Climate Professor Thinks We Should ‘Cull’ the Human Population to Reach Emissions Targets
By Paul Homewood
h/t Dave Ward
Professor Bill McGuire is a well-known vulcanologist and climate scientist who doesn’t care much for humanity. He tweeted out a scathingly brilliant idea if you’re in the mortuary business or work as a grave digger.
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By Paul Homewood
Since the 1970s, China has been waging an effective long-term strategy to transform its energy resource vulnerabilities into a net advantage. China’s growing control of and influence over global energy supply chains is providing it with new sources of leverage. Worse still, the U.S. is actively contributing to China’s dominance over the green energy domain while failing to exploit the challenges China has in this sector. With the energy policy trajectory under the Biden Administration, China is positioned to dominate future energy markets for decades to come. This dominance is not inevitable—but the U.S. must act now to prevent it and to free itself from its self-imposed “Chinese handcuffs.”
Greta’s Halo Slips
By Paul Homewood
Brendan O’Neill: Queen Greta has exposed the truth about the green movement
The Daily Telegraph, 12 May 2024
There is a reason, beyond bandwagon-jumping, why climate zealots are raging against Israel. They feel revulsion at capitalism and modernity
So, Greta Thunberg has a new cause. She’s found a new crusade to throw her weight behind. Forget saving the planet – now she wants to save Palestine.
Yes, the pint-sized prophetess of doom has swapped raging against industrialism for raging against Israel. Mother Nature will just have to wait – her erstwhile valiant defender is busy fixing the Middle East now.
Yesterday, Greta was snapped at the protest in Malmo, Sweden against Israel’s inclusion in the Eurovision Song Contest.
She looked the part. She had a keffiyeh draped over her shoulders and a smug look on her face: the two must-haves of every puffed-up bourgeois activist who gets off on fuming against Israel.
The keffiyeh really has become the uniform of the self-righteous. Go into a hip coffee shop or overpriced Soho burger joint and I guarantee you’ll see a Gen Z’er decked out in the Palestinian scarf.
Whatever happened to the sin of “cultural appropriation”? Not long ago, the right-on raged against white dudes who wear their hair in dreadlocks and white women who don kominos. “Stop stealing other people’s culture!”, they’d yell. Yet now they themselves spend their days in Arab attire.
That image of Greta in Malmo, looking very satisfied with herself, summed up the role the keffiyeh plays in the life of the 21st-century activist. Keffiyeh-wearing is less about drawing attention to the plight of the Palestinians than drawing attention to you. Look at me in my Arab garb, aren’t I good and hyper socially aware – that’s the needy cry of these hipster appropriators.
By Paul Homewood
Nice one Nicola!
Scotland’s oil and gas industry is estimated to have lost tens of thousands of jobs more jobs than has been gained from renewables in the nation’s green revolution over a decade leading to grave disquiet over how the nation’s energy economy is being handled, the Herald on Sunday can reveal.
The oil and gas industry in Scotland has shed nearly 40% of its jobs amounting to 50,000 in Scotland over a decade, according to industry figures – while the number gained from low carbon enterprises has risen by just 2,500.
It has raised serious concerns over promises from the Scottish Government that the just transition from fossil fuel production to low carbon "means an opportunity to protect, build and create jobs".
The Scottish oil and gas jobs loss has come despite the UK Government pressing ahead with new licensing for fossil fuels projects.
Ministers have now been accused by unions of mismanaging Scotland’s energy sector and of having "no credible plan" for the future while the green jobs revolution is being described as "remaining a myth".
Biggest Solar Farm In Wales Planned
By Paul Homewood
Meanwhile Wales Online inform us that a new solar farm will power 100,000 homes:
Maybe somebody ought to explain to those 100,000 homeowners that they will only have electricity for a few hours a day in summer, not even that in winter.
If it goes ahead, the project will receive over £150 million in subsidies, based on current prices. That’s £1500 for each of those lucky homeowners.
No wonder NextEnergy are keen to get to get involved.
By Paul Homewood
I wonder whose bright idea that was?
https://twitter.com/OzaNandini/status/1777941616562733520
The concept of floating solar power is taking on water after a storm knocked a new Indian project offline only a few days after it began operations.
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
The sale of new petrol-fuelled motorcycles is set to be banned from 2040, under plans due to be announced by ministers as part of the Government’s net zero crackdown.
The move would affect all vehicles classed as “L3” and upwards, including scooters and light, medium and higher-powered motorcycles. There are around 1.3 million motorcycles registered in the UK.
It is expected to be revealed soon, according to industry sources, although it is not clear whether Downing Street has signed off on the policy yet.
The change would also be accompanied by a plan to ban sales of new petrol-fuelled mopeds earlier, from 2030.
That reflects the already-high numbers of electric mopeds being sold. They accounted for roughly half of UK moped registrations last year.
By contrast, the market for electric motorcycles is far less developed and represented less than 2pc of total sales in 2023.
They also suffer from some of the same “range anxiety” issues as electric cars, with many e-motorcycles currently limited to ranges of less than 100 miles while not all are compatible by default with electric car charging stations.
Taxpayer-backed net zero group donates to Labour
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
A government-backed organisation that raises cash for net zero projects has donated £100,000 of support to Labour.
By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
The Net Zero disaster lurches from one crisis to another:
The Energy Secretary has scrapped plans for a pilot “hydrogen town” after a wave of protests against earlier trials.
Claire Coutinho has shelved proposals to force thousands of homes and businesses to replace their natural gas supplies with hydrogen by 2030 to test the fuel’s viability.
Aberdeen, Scunthorpe, and two Welsh towns were among those being considered for wholesale conversion to hydrogen for heating.
It was meant to be a trial run to test the use of low-carbon hydrogen as a replacement for natural gas, which was being considered as part of the UK’s drive to reach net zero by 2050.
However, ministers have been forced into a rethink following a wave of protests in two smaller communities – Redcar in Yorkshire and Whitby, near Ellesmere Port – that had been earmarked as testbed “hydrogen villages”. Both proposed trials were ultimately abandoned.
By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
Utter insanity in the name of saving the planet!
Giant heat pumps powering a district heating network could turn the retirement resort of Worthing, West Sussex into one of the UK’s greenest towns under government plans.
The £500m plan will see heat extracted from the atmosphere and then pumped first to public buildings and eventually to households in the area.
Worthing is one of the UK’s most gas-reliant towns with boilers installed in 77pc of its homes, and has an ageing housing stock that generally has below-average levels of insulation, according to constituency data.
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