable as a weather forecast for two or three weeks time. But this does not stop people giving them out. Here is a piece about the latest efforts:

John Rentoul’s Fake Cost Of Net Zero | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

ONE HALF A DEGREE SAVED AT A COST OF $ TRILLIONS

 When climate activists talk of reaching net zero by 2050 to save the planet what do they actually mean? The reality is that it would save less than 0.5 degrees C. at a cost of many trillions of dollars. Once people realise that, they rapidly go off the idea. We are currently living through a period of financial austerity and cuts to vital services which are much more important to people. Listen to this talk by a very distinguished atmospheric scientist to hear this truth explained in a simple way.

EXCLUSIVE. Professor Richard Lindzen: There Will Be No Climate Catastrophe - Clintel 

FRENCH POLITICIANS VOTE TO SCRAP LOW EMISSION ZONES

Yes, the French have just rebelled against these draconian rules. Will the UK be next?

 MPs from Left and Right in France vote to ditch “low emission zones” and bans on old cars « JoNova

EUROPEAN HEAT WAVES BEING FORECAST FOR THE SUMMER

In Germany it seems a number of German weathermen have been getting acutely aroused every time a model sees a heat wave in the pipeline 2 weeks out. The media make headlines out of them. Over at German Weather Channel here, Jan Schenk  suddenly warned of “a 100-year summer” with temps soaring to 40°C in Germany. “One of the hottest summers ever is in the cards at 70 to 100%.”… 

 The German “Record Heat Summer” Weather Clowns Already Out In Full Force

622 BILLION TONS OF NEW ICE ON GREENLAND

The surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet has gained 622 billion tons of new ice and snow since September 1. This is the most in at least eight years, and is far above the the 1981-2010 average.

622 billion tons of new ice | Real Climate Science

THE BBC's CLIMATE SCIENCE PROBLEM

 Question Time last week was a car crash for the corporation, with chairman Fiona Bruce interrupting Richard Tice, the Reform Party MP, to contradict his contention that only 4% of carbon dioxide emissions are manmade. Thirty percent was the correct figure, she boldly asserted. Unfortunately, Tice was right, and she was wrong, so the Corporation’s gophers got to work and quietly edited the recording to remove her gaffe. Unfortunately someone noticed, and sceptics had a field day. A few days later, when Nick Robinson had Tice on his Political Thinking podcast. They decided, somewhat surprisingly, to take up cudgels on exactly the same subject, namely the human influence on climate.

Once again, Tice expained that human emissions were dwarfed by natural ones, and there was no attempt to probe this argument more deeply. Afterwards Robinson tweeted a clip from the interview with the comment:

"He’s denying the scientific consensus that climate change is partly man made & can be slowed or halted.”

Tice’s words clearly implied that he thought mankind affected the climate, but only marginally.  

The BBC’s climate science problem

ATLANTIC OCEAN CURRENT TO REMAIN SAFE

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, commonly referred to as the “AMOC,” is a system of ocean currents confined to the Atlantic basin that plays a crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate by transporting heat from the Southern to the Northern Hemisphere, says Caltech @ Eurekalert.

The AMOC also modulates regional weather, from the mild summers in Europe to the monsoon seasons in Africa and India. Climate models have long predicted that global warming will cause the AMOC to weaken, with some projecting substantial weakening amounting to a near-collapse relative to the AMOC’s strength today.

Such a weakening would have far-reaching consequences, including changes in regional sea level rise and major shifts in regional climate, such as colder conditions in northern Europe and drier weather in parts of the Amazon and West Africa.

However, a new study from Caltech finds that although the AMOC will weaken under global warming, it is likely to do so to a much lesser extent than current projections suggest. 

Atlantic ocean current unlikely to collapse with climate change – new study | Tallbloke's Talkshop

KATHRYN PORTER INTERVIEW

Kathryn Porter has become one of our leading experts on energy and this interview of just under an hour is very revealing and well worth watching and listening to.  

We Spent £220 Billion on Decarbonisation and Saw Zero Financial Benefits: Kathryn Porter

US LEGAL SYSTEM USED AGAINST OIL COMPANIES IS COMPLETE MADNESS

The drumbeat of climate litigation has grown louder in recent years, fuelled by activists and dubious science.  A new paper claims to link oil and gas companies’ CO₂ emissions to specific weather events and trillions in economic damages. This whole piece of nonsense is debunked in this excellent article:

 Another 'scientific' attack on the oil majors - Clintel

THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

On Thursday (May 22) the House of Representatives passed, by a narrow margin of 215-214, what is referred to as the “Big Beautiful Bill” — a massive compendium of taxing and spending measures that can now seek to avoid the filibuster in the Senate on grounds of being a “budget reconciliation.” The bill continues for section after section of savings, with successive parts relating to things like a “greenhouse gas reduction fund,” a “low emissions electricity” program, a fund to address “air pollution in schools,” a fund for “diesel emissions reductions,” and so forth. Over all it adds up to a massive $370 billion. 

 The “Big Beautiful Bill” — Climate And Energy Provisions – Watts Up With That?

THE MYTH OF CHEAP RENEWABLE ENERGY

Paul Burgess has an excellent new video out which looks at the cost of wind energy and how it looks as though it has become uneconomic to invest in companies in this industry. 

This video explains why the Wind Farm Con is over - The Bubble Has Already Burst

MORE NONSENSE FROM THE MET OFFICE

It's hard to believe how utterly incompetent the Met Office are when it comes to maintaining a network of weather stations. Day after day Ray Sanders uncovers yet another fiasco behind the siting and maintenance of the UK's stations, as shown in this report, for example:  

Trassey Slievenaman DCNN 9245 – Now you see it, now you don’t. Met Office “Excellent” | Tallbloke's Talkshop

We need to remember that the whole climate scare depends on the amount of warming and so the accuracy of temperature readings is vital. It all hinges on a ramshackle bunch of often poorly sited, badly maintained weather stations from which the Met Office claim "record" temperatures with an accuracy of one hundredth of a degree! It would make a good comedy. We could call it "It Ain't Half Hot Mum", or has that title already been used? 

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

That is another net zero policy is pushed into the long grass. Deliverable net zero policies are as rare as hen's teeth. This time it is New Zealand that has elected a more rational government, as opposed to the bunch of hair-shirted puritans that just got in here in the UK. 

 NZ Abandon Net Zero Push | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

IS AI COMPATIBLE WITH NET ZERO?

The IEA just posted a whole report dedicated to AI. The demand from data-centers is so large in some places it is already rivaling the kind of monster consumption we are used to seeing from aluminum smelters. Data centre electricity consumption is set to more than double to around 945 TWh by 2030. This is slightly more than Japan’s total electricity consumption today. So how will countries with expensive and unreliable grids fare in this AI world? Not good you would expect, but is the government taking note?

 New AI data centers will use the same electricity as 2 million homes « JoNova

COST OF UK RENEWABLES - NEW REPORT

Since there are 67 million Britons, that means every man, woman and child would be £3,283 richer today. For a family of four that’s £13,000 of savings spread over 20 years. Read the article about the work of energy expert Kathryn Porter: 

If UK had never tried renewables, each person would be £3,000 richer « JoNova

CLIMATE MODELS CAN NO LONGER BE TRUSTED

Chinese researchers from Tongji University led by Prof. Shen and Dr. Wang found that Antarctic ice masses have increased significantly since 2021. The data evaluated by NASA’s GRACE satellite showed an annual loss of 74 billion tons per year from 2002 to 2010. From 2011 to 2020, the amount even doubled. Now the ice has increased by around 108 billion tons year on year. 

Antarctic Ice Is Increasing…Climate Models “No Longer Reflect Reality”

SPAIN BLACKOUT - THE CAUSE IS CLEAR

Whatever may be given as excuses for the power grid failure in Spain and Portugal, the real answer is revealed by what the grid operators have done since it occurred, which is to reduce the amount of solar and increase the nuclear component. This is explained in the article below: 

Speaks For Itself: PV Power Reduced 30% After Spain Blackout

COMPANIES NOT INTERESTED IN WIND FARM BIDS WITHOUT SUBSIDIES

 Governments are struggling to keep their net zero policies on track as the cost of energy keep on rising and the public are becoming more and more aware of it. Without subsidies private companies will not invest in wind farms as can be seen here:

Dutch Cancel Offshore Wind Auction Due To Lack Of Interest | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

THE CLIMATE WAR OF EXAGGERATION

 While the UK will experience unusually warm weather this week, the cold further east is far more significant from a meteorological perspective. I haven’t seen any reports from Russia about widespread cold, but the UK media portrays a pleasant spring pattern as a “heat bomb.” This is typical of a media landscape that distorts weather and climate discussions.

What’s more critical for Europe right now? The warmth in the UK or the major cold in wheat-growing regions that could impact crops?  

The climate war of exaggeration has to be stopped – CFACT

AUSSIES COULDN'T GIVE A 4X ABOUT NET ZERO

The IPA asked 1,027 Australians how much they would personally be willing to pay for the nation to reach Net zero by 2050, and half of them said, nothing.  Another quarter said “$50 a year” which is one pitiful dollar a week. 

 Half of Australia doesn’t want to pay a single cent on Net Zero targets « JoNova

MORE DATA MISREPRESENTATION UNCOVERED AT THE MET OFFICE

Last year the UK Met Office was shown to be inventing long-term temperature data at 103 non-existent weather stations. It was claimed in a later risible ‘fact check’ that the data were estimated from nearby well-correlated neighbouring stations. Citizen super sleuth Ray Sanders issued a number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to learn the identity of these correlating sites but has been told that the information is not held by the Met Office. So the invented figures for the non-existent sites are supposedly provided by stations that the Met Office claims it cannot identify and are presumably not recorded in its copious computer storage and archive

 The Met Office is Unable to Name the Sites Providing ‘Estimated’ Temperature Data For its 103 Non-Existent Stations – The Daily Sceptic

WHY WE ARE HAVING SUCH A WARM DRY SPRING

Meteorologists are warning of the potential for a summer drought, as the UK has seen roughly half its usual amount of rainfall for March and April.

While farmers fret about this year’s harvest, some water companies are urging customers to help reservoir levels recover by limiting water use.
. . .
For several weeks, a stubborn area of high pressure over the UK has diverted the usual flow of mild, moist air from the North Atlantic like a boulder in a river. This is known as a blocking weather system.

 How the weather got ‘stuck’ over the UK—and produced an unusually dry and warm spring | Tallbloke's Talkshop

WHY HAVE ELECTRICITY BILLS RISEN?

Around three quarters of the increase in bills can be attributed to Net Zero.  

Why Have Electricity Bills Risen?

HOW GLOBAL WARMING HAS BEEN EXAGGERATED

 Here is a link to an excellent video which explains how a lot of the world's temperature readings are inaccurate, something that is denied by those who are wanting to keep us afraid of a so-called climate crisis, whereas there is a mild and mainly beneficial warming shown when these inaccuracies are removed.

The Graph That Lied

60% OF UK VOTERS ARE CLIMATE SCEPTICS

This week, a new polling firm called Merlin Strategy asked voters for their views on tackling climate change. But here’s the crucial thing, it didn’t merely ask them: “Do you support net zero?” Instead, it asked them which was more important: action to achieve net zero, or cutting the cost of living. And guess what they said? Almost 60 per cent chose cutting the cost of living, while a mere 13 per cent chose net zero.

 60% are skeptics: Only 13% of UK voters say Net Zero is more important than cost of living « JoNova

EU CLIMATE PROPAGANDA GOES UP A LEVEL

The paper by Grant et al ticks the full Marxist Bingo Card whipping up class warfare driven by “intergenerational inequality”. It was funded by the EU and is being used to justify the huge cost and deprivation that is being forced on EU citizens. They claim that babies today will live through more ghastly heatwaves than their grandparents born in 1960 did. And it’s all “unprecedented” (they use the term 25 times in the paper).  It’s as if the Holocene did not exist. Sea levels were at least a metre higher 8,000 years ago. How could the world not have been hotter? And how did those cats, dogs, geese and frogs live in the high arctic north of Norway 9,000 years ago. There were thousands of bones in those caves. Do they or do they not exist?

 Children of 2020 face unprecedented exposure to Extreme Climate Nonsense… « JoNova

UK TO SPEND £1.5 BILLION TO STOP WIND TURBINES AFFECTING AIR DEFENCE RADAR

Details of the £1.5 billion Project Njord are to be found in the recently-published Ministry of Defence Acquisition Pipeline document. Seven separate amounts of £210 million under the heading “The procurement of Mitigation Solution(s) to negate the adverse effects of offshore wind farms on AD radars” are being given to RAF radar stations from Saxa Vord in Shetland to Portreath on the coast of Cornwall.

The radar problem might eventually have to be solved by a costly transfer of ground facilities to the air. Professor Justin Bronk is a leading expert on air power and technology and he recently noted that unless there was a “breakthrough” in mitigating the effect of wind turbines on ground-based radar, “Britain is going to need a more capable airborne detection service”. 

EXCLUSIVE: Britain Forced to Spend £1.5 Billion to Mitigate Wind Turbine Corruptions to Vital Air Defence Radar – The Daily Sceptic

MET OFFICE DISTORTS THE DATA ON CLIMATE AS USUAL

The article linked below contains a few graphs which illustrates exactly why we should not trust the headlines put out by the Met Office. Exaggeration is a form of lying, by not including all the background data. The Met Office cherry picks one temperature figure taken in one place at one time and publicizes it to make a spurious claim. It is high time they were seriously taken to task very publicly over this, but no one wants to do it. 

 Hottest Start To May? | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

REFORM TO 'WAGE WAR' AGAINST NET ZERO

We are certainly living in interesting times here in the UK after the recent council elections. The breakdown of consensus politics is clear to see. How will the Labour government react to this? And how will the voters react to the behaviour of Reform councils? I can envisage all sorts of unintended consequences, such as industrial action by a largely left-wing workforce. 

Reform to 'wage war' against net zero 'lunacy' after local elections - LBC

BRAINWASHING OF AUSSIE KIDS ON CLIMATE GETS CALLED OUT

Mike Cannon Brookes, Mr $30 billion, has set up the Boundless Earth charity with a $15 to $30 million budget which generously sponsors a group called Cool org. They write “scripts for teachers” and tell the kiddies to walk to school or ride their bike while (as Tony Thomas reminds us) Mr Cannon-Brookes travels in his Bombardier Twin-jet.  

Read the details here:

 Why is the renewables industry allowed to sponsor political advertising in schools and call it “education”? « JoNova

A SERIOUS LOOK AT THE SPANISH ELECTRICITY SYSTEM FAILURE

The story of the collapse of the Spanish and Portuguese grids with the resultant blackout and damage to their economies has seem to have disappeared from the mainstream media very swiftly. I wonder if this could in any way be due to the fact that the main reason for it was an over-reliance on renewable energy? Something which would be likely to cause a loss of confidence here in the UK in our own grid. The following article takes a good look:

 Energy: intensely political | Turbulent Times

Paul Burgess has a good video to explain this. Here is a link:

Congratulations Spain - The First Country to Achieve Net Zero

BYE BYE TO JOHN KERRY'S BOONDOGGLE

The State Department is formally removing the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, the office former president Joe Biden created and appointed John Kerry to lead. Its mission did not align with the Trump administration’s agenda. Overall, the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate was given an annual budget of nearly $17 million and a staff of about 30 officials during the Biden administration,

 State Dept Shutters John Kerry’s Climate Office, Ending Biden’s Green Obsession | Tallbloke's Talkshop

BRITAIN'S UNCHANGING CLIMATE

It is quite extraordinary how people such as the Climate Change Committee come up with claims that our weather is going to change dramatically in the next 25 years when the evidence of the last 25 years actually shows hardly any noticeable change at all. Read the facts here: 

Britain’s Unchanging Climate | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

TONY BLAIR THROWS A SPANNER INTO THE CLIMATE CHANGE WORKS

“People are being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal,” Blair said in a foreword to a new report from his think tank released on Tuesday. What he is saying is simply acknowledging what the majority of people, as he implies, already know. What is new is that Blair feels confident enough to say this publicly. The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, has said similar things. Nigel Farage was the first to say it, and the big wins for his Reform Party prove that large numbers of the public agree. 

Now that these senior figures in UK politics have gone above the parapet, I can only see others following and soon it will become acceptable to voice these concerns. This is how leaving the EU gradually became acceptable.

 Bombshell: Sir Tony Blair says climate policies are unworkable, irrational, and everyone is afraid of being called a denier « JoNova