The EU’s net zero retreat is gathering steam

By Paul Homewood     Building new gas power plants will, of course, “only make the transition to renewables-based power unnecessarily costly”. How do I know?  Because I heard it from a bunch of climate activists calling themselves Beyond Fossil Fuels. What’s more, building new gas plants runs contrary to the “emerging consensus” that Europe […]

The EU’s net zero retreat is gathering steam

Labour’s net zero target faces £116bn ‘investment challenge’

Challenge is putting it mildly. Cloud cuckoo land beckons once again in the form of impossible but supposedly climate-related targets. Some timescales are hard to shorten just by uttering demands. – – – A report by Policy Exchange, supported by analysis from Aurora Energy Research, outlines challenges facing Labour’s aim to achieve a decarbonised power […]

Labour’s net zero target faces £116bn ‘investment challenge’

Real ‘Green’ Energy: Germany Bulldozes Ancient Fairytale Forest For Wind Turbines

If the wilderness being turned into smouldering ash is used as a platform for hundreds of 260m high/300 tonne industrial juggernauts, it’s all for the greater good (as in the case above, where huge areas of pristine tropical rainforest is being wiped out in Far North Queensland to make way for hundreds of these things). […]

Real ‘Green’ Energy: Germany Bulldozes Ancient Fairytale Forest For Wind Turbines

California’s Electricity Disaster In Seven Charts

Residential electricity prices jumped nearly 12% in 2023 and they are going higher. But the carbon intensity of power generation isn’t falling and low-income ratepayers are subsidizing the rich.

California’s Electricity Disaster In Seven Charts

Massive Wind & Solar Subsidies Principal Cause of Your Rocketing Power Bills

It takes more than just your average leap of logic to contend that the grand wind and solar ‘transition’ constitutes rational energy policy. That so-called ‘policy’ means doling out massive subsidies to wind and solar generators for weather-dependent occasional power; then subsidising coal-fired power plants to stay operating to fill the ‘gaps’ caused by sunset […]

Massive Wind & Solar Subsidies Principal Cause of Your Rocketing Power Bills

History of weather extremes reveals little has changed, new report shows

By Paul Homewood London, 22 March – A new report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation challenges the popular but mistaken belief that weather extremes – such as flooding, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires – are more common and more intense today because of climate change.

History of weather extremes reveals little has changed, new report shows

Mega-Battery Owners Rolling in Cash Whenever Wind & Solar Output Collapse

Sunset and calm weather provides the perfect opportunity for rent-seekers profiting from the market chaos that follows. The owners of fast-start diesel and gas-generators make out like bandits, as the spot price for power goes from less than $100 per MWh to tens of thousands of dollars per MWh. Couple a sudden collapse of wind […]

Mega-Battery Owners Rolling in Cash Whenever Wind & Solar Output Collapse

USA Oil Production Sets World Record… Again

Despite the worst efforts of the incontinent temporary occupant of the White House… The USA “produces mot crude oil than any country”… EVAH

USA Oil Production Sets World Record… Again

Climate: The Movie

Martin Durkin’s Climate:The Movie is now released: Climate The Movie from Martin Durkin on Vimeo. This film exposes the climate alarm as an invented scare without any basis in science. It shows that mainstream studies and official data do not support the claim that we are witnessing an increase in extreme weather events – hurricanes, […]

Climate: The Movie

“Make politicians afraid to start their cars again”: British Wannabe Ecoterrorist Jailed for 13 Years

“… exchanged messages with others who shared his hatred of government in groups called Earth Militia, Total Earth Liberation and Neo Luddite Action. …”

“Make politicians afraid to start their cars again”: British Wannabe Ecoterrorist Jailed for 13 Years

Europe’s Wind Industry Collapse Leaves Wind Power Cult Searching For New False Idols

Wind power acolytes exhibit all the hallmarks of a cult. 20 years on, and anyone with critical faculties can explain in a sentence why wind power will never amount to meaningful power generation source. But the cultist still believes – running on a mix of blind faith, ignorance and blissful stupidity. Cults are never big […]

Europe’s Wind Industry Collapse Leaves Wind Power Cult Searching For New False Idols

The cost of net zero

Emeritus Professor of Engineering Mike Kelly has published a paper estimating the costs to New Zealand to achieve net zero emissions. He says three major projects would need to be completed: And this has to be done within the next 26 years. The electricity sector would need to grow from 155 PJ to 425 PJ. […]

The cost of net zero

Aussie Renewable Investment Slumped 80% in 2023

Rooftop solar / battery installations were the exception. Perhaps Aussie households are preparing for the coming grid failure?

Aussie Renewable Investment Slumped 80% in 2023

‘Trust science’, Paris mayor boasts as city declares ‘there will be no air conditioning in Olympic athletes’ rooms ‘to cut the carbon footprint’ of summer Olympics

There will be no air conditioning in the athletes’ rooms at Paris 2024, which has pledged to host the “greenest ever” Games. … Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo told those nations planning on installing air conditioning at the athletes’ village to “trust the science” instead..

‘Trust science’, Paris mayor boasts as city declares ‘there will be no air conditioning in Olympic athletes’ rooms ‘to cut the carbon footprint’ of summer Olympics

Aussie Security Committee Madness: Spy Agency Chiefs Kicked Out, Replaced by Climate Head

Imagine if the CIA and FBI were disinvited from the US National Security Council, and replaced by the head of the EPA. Because this is the grotesque level of government incompetence Aussies are enduring.

Aussie Security Committee Madness: Spy Agency Chiefs Kicked Out, Replaced by Climate Head

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