Angela Knight Speaks About UK Energy Policy
March 29, 2015
By Paul Homewood
Angela Knight gave a speech at the University of the West of England, in the Bristol Distinguished Address Series last week.
Angela was a Treasury Minister from 1995-97, and has subsequently been Chief Exec of the British Bankers Association, and most recently Chief Executive of Energy UK, the trade association for the energy industry. The subject of her address was energy policy in the UK.
Although there was nothing in the speech that most of us were not already aware of, she does succinctly sum up most of the issues very well.
Well worth a listen, particularly from 15 minutes in, till about 40 minutes, when she concentrates on the effects of the Climate Change Act and EU policies.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
That speech ought to be compulsory listening for our political class and the Green lobby. Far too many warnings in there to be ignored.
I can’t better that comment.
I will also attempt to get it out to a wider audience, thanks for the heads up paul.
Hi. I enjoy your daily posts and especially your efforts to present facts over hype. Unfortunately the decision makers in this world could care less about truth. I have come across a very interesting article in Vol 22, No 2 of Nexus magazine, which I picked up and read for the first time a few days ago. I bought it when I saw one of the story lines displayed on the cover : Ocean acidification : another climate change fraud. In what is a pretty much a left leaning magazine, I found the article to be quite astonishing. I don’t recall reading about this in any of your posts, but then I am old and may have forgotten.AT any rate, the two page article on pages 10/11 refers to the extensive work done by Dr. Richard Feely of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, and his assertions that the oceans have undergone rapid increases in acidification since the late 1700’s, particularly since 1988. Most recently, his paper appeared on the website Quest. He is an alarmist of the first order.Enter hydrologist Mike Wallace, who did some rather intensive reviews of Feely’s work and discovered that 80 years of records were omitted from Feely’s various papers and charts. This has led to a rather embittered exchange from Feely and his supporters to Wallace. Because, if Wallace is correct, and it certainly appears that he is, there has been no increase in ocean acidification.So, I don’t know if you have looked into this, but it is most certainly of interest.Thanks again for all your work.Carl Howell, Muskegon, Michigan
Hi Carl
Actually, to monitor and report on pH change of the oceans seems to me an impossible task as the error of reading / due mostly to calibration, is much greater than any change that you [hope] to see.
My take it on it is that the mass of sea water is so vast and the amount of salt in the water is so big, that any man made pH change is too small to be actually measurable compared to the natural pH change due to natural climate change.
Fact is that most people do not even understand the very basics of the chemistry involved in the sea water. Any (good) chemist knows that there are giga tons and giga tons of bi-carbonates dissolved in the oceans and that (any type of) warming would cause it to be released:
HCO3- + heat => CO2 (g) + OH-, raising the pH.
This is the actual reason we are alive today. Cause and effect, get it? There is a causal relationship. More warming naturally causes more CO2. It is not the other way around, as Al Gore alleges in his movie. Without warmth and carbon dioxide there would be nothing, really. To make that what we dearly want, i.e. more crops, more trees, lawns and animals and people, nature uses water and carbon dioxide and warmth, mostly. The fact that humanity adds a bit of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is purely co-incidental, and appears to be beneficial, if you want to have a green world.
The opposite, is what is happening now, [as my results clearly show that earth is cooling down]
CO2(g) +2H2O + cold => HCO3- + H3O+
lowering the pH.
Just think about that. It is just basic chemistry…..
Angela Knight does criticise the Climate Change Act, but unfortunately she accepts that climate change is a serious issue that needs addressing, so she has a lot of the baggage that goes with that. If you want to hear a politician who has really looked into the issue you should listen to Ted Cruze the Republican presidential candidate.
@Carl
I hope you get back to me on that comment, even if just to say have thought about it.