Tuesday, 8 July 2025

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.


Monday, 7 July 2025

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


Sunday, 6 July 2025

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

Friday, 4 July 2025

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

Thursday, 3 July 2025

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?

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

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

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

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

Monday, 30 June 2025

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

Sunday, 29 June 2025

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.

Saturday, 28 June 2025

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

Friday, 27 June 2025

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

Thursday, 26 June 2025

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

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

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

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

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

Monday, 23 June 2025

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

Sunday, 22 June 2025

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

Saturday, 21 June 2025

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

Friday, 20 June 2025

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

Thursday, 19 June 2025

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

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

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

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

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

Monday, 16 June 2025

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!

Sunday, 15 June 2025

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

Saturday, 14 June 2025

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

Friday, 13 June 2025

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

Thursday, 12 June 2025

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

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

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

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

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

Monday, 9 June 2025

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’

Sunday, 8 June 2025

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?

Saturday, 7 June 2025

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

Friday, 6 June 2025

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

Thursday, 5 June 2025

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

Wednesday, 4 June 2025

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 

Monday, 2 June 2025

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 hereJan 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

Sunday, 1 June 2025

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

Saturday, 31 May 2025

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

Friday, 30 May 2025

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

Thursday, 29 May 2025

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

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

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

Tuesday, 27 May 2025

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?

Monday, 26 May 2025

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

Sunday, 25 May 2025

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? 


Saturday, 24 May 2025

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

Friday, 23 May 2025

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

Thursday, 22 May 2025

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

Wednesday, 21 May 2025

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”

Tuesday, 20 May 2025

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

Monday, 19 May 2025

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

Sunday, 18 May 2025

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

Saturday, 17 May 2025

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

Friday, 16 May 2025

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

Thursday, 15 May 2025

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

Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

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


Monday, 12 May 2025

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

Sunday, 11 May 2025

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

Saturday, 10 May 2025

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

Friday, 9 May 2025

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

Thursday, 8 May 2025

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

Wednesday, 7 May 2025

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

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

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


Monday, 5 May 2025

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

Sunday, 4 May 2025

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

Saturday, 3 May 2025

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

Friday, 2 May 2025

CLIMATE ALARMIST EXPOSED

Climate alarmists include some very eminent people who the public trust much more than they should. In this video Paul Burgess calls out Sir David King for making completely wrong claims which are never challenged simply because of who he is.  

The Climate Alarmism of Sir David King Exposed

Thursday, 1 May 2025

EXPOSING THE MET OFFICE DECEIT

A new scientific paper by Paul Burgess can be downloaded at: Paul Burgess | Substack Here is part of it: 

 Unreliable UK Met Office Peak Temperature Records: The Airport Runway Problem

 Author: Paul Burgess, B.Sc., M.Sc., Retired Environment Engineer and Water Resources Engineer, Specialisation in Hydro-Climatology Abstract The UK Met Office’s claimed record high temperatures, notably 40.1°C at Heathrow and 40.3°C at Coningsby in 2022, are unreliable due to unaddressed biases at airport runway sites. 

These records, widely publicised as evidence of extreme climate events, fail to account for the urban heat island (UHI) effect, ventilation issues, and sensor calibration problems inherent to airport environments. Estimates suggest the true temperature at Heathrow was likely 36.9-37°C, significantly lower than reported. Furthermore, the Met Office’s use of data from non-existent stations and statistically impossible 33-year averages for short-lived sites casts significant doubt on their data integrity. 

This paper argues that the consistent occurrence of record highs at airports is not coincidental but a direct result of these unmitigated factors, amplified by uncritical media reporting. Introduction The UK Met Office has reported unprecedented temperature records in recent years, with 40.1°C at Heathrow and 40.3°C at Coningsby in July 2022 marking the first instances of temperatures exceeding 40°C in the UK. These figures, set at airport runways, have been broadcast globally as milestones in climate history, driving narratives of escalating climate change. However, critical examination reveals that these records are unreliable due to three unaddressed factors: the UHI effect, inadequate ventilation, and potential sensor calibration errors. Compounding this, evidence from 

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests highlights the Met Office’s inclusion of data from 103 non-existent stations and the use of 33-year rolling averages for stations operational for as little as 8 years. The consistent siting of record highs at airports underscores a systemic issue, as runway environments amplify these biases. This paper explores these factors and their implications for the trustworthiness of the Met Office’s peak temper

Wednesday, 30 April 2025

THE TIME BOMB IN RENEWABLE GRIDS

Over the past decade, the UK has seen a rapid deployment of renewable energy sites. Solar and wind farms are being rolled out at scale and, on the surface, it’s a clean, green revolution. But step behind the glossy headlines and you’ll find an uncomfortable truth: the power infrastructure supporting these sites is being built to a dangerously low standard.

This isn’t just about cutting corners – it’s about systemic failure in how we treat the backbone of renewable power delivery.

 Built to fail: the silent crisis in green infrastructure

Tuesday, 29 April 2025

WILL THE UK BE NEXT?

With more than 50 million EU electricity consumers suffering blackouts yesterday, campaign group Net Zero Watch has reiterated its warning that the UK power grid is also becoming increasingly unstable.

 Net Zero Watch warns of growing GB grid instability

Monday, 28 April 2025

USA WILL NOT PHASE OUT FOSSIL FUELS

An international summit on the future of energy security opened in London on Thursday with stark opposition from Washington, which called policies to phase out fossil fuels “harmful and dangerous”, says Phys.org. What a pity our UK political leaders lack the common sense to do the same.

Meanwhile, British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband welcomed “low carbon energy” as playing “a critical role in delivering energy security”.

“As long as energy can be weaponized against us, our countries and our citizens are vulnerable and exposed,” he added. [Talkshop comment – how does importing renewables and batteries from China fit into that concept?] Answer came there none!

US opposes ‘dangerous’ anti-fossil fuel policies at global summit | Tallbloke's Talkshop

Sunday, 27 April 2025

Saturday, 26 April 2025

HYDROGEN BUSES FORCED OFF THE ROAD

In a mad rush to cut "carbon" emissions Aberdeen Council bought a very expensive fleet of buses which ran on hydrogen gas. Unfortunately they have been unable to secure a reliable supply of the gas, so they have remained out of action for the past year, A very costly white elephant. 

 Hydrogen Buses Off Road Because There Is No Hydrogen | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Thursday, 24 April 2025

BBC EXPOSED

 This brief video exposes the propaganda put out by the UK state broadcaster on climate change. It is something which many people are unaware of, since the BBC has a world-wide reputation for impartiality. We associate propaganda with dictatorships and communist regimes. Just because the BBC has this reputation makes it able to give out one-sided material and still be believed. The test is whether the BBC (or any other propaganda organisation) will allow opposing points of view to be heard. Once it is clear that they do not, then it becomes one-sided propaganda and should not be trusted.

BBC exposed: the Global State propaganda machine | Tom's Truth Bombs

Wednesday, 23 April 2025

NEW EVIDENCE - ANTARCTICA WAS WARMER 1000 YEARS AGO

Leafy moss dated to the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) has been found embedded in Antarctic glacier ice that today is “permanently snow-covered” with “no evidence of meltwater.” This affirms a warmer MWP and that “the summer melt during the MWP was greater than today.”

New Study: Plant Remains Embedded In A Modern Glacier Evidence A Warmer Antarctica 1000 Years Ago

Tuesday, 22 April 2025

A REBUTTAL OF THE CLIMATE SCARE

A new scientific paper by Paul Burgess shows how the scientific literature shows that many of the alarming claims pushed by the mainstream media are simply not supported by the scientific facts. Paul has used AI to search for the papers and here are his findings: 

Bringing it Together a paper by Paul Burgess

Monday, 21 April 2025

WIND FARM SCANDAL REVEALED

When you read about this latest wind farm scandal it shows just how wasteful the rush to achieve net zero actually is. Not only that, but the policy is not even achieving net zero. It is merely posturing and pretending to be doing something, when in practice it is destroying natural peat bog and costing a lot of money to produce a very low yield of electricity.

Rather than producing electricity at a load factor of around 50 per cent, as forecast and promoted by owner SSE Renewables, the Viking Energy wind farm has so far been churning out electricity at a rate of just 17 per cent of what is potentially possible.

The 103-turbine project became operational in summer last year.

The average load factor for onshore wind farms in the UK currently stands at 26.34 per cent. Read the details here:  

Shetland’s Viking Windfarm Scandal | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Sunday, 20 April 2025

PROOF THAT IT WAS WARMER 1000 YEARS AGO

There is now abundant evidence to show that the Earth was warmer 1000 years ago than it is today. In this short video Paul Burgess examines the factual evidence using the latest artificial intelligence tool to gather it. 

Blowing up the Alarmist Narrative It was warmer 1000 years ago!

Saturday, 19 April 2025

UK ELECTRICITY PRICES TO RISE EVEN HIGHER

The Prime Minister seems keen to move closer to the EU. He will live to regret this when electricity prices rise even higher, and so will the British people.  

Starmer’s Surrender To Brussels Will Force Up Energy Bills | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Friday, 18 April 2025

THE DECLINE OF MANN

A year ago Michael Mann was riding high after winning his 12 year old lawsuit against journalist/pundit Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg over comments sharply critical of Mann’s famed “hockey stick” graph. That graph purported to demonstrate a sharp rise in global temperature following industrialization, supposedly caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The offending comments were by Steyn in a National Review blog and by Simberg in a Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) blog. Here is a recent update:

 Michael Mann, Mark Steyn, and the Reversal of Fortune - ClimateRealism

Thursday, 17 April 2025

WIND INDUSTRY VERSUS PRESIDENT TRUMP

President Trump is clear about offshore wind. On day one of his second term, he signed an executive order titled “Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects.”

 Offshore wind developers risk trouble with Trump – CFACT

Wednesday, 16 April 2025

SECOND HAND ELECTRIC VEHICLES LOSING LOTS OF MONEY

This is a direct result of government interference in the car market. Free markets are a wonderful thing and as we move further away from them we end up in this sort of mess.

 Car Leasing Association Wants Govt Support As EV Second Hand Prices Plummet! | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Tuesday, 15 April 2025

Sunday, 13 April 2025

HYDRO-ELECTRICITY IS NOT EMISSIONS FREE AFTER ALL

Most people would think that hydro-electric schemes just using the power of flowing water would be completely free of CO2 or methane emissions, but it is wrong as this BBC article explains: 

Hydroelectricity is a hidden source of methane emissions. These people want to solve that - BBC Future

Saturday, 12 April 2025

UK LUTON AIRPORT EXPANSION APPROVED

This decision shows that, despite some members of the government being obsessed by achieving net zero at any cost, other more practical heads have decided that the economy is actually more important. 

 Luton Airport expansion plans approved by transport secretary | Tallbloke's Talkshop

Friday, 11 April 2025

AFRICA MOVING CLOSER TO RUSSIA TO DEVELOP FOSSIL FUELS

There is no doubt that Africa wants and needs to develop plentiful and cheap energy to make their lives better.

A recent African mission to Moscow has been quite productive. The Russian Export Center (REC) has organized several business missions to African countries later in 2025, with the African Energy Chamber(AEC) and Cape Town-based Energy Capital & Power, Africa’s leading energy investment platform, as REC’s main partners.

When AEC Chief Executive, NJ Ayuk, pointed out that only one bank was willing to finance coal industry expansion, REC senior vice president Nikita Gusakov said the Exim Bank of Russia would have “no problem” financing African coal projects. Another Russian group pledged to bring to realization several central African development projects. Read the full article here:

Western Green mandates push Africa toward Moscow – CFACT

Thursday, 10 April 2025

MILANKOVITCH CYCLES AND PREDICTIONS OF THE NEXT ICE AGE

This complex subject is explained in this excellent video. These cycles operate over tens of thousands of years. Far beyond the comprehension of human timescales. 

Study Uncovers How Milankovitch Cycles Work Predicting Next Ice Age

Wednesday, 9 April 2025

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE NOBLE LIE

 Many people would accept that there are times when it is ok to tell a lie, but some issues are so important that a lie is completely unacceptable. In climate change the costs are so high that we must insist on the whole truth. One new way of distorting the truth (AKA lying) is the attempt to claim that extreme weather events have been made a certain percentage worse by climate change. This is called a noble lie because it is in their mind a lie in a noble cause. These are known as climate attribution studies. This is when a particular extreme weather event is studied and then said to have been made much worse by human climate change. This article explains it clearly:

Climate change and the noble lie 

Tuesday, 8 April 2025

INSULATION SCHEME TO PAY OFF IN 100 YEARS

Insulation was installed in 14 homes in Yorkshire, at a cost of up to £44,000 per house, for the research conducted by Leeds Beckett University for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). The government-backed study showed that it could take more than a century before the cost was repaid in reduced energy bills.

The Government is expected to unveil new plans to fund retrofits in poorer homes, as well as schools and other public buildings, within weeks, as part of Labour’s manifesto pledge to upgrade five million homes to cut bills for families. But will they notice any difference?

 Net zero insulation plan won’t pay off for 100 years, Government admits | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Monday, 7 April 2025

WHY DO THEY MAKE UP DATA?

Why do these state-run weather departments carry on issuing data for temperature stations which no longer exist?

The United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) was established to provide an “accurate, unbiased, up-to-date historical climate record for the United States,” NOAA states, and it has recorded more than 100 years of daily maximum and minimum temperatures from stations across the United States.

The problem, say experts, is that an increasing number of USHCN’s stations don’t exist anymore.

“They are physically gone—but still report data—like magic,” said Lt. Col. John Shewchuk, a certified consulting meteorologist.

“NOAA fabricates temperature data for more than 30 percent of the 1,218 USHCN reporting stations that no longer exist.”

 Hidden Behind Climate Policies, Data From Nonexistent Temperature Stations - CO2 Coalition

Regular readers may remember that this is also happening here in the UK                                                                             

climate science: UK MET OFFICE UNDER SCRUTINY

Complete honesty and transparency should be the hall mark of science and the availability of data, yet what we see is the complete opposite, with data being manufactured and its source concealed. What possible reason could there be for this, other than to try and portray a false narrative?

Sunday, 6 April 2025

CORALS ARE SO TOUGH THEY SURVIVE EXTREME CLIMATE CHANGE

We are constantly told that corals are very sensitive and will be killed by a slight warming of the ocean's temperature. This is a myth as the paper in the following post explains. The damage which occurs is only temporary and the corals themselves will return again as soon as conditions become favourable again, just like a hardy plant.

We couldn’t kill the worlds corals if we wanted to: They already suffered for two thousand years and recovered « JoNova