Do they really believe that offshore wind costs will drop to £25/MWh, well below even the cost of onshore wind at the moment?
It is only by this chicanery that the CCC were able to keep the costs of Net Zero down to just an odd trillion or two.
Assuming a more realistic cost of £100/MWh, which is consistent with known construction costs, the costs of Net Zero would be £18 billion a year higher.
The above excerpt comes from the CCC’s Sixth Carbon Budget. It shows conclusively that it high energy prices have always been the official policy, in order that expensive renewables are made viable.
EU carbon prices have already risen from 32 to 80 euro/tonne in the last year, and the new UK ETS system tracks EU prices, with prices now at £75/tonne.
As it turns out global price rises for natural gas have brought the CCC’s dream to fruition a decade early.
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So-called climate policies – meaning lots of part-time subsidised renewables – and high gas prices are turning out to be a toxic economic mix in Europe. Governments find themselves backed into a corner due to their own dogmatic obsessions about trace gases in the atmosphere.
European governments are just beginning to scramble in response to the huge energy price increases hitting their voters. Confusion is the predictable result as the fear curve sharply rises.
Well most are scrambling, while a few are actually making big money on it. That would be the ones that produce gas and oil, especially Norway and Russia. They are getting rich.
In Britain it is all about tax cuts at this point. These stand to cost the government big bucks, passing the burden on to the taxpayers, who are the same people facing big energy bills, more or less. It does however shift some of the burden away from the freezing poor, which is a good thing.
At least four taxes are on the table, possibly more. Three of these actually fit the crime. These are the so-called “green levies” that come with energy bills…
The Austrian Alps have seen no trend change in terms of precipitation since 1880, official data show.
Climate alarmists have climate horror scenarios for every corner of the globe, and that includes the Austrian Alps. Climate models warn that snow will disappear soon and even gravely harm the ski industry unless we vaccinate the climate against CO2!
No water water scarcity or pollution
In his most recent video, Austrian ski industry researcher Günther Aigner looks if it’s true that there’s been a trend towards water scarcity in the Alps.
Moreover, he looks at the question of whether or not manmade snow production is taking water away water from residents and farmers in the Alps.
The findings:
No trend change in 140 years!
Concerning precipitation trends and using data from Austria’s weather and climate agencies, Aigner finds there’s been no trend in precipitation for the famous Arlberg ski region since data began to be recorded 140 years ago.
On the question of snow-making’s impact on the local water budget, Aigner says that careful water management practices are used, and: “The water that we use for manmade snow production is neither disappearing nor is it polluted. After the snow has melted, it goes back into the local cycle.”
In summary, there’s been no climate change in terms of precipitation since 1880, and manmade snowmaking is not harming the local water cycle.
Nothing is collapsing and there’s no doom in sight (on the climate front, at least) in Austria.
By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~
At least four taxes are on the table, possibly more. Three of these actually fit the crime. These are the so-called “green levies” that come with energy bills…
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