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Wednesday, January 08, 2025

How Net Zero Will Bankrupt Nations And Their People

As other nations, including Germany which was always one of the front runners in the race to Net Zero, pull back from their unrealistic decrbonisation targets, it seems only the UK's fanatically 'woke' Labour government is fully committed to destroying the national economy in pursuit of this idiotic Green fantasy. There is hope however, as more crackpot schemes to move us nearer to Net Zero fail, a backlash from the public and business is gaining momentum.

 from GWPF, 8 January 2025

The UK faces a £200 billion bill to rewire the country if the government follows through on plans to electrify the country’s homes and transport systems. That’s because installation of electric car chargers and heat pumps will push up demand for power beyond the capacity of the existing wiring.

The findings are set out in a new report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which is published today. According to author Mike Travers, this will mean that most streets in the UK will need to be dug up (with diesel-driven machinery):

“At present new home car chargers and heat pumps are using up all the spare capacity. But we will soon reach the point where the network will not be able to handle the extra demand. So in towns and cities, the underground cables which carry the power will be inadequate. That means that we are going to have to dig up almost every urban street and many rural ones too. The whole distribution grid is going to need to be replaced.”

And the cables that carry power into the homes will need to be dug up too. The cost will be enormous.

According to Travers:

“The power cables taking electricity into your home probably run underneath your front drive. So if you want a car charger and a heat pump you are going to have to pay to dig it up. If you have an expensive monoblocked drive, that will not be cheap. Distribution boards, main fuses and smart meters in homes are going to have to be upgraded too.”

Travers has estimated the cost of all this work at around £200 billion, even before considering the cost caused by the disruption. “Many homeowners will be paying thousands”, he says. 

Notes for journalists

Mike Travers CEng, MIMechE, FIET is an electrical engineer, whose career spanned periods in the Royal Engineers, in the hydroelectric sector, and industry. He previously sat on the the IET Wiring Regulations Committee and was the industry representative on the committee that rewrote the Grid Codes for Scotland. 

His paper is entitled The Hidden Cost of Net Zero: Rewiring the UK and can be downloaded here (pdf)

Other independent studies have suggested that for the UK, were Net Zero even achievable the cost would be in £trillions rather than billions. 

 

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Wednesday, October 09, 2024

Biden-Harris Admin ship ELECTRIC chainsaws to communities WITHOUT POWER – ‘The priority is to make sure hurricane aid is zero-emission’

posted by Arthur Foxake, 9 October 2024

You just couldn't make up this shit.

From Climate Depot

The priority for Team Harris is making sure hurricane recovery efforts are zero-emission. That their efforts are of zero-help is apparently of little concern.

Not The Bee (10/8/24) article: “My friends, we have reached peak government inefficiency: ‘The government shipped up 3 pallets of electric chainsaws to us in a community without power.’ The original poster said his community in Little Switzerland, North Carolina, received these chainsaws from a U.S. Army Chinook helicopter…and that it has been the only government assistance their community has received…I love it, but here’s a radical idea: Imagine if we came together as communities and voted for people who would govern civil society and help us when natural disasters hit. Imagine if an entity like that existed. We could call it ‘govern-ment.'

 


 

What lreally leaves us boggart bloggers gobsmacked is that many American voters, after voting the demented idiot Joe Biden into the presidency four years ago are now thinking of voting for the 'woke' air head Kamala Harris to follow her addle witted boss.

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Saturday, October 05, 2024

UK Government Pledges £22bn for Carbon Capture System That Already Proved Ineffective

The UK's recently elected Labour government has been lurching like a Staurday night drunk from crisis to crisis since two days after they were elected it seems. But like Saturday night drunks they lack self awareness and their ideologically led decision making is just piling up more and bigger problems for the months and years ahead (assuming they can last a year,) In its latest folly, the clown show in Westminster has pledged nearly £22bn for projects to capture and store carbon emissions from energy, industry and hydrogen production.

 

 Carbon capture system (picture: Screenshot from GB News)

 A statement said the funding for two "carbon capture clusters" on Merseyside and Teesside, promised over the next 25 years, would create thousands of jobs, attract private investment and help the UK meet climate goals, which is not simply bollocks but recycled bollocks.

 The same promises were made for a scheme uing the same technology around 15 years ago. Yet now Sir Kweir SStarmer, on a visit to north-west of England with Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to confirm the projects, said the move would "reignite our industrial heartlands" and "kickstart growth".

The Brave New World type statement attracted widespread criticism with even some green campaigners complaining the investment would "extend the life of planet-heating oil and gas production". 

Speaking at a glass factory in Cheshire, Sir Keir said: "For our energy intensive industries like glassmaking here, or cement, or steel, or ceramics, you are familiar with these, the security that the future belongs to them."

UK government over the past 20 years have so far spent £630 million on its CCUS programme, primarily through grants to support the early development of projects.

For example, it has spent almost £200 million through the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge fund (which invests in developing carbon capture and storage technologies) and a further £346 million on research and development projects…..

The government does not have and is currently not developing a credible alternative pathway without the use of CCUS……

But the inherently challenging nature of CCUS remains, given the nascency of aspects of the technology. And (Department for Energy Security & Net Zero) DESNZ’s current approach brings new complexities to be managed, depending on parallel, interdependent negotiations with projects across different technologies. So its a non starter then, who would have though it.

Well somebody did. 

Professor Gordon Hughes of Edinburgh University commented in 2023:

"The target of capturing 20-30m tonnes of CO2 by 2030 is absurd and always has been.’

‘Over the next decade conventional carbon capture will be little more than an experimental technology. I don’t know what will happen in the 2040s and there is a small probability that CCS might be viable by then but the history of the last 15 years suggests that the chances are really very low.’

‘To be blunt, CCUS is like a lot of the plans for net zero – just a series of technically and economically illiterate fantasies designed to avoid the reality that reaching such a target is probably infeasible and is certainly ruinous for any modern industrial economy."

It would be difficult to state the case against the scheme more clearly …… and £22bn won’t be enough:

‘DESNZ and HM Treasury have committed up to £20 billion to the early deployment of CCUS, responding to lessons they had learnt from past failings, but uncertainty remains around the funding available for future stages of the CCUS programme.

Treasury announced this commitment in the spring 2023 budget, but neither it nor DESNZ specified which elements of the programme are covered.

DESNZ and HM Treasury acknowledge that further funding will be required for the CCUS programme.‘

Another 'Nut Zero' case of shovelling money into a bottomless pit then.

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This is yet another recycled announcement……and £22bn won’t be enough: ‘DESNZ and HM Treasury have committed up to £20 billion to the early deployment of CCUS, responding to lessons they had learnt from past failings, but uncertainty remains around the funding available for future stages of the CCUS programme. Treasury announced this commitment in the spring 2023 budget, but neither it nor DESNZ specified which elements of the programme are covered. DESNZ and HM Treasury acknowledge that further funding will be required for the CCUS programme.‘ SO ANOTHER CRAZY, 'NUT ZERO' BOTTOMLESS PIT FOR GOVERNMENT TO SHOVEL TAXPAYERS MONEY INTO. RELATED:

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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Climate Change Scares Used As A Globalist Weapon Against Universal Prosperity

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If you have read the latest research on the Gulf Stream published by Science Advances and are naive enough to believe it, you may have been relieved to learn that the world is getting on with decarbonisation quite nicely. The report warns that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is closer to a tipping point than feared due to Greenland ice melt, which dilutes seawater salinity and weakens the gyres.

The collapse could come at any time, it could be nonlinear and sudden, and it could lower average temperatures in North European cities by 5 to 15 degrees – turning Britain into southern Alaska. It would set off a global chain reaction and destabilise rainforests.

Well that's what it says, what may actually be happening is a different matter and as we know, to date every climate change prediction made by members of the environmental sciences academe has been wrong, hopelessly wrong.

We should not, however, be too worried about this latest climate change scare, not only does it contradict the usual narrative that a climatic version of thermal runaway is going to boil us all by tomorrow lunchtime, but it is merely a recycled version of a scare story that comes around every two or three years. I have been reading about the imminent slowing of the Gulf Stream for about 25 years and nothing has happened yet.

If only the scientists had some idea of what they are actually trying to do when they build the mathematical models from which they obtain the data on which these predictions are based, they might have some chance of at least being partly right.

But they don't, instead they imagine themselves the high priests of some crackpot religion who have a mystical direct line of communication with their god, whose name is 'The Science.' Thus they imagine themselves infallible and in their arrogance they have led civilisation towards its own destruction, enthusiastically followed by politicians. Now, with the world on the brink of war and the economies of the liberal democracies in ruins because our leaders have focused on fighting imaginary monsters like climate change and systemic racism rather than dealing with real problems, our nations have arrived for a gunfight armed with a water pistol.

None of this happened by accident of course, thanks to the great liberalisation of European societies in the 18th and 19th centuries, which had actually begun somewhat earlier when the minds of people were released from the shackles of religion and the natural sciences, mathematics, philosophy and the arts began to flourish, spawning the technological and social advances that led to the industrial revolution, a new social class was born. This bourgeois social layer were increasingly well educated, more so in many cases than their former masters, the nobility and landed gentry. The awareness that came from education led them to demand the right to exert some influence over the direction of the nations they lived in. Gradually voting rights were extended sufficiently for this new middle class to challenge the status quo in which since the earliest civilisations had vested power in a small elite.

By the late 20th century this emancipation had spread to the working class, but while the old aristocracy graciously relinquished their social superiority another small group, those who had served the elite, as lawyers, bankers, administrators, managers, teachers and record keepers did not. Taking a very broad view of history, this class seemed to resent the fact that people who worked in trades were now their equals (and often earned more money.) With their ranks swelled by professional engineers,  accountants, civil and municipal servants and other bureaucrats the bourgeois became the technocratic class, aka experts, and set about securing their position as high social status individuals. 

Unfortunately the influence of this class had a suffocating effect on the forces that had driven progress for over two centuries. They replaced religious dogma with their own doctrines of equality, diversity and inclusion and when the creed of this new system was challenged, though they could not fling offenders into an oubliette as the old aristocracy had, they ostracised those who questioned their rules to the extent that careers were ruined and livelihoods lost.

The outcome was loss of trust for the ruling classes and the organisations and institutions they controlled by the wage earning class, still numerically the largest social group. Productivity dropped, loyalty was extinguished, the bonds that held communities together were destroyed and self interest became the dominant moral value in western nations. The experts who had replaced the old upper class were not as expert as they thought, over - specialisation had left them lacking in life - experience, they were big on theory but knew nothing of how things worked in the real world.

Thirty years ago the West was triumphant and liberal democracy had won the day, The Soviet Union had disintegrated, China was liberalising and the first Gulf War had put militant Islam firmly in its place.  The Berlin Wall had fallen and a uni-polar world was born. The USA was the world's sole remaining superpower, China was an industrial and financial backwater and Russia was engaged in the process of detente with the west begun under Mikhail Gorbachev.

Ten years later Russia had become a major player in the supply of oil, gas and other essential commodities, China had come from nowhere to challenge for the 5th and 6th places occupied by UK and France in the world economic league table. Fast forward another ten years and China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second largest economy behind only the USA, and Russia is creeping into the bottom of the top ten (source).

How had China done so well in an open, globalised world? The truth is all the cards were stacked in China’s favour in the business environment, which the Americans created with the Washington Consensus. While virtue signalling leaders had hamstrung their nations' industry over 'green' concerns, China, with a government that made the right noises at climate summits but did not give a damn about climate change scaremongering, was happy to welcome the dirty industries being forced out of the west because of costs and restrictions imposed by The Science for the purpose of 'saving the environment'.

Maximising profit and securing growth in any business from a corner shop to a national economy is all about reducing costs, increasing productivity and getting the right products into the market at the right price.

In the west the green lobby had declared war on 'fossil fuels' had imposed punitive taxes on fuel in order to fund massive subsidies for generators of 'green energy' from  unreliable sources' and imposed restrictive laws on energy users. China had coal fired power stations to provide cheap energy. China had lax regulations reducing environmental and health and safety costs. China had low taxes and a minimal welfare state.

China had a low cost of living so employers could pay low wages. China had all the advantages in an open globalised world.And

Western companies, wanting to earn kudos with the Green Inquisition were eager, even desperate to off-shore production to low cost China, where costs were so low it was possible to ship goods halfway round the world and still undercut locally made goods in western markets.  Thumbs up from Greta Thunberg does not keep the profit and loss account out of the red.

Western businesses could not cut costs sufficiently to compete, and were forced to off-shore more and more production, not just to China but other emerging economies, India, Indoneasia, Brazil, Nigeria etc. in order to sell profitably. They gave away decades of Western superiority in design, technological development, management and business know - how. 

The developing nations offered a new, nimble, fast growing economy compared to the lumbering bureaucracy which had suffocated enterprise and initiative in the economies of Western nations. Investors would be able to achieve better returns in the fast growing far east economies and this is where the money headed. US hedge funds love China and know it’s the best place to make real money.

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The problem in the 1990 was that the rules of the game had changed and nobody told our political leaders. Thus we never understood that we we not playing the game we invented to a new set of rules but were in a new game. Politically correct thinking in the west had blinded us to the fact that the emergence of China, India and the rest as economic powers had not just moved the goalposts of the global economy but had relocated the entire stadium.

Now we do understand the rules you can see why we have done so badly. 

 

 

The cards were stacked against us.

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Government To cash In Emissions Credits To Keep Net Zero On Track While Relaxing Targets.


 

 

While many people welcomed the relaxations to Government 'Net Zero' policy announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last week, others were quick to point out that it would be illegal to abandon commitments to reducing carbon emissions as they are enshrined in laws passed by the previous administrations of Gordon Bown (Labour) and Teresa May (Conserevative.) The Green Blob gleefully seized on this and attempted to undermine Sunak's small step towards common sense by claiming his initiative was doomed. Others said it was merely a political ploy aimed at halting the Conservatives decline ahead of some significant by - elections. But while Rishi Sunak has no been particularly effective as Prime Minister, having inherited a mess the even Disraeli, Lloyd George and Churchill rolled into one could not have handled, but he did not get to be a billionaire without knowing how to pull a stroke or two. It now emerges the government is planning to stay on the right side of strict carbon emission laws by cashing in on Britain’s projected “over performance” over the next decade.

The Prime Minister and Claire Coutinho, the Net Zero Secretary, are believed to have concluded that the Government will be able to capitalise on an expected surplus in emissions in order to push back deadlines such as the 2030 ban on selling petrol cars and the mandatory replacement of gas boilers with ineffective heat pumps, without breaching strict carbon budgets.

It is rumoured that the government's internal estimates show the proposed changes, including pushing back the 2030 ban on ICE cars by five years and weakening the phase-out of gas boilers, were projected to increase emissions by only five per cent.

However, the Government is likely to come under fire from environmental groups and the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the statutory watchdog set up to ensure the nation achieves the unachievable targets set by previous governments.

 Everything about Sunak’s supposed relaxation of Net Zero targets may seem like a typical cynical political ploy and for this reason mainstream media commentators are dismissing it as another Conservative bait and switch intended to voters into thinking the Conservatives are not as extreme or authoritarian as Labour before going ahead and doing the exact same thing as their opposition would because both parties are controlled by the dark forces of globalism. Another idea put forward is that Sunak wants to maintain the illusion that Team A and Team B are not exactly the same thing and that voters have a “choice”.

That great American George Carlin often spoke about ‘The illusion of choice’ more than 30 years ago. Governments are trapped between the supra-national globalists, and the woke blob of the civil service, academics and 'The Science.'. 

As globalist policies formulated by unelected bureaucrats in unrepresentative global agencies legislate for more health tyranny, more climate change authoritarianism and more surveillance and control of our daily lives, along with many alt_news creators, fear there is no non-violent way out of this situation and with the G20 group of leading economic powers recently agreeing to implement Digital ID’s and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) one has the feeling that the net is closing on our freedoms. The hoax pandemic showed how our physical sovereignty, right to free speech and freedom of the road can be withdrawn. Control our money and it’s game over. We will all be slaves to a global, technocratic government.

Many would argue both those things are already here and what is coming down the road is their expansion and refinement, but I don't believe we have yet gone too far to turn things around.

We already have biometric passports in a country like the UK which prides itself on its social liberalism, and in which almost everyone travels abroad.  The US long had an entry permission system (ESTA) as has Australia. The EU is implementing a similar digital border and permission system next year and the UK is in the process of developing a similar policy. In time every 'free' country will follow suit. So we are already nicely put in holding pens where we can roam freely, for now.

As for control of the way money flows, most transactions are  by card or bank transfer. And those transactions are already recorded on databases and carefully monitored. Try doing anything substantial out of the ordinary and you can be sure one of the banks invond demand information on what it is for.

There are some slightly more optimistic notes in this weeks news however.This, from the United States, is the one that gives me most cause for hope.

House Financial Services Committee Advances National Security, Financial Privacy, Anti-CBDC Legislation | Financial Services Committee

An important section of the report reads:

“Today, the House Financial Services Committee passed eleven pieces of legislation out of Committee that strengthen national security, protects Americans’ financial privacy, and prevents the issuance of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) without explicit authorization from Congress.“

Perhaps in the US, banks ask less questions, or if they do ask questions more closely related to criminal activity or to the prevention of money laundering, and perhaps, based on what I know of their constitution, US banks have a legal duty and right to refuse to disclose information to the state. The Patriot Act which authorized non specific trawling of personal communications was ruled unconstitutional in parts by several federal courts. We need the supreme courts in Uk, Germany, France, Italy and other European nations to start upholding the constitutions of their states because recently the adjudicative panels, packed with political appointees, have been supine as globalist technocrats have freely trampled on the constitutional rights of citizens

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Sheffield University’s recently formed Free Speech Society has been warned that free speech is a “red risk” and all external speakers at events it organises will have to be vetted by the University Thought Police squad and the topics they intend to talk about shown to be in line with ideas and opinions the titty - sucking babies who run the Student Union are not frightened by.

Big Tech tyranny is the biggest threat to democracy in our era
This weeks main story, pushing Coronavirus aside at last, has been the attempt by Twitter to censor U.S. President, classifying his somewhat rabid tweets as misinformation. Whether you love or hate Trump or any other occupant of The White House, their utterings can never be dismissed as ‘misinformation’ because they represent what one of the most powerful people in the world is thinking.

French Intellectual Jailed for Calling Mass Immigration an “Invasion”
French intellectual Renaud Camus (above) has been conditionally sentenced to 2 months imprisonment for arguing that mass immigration in Europe represents an “invasion.” Summit.news reports: The writer, who is the author of Le Grand Remplacement (The Great Replacement), was charged with “public incitement to hate or violence on the basis of origin, ethnicity, nationality, race or religion.”

Technology Rules You
Artificial Intelligence and Jobs
Documents Reveal Facebook’s Biased, Convoluted Censorship Policies

World Eeconomic Forum Fuhrer Klaus Schwab Says Governments Must Harness A.I. And They Will Be ‘Masters of the World’, MWAH HA HA HARRR
Addressing the World Government Summit in Dubai,World Economic Forum Chairman and Scooby Doo Villain lookalike Klaus Schwab said that emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence which will usher in a 'Fourth Industrial Revolution' can become “masters of the world,”

World Economic Forum Calls for Merging of Human and Artificial Intelligence to Censor ‘Hate Speech’ & ‘Misinformation’

Digital Authoritarianism: AI Surveillance Signals The Death Of Privacy


New advances in AI surveilance techniques threaten privacy, civl rights and free speech.

The Great Genocide: Dutch Govt Plans to Shut Down Up To 3,000 Farms To Comply With Euronazi Union Green Law
As we reported earlier in the year, in order to comply with new, economically suicidal European Union environmental laws the Dutch government’s plans to force the closure of thousands of dairy and livestock farms in order to comply with the latest and most insane to date batch of EU environment laws which aim to limit notrogen as well as Carbon Dioxide emissions. The European Union green agenda directive has been branded as the “Great Reset turned up to eleven”.

Politicians Are Offering A Trade, Safety For Freedom. But What Are We Really Trading Away?
It's the age old confidence trick, politicians and the elites offter a straight choice between security of freedom and all the risks it entails, then amplify those risks with scaremongering propaganda. In the case of the COVID crisis it has worked so far, with enough people accepting the need for masks, lockdowns and killer vaccines to make The Great Reset seem feasible - but time is running out and people are waking up ...

Big Tech tyranny is the biggest threat to democracy in our era
This weeks main story, pushing Coronavirus aside at last, has been the attempt by Twitter to censor U.S. President, classifying his somewhat rabid tweets as misinformation. Whether you love or hate Trump or any other occupant of The White House, their utterings can never be dismissed as ‘misinformation’ because they represent what one of the most powerful people in the world is thinking.

University free speech society told free speech a 'red risk', external speakers must be vetted

Sheffield University’s recently formed Free Speech Society has been warned that free speech is a “red risk” and all external speakers at events it organises will have to be vetted by the University Thought Police squad and the topics they intend to talk about shown to be in line with ideas and opinions the titty - sucking babies who run the Student Union are not frightened by.

EU Vows To Retaliate if Nord Stream Gas Pipeline Blasts Were Sabotage - But against whom, the USA?
Yesterday's shocking news that the Nord Stream 1 & 2 gas poipelines between Russia and Germany immediately triggered speculation about who is responsible, but as the facts emerge the knee jerk blaming of Russia has failed to convince because the attack bears all the halllmarks of a false flag event engineered by the usual suspects ...

Legal Complaint Filed Against Food Retailer’s “Orwellian” Facial Recognition Surveillance System
A report last week that a major UK retailer, The Co - Operative Society (Co - OP) was planning to install in - store surveillance systems with facial recognition capabilities, supposedly to reduce shoplifting by repeat offenders, caused quite a stir in the media and the privacy protection community. Privacy rights campaign group Big Brother have denounced the scheme which would capture and store biometric scans of “thousands of shoppers” is “unlawful” and “Orwellian in the extreme.”

Legal Complaint Filed Against Food Retailer’s “Orwellian” Facial Recognition Surveillance System
A report last week that a major UK retailer, The Co - Operative Society (Co - OP) was planning to install in - store surveillance systems with facial recognition capabilities, supposedly to reduce shoplifting by repeat offenders, caused quite a stir in the media and the privacy protection community. Privacy rights campaign group Big Brother have denounced the scheme which would capture and store biometric scans of “thousands of shoppers” is “unlawful” and “Orwellian in the extreme.”

A Mostly Wind- & Solar-Powered US Economy Is A Dangerous Fantasy
When President Biden and other advocates of wind and solar generation speak, they appear to believe that the challenge posed is just a matter of currently having too much fossil fuel generation and not enough wind and solar; and therefore, accomplishing the transition to "net zero" will be a simple matter of building sufficient wind and solar facilities and having those facilities replace the current ones that use the fossil fuels.

Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter
While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...

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