The current “Net Zero” agenda will backfire The whole current policy agenda associated with responding to climate change is both misguided/counterproductive and almost guaranteed to annoy those people who do not want to change. It is counterproductive because, firstly, it is based on the fantasy that renewable energy is a like for like replacement for fossil fuels. It simply is not – there is no alternative to fossil fuels for a whole range of economically vital activities (e.g. steelmaking, cement making, long-distance transport). Secondly, because following the current agenda will make e ..read more

UK Electricity Rates Five Times Higher Than China’s Thanks To Net Zero The United Nations established the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in 1988 and in 1995 the first Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP1) was held in Berlin. There has been a COP meeting every year since then, apart from 2020 when covid intervened. Last year COP28 was held in the United Arab Emirates and was attended by 84,000 delegates who flew in from all around the world to lecture the rest of us about the importance of reducing our carbon footprint. In the nearly 30 years since COP conferences began ..read more

EPA sets new regulations on ‘forever chemicals’ in US drinking water So global warming is not the only myth the EPA subscribes to. Note the weasel wording: "Has been linked to". Yes, a lot of people have linked PFAS to illness and have done so for many years. But nobody has produced good evidence for the link. Below is the most recent attempt to "link" PFAS to something. Pathetic https://pcwatch.blogspot.com/2024/03/another-pathetic-pfas-study-pfas-is.html See also: https://australian-politics.blogspot.com/2023/06/more-pfas-excitement-ever-since-erin.html The Environmental Protection Agen ..read more

The Miami Herald is (Partially) Right – Python Farming Will Not Stop Climate Change A recent article by the Miami Herald, titled “Pythons are eating the Everglades. Could eating them instead help fight climate change?” highlights some problems with a study out of Australia which proposes python farming as a solution to emissions associated with cattle farming. The Miami Herald points out major practicality issues with Python farming, but in the process misses the more important point that the shift in farming to battle climate change is unnecessary. The study, published in Scientific Report ..read more

European Court Rules Government Protection From Climate Change Is a Human Right The European Court of Human Rights sided with a group of female senior citizens who had sued its government over its perceived failures to sufficiently address climate change on human rights grounds, according to The Wall Street Journal. A group of more than 2,000 Swiss women over the age of 64 alleged that the Swiss government’s climate change policies were in violation of the right to life and other provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the court ruled in its favor in its first decision p ..read more

UK: Heat Pumps Are Unlikely To Ever Cut The Mustard Has there ever been a more pernicious lie spread by government and lobbyists than the claim that net zero will save us money? Heat pumps, for example, weren’t just supposed to ‘decarbonise’ home heating and thereby ‘save the planet’; they were all going to slash our bills as we switched from expensive gas to cheap-as-chips ‘renewable’ energy from wind and solar farms. The narrative was always flawed: if heat pumps really did promise to save us money the government would hardly need to push them at us, offering grants of £7500 through its ..read more

The ozone hole makes a comeback Are we witnessing a new chapter in the story of the ozone hole over Antarctica? The past three years have seen the re-emergence of large, long-lived ozone holes, which seem to be expanding. This raises questions over whether global efforts to heal the ozone layer have been successful. New findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggest that the ozone has not been recovering over the last few decades as many forecast it would. Analysing monthly and daily ozone readings from 2004 to 2022, the researchers found that the ozone hole contains si ..read more

Amusing Reason Strata Tower Roof Turbines Cannot Be Used The Strata SE1 Tower in London was billed as a modern source of ‘green’ energy, but it hasn’t panned out that way When the Strata SE1 tower in Elephant and Castle opened in June 2010, it marked the latest step in the area’s regeneration and was heralded as a fine example of ‘eco-friendly’ architecture. However, Londoners have noticed that one of the striking features of the 482ft residential building is never in use. The three giant turbines built into the roof of the £113.5 million structure were meant to be a source of ‘green’ en ..read more

Islands are growing, not shrinking But what's 150 square miles between friends? The sea level rise experienced in recent decades was supposed to lead to shrinking shorelines and inundated coasts. Instead, satellite observations reveal the globe’s island coasts expanded seaward (net) by 402 km² (155 mi²) since 2000. In a new study, over 13,000 islands were assessed for coastal change over the last three decades (1990-2020). Only 12% of these islands experienced significant shoreline change during this period. Thus, approximately 88% of the islands had stable coasts − neither substantial e ..read more

Early bloom of cherry blossoms another marker of climate change What presumptuous rubbish! How do they know it is an effect of global warming? They don't. It could be an effect of higher rainfall brought on by changing ocean currents. And the article itself suggests urban heat island effects increased by growing urbanization. The heading above is faith, not science Climate change is causing Japanese cherry blossoms, a famous symbol of spring, to burst into peak bloom early. From Tokyo to Paris and Washington DC, nature’s calendar has been disrupted by unprecedented warm weather that could ..read more