Utopia, you are standing in it!

The author notes, with examples, that ‘it is difficult to reconcile this latest research with many other lines of inquiry to determine past temperatures.’ Using a single computer model to ‘fill in gaps’ in data has its own drawbacks, as mentioned below.
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Modern warming differs from the gradual rise in temperature seen in the past 10,000 years. That’s the conclusion of a paper just published in the journal Nature, says David Whitehouse.

Reconstructing the temperature timeline back to 24,000 years ago – the so-called Last Glacial Maximum – a team of researchers show that recent warming is unusual.

Knowledge of past climate is important to put our present climate into context, allowing us to see what climatic variations can take place in the absence of contemporary amounts of greenhouse gasses.

Add ‘wind’, ‘solar’ or ‘renewable’ to a financial asset and you’ll soon have a line of suckers between here and the horizon.

The canny investor knows that, if it’s too good to be true, it is. However, that doesn’t curb the enthusiasm of those eager to take your money and run.

Not that the habit of fleecing investors is exclusive to the wind and solar industries, heaven forbid. However, as Paul Homewood outlines below, these boys are very good at it; provided that the subsidies keep flowing.

Solar Subsidy Farming
Not a Lot of People Know That
Paul Homewood
9 September 2021

There’s an outfit called Next Energy Solar Fund, who are after your money to invest in solar projects:

https://www.nextenergysolarfund.com/solar-asset-portfolio/

Next Energy don’t directly own the solar farms, it is merely the holding company for a number of shell companies who do own them. This is advantageous to them…

The Reserve Bank says climate change is a risk to financial stability. It is proposing to regulate accordingly. A recent paper by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds weather disasters are profitable for large banks because they increase loans. In view of the apparent gulf in the two positions, and the lack of any credible evidence so far from the Reserve Bank for its position, the Bank needs to reconcile the gap between its position and the evidence.

Yesterday, I sent the following email to the Reserve Bank. It includes a promise to OIA the Bank at the end of February with a goal of finding out what the Bank has done with these papers:

From: Matt Burgess
Sent: Thursday, 18 November 2021 6:20 pm
To: xxxxxxxxxxxx@rbnz.govt.nz
Subject: Research on climate change and financial stability

Dear xxxxxxxx

In view the Reserve Bank’s interest in climate change, I attach…

On 12 October 1917 the following event took place about three miles from Passchendaele Ridge in Belgium: A soldier who had been slightly wounded in the fighting earlier that day left the line to find the nearest casualty clearing station. In the gloom, he deviated from the wooden duckboard path which snaked its way through the mire. Later he was discovered stuck fast in a shell hole. He was only a few yards from where he had started some hours before. Men were called up. Ropes and spades were brought forward. Repeated efforts were made to dig or pull him out. At one moment there were sixteen men working on this task. When his battalion was relieved the following night he was still stuck fast. His fate is unknown. But the probability that he drowned in the mud is very high.

What we will investigate is:

1. why men were sent…

Blackadder Goes Forth is the fourth and final series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, which aired from 28 September to 2 November 1989 on BBC One. The series placed the recurring characters of Blackadder, Baldrick and George in a trench in Flanders during World War I, and followed their various doomed attempts to escape from the trenches to avoid certain death under the misguided command of General Melchett. The series is particularly noted for its criticism of the British Army leadership during the campaign, and also refers to a number of famous figures of the age. In addition, the series is remembered for the poignant ending of the final episode.

By Dr Gary Sheffield

The scale of human devastation during World War One has often been blamed on incompetent leadership. Dr Gary Sheffield offers an alternative view.

The generals

Douglas Haig was ‘brilliant…