COP 29 diplomacy delivers perfectly vague promises a decade away

Guest essay by By David Wojick In Cop 29’s “Finance agreement” diplomacy is truly the art of agreeing to nothing. There is no agreement of substance here because there is no substance to this agreement. Each side gets its number someday and that is all there is to it. Let’s look at the actual text […]

COP 29 diplomacy delivers perfectly vague promises a decade away

COP29 Leaves Poor Countries Fuming

By Paul Homewood So the whole charade trundles on for another year:       https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8jykpdgr08t 

COP29 Leaves Poor Countries Fuming

Cold, Hungry, Mass Unemployment, No Cars, Blackouts–Welcome To Starmer’s Dystopian Future

For too long, the impact and cost of the Climate Change Act has been deliberately hidden from the public. Partly this has been the result of a political conspiracy between all of the major political parties and establishment in general. It has also been aided and abetted by all of the media, with a handful of notable exceptions.

Cold, Hungry, Mass Unemployment, No Cars, Blackouts–Welcome To Starmer’s Dystopian Future

The Climate Case of the Century

All in all, the ruling of the Hague Court of Appeal is an important first step towards restoring rationality and balance in judicial decision-making in climate cases.  The rejection of the case against Shell will have ripple effects on many other climate cases throughout the world, and should cause the EU to rethink the obligation for companies to implement a climate transition plan consistent with 1.5C.

The Climate Case of the Century

Reeves to make Bank of England put climate change and growth on equal footing

By Paul Homewood So much for the Bank’s much vaunted independence!     Rachel Reeves is planning to make the Bank of England take climate change as seriously as growth, as the Chancellor seeks to use her maiden Budget to overhaul the economy. In a letter to Governor Andrew Bailey on Wednesday, Ms Reeves is […]

Reeves to make Bank of England put climate change and growth on equal footing

Greens Declare War on Growing Your Own Greens

Many green extremists seem to take the view that anything humans do, including growing their own veg, is causing existential harm to the planet. What they really hate, some may conclude, are humans themselves. Treble bongs all round.

Greens Declare War on Growing Your Own Greens

Chris Martz Asks Climate Fundamentalists Ten Fundamental Questions

I guarantee not one person will give me a coherent point-by-point answer.

Chris Martz Asks Climate Fundamentalists Ten Fundamental Questions

Climatists’ War on Meat updated

Tyler Durden reports at Zerohedge Meat Substitutes Still A Tiny Sliver Of US Meat Market.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. Over the past few years, plant-based meat substitutes have come closer and closer to mimicking the real thing, with brands like Beyond Meat having even sussed out how to create fake meat that “bleeds”. But, as Statista’s […]

Climatists’ War on Meat updated

Labour’s Climate Sleaze

By Paul Homewood     LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Britain on Thursday named Oxford University professor Rachel Kyte as its new climate envoy and announced a new investment facility, the latest steps in the new government’s efforts to bolster Britain’s role in international climate politics. The appointment of Kyte, a climate policy professor, as the UK’s […]

Labour’s Climate Sleaze

Phoebe Plummer of Just Stop Oil Sentenced to Two Years–JSO Sad

hoebe and Anna have just been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months in prison respectively after throwing soup over the glass frame of Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’.

Phoebe Plummer of Just Stop Oil Sentenced to Two Years–JSO Sad

Roger Pielke Jr. details ‘The Top Five Climate Science Scandals’: Study claiming no ‘climate crisis’ retracted ‘for not for being wrong…but instead for expressing views that are politically unhelpful’

What matters is what happens when mistakes are made.

Roger Pielke Jr. details ‘The Top Five Climate Science Scandals’: Study claiming no ‘climate crisis’ retracted ‘for not for being wrong…but instead for expressing views that are politically unhelpful’

Globe-Trotting Climate Activist Fined 100,000 Euros After Blocking Frankfurt Airport

If NGOs or collection campaigns don’t help out, the climate-blocking criminal could end up in prison as a substitute. How many years would that amount to?

Globe-Trotting Climate Activist Fined 100,000 Euros After Blocking Frankfurt Airport

Ed Miliband’s Hard Left Policy Team

By Paul Homewood Guido has news on the batch of SpAds advising the clueless Ed Miliband. Their extreme backgrounds are s concerning as Miliband’s own. The fact that he has picked these says it all.

Ed Miliband’s Hard Left Policy Team

Earth 14 years away from Ted Turner’s 2038 Countdown to Cannibalism: 2008 Flashback: ‘Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals’

We’ll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

Earth 14 years away from Ted Turner’s 2038 Countdown to Cannibalism: 2008 Flashback: ‘Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals’

Exposing the Financial Web: Clinton-Run Organizations Funding Climate Activists

American voters who have bought tote bags decorated with pictures of Mrs Clinton or sweatshirts promoting abortion rights have inadvertently funded disruption in the UK.

Exposing the Financial Web: Clinton-Run Organizations Funding Climate Activists

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