New Report Reveals Massive Scale of Green Billionaire Funding of ‘Climate Emergency’ Reporting in Mainstream Media
By Paul Homewood
We have been aware for years of the baleful influence of left wing billionaire foundations on climate policy.
Now a new report uncovers how the media has been corrupted by their money as well:
A massive global grooming programme aimed at mostly mainstream media involving climate catastrophism and Net Zero promotion is detailed in a recently published report from the green billionaire-funded Internews’s Earth Journalism Network (EJN). The work is a shocking insight into the corruption of independent, investigative journalism. At one point the report observes “a concerning trend among journalists in some countries still seeking to ‘balance’ their climate change reporting”. The report shows clearly that the green billionaires are calling most of the shots in promoting stories of Net Zero-inspired climate collapse. It is noted that they may fund journalists “to cover stories in a particular subject area, determined by funder interests and goals”.
Full story here.
Starmer risks losing support for fighting climate change
By Paul Homewood
The general election is now dominating our national life, generating wall-to-wall media coverage. But while dramas such as Nigel Farage’s decision to stand in Clacton, Rishi Sunak’s D-Day blunder and the first two television debates dominate the headlines, far less noticed was Labour’s energy policy announcement.
Party leader Sir Keir Starmer pledged to turn Britain into an “energy superpower … by scaling up renewables”. That would “close the door on Putin”, he said, “so Britain won’t be reliant on Russia or other foreign suppliers”.
Labour has pledged to create Great British Energy, a Scottish-based state-owned company that will invest in renewables.
The party’s “green prosperity plan” will be funded, said Starmer, by a further toughening of the windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas operators.
Central to the party’s plan are “cheap renewables” – with senior figures not only in Labour, but across all the main parties, repeatedly insisting that wind, solar and other renewable energy sources are far less expensive than other fuel sources.
But that’s not true.
Updated Hydrogen Costings
By Paul Homewood
The cost of producing and installing electrolysers for green hydrogen production in China, the US and Europe — three of the world’s biggest markets — has risen by more than 50% compared to last year, research house BloombergNEF (BNEF) has found, rather than the gradual reduction its analysis had previously indicated.
The main culprit for Western manufacturers has been inflation, which has pushed up the costs of materials, utilities (such as water and electricity) and labour in the US and Europe, said BNEF in its new report, Electrolyser Price Survey 2024.
As a result, average system-level cost (including both stack and balance of plant) is now at a mid-range of $600/kW for an electrolyser made in China, while machines made in Europe or the US are around $2,500/kW.
This makes Western electrolysers four times more expensive than Chinese equivalents, a gap that has not closed at all since the previous report, BNEF noted.
The research house had previously predicted that costs would gradually decline over three years from 2022, as more large-scale projects approached completion.
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Green hydrogen, once touted as a saviour of Net Zero, seems to have gone off the radar recently. A few years ago there were wild, unsubstantiated predictions that hydrogen would become so cheap and easy to produce that we could all give up fossil fuels.
Instead, as Bloomberg now report, costs of electrolysers are going up, not down. Moreover the real cost of wind power is also much higher than previously thought, so green hydrogen will be much more expensive as a result.
So let’s take a closer look at these costs.
NZW says Labour and Policy Exchange tricked
By Paul Homewood
London: 10 June 2024
NZW says Labour and Policy Exchange tricked
Net Zero Watch says that the Labour Party and the Conservative thinktank Policy Exchange have both been taken in by misleading information issued by the energy analysts Aurora.
Aurora performed the modelling behind a 2024 Policy Exchange paper on decarbonising the grid. It was cited last week by Claire Coutinho, who noted its conclusion that Labour’s 2030 timetable for Net Zero was unachievable. It was also cited by Ed Miliband, who pointed to its conclusion that Labour’s decarbonisation plans would deliver cost savings to consumers.
However, energy writer David Turver has now shown that Aurora’s financial assumptions bear little resemblance to reality. Mr Turver said:
Aurora are assuming costs for renewables that are a fraction of what we know apply in reality. They have also left out the costs of grid upgrades, hydrogen storage and carbon capture. There are hundreds of billions of pounds missing from their analysis. The cost savings they claim are completely spurious.
Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford said:
It’s sad to see an influential think tank like Policy Exchange publishing such risible nonsense, but it’s always a risk when taking numbers directly from the green lobby.
And Mr Montford called for politicians to come clean about the costs of Net Zero.
Last year, Mr Sunak said the public needed to be told the truth about the costs of Net Zero. But he, Keir Starmer, Claire Coutinho and Ed Miliband are still bandying about figures that are no better than fantasy.
By Paul Homewood
New Zealand was on Saturday night expected to revoke a ban on drilling for oil and gas amid fears of blackouts, as Labour plans to impose a similar crackdown on the North Sea.
The country’s coalition government is preparing to invite energy companies to resume exploration in the three major offshore fields that supply most of its gas.
It comes after National Grid operator Transpower was last month forced to warn families to limit their electricity usage to avoid a shutdown during a cold snap.
The decision to reverse the ban, made by resources minister Shane Jones, will be a setback for green activists and likely to be regarded as a blow for Labour after Ed Miliband has repeatedly pledged to halt new drilling for oil and gas in UK waters.
Dyce Weather Station Next To Runway
By Paul Homewood
Thanks to Ray Sanders for this latest piece of sleuthing!
One of the Net Office’s temperature recording stations is at Aberdeen Dyce Airport. It has been operational since 1959.
Ray has managed to locate the weather station, which is about 50m from the aircraft pictured on the runway, and only a few yards from a road and car park.
It has a WMO classification of Class 4, meaning there is uncertainty of up to 2C.
Aberdeen Dyce Airport
Dyce is a busy hub, handling 75000 flights last year and 2.3 million passengers.
As with other airports, the 1959 version would have been smaller with much less infrastructure.
By Paul Homewood
h/t Philip Bratby
Blackouts in 2030 or 2035? Vote Now!!
The public simply don’t believe the Met Office lies anymore;
The rich will soon pay a heavy price for net zero
By Paul Homewood
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Will net zero upend our lifestyles? Will we fly less, turn down our thermostats, become vegans?
The British public are already feeling the effects – from the push to buy EVs and install heat pumps, to Ulez, low-traffic neighbourhoods and the endless restrictions on plastics.
Although the UK became the first country to halve emissions over the last 50 years, many insist we must go further, faster to tackle the “climate breakdown”.
Consider a new Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) report on transport emissions. The think tank has created 12 profiles that describe the ways people travel now and the “opportunities” for different groups as we hurtle towards net zero. These include “flying less”, “more public transport” and a “shift to an electric vehicle”.
Those in the “car reliant” group, who overwhelmingly have children and are 10 times more likely to use a personal vehicle than travel by public transport or walk/cycle, are encouraged to use social leasing schemes and car clubs if they cannot afford an EV.
In other words, decades of rising car ownership, with all the freedom and independence it has brought, could come to an abrupt end.
By Paul Homewood
Hardly surprising!
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If the polls are correct, Labour will be in government in less than a month from now, yet the party’s policies are already having an impact on business.
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