In the UK, the forced transition to highly expensive “green” energy is sowing the seeds for a major crisis. I recall the power cuts of the early 1970s (just), where my family had a collection of oil lamps and candles… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘UK’
UK: Chief Scientist exits in a blaze of hysteria
Sir John Beddington is the outgoing Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK government, and, like our own Sir Ian Chubb, appears to take leave of his senses when it comes to climate. In a final whirlwind of alarmism, Beddington exits… Read More ›
UK: Climate indoctrination removed from schools
Cue the headbangers going ape in 3, 2, 1… Because it had become impossible to have any kind of sensible teaching of climate change in schools, the UK government is proposing to cut climate change from the syllabus for children… Read More ›
UK Climate Madness: Two billion pounds just pissed up the wall
Words. Fail. Me. Britain yesterday pledged almost £2 billion in “climate aid” to help finance foreign projects including wind turbines in Africa and greener cattle farming in Colombia. Each household will contribute £70 to schemes to tackle climate change in… Read More ›
Agenda-driven Met Office's grudging concessions to reality
It’s bizarre to watch the UK Met Office squirm as it desperately tries to maintain an ideological position in the face of conflicting evidence. I never would have believed that such a formerly respected institution, scientific impartiality at its core,… Read More ›
UK: Energy prices rise 140% in eight years
And we know the reason: misguided climate change policies forcing generators to rely on expensive, unreliable and inefficient renewables like wind, and penalising (or taxing) the use of cheap energy like coal, oil and gas. All to “save the planet”,… Read More ›
Wind power fades before it even starts
Wind power sums up green stupidity: it’s expensive, inefficient and ugly. And those are just the good points. It’s also utterly useless. As such it is a perfect monument to the Greens – in a few years time the turbines… Read More ›
UK Madness: Climate Change Act stays
When Chris Huhne resigned over an alleged driving incident, I had high hopes that Mr Windmill’s climate madness would be rapidly wound back, and the UK may be spared. Pity the poor Brits, then, as it is the Climate Change… Read More ›
Matt Ridley: The Winds of Change
Matt Ridley’s latest article in The Spectator is a must read: To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world’s energy that comes from wind turbines today is: zero. Despite the regressive subsidy (pushing pensioners into fuel poverty while improving… Read More ›
UK: £1.5bn foreign aid wasted on tackling climate change
This is the brutal reality at the pointy end of dangerous climate policies concocted in ivory towers, insulated from reality. Precious resources, which should rightly be directed towards alleviating poverty and disease, are being frittered away on pointless attempts to… Read More ›
