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If you need a bit of a giggle…
If you need a bit of a giggle, not to mention some informative bricks to throw at certain people, occasionally take a peek at the Extinction Clock. Blog it, Gab it, Fakebook it, Twatter it, email it to...
View ArticleAre Extinction Rebellion more popular than I thought, or was it just that jury?
“Jury acquits Extinction Rebellion protesters despite ‘no defence in law’”, reports the Guardian. I remain a supporter of the principle of jury nullification, but, sheesh, guys, this isn’t 2018....
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“It has become something of a cliche, but it also happens to be true. If you want to do your bit for the planet, forget Tesla and other super-expensive electric vehicles: just carry on driving the same...
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“Politicians have spent trillions of dollars subsidizing renewable energy with no effect on climate. Nuclear power, which would sharply reduce CO2, is taboo among the greens. Innovation in developing...
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These fanatics are fond of pissing our money up the wall on their insane schemes. And I am not going to buy an electric car. These monstrosities are not remotely environmentally friendly. Smug,...
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The deforestation statistics are startling to anybody who listens only to green activists. In 2018 a team from the University of Maryland concluded: ‘We show that – contrary to the prevailing view that...
View ArticleCtrl-F “frack” 0/0
The government has published this UK gas supply explainer. There has recently been widespread media coverage of wholesale gas prices, and the effect this could have on household energy bills. The...
View ArticleA press release worth sharing
I got this today from the Global Warming Policy Forum, a group that I guess can be best called a global warming sceptics group. It is based in the UK. Here is its press release today. It responds to...
View ArticleSteal Labour’s clothes, look like Labour
Britain’s electricity supply is in peril. On Monday (20 Sep) the Financial Times reported, Peter McGirr wanted to modernise the British consumer energy market when he founded Green three years ago,...
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By the time some of the environmentalists realised who they had sold their soul to, it was too late. But what, in any case, had the alternative been? The small-is-beautiful crowd, with their...
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“For years, the people of this country have been corralled towards a future that they cannot see and cannot understand. But the energy crisis this winter will reveal what politicians and eco-activists...
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“The alarmism is the goal. The goal is the alarmism.” – Michael Shellenberger, as interviewed by Jordan Peterson. He is talking about the fearmongering of much of the contemporary Green movement, and...
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“COP26, not as an event but as the beginning of a process, has the potential to provoke revolution. Not certainly and not in the immediate future; but the unfolding future of climate totalitarianism,...
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As the vultures circle above Glasgow for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference a.k.a. Cop26, here is a flashback to Cop15 which took place in Copenhagen in 2009: Above all, Obama needed to...
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Decarbonising our economy is the Greenies’ equivalent of the Soviet collectivisation of agriculture, or the Great Leap Forward. With similar effects. – Fen Tiger
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Out: “Follow the science”. In: “Let the hate flow through you”
“Telling people to ‘follow the science’ won’t save the planet. But they will fight for justice”, writes Amy Westervelt in the Guardian: The climate emergency has clear themes with heroes and villains....
View ArticleA shockingly misinformed tweet by Tim Worstall
Someone called sarahknapton tweeted, “I know lateral flow is important etc but all these millions of bits of plastic ending up in landfill every day makes me feel a bit ill.” Mr Worstall replied, “Umm,...
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“The data show that from 2000 to 2021, the number of global weather and climate disasters declined by about 10%, which is very good news and completely contrary to conventional wisdom.” – Roger Pielke Jr
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If it wasn’t so serious, we could just laugh. But green activists have been so successful over the last 30 years with their “settled” science propaganda that they have persuaded a Conservative...
View ArticleHow long before we see “Deinsulate Britain” protestors?
“Insulation was supposed to save us money… but it ruined our homes: Millions crippling repair costs after botched green upgrades”,writes Chris Brooke in the Daily Mail: Getting Britain’s homes...
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