Millions of families have been urged by a green quango not to heat their homes in the evening to help the Government hit its Net Zero target. The Telegraph has the story.
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) said people should turn off their radiators at peak times as part of a wider drive to deliver “emissions savings”.
In a document on “behaviour change” the body recommended Britons “pre-heat” their houses in the afternoon when electricity usage is lower.
It said the move would save families money, but critics suggested the real reason was that renewables will not be able to provide enough energy to cope with peak demand.
The advice is contained in the CCC’s sixth “carbon budget” paper, which sets out how the U.K. should reduce its emissions between 2033-37.
In it the quango suggests people with electrically powered heating systems, such as heat pumps, should switch off their radiators in the evening.
“There is significant potential to deliver emissions savings, just by changing the way we use our homes,” the dossier states.
“Where homes are sufficiently well insulated, it is possible to pre-heat ahead of peak times, enabling access to cheaper tariffs which reflect the reduced costs associated with running networks and producing power during off-peak times.”
The green quango said that by 2033 all newly built homes and up to half of those constructed after 1952 should be suitable for such pre-heating.
But critics said the advice was just the latest example of Britons being asked to compromise on their quality of life so the Government can hit climate targets.
Andrew Montford, the director of Net Zero Watch said: “The grid is already creaking, and daft ideas like this show just how much worse it will become.
“It’s clear that renewables are a disaster in the making. We now need political leaders with the courage to admit it.”
Craig Mackinlay, head of the Net Zero Scrutiny group of Tory MPs, added: “It is becoming clear that adherence to judicable Carbon Budgets and edicts coming from the CCC are developing into farce.
“The Climate Change Act 2008 will require amendment to free us from madcap and impractical targets foisted upon the population by long departed politicians.
“This latest advice to freeze ourselves on cold evenings merely shows the truth that the dream of plentiful and cheap renewable energy is a sham.
“I came into politics to improve all aspects of my constituents’ lives, not make them colder and poorer.”
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Google – started by the CIA.
Farcebook – started by the CIA.
Oracle – its first and still biggest client – CIA.
etc ad nauseum.
CIA-DoD run the US and most of the world. The Rona tard scamdemic was a pilot project of theirs. The 2020 election fraud. Climate. The endless wars….
Snowden, Assange….truth tellers. Yet the sheeple hear not. 1 person in 10 might be clued in that the CIA-DoD is behind most of what is going on.
The US is the single biggest threat on the planet. You only have to watch the glee of US pilots bombing civilian lines during the Iraq ‘war’ (replace ‘war’ with US control of oil supplies) to understand the sickness that pervades that country. Watch them bang their hand to their chest when their national anthem is played and tell me they’re not the most brainwashed population on the planet. They’ve been sold a story. A story that’s been told since the beginning of their history – the US is the only really free country on earth. Tell your hostage’s the same story on repeat forever and they stop becoming hostage’s. They become willing accomplices in a cult.
Totally agree.
55 or more conflicts since 1945.
Rona scamdemic – the ultimate wet dream for fascists. CIA DoD project.
As was the stolen US election of 2020. No more than 130 million will vote in a US election (out of 160 mn). Drumpf won 80 mn (millions burnt etc). Pedo-criminal-half wit-money launderer CIA stooge Biden won max 50 million. I am guessing it is more likely 40 mn.
How do you get away from google and google chrome?Is there any way we can keep information away from these creatures? I believe the Google business original mantra was “Do no evil”, how very far they have strayed since then, they are a malignant parasite on humanity
I use duckduckgo as a search engine. It’s good for privacy and is generally censor-free (although it has engaged in censorship over the Ukraine/NATO/Russian war).
https://duckduckgo.com/
Using Brave is the best way I know of currently: https://brave.com/
Don’t use Google products. It’s fairly easy to find alternatives.
Why not?
DuckDuckGo, Brave, Safari, Firefox are alternatives to Chrome.
DuckDuckGo also has a search engine that can be used with any browser as an alternative to Google.
De-google-ify!
https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
It’s/They are ven worse. Much worse. https://brownstone.org/articles/google-has-usurped-democracy/
Switch to protonmail, for a start.
I’ve got Gmail but more and more I’m using protomail.
There are alternatives…. DuckDuckGo for one.
Curious that Wikipedia is not mentioned. A wiki search on DS makes an interesting reading, and even better on TY, where even his achievements are shown as negatives. I wonder if G & W are related.
I put Wikipedia’s extreme left wing bias down to the fact that lefties have nothing better to do than jump all over Wikipedia smearing people they disagree with, whereas those not on the left prefer to get on with their lives, working, spending time with their families and leaving other people the hell alone. Perhaps it’s just a fantasy of mine though.
Yandex
It would be if there was a list of advertisers that use Uncommon Ad Space and a list of advertisers that boycott free speech platforms. I would use it to inform what companies I buy from.
This is the final nail in the Google coffin for me, I now use DuckDuckGo
Stop using google. Its simple. Brave/DuckDuckGo work perfectly fine. Google Intelligence governed. The alternates I mention, at least there’s a chance they are genuine and not controlled by the same evil.