COP 29 tells us global warming is happening. They tell us too much global warming will happen if the world does not drastically reduce its manmade CO 2 output urgently.
Successive COP meetings have been telling us this all century. Most world governments say they agree. So COP 29 needs to ask
Why has world manmade CO 2 just hit a new high after all these years of COP policies?
Why does COP ignore China, accounting for around one third of world CO 2 which has been increasing its output all this century, and now says it is peaking? Surely China needs to cut quickly.
What is COP 29 âs message to India and Russia, large CO 2 producers who have been increasing their output?
What is COP 29âs view of US voters who have just given a big mandate to the Republicans running on a ticket of Drill baby, drill?
Why does COP 29 go forward on national accounting which means you can cut your manmade CO 2 nationally by closing fossil fuel activities and importing instead? This often increases world CO 2 so how does that help?
Why should a smaller CO 2 emitter nation make sacrifices to cut its CO 2 when the large emitters are not bothering?
When will COP and governments tackle the big issue of lack of consumer enthusiasm for net zero products?
What is the latest COP 29 estimate of the total world cost of decarbonisation?
November 15, 2024
…and in the face of known historial , quite drastic temperature changes ?
The very cold winters of 1947 and 1962/3
The floods of 1952
The heatwaves of 1975 and ’76
November 15, 2024
CO2 levels too have been far higher in the past over ten times as high, even during ice ages.
November 15, 2024
We don’t want to return to the ice ages!
Can you imagine going on holiday to Bali with your scarf and mittens and having to drink hot chocolate to stay warm.
November 15, 2024
It’s more than that David. The elites at COP don’t really care about CO2 levels.
COP is all about making the populations of the rich nations poorer whilst making a few select people in all nations much richer.
November 15, 2024
Yes, that’s my sceptical view also. The evidence is there; we never really studied global warming/cooling causes at senior government level – where are the papers? The overt support given to CO2 caused warming by mostly political entities and persons – look at the Damascene conversion of B Johnson. The sudden loss of funding for academics who put their heads up to ask difficult questions – see Nobel winner John Clauser. These are the questions that should be considered.
We are spending as much on this as a war, why not give the same investigative effort?
November 15, 2024
Supporter of net zero are surely either zealot nutters who have fallen for a new anti-scientific religions, or liars on the make or a mix of both.
âit is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding itâ Upton Sinclair.
UK growth up by 0.1% over last three months reported (so prob. negative per head), but do not worry Reevesâs budget, Miliband Net Zero lunacy, ever more low skilled immigration the rich and hard working leaving⊠will very soon take that negative.
November 15, 2024
Plus the talking down of the economy, the damaging (evem for workers) workers right bill, the war on landlords and motorists⊠perhaps -10% PA per person in no time at all.
November 15, 2024
Correct.
November 15, 2024
Well said Pete! anyone with an ounce of intelligence can see its all a scam
November 15, 2024
Clearly they do not as many of the things they push like EV cars/vans increase CO2 emissions.
November 15, 2024
Thats the truth!
November 15, 2024
These questions will never be answered because we are talking about a religion. The whole scam has been given this status by the WEF and UN as a way to transfer wealth away from the old industrial countries to the new kids on the block.
We have Milibrain incharge of our power grid and he is being allowed, nay encouraged to take us back to before the industrial revolution.
Everyone knows this will not make one iota of difference to the climate and as the Americans have shown, they’ve had enough of the deceit.
Many countries didn’t attend the jamboree and Argentina recalled its delegation Milleu calling it out as a scam.
We need some direct action to stop this nonesense and let the farmers be the beginning.
November 15, 2024
+1
November 15, 2024
Itâs not only nonsense, itâs utter insanity. To see tens of thousands of delegates attending these annual COP jamborees, many flying in on private jets to tell us to reduce carbon emissions goes beyond absurdity.
November 15, 2024
Checking Gridwatch Templar gas turbine demand, this has varied between 5gw and 23gw this week to balance the grid frequency at 50 cycles. How does Milibrain plan to maintain the grid when all his fossil fuel plants are gone. Absolute madness from the heart of government.
November 15, 2024
Good morning.
Some very good questions which, will of course, go unanswered.
What worries me most is the language being used by the government. It seems to be doubling down on its commitment to Nut Zero stating that it intends to be the ‘leader’. That is all very fine if being the leader:
a) which results in something that is clearly positive.
b) when there is more than one in the race.
We are, or so it seems, to be in a race of just one with every one else both cheering us on and laughing at us (or our government to be precise) as we go by. What the idiots in charge do not seem to know is, that not only there is no prize, but the finishline is some distance past a cliff edge.
We are saving nothing but losing everything. The only thing left will be pointless government jobs. A universal income (Dole money) and Communism in all but name.
Have these people not been paying attention to world events for the past 30 years ? The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has abandoned the Communist economic model and embraced Capitalism.
We must be mad ?
November 15, 2024
@Mark B +1.
What’s so very disappointing is that the official opposition can’t be trusted to oppose all this. On the other hand, if they cling on to their climate change beliefs it might mean they are less of a challenge to Reform at the next election.
November 15, 2024
The Tory’s are opposition in name only.
November 15, 2024
the opposition appears to be 5 MPs.
November 15, 2024
Five MPs who are not even allowed to lay wreath for remembrance day!
November 15, 2024
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad, Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat (literally: Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason). Then puts them in charge of energy, climate and senior posts in Starmerâs appalling Government. Then laughs at them all as they try to control the climate using ârenewablesâ, boat people arrivals by âsmashing the gangsâ and to create growth by a budget of vast tax, more employment laws and huge regulatory increases.
At least King Canute was demonstrating to his flattering courtiers that he has no control of the tide.
November 15, 2024
“COP 29 tells us global warming is happening. They tell us too much global warming will happen if the world does not drastically reduce its manmade CO 2 output urgently.”.
There is not significant warming (other than those due to the Urban Heat Island effect of building and concrete which hold the heat over night and are often heated.) The World has been much hotter and colder than it is now and even much colder with far higher levels of CO2.
On balance hotter is rather better than colder. Saves us hugely on energy costs too in the UK.
November 15, 2024
I guess it will take a new Canute to demonstrate that the tide is an intermittent, costly source of energy that will create problems with grid integration and drive up costs, as well as creating environmental problems if developed on any reasonable scale.
November 15, 2024
To be the leader surely means demonstrating action that gives the wanted outcome?
How is the UK stopping energy use, and reducing food production, going to prove a global reduction?
November 15, 2024
Mark B, +++. Excellent comment, and I hear that Reeves is somewhat dismayed by the lack of growth. . . . is the dawn dawning or will there be a blinding flash?
November 15, 2024
A resignation will do.
November 15, 2024
Yes, along with our host’s questions, matters where it seems there is a consensus across virtually all of the Labour and Conservative MPs to avoid addressing.
November 15, 2024
It’s interesting to note that the leadership is not being followed. Instead, countries are pulling away from the farce. President Millei recalled the entire Argentinian delegation, reportedly following a call with Trump. He clearly has his eyes on the riches of the South Atlantic. Perhaps Trump would apply pressure to cede the Falklands on a Labour government? We need some top class diplomacy.
The French minister who was leading their delegation also pulled out. No other major country sent a head of state. Trump will clearly withdraw from the Paris agreement immediately and will likely cut funding to the IPCC at the UN. It’s looking close to the final act for this pantomime which long ago ceased to be about climate, having morphed into a begging bowl and attempt to shut down Western economies (which then would have no funds at all for the begging bowl).
November 16, 2024
The French pulled out due to their ‘colonial’ spat with Azerbaijan who they blame(with Russia behind them) for stirring up serious trouble in the French overseas territory of New Caledonia earlier this year.
Azerbaijan are equally annoyed with France for the support given by France to Armenia.
November 15, 2024
Mark B
Excellent indeed!
November 15, 2024
All good questions to which COP 29 supporters will struggle to find good answers because it is driven by dodgy data.
November 15, 2024
They do not even attempt to answer them nor have the Con-Socialists and nor have this appalling government or the deluded zealot and PPE graduate Miliband, Lord Debden or that chap with some kind of law degree Chris Stark.
A bit more CO2 plant food is a net good and anyway the things pushed to reduce CO2 do not even do so to any significance and anyway most of the world, very sensibly, is not and will not even try to reduce CO2.
Thank goodness we will soon have a climate realist in the White House – assuming he survives for two more months. Hopefully he will fun R&D by sensible climate realist scientists for a change and cut of funding for the deluded alarmists. Also it seems he will expose the true figure on the Covid Vaccine harms and he likes peace and free speech.
November 15, 2024
RFK Jr chosen as Donald Trump’s health secretary – as president-elect says he will do ‘unbelievable things’ see also the recent Dr John Campbell videos one on excess deaths around the worlds and the temporal correlation with the Covid Vaccines release.
So will this Government continue to hide the stats on death broken down by age, vaccines status, dates I assume so. Why might they want to hide this unless the stats or damning for the Covid Vaccines? They will come out in the end. It is worldwide after all. We already know of the appalling & huge vaccine batch safety variations.
November 15, 2024
you avoided the old joke ‘ how many people died broken down by sex.’
November 15, 2024
The too and the causes of the many deaths.
November 15, 2024
What is the latest COP 29 estimate of the total world cost of decarbonisation?
Indeed and what is this governmentâs estimate. In reality decarbonisation is not even possible and will never happen worldwide. Even a doubling of CO2 would not cause any significant or harmful warming. Much of the warming they are recording is actually urban heat island effects and the positioning of thermometers. Nothing to do with CO2 or so called Green House Gasses.
So when are the Tories going to admit that Major, Cameron, May, Boris, Sunak and Clair Coutinho have been talking drivel for 30 years? Even Thatcher fell for it at one point. A mad group think anti-science, hugely exaggerated religion. Useful as they can blame events life fire and floods on it rather than the real causes and use it as an excuse for ever more taxation and government power.
November 15, 2024
As was pointed out in the Lords yesterday the government has no proper estimate. It seems it is determined to avoid making one.
November 15, 2024
So the Leeds bus burning riots are described by the police as a âRomanian Vigilâ.
Even the delightful Allison Pearson visited by the Police on Remembrance Day over an alleged hate crime. See the Planet Normal podcast. Two Tier policing and Justice is alive and well and accelerating with this government and the appalling anti-free speech Two Tier Kier.
They surely do this to discourage many others and suppress free speech.
November 15, 2024
LL +1. I don’t think any peacetime government has been this authoritarian in living memory.
November 15, 2024
Indeed but not used to tackle and real problems like serious crimes muggings, stabbing, shop lifting, thefts, burglaryâŠ
November 15, 2024
Authoritarian towards one demographic
November 15, 2024
+1
November 15, 2024
Maybe one day you would keep to tte topic instead of using this as an excuse to air your brain worms.
I read this blog because Sir JR offers interesting topics and observations not to read some peopleâs dsily vapourungs..
November 15, 2024
The do not read Lifelogicâs contributions it is not compulsory they say Lifelogic at the top!
November 15, 2024
We can only have opinions based on a disemblation of fact, having battled our way through a mass of propaganda. We are at the point of deciding whether the earth is flat or an oblate spheroid.
Most half educated people can agree that climate changes, it has done for millions of years, from the Earths very existence in fact. We can look back through ice cores for a very long time and appreciate that our atmosphere has varied a lot in its composition, none of which halted evolution.
Industrialisation has no doubt produced a share of what is noxious, but we have logically concluded that we must deal with it. We largely have via engineering and science. A process, if allowed and incentivised, will continue. The process of deindustrialisation, and the blatant dishonesty of moving it to another part of the World so we can claim ” It is not us mate” , is just a scam. A scam that allows us to blame others, China for instance, for expanding industry to supply us. A total hypocracy.
If we genuinely wished to produce clean reliable energy we have the means at our disposal. We can even clean up its production using fossil fuel if we so choose. We can reduce our production of waste, or at least move heavily in the direction of harmless natural degradable product if we choose. I could go on, but I leave it to you to work it out.
COP, of whatever number, is a scam to move wealth from those nations that create it to those who want a free ride. It is not even as good a scam as slavery reparations, which at least relate to historical fact. The bit that amazes me is the number who fall for it, many theoretically educated, while accepting that a fair few do so to line their own pockets. On the positive side we now have Donald Trump who vowes like St George to slay this malignant dragon, with the support of the vast majority of his fellow citizens. I wish him every success and hope that his success is airbourne, in the general direction from which we get most weather.
November 15, 2024
Completely agree with you Agricola.
+1
November 15, 2024
A very good post today, answering your questions exposes what a hoax (to use President elect Trump’s description) is being played.
The UK “leaders” are a laughing stock, but unfortunately there is still a significant number of citizens that don’t realise it’s a monumental scam. Our MSM is largely to blame for that.
If Trump can can destroy the climate change narrative in the anglosphere he will do us a great favour. Come our next election things may look very different, but what a dreadful shame we will have to watch our own self-destruction in the meantime.
November 15, 2024
If Trump can can destroy the climate change narrative in the anglosphere he will do us a great favour.
He will indeed hopefully Lammy and deluded Zealot Miliband will go very soon indeed but it look like we have to suffer Labour for 4+ more years thank to the appalling Sunak who essentially pushed the same socialism and pro net zero (& pro Covid Vaccines are safe lunacy). When will Sunak come back to the house to correct his âmis-informationâ or lies?
November 15, 2024
Oh dear the Guardian is leaving Twitter/X could they leave the internet too please as they always seem to come up first in so many searches with their endless begging letters. They must be spending a fortune with Google.
The Bristol Suspension Bridge to and North Wales Police also quit X claiming it was âno longer consistentâ with its values – values such as suppressing free speech and fair comment perhaps about topics like two tier policing and police incompetence I assume.
November 15, 2024
The police will need to be signed up to X to monitor content efficiently. Same with the Guardian.
November 15, 2024
I have never been able to see any need for this SO CALLED social media, I have never put my name on their lists.
Rise above the nonsense!
November 15, 2024
A related question:- A recent Institute of Economic Affairs hitpiece on Kemi Badenoch criticised her for ‘opposing climate-friendly measures’ and ‘actively supporting policies that exacerbate environmental harm’. The article lists Badenoch’s voting record showing her leaning towards ‘climate scepticism’. So why has she said nothing about COP 29 (going on what I’ve seen reported in the media)? What a shame that she has ducked this opportunity to call out Starmer & Co. on the disastrous direction in which they’re taking the country. She could easily have made some of the good points raised in SJR’s post today, but chose not to. I find her silence worrying, and hope we are not going to see the opposition give Labour a free pass on net zero.
November 15, 2024
Carbon accounting – a means of transferring wealth.
Follow the money
November 15, 2024
The BBC News this morning described RFK Jr as a “conspiracy theorist”. Insulting and demeaning anyone critical of the official narrative is anti-science and can only be justified by there being a lot of incriminating evidence to keep out of the public domain. I hope the upcoming administration in the US flushes away all the propaganda and apologists for “settled science”. A bit much to expect the same to happen in the UK, but I cannot vote for any Party that seeks to impose NZ on us without question.
November 15, 2024
What do you expect, David, if you listen to the BBC? You must know what it’s there for, keeping the facts out of the public domain, as you say. Why waste your time on the Biased Broadcasting Corporation? It’s not as if there aren’t good alternatives.
November 15, 2024
So Carry On Pontificating (about the climate) has just had its 28th sequel and the story-line is the same as every previous one: hysterical scaremongering about the climate and demands for industrial western nations to decarbonise (which means destroying their manufacturing industries) and to transfer ÂŁtrillions to the 2nd/3rd world, with the Global Elite expecting to gain a considerable amount of it. They cannot answer the questions and they have no intention of even trying.
Why should they? The WEF is controlling Western politicians and the media to ensure that they don’t have to. Our best hope is that Trump exposes the corruption and fraud.
The UN told us it’s a scam:
“Ottmar Edenhofer, lead author of the IPCCâs fourth summary report released in 2007 candidly expressed the priority. Speaking in 2010, he advised, âOne has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the worldâs wealth.â
Or, as U.N. climate chief Christina Figueres pointedly remarked, the true aim of the U.N.âs 2014 Paris climate conference was âto change the [capitalist] economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.â
https://www.climatedepot.com/2017/05/24/global-warming-is-not-about-the-science-un-admits-climate-change-policy-is-about-how-we-redistribute-the-worlds-wealth/
November 15, 2024
A “Professor of Climate” on Radio Five the other night was allowed free reign to spout his bile without the any other views being heard.
The one question he was asked which was taxing was about travelling to this junket and how that would affect the weather. His answer, if every house was better insulated, we would not need to worry about aircraft emissions.
You change so I don’t have to.
November 15, 2024
Also: why does COP never address net benefit to quality of life from its recommended mitigation approach, as opposed to an adaptation approach? Unable to demonstrate any? And what about the unintended consequences of weather manipulation – arguably just as much “yesterday’s conspiracy theory, today’s reality” as 2020 suggestions about the true origins of Covid?
November 15, 2024
Indeed obviously not well educated or he would have said âIf they wereâŠâ not that I am a grammar pedant!
November 15, 2024
Good pertinent questions, which Mad Ed cannot answer because he is incapable of asking such questions in the first place.
My question would be how to get out of the Global Boiling groupthink with the mainstream media enmeshed in it? We need one person in the public eye to ask these questions, and that person should be the leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch. She has already said that she is against Net Zero but kowtowed to the ‘Climate Change’ mantra. We need to persuade her to put a scientific hat on to question the carbon dioxide is bad mantra.
November 15, 2024
+1
November 15, 2024
The Earth’s atmosphere contains 0.04% CO2 (a trace gas) The UK contributes <1% of that. So when Milliband has destroyed the last remnants of UK industry and impoverished us all, whilst creating energy so expensive no one dare use it. He will then bathe in self-righteous virtue signalling. Meanwhile China will have increased it's CO2 output and in doing so will have negated the UK saving and indeed overtaken it.
We all know it's a con. But UK politicians are going along with it. WHY ?????
November 15, 2024
I have another question. How much additional CO2 output has been generated by 29 COP summits since inception? To include all delegate and support staff attendances, preparation and dismantling, waste and power requirements? Please express this in alarmist terms as far as is possible.
November 15, 2024
What does COP say about the Washington Post article which analysed global temperatures over the past 450 million years and showed that the planet is emerging from the coolest period ever and heading back towards its normal temperature?
November 15, 2024
washingtonpost.com , 19/09/2024, âScientists have captured Earthâs climate over the last 485 million years. Hereâs the surprising place we stand nowâ.
Funnily enough the conclusions of that article are not opposed to what COP could say.
In a way putting reference to this article is going the COP way. So the question must be: âJ+M, have you read the original and you didnât understand what you read? or Did you come from one of these comment blogs doing the same and just quoting from it?
November 15, 2024
Can you make yourself a little clearer hefner.
Do you agree with J+M or not?
November 16, 2024
Read the piece for yourself and decide. It is free.
November 16, 2024
How mysterious you remain.
November 15, 2024
Superb questions, but I doubt we will get an answer to even one of them – they are not in the business of justifying their destructive actions to us, after they have spent so much time and effort in indoctrinating so many to believe in the climate change religion.
With Western governments now tied to the netzero flagpole there is nobody to force COP to alter course or rationalise. They steer their own course, and our establishment follows on behind like sheep, for it is certain our leaders do not truly understand the science, but they love soundbites.
So, more money will be pledged to fight an unjustifiable and scientifically unsubstantiated set of claims against mankind that we can not afford, while at the same time our country sinks into a dystopian future.
November 15, 2024
I should add that Paul Homewood has written an excellent article on COP29 on the Conservative Woman web site. Apparently 470 ministers and officials from the UK attended this jamboree. I wonder who paid for them. His material gives great ammunition to Kemi and other Conservatives to attack this useless government.
Paul also explains how NESO (the renamed National Grid) have told Miliband that he will need two complete power generation systems, one solar and wind-powered, the other gas and nuclear to maintain a continuous supply of electricity for when we are without wind or sun (like the first half of November), and explains the massive additional costs on keeping such plants on standby, and upgrading the transmission systems. I am really looking forward to my promised ÂŁ300 reduction in energy costs
November 15, 2024
It isnât a lack of consumer enthusiasm – it is that electricity, heat pumps and EVs are too expensive. Almost everyone I know believes in the net zero religion.
November 15, 2024
Two additional questions :
Given that the UN Sec Gen says that we are now “in an era of global boiling” and that we are very close to, or even according to some, have already reached, an average global temperature of 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels which is nothing less than an existential threat to the entire planet :
1) Why is ‘climate action’ still at only position 13 in the UN’s list of sustainable goals? Should it not go to position 1?
2) Why does Table 12 in Chapter 12 of the UN IPCC Working Group 1 (“The Science”) show no signals for climate change (precipitation, droughts and storms) other than some mild warming (0.14 degrees C per decade according to UAH satellite data since 1979) leading to some loss of ice and snow? And when will this science based table be altered or deleted to take into account the UN SEC Gen’s position that we are now in an era of global boiling?
November 15, 2024
The last ICE-powered Jaguar has just been built. The company, responding to various pressures, will introduce its all-electric line in January – just as its competitors back away from the madness. How long shall we give Jaguar before it fails? Just a little longer than Ed Miliband lasts in Cabinet?
Reply I used to buy a Jaguar for my own use, changing them quite often . I have no wish to buy an electric one. So they will lose me as a customer.
November 15, 2024
reply to reply…hope for waking up and smelling coffee. Keep the Jag for a a few years, they might realise any future lies in building ICE once again.
November 15, 2024
COP 29 was held in a country whose very existence relies on the export of fossil fuels, they saw an opportunity to sell their output. COP 30 will be held in Brazil a Country that is a larger emitter CO2 than the UK.
The Worlds largest emitters of CO2 that are said between them to be responsible for more than 75% of global warming, did go to COP 29 it is not their ‘thing’ they have to much on their plate in ramping up their manufacturing to satisfy the UK’s demands now that it has closed facilities down and exported jobs and wealth. Into the bargain the UK has increased World emissions by another magnitude
November 15, 2024
LL, ++++. Nice comment as usual, and that last paragraph is a gem.
BBC this morning was agonising over the suitability of the COP host country choice. That, along with much else, seems to be another indicator that the tide is running out on the schemes they wish to float, a change in the whole atmosphere. Perhaps those attending the COP party are now looking around at their company, whoâs there with them and who isnât, and beginning to get the feeling that the party has gone dead, the beer now flat, only a mess to walk away from hoping that someone else will clear it up.
Harrabin, Rowlatt, Milliband, Debenham/Gummer, itâs the morning after, the cold light of dawn, time to trek off
November 15, 2024
The answers:
Q1&2: CO2, whether natural or anthropogenic, has no effect on the planetâs temperature. This is just a scam to destroy the West.
Q3 : Keep going. Our comrades in the West are now designing plans to remove CO2 from the atmosphere which will further bankrupt them. Necessary because we must save the planet.
Q4: Step up the propaganda that the US is destroying the planet and we will do all we can to change the electorate to save it.
Q5: We know this. The first stage is to cause de-industrialisation and electrification. The second stage will involve CBAM, CBDC and credit scores to control food, energy and travel. We are already hitting the small farmers so rationed food will only be available from official, government controlled supermarkets. This will save the planet.
Q6: We aim to destroy hydrocarbon fuels wherever we can. We must save the planet.
Q7 : We are already forcing through the necessary legislation and taxation policies to achieve our Net Zero aims. Finally we will simply cut off hydrocarbon fuel supplies to save the planet whether or not alternatives exist.
Q8: Unnecessary calculation. It doesnât matter how much it costs in lives and treasure as we must save the planet.
November 15, 2024
Ottmar Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.âs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015 said:
âOne has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone holeâ.
So what is the goal of environmental policy?
Ottmar Edenhofer : âWe redistribute de facto the worldâs wealth by climate policyâ.
November 15, 2024
PS : Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, at a news conference in Brussels in 2015 admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
And Greta Thunberg, when promoting her latest book at the London Southbank Centre 30/10/2022, made it clear in her speech that the purpose of CAGW/Net Zero/green activism is to sabotage the West by destroying its access to cheap, abundant and reliable energy.
November 15, 2024
I conclude, “What is the point of any COP”?
Global warming AND COOLING are natural phenomena bound with naturally occurring climatic changes. Prepare for their effects but mankind can never change the climates across the Earth and it is sheer arrogance (or ignorance) to believe they can.
November 15, 2024
SirJ, you’ve said it all ……its a scam, a power grab; high taxation scam
November 15, 2024
Another windfarm surpasses ÂŁ1 billion in subsidy payments
The Beatrice Offshore Windfarm has become the fourth windfarm to have received more than ÂŁ1 billion in subsidy payments. The landmark was reached in just its seventh year of operation, suggesting that it could reach ÂŁ2 billion over the course of its subsidy agreement.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/11/14/another-windfarm-surpasses-1-billion-in-subsidy-payments/#more-76508
….and that’s just one example
November 15, 2024
In November 2021, it was established that the UK governmentS had given ÂŁ13.6 bn to the UK oil-gas industry since the Paris Accord in 2015.
Where were you to condemn that? And no need for Paul Homewood to find this information, it was in the MSM and on gov.uk âView subsidies awarded by UK public authoritiesâ (BTW thatâs a wonderful website, if one knows how to use it.)
November 15, 2024
Can you give us the figures for the tax revenues the oil and gas industries have paid to the Government in the same period hefner.
Thanks.
November 16, 2024
Do your own research.
November 16, 2024
You know the answer don’t you hefner.
That’s why you are so reluctant to tell us.
Huge sums are paid into the Treasury by oil and gas companies.
Far outweighing any “subsidies”
November 15, 2024
I tried the website. Searching in turn for “oil” and “gas” I found a subsidy of ÂŁ2bn administered by OFGEM for “green” gas, and ÂŁ450m for replacing boilers. Perhaps you can show where the fictitious ÂŁ13.6bn comes from?
David Turver recently comprehensively debunked this nonsense.
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/busting-the-fossil-fuel-subsidy-myth
November 16, 2024
Thank you for the link – its a well balance report
November 15, 2024
All very good questions Sir John and the answer is because it is a scam.
A Zero Carbon Electricity System isnât possible with the available technology.
As confirmed by the National Energy System Operator (NESO) report, requested by Miliband, we will effectively be running two electricity systems, one for when the wind blows and one for when it doesnât. It is therefore obvious that Wind Blown Energy will always make energy bills more expensive.
The future is probably with Nuclear Fusion and money should be âinvestedâ in that.
November 15, 2024
Dear Sir John,
This is the classic case of some decent and helpful scientific research being perverted by campaigners with an unrelated agenda. Global warming/climate change has become the ultimate weapon for those whose main aim for a hundred years has been to destroy Western consumer society. From the Cold War onwards, they have been trying to show that the huge advance in the freedom, material living standards and perspectives of “ordinary working people” in capitalist Europe, North America and Japan was somehow illegitimate.
In the UK they are still winning. We have ended up with a bizarre paradox: a Democratic Socialist (or Social Democrat) Government dedicated to the proposition that Mediterranean holidays, meat and fish diet and private vehicles should be confined to the few rather than the many.
The obvious way to avoid this while being responsible – a huge expansion of atomic power – has been successfully kiboshed by campaigners. Even James Lovelock, who pioneered the Gaia theory central to climate change fears, was “cancelled” for daring to suggest atomic power as the answer. Ever since the infamous 2003 White Paper, atomic power has been sidelined, delayed and then said to be “too late”. This continues.
Compare this with China’s brilliantly pragmatic approach: pushing through the world’s biggest atomic energy and renewables programme while expanding cheap coal-fired power to build a world-dominating electric car industry.
November 15, 2024
Itâs very interesting to observe whatâs going on in the USA as Trump appoints people. Who could argue with a Department of Government Efficiency? No-one! A master stroke. Why donât we have one?
And a vaccine sceptic responsible for health! And some Democrats agreeing.
November 15, 2024
It is reported that the UK had 470 delegates at COP29. Clearly no concerns about the carbon emissions for transporting that lot to Azerbaijan! You have to wonder what they all did and if some staff efficiencies might be implemented on their return.
November 15, 2024
Unfortunately these questions or similar will not be asked by our official Opposition in Parliament as they, too, are totally in favour of saving the planet by destroying our economy through sabotaging our access to affordable, reliable hydrocarbon energy. It was PM May who put Net Zero by 2050 into law with a very short debate, no vote and no costing. It was PM Johnson who at the UN 22/09/2021 proclaimed to the World at the UN 22/09/2021 : âWe were the first to send the great puffs of acrid smoke to the heavens on a scale to derange the natural orderâ. The current Opposition leader still supports Net Zero.
If this is added to the official Oppositionâs support for mass immigration and high spending to justify high taxation do we really have an opposition or even a democracy? It was even the current Oppositionâs Home Secretary who created the College of Policing who are now intent to wage war on freedom of speech by pursuing ânon-crime hate incidentâ crimes.
The Opposition were even not able to oppose the Governmentâs decision to give away the Chagos Islands as this was also their policy.
I donât know how the current Opposition manages to pass the Trades Descriptions Act. It’s not fit for purpose.
Reply Giving away Chagos was not Conservative Policy. Cameron refused to do it .
November 15, 2024
Sir John, para phrasing/quoting what the UN climate ambassador’s said when asked the same kind of questions you have just listed, she said. “You think this about the environment and the climate? No, this is about changing the economics that control the world, it is about the destruction of capitalism”
Christiana Figueres.
November 15, 2024
China has an Emission Trading Scheme. Whereas, the EU scheme is set at âŹ63 per tonne (UK ÂŁ40) of CO2, that of China is set at âŹ7. This scam is highly beneficial to countries that don’t need to keep warm in Winter and don’t have any manufacturing industry because they get paid for doing nothing. The prices per tonne are set according to total country allowances negotiated at the previous Climate Change Conference. For Northern Europe it means the destruction of manufacturing and the replacement of energy available on tap to energy from cost ineffective, agriculture destroying intermittents.
November 15, 2024
It is difficult to believe that no one in Parliament has the sense to research global warming/climate change. It is not difficult; there are plenty of good books which explain why it is nonsense.
It is equally difficult to believe there is no one in the MSM with the intelligence to investigate and call it out for the scam it is.
I have been a lifelong conservative voter, including at this year’s GE, but they will have to change course dramatically to get my vote next time. I increasingly feel that Reform is the answer as the only party to say it is nonsense!
November 15, 2024
Plants breathe CO2.
Reducing CO2 is like reducing oxygen.
CO2 has been 5x higher in the past and life thrived.
Climate grifters need putting in jail for fraud.
November 15, 2024
From elswhere, The Telegraph….
‘The United Nationsâ Conference of Parties (Cop) climate summits are âno longer fit for purposeâ
‘The letter, signed by more than 20 experts and leaders, including Ban Ki-moon, the former UN secretary-general, and Christiana Figueres, the ex-UN climate chief, said the annual meeting between nations cannot implement the change required to tackle the climate crisis.’
‘The open letter published during this yearâs summit in Baku also called for countries to not host the Cop meeting if they do not support the phasing out of fossil fuels.’
‘It came as Azerbaijanâs president hailed natural gas a âgift from Godâ in the opening speech of Cop29, before criticising Western media and climate activists.’
And from the UK we get the usual useless idiots whose policies are crippling the UK, costing the UK more than all its competitors, while at the same time ensuring that what some perceive as a ‘World Wide Problem’ is increased by UK direct action – the cancel weapon, instigated by May & Parliament, enhanced by Johnson, Sunak and now Starmer. Not one of them thought it through, they were/are so focused on ego and self gratification that no consideration to the real world consequences of their direct malicious harm to the UK and its people came into focus
November 15, 2024
Today several dinghies have been prevented from launching by French police and one has been ‘intercepted’ by Border Farce, with the occupants now in a migrant processing centre with their chances of deportation being slim to none. Why do our politicians insist on treating illegal immigration as a game of ‘It’s a Knockout’ where those who negotiate the slippery poles and swinging bags are given prizes? Also if such a high percentage of them are found to have a legitimate case by our soft judges how do we justify turning back some of them on the French beaches?
November 15, 2024
The UN is closing down any dissent, any opposition, any voice to anything that isnât in-line with their strategy policy for climate change âŠ..ââif you donât agree with climate change and carbon net-zero, you shouldnât be hosting or attending UN-COP29ââ âŠ.democracy out of the window
November 15, 2024
Fossil fuels will eventually become expensive and inefficent compared to clean fuels and e-technology.
And those countries leading the way in e-technolgy will have the strongest economies and the lowest pollution (including in cities – both fuel and noise pollution – and so healthier bodies and so less burden on tax payers).
It’s possible to switch from this old fuel and tech to new fuel and tech without damaging our economy. But we need to be careful and steer a straight course through the extremists on both sides.
Lastly, we won’t have to rely on rogue states for our fuel. We’ll be 100% self-reliant.
All possible. Just need a steady nerve. And spirit of adventure.
November 15, 2024
Ed M :
Dream on.
We still supply 50% of our gas and Norway provides 87% of the other 50%.. We could supply 100% if we kept the North Sea going and allowed fracking.
There is no energy security when putting all our energy eggs into one basket, namely electrification. If the grid is hacked or destroyed by a Carrington event we will be in very serious trouble.
I would also like to know how our depleted armed services are expected to protect hundreds of thousands of wind turbines covering thousands of square kilometres of the North Sea plus all the associated undersea cabling? Or the vast acreages of solar panels? Inexpensive drones could easily destroy our whole energy infrastructure overnight.
November 16, 2024
I agree with 50% of what you say!
My views are practical and entrepreneurial!
Entrepreneurial in that I support the huge possibilities of e-techology for our country.
And it’s inevitable that the Western world will turn to cleaner fuel and more efficient tech that it runs.
Our fossil fuel companies know this too. Soon they will be investing more and more in clean fuel and the tech it fuels.
And what is e-technology?
It’s the type of hybrid technology that we see in science fiction.
Our world and economy will become more like the tech we see in science fiction.
Fossil fuels will simply become redundant. They will become expensive and dirty like smoking cigarettes (not that I agree with all this – but I’m not going to protest against the draconian laws against smoking).
Something like that.
November 15, 2024
Mr Miliband?
November 15, 2024
Great news on ITV today:-
Labour’s plan for pylons fantasies a non-existent skilled workforce to suddenly build the massive networks across the country!
National Grid also thinks it can train up folk to do it.
Either way like all Govt infrastructure projects they will take years to come and be someone else ‘s problem costing double or treble of they ever complete.
November 15, 2024
The Missing Link – highlighting Labour’s joined up blue sky thinking is short on common sense in the real world, where the reality is that they really have zero experience but don’t want us to see through their false talk and spin.
They are far too busy backpeddling on many fronts, esp now Trump is a force to be reckoned with.
November 15, 2024
Yeah it’s the ‘joker’s’ time now in Washington and America has turned itself into Gotham City –
and that’s what we are hoping to align ourselves with – Wow! talk about a walk on the wild side
November 15, 2024
If we don’t COP out of COP we will COP it completely.
The final countdown of our economy.