Month: March 2019

Daily News 21 Mar 2019

UK carbon emissions down six years in a row

I find these figures a little hard to believe.~ctm The UK’s carbon dioxide emissions fell for the sixth year in a row last year, the longest continuous run of reductions on record, analysis suggests. Emissions fell to 361 million tonnes, their lowest level since 1888, when the first Football League match was played and Jack…

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March 21, 2019 at 04:02AM

Daily News 21 Mar 2019

Climate Sceptical Party Is The Big Winner In Dutch Elections

With most of the votes counted in Wednesday’s provincial elections, Thierry Baudet’s right-wing nationalist Forum voor Democratie appears to have won most votes and will take 12 seats in the senate in May.

Forum, which is pro Nexit and does not believe in climate change, campaigned on national issues and did not draw up policies for any of the 12 provinces it will now be represented in.

‘Arrogance and stupidity has been punished,’ Baudet said in his victory speech. ‘We are being ruined by the people who should be protecting us,’ he said.

‘We are being undermined by universities and journalists, by the people who design our buildings.’

The four coalition parties will now control 31 of the 75 seats in the senate and will need the support of a fifth party to pass controversial legislation. Forum, Labour and Groenlinks, which almost doubled its support, could all fulfill that role.

Big losers of the night were Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration PVV which is on target to lose four of its nine senate seats, and the Socialists which will sink from nine to four.

CLIMATE EMERGENCY – WHAT EMERGENCY?

Have you noticed that just recently the media seem to be giving a lot of publicity to these school children’s "climate strikes" and the disruption caused by the anarchist group Extinction Rebellion? Also we have a number of councils passing motions proclaiming that there is a "climate emergency". This is a bit odd as the actual scientific case for global warming seems to be getting weaker.

Here is an interesting piece about the actual rate of warming compared with IPCC predictions.

Here is an up-to-date piece on the trends in extreme weather events. They are not suggesting any sort of climate emergency.

Those claiming a climate emergency are unable to provide any actual evidence to back up their claims. It is no good simply pointing out extreme weather events, as these have always occurred and there is no evidence to show that they are either becoming more frequent or more severe. UK Environment Minister, Michael Gove, says he supports the children’s climate strikes as he claims they pressurise governments to do more. This is totally irresponsible of him. The main organisation behind this activity is called Extinction Rebellion. Their stated aim is to "fundamentally change the political and economic system" of the country. Does Gove really support those aims?

The adult climate-change activists and other left-wing extremists are hiding behind—and exploiting—all of these doubtless sincere young people whose heads have been filled for years with frightening tales of climate disaster. Children are innocent, but innocence goes with inexperience, naiveté and lack of wisdom. Children tend to make bad choices, which is why we don’t let them run things—or vote, consume alcohol, drive cars or enter into contracts.

If the media wanted to give an honest assessment of whether current climate policies to reduce CO2 emissions was likely to succeed in making a large reduction in world CO2 emissions, they would have to conclude that they cannot unless all the major CO2 emitting nations were to take the same strong action. We know that is not going to happen because China and India are not being asked to do so. If there really was a climate emergency then all nations would have to act. It is simply useless for Western nations to make themselves less competitive by carrying out costly CO2 reduction policies, while China and India are left to continue increasing their emissions. If protestors really wanted to make a useful point then that is what they should be protesting about. But, of course they know this would be ignored. Far easier for them to wave a few general slogans and make a pointless gesture. This is also true for councils, who should pass a motion demanding that all nations should have to reduce their emissions simultaneously – if they really believed there was a "climate emergency".

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March 21, 2019 at 02:30AM

Daily News 21 Mar 2019

Bluff & Bluster: US Wind Industry Furious Over Trump’s Promise to Slash Massive RE Subsidies

Way back in 1984, wind cultist Christopher Flavin’s told us that “in a few years’ time wind energy will not need to be subsidised.” 34 years on, the subsidies just keep on flowing and, without those subsidies, the so called wind ‘industry’ would disappear like a snowflake in summer. No matter where they ply their … Continue reading Bluff & Bluster: US Wind Industry Furious Over Trump’s Promise to Slash Massive RE Subsidies

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March 21, 2019 at 01:31AM