FOR years the NHS has been obsessed with Net Zero, more concerned about saving carbon than patients’ lives. It has set up a ‘Greener NHS’ team, with a pay bill of £3million, including five on six-figure salaries, who spend their time counting up carbon emissions not only in the NHS itself, but also those embedded […]
EVERY year the BBC wheels out its latest version of the ‘starving polar bears’ scare. A couple of weeks ago they were at it again, with an article titled ‘Climate change: Polar bears face starvation threat as ice melts’. It claimed: ‘Some polar bears face starvation as the Arctic sea ice melts because they are unable […]
Open letter to Claire Coutinho, Secretary of State For Energy Security and Net Zero MAY I start by asking if you are aware of the electricity mix during the windless spell last weekend? According to official data from the grid, shown below, in the 24 hours to 10am on February 25, wind power supplied only […]
LAST week I wrote about how a senior meteorologist at the Met Office had claimed on BBC Radio 5 just after Storm Isha last month that storms in the UK are getting more intense because of climate change. Her exact words were: ‘. . . when we see these storms they are more intense and that’s […]
AS HAS been well discussed, the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandate took effect last month. Just to recap, this is how the scheme works, as set out by the government: ‘Each year, vehicle manufacturers are set a target as a percentage of their total annual sales that must be zero emission. The regulation will require […]
EVERY time there is a bad hurricane, the BBC claims implicitly or explicitly that they are getting worse – more frequent, stronger or both. Last August, when Hurricane Idalia hit Florida, they wheeled out an old video from 2022 of weather girl Louise Lear claiming that ‘there was evidence that hurricanes are getting more powerful’. The video […]
THE government have been feeling generous with your money again. They have just given the go-ahead for Drax to fit carbon capture technology (CCS) to their wood burning power plant in North Yorkshire. They are also expected to extend the subsidy agreement which already rakes in £700million a year for Drax and is due to […]
AS THIS column warned last year, the government’s Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM) took effect at the start of this month. It sounds innocuous enough, but it will cost us all dearly. The CHMM places an obligation on gas and oil boiler manufacturers to increase the consumer demand for heat pumps by setting a target for […]
STORM Gerrit arrived the day after Boxing Day, accompanied by the usual headlines: ‘85mph gales barrelled down on Britain’, screamed the Daily Mail. As usual the public were being deliberately deceived. The 85mph claim was based on one site in North East Scotland, at the top of a 400ft cliff overlooking the North Sea, marked in […]
ACCORDING to a report from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), dengue fever will soon become common in England. This is based on claims that we will shortly have the same climate as the south of France! The story was well co-ordinated to dominate media headlines. For instance Sky News reported: ‘Asian tiger mosquitoes carrying dengue fever could be common […]
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