By Paul Homewood The Telegraph report: Overly ambitious sales targets and new taxes on electric vehicles (EVs) are putting more UK car plants at risk of closure, manufacturers have warned.
UK Car Industry At Risk From EV Mandates
UK Car Industry At Risk From EV Mandates
29 Mar 2025 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmentalism Tags: British politics, electric cars
UK report: Wind won’t work without storage
28 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, climate activists, climate alarmism, solar power, wind power
As if we didn’t know…’A large increase in energy storage will be critical to ensuring a clean power system by 2030′ – ELN summary. Two problems there: it’s unaffordable and impractical. Using words like ‘must’ and ‘critical’ is just foot-stamping, leading nowhere. Where would all the storage come from in that timescale, or any timescale […]
UK report: Wind won’t work without storage
Trump’s Energy Secretary Offers Africa Freedom from Biden’s Climate Imperialism
28 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, Africa
“It’s a paternalistic post-colonial attitude that I just can’t stand,” Wright said of the climate evangelism that sought to force others to abandon fossil fuels and adopt largely useless technologies like solar and wind energy.
Trump’s Energy Secretary Offers Africa Freedom from Biden’s Climate Imperialism
Climate change can teach children about race, national curriculum review told
28 Mar 2025 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of climate change, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: British politics, climate activists, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Cunningham Proof that the climate agenda was never really about climate: From the Telegraph: Climate change can be used to teach children about race, a national curriculum review has been told. Global warming should be used to allow teachers and pupils to “explore conversations about […]
Climate change can teach children about race, national curriculum review told
The Eyewatering Cost Of Heat Pumps
27 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, fisheries economics, global warming Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Cunningham Heat pumps were supposed to coming down in price, we were told. Instead the opposite has occurred. The Telegraph report: “The cost of fitting a heat pump has risen by a third in six years despite generous government grants – leading critics to accuse installers […]
The Eyewatering Cost Of Heat Pumps
US Supreme Court Rejects Long Running Youth Climate Lawsuit
26 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights Tags: climate activists, nuisance suits
Bye bye Juliana v. United States.
US Supreme Court Rejects Long Running Youth Climate Lawsuit
Medieval Warm Period Undeniable, Pronounced In Antarctica And Poland, 2 New Studies Show
25 Mar 2025 1 Comment
in economic history, economics of climate change, economics of natural disasters, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
The two new studies from Antarctica and Poland indicate that the natural climate factors still need to be much better understood in order to be able to incorporate them faithfully into climate models. Currently, the simulations do not attribute a major role to natural climate events, which is a serious mistake.
Medieval Warm Period Undeniable, Pronounced In Antarctica And Poland, 2 New Studies Show
Beware: Flawed Energy Assumptions Incite Delusional Scenarios
23 Mar 2025 1 Comment
in econometerics, economic history, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming
Mark P. Mills and Neil Atkinson blow the whistle on projections written in International Energy Agency’s (IEA) latest report, the World Energy Outlook. Below is the announcement of the report findings, key exhibits and Executive summary, excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. Link to full study at the end. Overview Industry players […]
Beware: Flawed Energy Assumptions Incite Delusional Scenarios
Mann loses 99.5% of his damages
23 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: climate activists, climate alarmism, defamation
Climate scientist Michael Mann won $1 million in a defamation lawsuit against writer Mark Steyn. However the damages have been reduced to $5,000 due to false claims by Mann about lost grants. Some extracts from the recent court ruling: It seems Dr Mann has done more damage to his own reputation through this lawsuit, than […]
Mann loses 99.5% of his damages
Nigel Lawson would have been delighted with Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Net Zero Scepticism’
19 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics
By Paul Homewood We will have to wait and see if this is just window dressing from Kemi, or the first chink in the Net Zero armour. The real problem though is that Miliband will have done so much damage by 2030 that it will prove impossible to reverse in our lifetimes. […]
Nigel Lawson would have been delighted with Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Net Zero Scepticism’
Professor: We Need a “Me Too” Movement to Expose Climate Liars
19 Mar 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, economics of education, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: climate activists
Would a society where climate dishonesty is unacceptable deter climate skeptics?
Professor: We Need a “Me Too” Movement to Expose Climate Liars
Germany’s First Offshore Wind Farm To Be Dismantled After Just 15 Years Of Operation
18 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: Germany, wind power
The Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm near German North Sea island of Borkum is set to be dismantled after being in operation for only 15 years.
Germany’s First Offshore Wind Farm To Be Dismantled After Just 15 Years Of Operation
It has become too unprofitable to operate without massive subsidies.
EPA questions 31 major energy regulations
17 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice Tags: 2024 presidential election
What is certain is that 31 big fights lie ahead making this EPA combined action a truly breathtaking event. Stay tuned to CFACT as this supreme battle unfolds.
EPA questions 31 major energy regulations
Labour Energy Price Lies In Australia
16 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler Sounds like Australia’s Labour have been telling the same porkies a Britain’s! Jo Nova has the story: As the Opposition point out the Labor government went to the last election telling us 97 times how they would make our electricity $275 cheaper, but with the […]
Labour Energy Price Lies In Australia
Share the “Deep Internal Conflict” of the Green Aussie Billionaire who Just Bought a Private Jet
15 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, transport economics Tags: climate activists
“… so I can run a global business from Australia, and still be a constantly present dad …”
Share the “Deep Internal Conflict” of the Green Aussie Billionaire who Just Bought a Private Jet
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