Daily News 30 Apr 2025

Britain’s Unchanging Climate

By Paul Homewood

According to the CCC, the UK will be a climate disaster zone in 25 years time:

But have we seen any evidence of this looming disaster in the last 25 years?

Well, the country has not been getting any wetter at the top end of the scale. The fact that drought years are now less common has pushed the average up, but that does not mean that floods are getting worse.

Neither are summers getting hotter.

If our climate has not changed in the last 25 years, why should it suddenly do so now?

We have of course been in here before. In February 2012, the Environment Secretary, Caroline Spelman warned:

“Two very dry winters – this may be the new norm. We asked the question at the drought summit – what if this is what climate change means and this is the new normal”

Four months later, “scientists” said that the dull, damp weather that summer was, you guessed it, all the result of climate change!

Apparently the “scientists” who predicted Mediterranean summers in 2005 had got their arithmetic wrong!

Huge swathes of England could take on a Mediterranean look within 50 years as native woodlands are threatened by warmer, drier summers, say scientists.

Olive groves, vines and sunflower fields could become hallmarks of the landscape in South-East England as global warming changes conditions.

Experts also say the English country garden is unlikely to survive in the South East in its present form.

Rolling lawns and herbaceous borders may be ousted by palms and eucalyptus

No doubt in another twenty years time, the Met Office will still be blaming both hot sunny summers and cold damp ones on global warming. And the CCC will still be warning we are just a couple of decades away from climatic apocalypse, if we do not do what they say.

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April 30, 2025 at 08:29AM

Daily News 30 Apr 2025

Time to Defund Climate Models?

From MasterResource

By Steve Goreham — April 29, 2025

“The Trump administration is cutting funding for climate research across all federal departments…. Maybe it’s time for NASA to stick to space exploration, NOAA to stick to weather forecasting, and for the climate models to be shut down.”

Climate models have been the basis for concern about climate change for more than 35 years. The US government, the United Nations, and organizations across the world have used model projections to warn about global warming and to demand a shift to renewable energy. But Trump administration budget cuts at NASA, NOAA, and other federal agencies threaten to shut down the models, the heart of climate change alarmism.

In June of 1988, Senator Tim Wirth, then chair of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, held the first-ever hearing on the science of climate change. Dr. James Hansen, head of a computer-modeling team at NASA, testified that he was “ … 99 percent confident that the world really was getting warmer and that there was a high degree of probability that it was due to human-made greenhouse gases.”

Since Dr. Syukuro Manabe of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Washington D.C. developed one of the first climate models in the 1960s, modelers have been warning that humans are causing dangerous climate change. Global surface temperatures have risen only a little more than one degree Celsius over the last 140 years, but models project a faster additional rise of 0.5ꟷ3.5^oC by the year 2100.

Climate models have been used by scientists, researchers, and governmental policy makers to estimate possible future climate impacts. Global organizations, such as The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations and the World Bank use model projections to urge climate action. Non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace use model projections to raise funds. But the Trump administration appears to be about to shut down the US climate models.

There are more than 40 climate models operating across the world, with 13 of the leading models located in the US. The US models are operated by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in New York City, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Princeton, New Jersey, and the Department of Energy (DOE) in Boulder, Colorado. Each of these organizations has been ordered to reduce staff as part of Trump administration budget cuts.

The White House may soon tell NASA to focus work on space programs, not climate change. In February, the administration denied NASA officials permission to travel to an international climate meeting in China. At the same time, NASA management cut off funding for a support contract for the 7^th Assessment Report of the IPCC. NASA has been a primary contributor to previous IPCC Assessment Reports. Preliminary government spending plans for fiscal year 2026 would cut NASA’s science budget by almost half, to $3.9 billion.

The administration also wants to end climate change programs at NOAA. Plans call for a 27% cut to NOAA’s budget, down to $4.5 billion. Final budget totals for NASA and NOAA will need to be approved by Congress, with members concerned about the climate sure to put up a fight.

Climate models run on supercomputers and are expensive. Supercomputers cost about $50 million up front and $20 million per year to support each climate-modeling team. The NASA, NOAA, and DOE modeling teams may not be able to survive large projected cuts.

Beyond climate models, budgets of other climate projects will also be cut. The Sea Level Research Group at the University of Colorado has been studying sea level rise for about two decades. This group gets much of its funding from NASA and other federal agencies. The Mauna Loa Laboratory in Hawaii has been measuring the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration since the 1950s, but it may be closed due to NOAA funding cuts. Three NASA satellites used to collect climate data also need to be replaced, but there are no plans to do so.

The Trump administration is cutting funding for climate research across all federal departments, with major impacts on US and world efforts to force action on climate change. Maybe it’s time for NASA to stick to space exploration, NOAA to stick to weather forecasting, and for the climate models to be shut down.

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Steve Goreham is a speaker on energy, the environment, and public policy and author of Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure. His previous posts at MasterResource are here.

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Net Zero In Europe

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April 30, 2025 at 06:46AM

Daily News 30 Apr 2025

CCC Threaten Climate Disaster By 2050

By Paul Homewood

h/t Ian Magness

This is fraud, pure and simple:

The Climate Change Committee have now gone well beyond any objective assessment of climate change. Instead their latest report belongs in the world of fantasy and disaster movies:

From Sky News:

A blistering new report has slated government efforts to protect Britons from climate change that is already flooding homes, farmland and railways, overheating hospitals and schools and fuelling wildfires.

Following deadly flooding in Valencia and furious wildfires in Los Angeles, the UK’s climate advisers have warned people and critical infrastructure are highly exposed to extreme weather due to a "piecemeal and disjointed approach".

They warned progress in adapting to a hotter world has either been glacial, or moved in the wrong direction – amid fears of budget cuts in the upcoming spending review and spiralling problems in the water industry.

Of the 46 measures of government delivery – from protecting railways from collapsing to ensuring water and food security – not one was rated "good".

The "Progress in adapting to climate change" report warns that by 2050:

Over half of England’s top farmland, one in four homes and half of roads and rail lines will be at risk of flooding
Heat-related deaths could pass 10,000 in an average year
Unchecked climate change could cost 7% of GDP.

It said climate change is already hitting hard:

Extreme heat buckles rail lines, fuels wildfires and drives up food bills
Heatwaves wiped out a hospital data centre, cancelling appointments when the health service is "already on its knees"
Children are toiling through exams in boiling school halls.

https://news.sky.com/story/government-warned-it-is-setting-country-up-for-disaster-unless-it-better-prepares-uk-for-heavy-flooding-and-intense-heat-13358235

Shame on Sky for giving credence to this BS!

Whatever effect a few days of heat in summer may have, it is certainly dwarfed by the impacts of cold in winter – disruption to transport, hospital overloads, schools shut because of snow. The list goes on and on.

But it is the forecast for 2050 which really shows up this report to be a fraudulent attempt to scare the public into accepting Net Zero.

The idea that our climate would be any noticeably different in 25 years time is ridiculous. It certainly has not changed a jot in the last 25 years.

And anybody who claims that half of farmland and 7 million homes will be at risk of flooding should not be allowed near any position of authority. The actual number of properties flooded last year was 5000.

Never mind a cost of 7% of GDP, which equates to about £140 billion a year.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/09/05/floods-data-for-2023-24-in-england/

Meanwhile summer death rates remain the lowest of the year, in contrast to the report’s claims of people dying because of heat, which have already been thoroughly debunked by the ONS.

It is interesting that the report is equally critical of the Labour government for failing to take action. That might be because they are not going to waste billions on adapting to a non-existent problem!

Clearly the CCC are throwing their toys out of the pram, annoyed that nobody is taking their increasingly absurd warnings and threats.

FOOTNOTE

Baroness Brown, who presented the report as Chair of the Adaptation Committee, is still unaccountably a non-executive director of Ceres Power (developers of green hydrogen) and Orsted (Danish wind power company) .