The top three priorities for a successful industrial policy are cheap energy, cheap energy and cheap energy.
The Uk with the dearest electricity of the advanced economies is performing the last rites for energy intensive industry. There has been a stream of closures of steel plants, petrochemical works, oil refineries, ceramics,glass, aluminium, foundries and much else.
The Bowland shales run across England, from Lancashire through Lincolnshire to South Yorkshire. They are thought to contain enough gas to meet our domestic needs for several decades.
Cuadrilla spent £200 million on drilling five exploration wells which found gas in Lancashire. Today they are instructed to pour plenty of concrete down two wells that could deliver us gas, to prevent them from ever being used. Mr Miliband doesn’t merely want to stop them producing any gas for us now, but wants to stop them however serious our need for gas might become. Tipping concrete down these wells is needless and expensive vandalism.
The Uk now imports half its gas. Much of it comes byLNG tanker. It produces three times as much CO 2 as UK piped gas given all the energy used to cool, transport and convert back to gas. It is dearer. All the tax revenue and well paid jobs benefit the exporting country, not us. This is madness, self harm on a huge scale.
Developing North Sea oil and gas in the 1970 s helped the UK economy pull through despite the bankruptcy of the state brought on by Labour’s over spending. Today the government’s growth strategy desperately needs more energy. So drill, baby ,drill. Up would go tax revenues, investment and well paid jobs. Down would go world CO 2 as we stop importing LNG.
March 14, 2025
It was the one great void in SKR’s statement of intent yesterday. He mentioned the need for cheap energy, hinting at its lack being down to a belicose Putin. Maybe for Germany, but for the UK it is down to the worship of Nett Zero and the presence of Red Ed in the dpt of energy. Consocialists of the previous government gave credence to the nonesense of Nett Zero and much else. We are now in the grip of rampant luddite socialism with the ironic suggestion that they will restore sanity to the business of government. Judge them by their actions, not their cosy chats and flexible wording. If there is to be a return to sanity, the fight will be within Labour.
March 14, 2025
I think we barely got through this winter without energy cuts. I’d like to know how many carbon-based power stations will be closed this year, and natural gas supplies curtailed. I need to know if I should install a wood/coal burner and buy a diesel generator before next autumn.
When will common sense return to these islands.
March 14, 2025
Just get on and do it …. you can’t rely on the Eco Nutters who infest the Establishment.
March 14, 2025
+1
March 14, 2025
This is it. To the largely ignorant public people like RedEd will just blame Putin for the high prices and eventual brown and blackouts.
March 14, 2025
Is Ed ignorant, deluded or has he got some other motives for his mad economic energy let’s freeze the grannies and destory our ability to compete inductrial and economic vandalism?
Miliband gained four A Levels—in Mathematics (A), English (A), Further Mathematics (B) and Physics (B)—and then read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
So not top quite top grade A leves but no excuse for not spotting that Net Zero is a hoax Ed.
March 14, 2025
@agricola – exactly what those that are lost try to do is blame others, to deflect. International turmoil has nothing to do with the UK’s wealth and well-being, those things are always changing and morphing into something else. The UK’s problems are its internal Political Terrorisms that puts fighting the people and the country first, ahead of its existence.
We had a Country(we still have) able to be self reliant & resilient and be shuttered from the bulk of external situations. We have a Government and Parliament fighting the people and the Country to ensure it is forced into decline.
March 14, 2025
Well said IIM! we have a parliament now which is full of corrupt Lefties, why do fools vote for labour when their reputation is so bad?
March 14, 2025
Indeed and blinding obvious to anyone with half a brain, plus stop burning young coal (wood) processed and dried into wood pellets to burn at Drax. Total insanity too, so is Ed Miliband mad, deluded or corrupt? Or is there another explanation he can offer?
‘Several people’ arrested in EU bribery investigation linked to Huawei
Homes searched in inquiry into alleged corruption at European parliament relating to Chinese technology giant.
Very hard to explain many EU or UK policies or laws without a lot of corruption or influence from vested interests. They are clearly very often hugely against the interest of almost everyone but the vested interests pushing for them.
March 14, 2025
But not just Ed Miliband almost all the Labour party, Theresa May, Kemi, Coutinho and almost all the the Tory party. The whole thing is a hoax as Trumps correctly says. One hugely exaggerated (at best) hoax. Let us hope he get some sensible scientists (there are plenty of them) to expose this hoax also the idea that the vaccine were safe and effective was a hoax as was the claim that the lockdown did anything but net harm to health, the economy, education, mental health and much else.
March 14, 2025
Good piece in the Daily Sceptic. “A £10k Covid Fine for a Snowball Fight Ruined My Life”
By Will Jones (for a young Leeds university student).
“The officer wrote down the number ‘3,600’ on a piece of paper and slid it across the table,” Watts says.
“He asked me ‘Do you know what this means, Mr Watts?’, and I said I don’t know. He said, ‘This is the number of people who have died from COVID-19 since your snowball fight, how do you feel about that?’
To which the correct answer is perhaps nothing to do with my snoball fight mate. And do not do gain of function experiments on potentially dangerous bat viruses in chinese labs. and this 3,600 figure is probably larger because of the lockdown down you and your mates Mr Plod are enforcing. This as stopping gatherings (of young people especially) delays them getting a free, earlier and relatively save (certainly for the young) natural vaccination.
Certainly (as is now very clear indeed though not to Sunak) far safer than the net harm manufactured vaccines.
March 14, 2025
Cuadrilla should just refuse to concrete the wells. What is pea brained milibrains going to do about it.
He has no right to order such stupid endeavours
How come he has the authority to do such things.
We now have a massive gas field under Gainsborough, enough to supply all our needs for 10 years. There is a messianic streak of stupidity in Westminster and it’s time it was called out.
March 14, 2025
Indeed concreting then in would be pure vandalism from this mad Government who are just like the last fake Tory ones – but even worse still.
March 14, 2025
In the Spectator today.
No sacred cows
I was right – and Gove was wrong – on lockdown
Toby Young
You certainly were Toby but then socialist Gove is usually wrong on almost everything, he take climate advice from Greta Thunberg and even wanted VAT on private school fees. Which is proving to be a complete disaster – as was entirely predictable. It will not even raise any net funds for the government to waste!
March 14, 2025
+1.
March 14, 2025
IW :
Correct. In fact Cuadrilla should take the SoS of DESNZ to court on the basis that he has already banned the use of this gas and that his instruction to concrete the wells will simply increase atmospheric CO2 which is not in keeping with our laws and international binding committments to reduce them.
March 14, 2025
Indeed! But would the legal costs be more than the concreting!
March 14, 2025
Sir John describes a situation so irrational that it can only come from a government that believes it has a legal duty to pay Mauritius £9 billion for base we already own.
March 14, 2025
I’m still in shock that even dyed in the wool Marxist would be that stupid but the again we have 2TK incharge of the sixth form debating chamber.
March 14, 2025
You forget Stalin in the former Soviet Union. People can be made to believe and do anything if the government puts its mind to it. Remember the banging of the pots and pans to thank the NHS ?
March 14, 2025
+1
March 14, 2025
All of Mauritius deep sea ports are used by the Chinese. I saw a new map and they control most of the ports around Africa. They have built 8 from scratch. The Cape of Good Hope passage can easily be denied us. No wonder Trump is desperate to recover the Panama Canal and Greenland.
The Chinese are unlikely to fight a hot war when they can starve and squeeze us off the face of the earth – the objective being the victory of Communism.
March 14, 2025
The whole of the Indian Ocean is a BRICS lake,connected to the non littoral countries of that vast expanse by trade corridors like INSTC(Russia-Iran-India),CPEC(Chinese Xinjiang-Pakistan),China-Laos-Thailand high speed rail,etc.There is also the string of Russia-China aligned African countries stretching west-to-east from Atlantic-facing Senegal and Nigeria to Ethiopia and the Red Sea.
In addition ,it was also a tremendous coup for BRICS to get Indonesia on board(admitted as a full member in January-the others which joined this year were only given partner status)-largest country in SE Asia(283m population;4th largest in the world),8th largest GDP on a ppp basis(with considerable growth and development potential) and significant natural resources that include nickel,copper,bauxite,tin and coal).And look at its geo-positioning!-a 3,200 mile span of islands that connect the Indian and Pacific Oceans and,on a north-south axis, separate SE Asia from Australia-with whom it has ‘issues’ and is likely to prove a weighty counter to AUKUS(assuming the latter really gets off the ground).
It is not only a strict muslim country but also a firm supporter of Palestine-and it is suggested that western backing for Israel was one of the reasons that convinced it to commit to BRICS.
March 14, 2025
Shortly you will see the world divide again, and Russia and the English speaking world, and of course Israel, will be marching in unison again, simply fighting for survival.
We do need to shut the fool de Bretton Gordon it – when I know more about military matters than a professional Colonel that is a reflection on him. Also the fool who expresses his surprise today:
The failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region surprised the former British Defense Minister. Gavin Williamson was surprised that with having such resources it was possible to fail so quickly and devastatingly.
“Kiev had everything: doctors trained in Europe, colossal military assistance, the best personnel who were trained in NATO countries. But the operation turned into a death trap,” the former minister noted.
Trump is begging Putin for their lives. It’s that bad. Unless they surrender they will die. Hundreds of millions of USD of military equipment 50 Abrams tanks etc have been abandoned.
It’s now a Turkey shoot and the Russians are establishing a buffer zone in Sumy. That is VERRRY close to Kiev.
The deluded on this site will be as astonished as Williamson – they need to wake up to the fact that those who are defeated can demand nothing – not even their lives.
Micron should stop threatening Russia from under his Daddy’s skirts!
March 14, 2025
The UK had the third largest trade deficit in the world in 2023 at -USD233 billion, behind the USA ( over 1 trillion) and India (a fast growing economy). In a de-globalising world how does the political class expect to pay for all these net imports? Financial services do not cover the deficit. The country is running out of assets (Macmillan’s family silver) to sell to foreign buyers. Capital markets are in freefall. There is a net decline in company formation; just about every other day a company delists from AIM. The UK is a fool’s paradise run by a clueless political class. It cannot last.
March 14, 2025
Simple. By acquiring YOUR assets and selling them off. You think that the farmers will be the only ones who will struggle with paying Inheritance Tax ? Just wait until your Council Tax Bill is linked to your Carbon Credits. Then there is the road network once Pay-Per-Mile is installed ?
They won’t pay, but YOU will.
March 14, 2025
Yes, the strivers will pay and the feckless will continue to suck the lifeblood out of our country until there is nothing left. Anyone who can should leave while they can still take their money out of the country. We are now in a doom loop caused by the decisions of stupid politicians over the past few decades. I’m not sure anything can save us.
March 14, 2025
And see Fortune.com,12/3/25:”If you think the current outlook is bad,just wait until the White House can’t find anyone to buy its debt,warns Ray Dalio.”
When Ray Dalio speaks,you should listen…
March 14, 2025
I simply do not understand the so called logic of many of our politicians at all.
To put it in the most simplist household terms.
Why would you want go abroad to purchase food, when you already have it in the kitchen cupboard at home ?
Afraid common-sense is in very short supply at Westminster.
We are getting Rid of NHS England, but only half of the staff are going to lose their jobs !
Why only half ?
Surely If you close a business, then everyone goes !
March 14, 2025
Most politicians do not work on “Logic” they work on false promises, irration religions, the evil politics of envy and appeals to irrational emotions.
March 14, 2025
They are going to put in another burdensome system instead of the NHS England quango. It will not work.
Politicians ( amateurs who love to dabble with our money) have never made anything work properly. How can anyone have any faith that a government with absolutely no experience of anything useful, let alone large enterprises, that they will produce something that will work? It is good that at last the Lansley disaster of 2012 has been recognised as a failure and is being partly dismantled, but I fear for what Starmer and co may put in instead. My prediction is for more bureaucracy higher cost and no real benefit. If only politicians would stop tinkering with their mad ideas and let professionals do it. Milliband is the prime example of this government’s thinking, so we don’t have much hope.
March 14, 2025
the other half will be going to other quangos
March 14, 2025
Far left thinking Alan.
March 14, 2025
NHS England employs 1.5 million people. 9,000 odd will lose their jobs.
March 14, 2025
For once I disagree with Sir John. The top three priorities for a successful industrial policy are no socialism, no socialism and no socialism.
It now seems the PM agrees. As he pivots to the right perhaps he will drag the Tories after him.
If only they had thought of it first.
Reply Plenty of socialism in industrial policy. Plenty of bans, high taxes and dear energy.
March 14, 2025
You want some socialism – like universal primary and secondary education regardless of the ability of the pupils to pay and healthcare for the unfortunately sick and whose sickness prevents them from working. It’s the excessive socialism that’s the problem, like taxing one set of people to pay for the lifestyle diseases of others, benefits for those who choose benefits over working and subsidising railways.
March 14, 2025
Nick
I do worry that Starmer is just saying what he knows we want to hear.
The closing of NHS England seems a bit like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. As Berks Alan said, why only get rid of half of the NHS England if you’re ‘getting rid’ of it? We assume, in its entirety, but … is it? Or the usual smoke and mirrors?
March 14, 2025
The Cuadrilla vandalism is no different to the vandalism of blowing up 3 reserve coal-fired power stations which could have provided sufficient electricity to keep the lights on when the Unreliable Intermittent Energy fails to deliver.
It is blindingly obvious that importing foreign sources of energy to replace that which we could (and did) generate ourselves will cost far more and will increase the amount of global CO2 – not that that is a genuine problem. The policy in the UK is driven by Eco Extremists and members of the governing class who are benefiting personally from impoverishing “the peasants” – or expect to if they deliver the policy.
It’s all about money and in the case of certain politicians, future job prospects.
March 14, 2025
Coal fired power stations are really inefficient. Better to distribute the coal to homes for winter warmth. Plus the extra CO2 is good for the vegetable plot.
March 14, 2025
At least coal can be stored. With our current set up we have virtually no storage for gas. We are lucky to get by on the skin of our teeth. One day our luck will run out.
March 14, 2025
Our gas is stored in the places from which we pump it. We can call on it as required. Why build storage?
March 14, 2025
Agree
March 14, 2025
Good morning.
Whilst our kind host is indeed correct it is alas an over simplification of what needs to be done. Agreements such as the Paris Accords signed by the last government prevents the UK from doing this. For any UK government, even one which really does want to, “drill-baby-drill” it first has to do what the Trump administration has done and withdraw from any and all agreements which bind it.
What is rarely is ever discussed both here and elsewhere, is the fact that Parliament has given so much power away that it is basically powerless. And this was done by design. I do not see any political party, not even REFORM ever likely to turn this around.
Things in this country need to get really bad before they are ever likely to get any worse.
Reply I did not support or vote for the Climate targets and Treaties
March 14, 2025
R to R
I never thought you would or said that you did. But it is nice for others to know I suppose.
Thanks.
March 14, 2025
It is amusing that the press have been in uproar over Trump putting tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports as if this somehow targets the UK. In fact our own government policy has made UK virtually exempt because we produce hardly any of either (because energy costs make it uneconomic) with only one aluminium works (which uses hydro electricity) and only one major steel works. Really we should be thanking Trump for targeting sectors of no relevance to UK.
March 14, 2025
Yes. And he’s threatened to put 200% tariffs on EU wine and Champagne, which again, would have minimal impact on the UK since, although wine production has grown considerably here in the past decade, it’s all small volume and we export very little.
March 14, 2025
As predicted, the war criminal Putin has rejected the ceasefire proposal that the United States and Ukraine recently agreed upon in Jeddah – offering an alternative proposal that undermines Trump’s stated goal of securing a lasting peace in Ukraine
Putin’s counter-proposal would grant Russia greatly disproportionate advantages, setting conditions for Russia to renew hostilities on terms extremely favourable to Russia. This is a classic Putin strategy, designed to introduce red lines which “must be” settled before negotiations on any actual ceasefire can commence.
Clearly, Putin is holding the ceasefire proposal hostage and is attempting to extract pre-emptive concessions ahead of formal negotiations to end the war. Meanwhile, Russian barbaric attacks on Ukraine residential blocks, energy infrastructure, schools, hospitals, refugee centres etc will continue
In Moscow, Putin’s lackeys continue to use narratives similar to those that they have previously used to justify the invasion of Ukraine, setting conditions to justify future aggression against NATO member states – specifically the Baltic countries.
March 14, 2025
It’s called “negotiating” Sakara. One side says what they want to achieve; the other side says what they want to achieve and in due course they reach an agreement.
March 14, 2025
Well let’s give it a bit more time and see how it develops!
March 14, 2025
I see the telex terminal from the MoD propaganda unit to the Sakara orchidarium is working fine.
March 14, 2025
Wonder if Mrs Cold burned the missive from the confused Williamson – he expected the elite troops to hold the area of empty Kursk (1 village of any size) but admits today that ‘it’s a death trap’. Trump begging for Ukrainian Bandeira lives.
Must be because the Ukrainians have the whip hand
March 14, 2025
Zelinsky also rejected Trump’s peace plan, until he didn’t. Wait and see and don’t believe all you read in the papers. There’s too many people in the press and elsewhere who don’t have the slightest experience of negotiation.
March 14, 2025
Anyone advocating for net zero should be asked about carbon accounting and to demonstrate how its use is beneficial rather than revenue raising.
March 14, 2025
Indeed but they just say “the science is settled” they rarely know any science themselves so can explain nothing themsleves. Classics, PPE, law graduates or similar! Or crooks on the make or religious socialist zealots like Countinho, Gove, May, Sunak…?
March 14, 2025
If itis ‘settled’, then it is not Science !
March 14, 2025
brilliant aphorism!
March 14, 2025
NS:
The SoS for DESNZ should be asked to demonstrate how exporting our industry to coal powered countries actually reduces global CO2.
March 14, 2025
I agree.
March 14, 2025
Today SirJ, you’re spot-on
March 14, 2025
Do we know where Quadrilla will be importing the concrete from?
March 14, 2025
I would insist the cement is produced from sustainable sources, without the burning of fossil fuels to produce it.
March 14, 2025
Sir John
All these situations you mention daily have one thing in common, they can only be answered by the economy.
Money is literally the seed corn of growth, the more money sloshing around the economy the more growth we can expect to see. Government that removes money from the economy, is a government killing the economy.
The bit lost on the ideologs, the political terrorists, in practice that is not just the Government that is the majority of Parliament. It is that the people of the country are the ones that create the country’s wealth. Government just can’t do the hands-on stuff they fail at the first hurdle as they put their extremism first and foremost. They have morphed into pontificators not doers. The Country needs to release the achievers from this Political Tyranny. Keep political terrorism out of peoples lives.
The UK’s wealth being forced out of the Country to pay for the Political Terrorism we now see is tomorrow being squandered. Fighting the people is tomorrow being squandered.
The economy has to have the money to exist, it is our tomorrow. A strong thriving resilient self-reliant economy causes tomorrow it even funds political dreams. Excuse the language, the UK Political forces have things ‘arse about face’. Tax is the first line killer of a Countries Growth prospects. Then the political ideology being brought into play by way of bans, before self-sufficient, resilient alternatives are found compounds that decline further.
We have a Parliament and Government working to kill the Country.
March 14, 2025
We are not just being denied cheap energy, we are being denied energy, and resources of all kinds.
Energy supply and cost have been manipulated to serve the purpose of creating a 3rd world environment on these isles. Without adequate energy we cannot expand, move forward and upward, or even do what we are used to doing.
We no longer need to question these facts, but we should be clear headed enough to extrapolate what this will mean to our future.
No longer an independent state, likely to be subsumed into the EU thanks to Starmer’s inch by inch approach to treachery. Democracy fails because parliament refuses to do it’s job. Successive governments all look the same and follow the same rules defined for them, piling on oppressive legislation. Without jobs and the ability to pay for imports there will be mass starvation and huge riots.
All for the want of enough energy and the dire urge to capitulate to the greens demanding ‘KEEP IT IN THE GROUND’.
March 14, 2025
With regards to pouring concrete into the ground, doesn’t concrete rely on fossil fuels to produce? And I agree with you SJR it is vandalism on a huge scale. Hardly good for the environment and nature pouring concrete unnecessarily into the ground.
March 14, 2025
Milliband a total dunce. Surely even two-tier can see it.
March 14, 2025
Pouring concrete down exploration wells that has revealed massive reserves is not just pointless and silly it is malicious policy from Labour and from Ed Miliband in particular.
We have t find ways to stop this criminal vandalism.
March 14, 2025
“Tipping concrete down these wells is needless and expensive vandalism….. This [importing gas when we have our own] is madness, self harm on a huge scale.”
These words apply to the whole of the Net Zero Strategy. Since the whole planet shares the same atmosphere it makes no sense to export our industries to less efficient, higher CO2 emitting coal-fired power countries from which we then import our goods. This nonsensical policy, if nothing else, proves they know that there is no climate emergency and that CO2, a trace gas, does not control the planet’s weather or even temperature. They simply want to sabotage our industry, impoverish us with the lack of reliable and affordable energy, control us through impractical and expensive electrification/smart meters and destroy our national security.
Socialism depends upon people remaining poor.
March 14, 2025
Sir John
As if to reinforce the general feeling of hypocrisy from government we see on comments today
From the MsM,
The Chancellors speech in Scotland – Donald Trump is to blame for the unexpected contraction in Britain’s economy at the start of the year, Rachel Reeves has suggested. – How? – She then blames the last government
Then – we get ‘The UK’s gross domestic product contracted by 0.1pc in January, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).’ – Trump could not in any way, shape have caused that. But then again the ONS, just as with the OBR & BoE have never been correct when it comes to predictions – more of the costly Quango’s that need eliminating.
Goldman Sachs downgrades prediction for UK growth
Richard Tice, the deputy leader of Reform UK, called on Rachel Reeves to reverse her “blunder Budget”. “Fear pervades everywhere in the private sector even months before the national insurance increases start in April.”
The Political terrorism we see from our absent Government and a lazy Parliament has no bounds it is always someone else’s fault. Why do we empower and pay these people to manage & run the Country on our behalf?
March 14, 2025
Quote: “The top three priorities for a successful industrial policy are cheap energy, cheap energy and cheap energy.”
Indeed so. It is a major reason why the Industrial Revolution took off in the UK. No cheap energy equals a miserable hand-to-mouth existence.
March 14, 2025
Milliband is a dangerous individual who is either brainwashed or there is personal gain in what he’s peddling. Net Zero provides nothing for this country, no additional jobs as they claim except in China. Industry being ravaged whilst we the Taxpayer are forking out more and more cash for our utilities. EV’s are just not beneficial, just expensive unless you look to the cheap ones and where are they from; China, the country that gave us Covid and of course an abundance of industrial espionage. Batteries lose their capacity over time, replacing a battery on a mobile phone is costly enough, for a car it’s £ thousands. Milliband and Starmer should be held accountable for their actions and destroying the opportunity to seek out our own gas and oil within our shores is criminal. It needs stopped and stopped now. The British Public deserve better than this Political Wing of Just Stop Oil madmen.
March 14, 2025
All pretty obvious really unless one believes in fairies and demons. It always surprises me how many people do.
March 14, 2025
The crazy way that Labour operates is even dafter than Heath Robinson would invent as an obstructive and wasteful technique.
March 14, 2025
At least Heath Robinsons creations worked!
March 14, 2025
But what can we do? The previous Conservative Government was locked on to Net Zero as well. Labour is even worse with Ed determined to destroy the UK economy, ably assisted by Starmer and Reeves.
Even in opposition, the Conservatives still cling on to Net Zero.Why have they not set up a small group to talk to scientists, of which there are plenty, who know Global Warming/ Climate Change is nonsense, and that CO2 is a net benefit. Why are MPs fast asleep to the real dangers ahead for the UK economy? Will they wake up when our industry has been destroyed?
Is this the worst, least intelligent, with no vision, and pathetic bunch of MPs we have ever had?
March 14, 2025
I read in the Telegraph that “Rachel Reeves is so desperate to find growth, she will listen to anyone promising a solution”, so maybe somebody should tell her about this lunacy.
March 14, 2025
You can tell them to the cows come home but nobody will listen.
Logic and common sense seem to have been thrown out of the window.
I can only assume that a degree from Oxford no longer endows the beneficiary with any intelligent learning.
All the doom mongering is based on computer forecasts which, in turn, rely on selected data inputs and predictive programming.
March 14, 2025
J:
I think this Oxford graduate knows very well what he is doing and how it will bring disaster if we don’t stop him.
March 14, 2025
Wall Street Journal criticises Trump for ‘dumbest trade war in history’ – yup, I’d go with that.
March 14, 2025
The reason for our unilateral dash to decarbonise our electricity by 2030 and the whole of the country’s consumption by 2050 even though, as admitted by NESO et al, the technology does not yet exist, let alone at an affordable cost, is because the real science is predicting global temperature will start to fall sometime between 2030 and 2040. Do not forget that in the 1970s our national broadcaster was telling us that we were heading for another ice age (reason unknown). But this was before they cottoned on to the false idea that the current mild global warming of 0.14 degrees C per decade could be blamed on anthropogenic emissions of CO2 and hence could be used to sabotage our economy and security.
March 14, 2025
OR, May I have your references for the real science predicting that global temperatures will start to fall sometime between 2030 and 2040. I would be interested to know on what ground this has been found: modelling?
March 14, 2025
Application of historical swings. Nothing like reality Hefner. Have you been introduced?
March 14, 2025
It makes no sense to pour concrete down these wells when NESO’s Clean Power 2030 recommendation requires 35 GW of gas fired backup for when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine.
March 14, 2025
Pouring concerete down a hole is childish student politics.
Are these the same children who are trying to annoy motorists?
Are these the same children who are defacing paintings or pouring paint over buildings?
March 14, 2025
Even the CCC and NESO say we’re still going to require gas by 2050.
Our SoS for Energy Security is intent on swapping the security of our own gas from the North Sea, from our own fracking wells and from Norway and the USA for renewables where the steel (if not yet the concrete), the wind turbines, the solar panels and the metals and minerals for batteries, motors and generators is supplied by a country who uses coal power, slave labour to produce the solar panels and is described by our security services as “hostile”.
March 14, 2025
Our SoS for Energy Security is in China to place orders for wind turbines, solar panels, steel, concrete, batteries, motors, generators, evs, heat pumps, smart meters and all the kit needed to save the planet. I wonder how we will be paying for all of this? I guess we will be giving away more than just the Chagos Islands….
March 14, 2025
What you say makes perfect sense to me.