By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Cunningham

A new report from the Telegraph raises serious concerns about grid security:

Chinese “kill switches” have been found hidden in American solar farms, prompting calls for Ed Miliband to halt the rollout of renewables.

On Thursday, the Energy Secretary was urged to impose an “immediate pause” on his green energy blitz to review whether UK solar plants are also at risk.

The components found in the US included cellular radios capable of switching off the equipment remotely, raising serious concerns about grid security, according to Reuters.

They were found inside power inverters manufactured by unnamed Chinese companies.

Power inverters are the key links between solar or wind farms and the rest of the power system, converting their electricity so the wider grid can use it.

One source told Reuters that compromising such equipment would give Beijing the ability to inflict blackouts on the West, claiming it would create “a built-in way to physically destroy the grid”.

Read the full story here.

Andrew Bowie, Shadow Energy Secretary, commented:

“Ed Miliband’s Made in China transition – clean power at the expense of everything else – is a threat to our national security and makes a mockery of his claims on energy security”

Quite!!

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May 16, 2025 at 01:59AM

Last year the UK Met Office was shown to be inventing long-term temperature data at 103 non-existent weather stations. It was claimed in a later risible ‘fact check’ that the data were estimated from nearby well-correlated neighbouring stations. Citizen super sleuth Ray Sanders issued a number of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to learn the identity of these correlating sites but has been told that the information is not held by the Met Office. So the invented figures for the non-existent sites are supposedly provided by stations that the Met Office claims it cannot identify and are presumably not recorded in its copious computer storage and archive

 The Met Office is Unable to Name the Sites Providing ‘Estimated’ Temperature Data For its 103 Non-Existent Stations – The Daily Sceptic

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May 16, 2025 at 01:56AM

By Paul Homewood

Friday May 16th 2025

This type of meteorological set up has been typical for much of spring this year. The UK has been basking under blue skies, on course for the driest and warmest spring on record.

But where there’s a High, there’s also a Low, which has been close to Greenland at the same time. As a consequence it has been a lot of snow there, and the ice mass balance has already topped the maximum, normally seen in mid-June.

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May 16, 2025 at 01:34AM

“The Progressive Left is being pillared to stop pushing 20 percent issues (80 percent nonsupport). Blackouts might be a 2 percent issue. The working class deserves the Democrat Party to ditch climate alarm and forced energy transformation–for all the right reasons.”

Now that solar itself got the blame for the recent European blackout, what is the argument from the Deep Ecology, anti-modernism cult?

LA-based climate campaigner Michael Mezzatesta, self-described economics and climate educator, has a new one for the climate debate: blackouts are good, bringing us together! He states:

The mainstream economic narrative in the USA would have us believe that power blackouts are always a bad thing – just think of all that lost productivity! Think of the effect on the GDP!

So I was curious to see this video about the recent blackouts in Spain rack up millions of views on Instagram

I think it resonated with people because it points towards a *new* narrative for society and the economy – one where joy & connection are prioritized over economic productivity.

As the original creator, Lili Poser, said in her caption: During the blackouts, people were “disconnected but more connected than ever.” Imagine that!

Back to Nature, the Garden of Eden? Off the grid for happiness and solidarity? Small is beautiful? Less is more? Negawatts? Degrowth? “I campaign for the extinction of the human race“?

And how about Big Brother authoritarianism to achieve all this? [1]

The Progressive Left is being pillared to stop pushing 20 percent issues (80 percent nonsupport). Blackouts might be a 2 percent issue. The working class deserves the Democrat Party to ditch climate alarm and forced energy transformation–for all the right reasons.

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[1] “Imagining a low-carbon world, then, means reevaluating our conception of freedom itself.” (– Audrea Lim, “The Ideology of Fossil Fuels.” Dissent, Spring 2018)

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