From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

Another casualty of Net Zero:

Vauxhall is planning to shut its Luton van-making factory in a move that puts 1,100 jobs at risk, as net zero rules force it to curtail sales of petrol vehicles.

Stellantis, the car giant behind Vauxhall, Peugeot, Fiat and Citroën, said it would focus investments on its Ellesmere Port factory in Cheshire.

It said it was taking the decision “in the context of the ZEV mandate”, referring to electric car sales targets that carmakers have criticised as overly tough.

Carlos Tavares, chief executive of Stellantis, launched a “strategic review” of its UK operations this year, saying the ZEV mandate was making Britain a “very difficult market”.

Maria Grazia Davino, the company’s former UK managing director, had warned that the company could close plants if the Government does not relax electric vehicle targets.

Car companies face heavy fines if they do not hit targets that require 22pc of their sales to come from EVs this year, rising to 80pc in 2030. Labour has also vowed to reinstate the 2030 ban on petrol cars, which had been pushed back to 2035 by Rishi Sunak.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/26/vauxhall-shut-luton-van-plant-shift-electric-vehicles

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Stellantis have been warning for months that this would happen, saying that they were not prepared to sell petrol/diesel vehicles at a loss, because of ZEV fines.

Carbon dioxide is not evenly distributed around the world.  There is a lot more of it in the Northern Hemisphere especially lower in the atmosphere over areas of forested land. These areas are not hotter, quite the opposite.   Indeed, the relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature is not at all straightforward.

And do you know why Northern Hemisphere forests seem to have measurably higher concentrations of carbon dioxide?

We are not told this.  And we are not told that the Southern Hemisphere atmosphere has much less carbon dioxide; especially the further south you go.

Rather we are told simply stories with flat Earth physics as promoted by our King and also by the IPCC, and so many scientists who should know better than to be so equivocal and so fashionable.   They should speak-up.

With the election of Donald Trump, I’m told by some that ‘climate change’ will become irrelevant, so there is no longer a need for them to speak-up.

Donald Trump will apparently pull out of the Paris Agreement and strip the phrases ‘climate change’, ‘clean energy’ and ‘environmental justice’ from every agency website.

But I know that the issue won’t go away.

Across the Atlantic in London, especially at Buckingham Palace, I’m sure they will resist.   This is the biggest issue for the King of Australia, and he intends to make it his legacy while not realising his own forests have some of the highest levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide on Earth.

Meanwhile, a few of us will continue to work quietly towards the development of a new theory of climate.  Because we know that climate change is a natural hazard, and that we need a more reliable framework to be able to forecast weather and also floods and the direction of cyclones.

If you are interested in becoming a part of this resistance, consider subscribing at my weblog and in particular ticking the box that says,  ‘New Theory of Climate’.  It is here:

https://jennifermarohasy.com/subscribe/

The following graphic is from a paper in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, by Mohamadou Diallo published in 2016 entitled ‘Global distribution of C02 in the upper troposphere and stratosphere’.

I continue to be grateful to the B.Macfie Family Foundation for all the funding, over all the years.

by Chris Morrison

Further evidence that surface temperatures across Greenland have been cooling for around 20 years has emerged with the recent publication of findings from a group of Thai scientists and mathematicians. Processing 31,464 satellite recording from 2000-2019 over the entire area, they found that the average temperature fell by 0.11°C. This is said to indicate a “non-significant change in LST [land surface temperature]”. The latest evidence of actual cooling over a significant area of the Arctic will not be news in scientific circles since it backs up previous findings of recent temperature falls. But the information is of course kept out of the mainstream since it casts doubt on the key Net Zero scare about soaring sea levels caused by the catastrophic melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

There are some crumbs of comfort for alarmists since the Thai authors found that the ice-free sub-regions of Greenland are warmer than the ice-covered sub regions. But perhaps not – the authors attributed it to “population density”. Urban heat yet again corrupting the temperature data, even in Greenland. The illustration below charts the temperature record for all areas of Greenland.

The World Economic Forum recently reported on a study that predicted a “total collapse” of the Greenland ice sheet within a few months. This suggestion is only slightly more ludicrous than the scares routinely published to induce mass psychosis in populations with the aim of promoting a collectivist command-and-control Net Zero solution. The recent farce around the COP in Baku showed the conspiracy operating in plain sight. Stop the developing word developing with hydrocarbons, then invent a number of fake scares such as island states disappearing beneath the waves. Everyone knows this and most of the other scares are false as scientists have shown on numerous occasions, but no matter. Invent some ridiculous composite figure – say $250 billion a year, or $1.3 billion by 2035 – then pretend your taxpayers can be rinsed even though the only country that could conceivably afford it is leaving the party in January.

All of this means that genuine attempts to explain the science around the climate changing are stuck in a ‘settled’ narrative hellhole. The corals can grow like topsy in record amounts on the Great Barrier Reef and the Arctic sea ice can show a small decade-long recovery. Meanwhile, mainstream media and politics prefer to take their cue from characters like  ‘Jim’ Dale, who points out of the window and attributes every puff of wind to a human cause.

Nowhere is this lack of scientific inquiry more evident than at the two Poles of the Earth. Antarctica has barely warmed during 70 years of detailed observations, while the situation in the Arctic, as we can see, is complex and open to many interpretations. The Thai mathematicians stick mainly to their statistics and find “no evidence of warming over ice-free and ice-covered areas”. But they do note earlier work by a group of Japanese scientists (Matsumura et al. 2021) that suggested the Central Pacific El Niño Southern Oscillation teleconnection played a “key role” in recent summer Arctic climate change.

The Matsumura team found a recent slowdown in Greenland ice loss and warming. The El Niño role is also thought to have helped the recent overall Arctic sea ice recovery. Changes around Greenland can be attributed to “natural variability, rather than anthropogenic forcing”, note the scientists. “Most climate models were unable to reasonably simulate the unforced natural variability over Greenland,” they added.

As we can see, Antarctica is another difficult place to get a good scare going due to a decades-long lack of any warming. Fears of a ‘tipping point’ are often heard after natural melting and ice breaks in western Antarctica. But late last year, the Daily Sceptic highlighted a paper by a group of international scientists that found significant recent cooling across the entire area. The paper was published by the American Meteorological Society and it observed a 2°C fall in the 20 years to 2018. During the spring season, the fall was a massive 1.84°C every decade, while the winter reduction came in at 1.19°C over the same time period. As is usual when temperatures drop, the carbon dioxide blame game is laid aside and answers are sought in natural climate variations. In this case it was noted that temperatures in the eastern Pacific equatorial region had dropped over the last 20 years under review.

Again don’t expect the climate models to have much idea about what is happening in the real atmosphere. There is said to be “no robust agreement” among the models on the important sea temperatures driving the western Antarctica air temperature.

Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.