Despite Britain’s countless problems that might need the urgent attention of the new Government, it has chosen to focus on climate and energy. The mad-eyed fanaticism of Ed Miliband has now yielded three new vehicles for the climate agenda: GB Energy, the National Wealth Fund, and Mission Control, a clean energy initiative. None of the detail about what these bodies will actually do, and how, has yet been fully explained to the public, but the latter agency is to be headed by former chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), Chris Stark, who only quit his role a few months ago. What this signifies is that despite the formation of new agencies, the Government is dangerously bereft of ideas that can reanimate the walking corpse of the Net Zero agenda.
As I pointed out in the Daily Sceptic a few months ago, the CCC is a troubled organisation. After the departure of its chair, John Selwyn Gummer, restyled as Lord Deben, the CCC has only an ‘interim chair’, Professor Piers Forster. And then Stark announced he was quitting to chair the Carbon Trust, leaving the CCC without its most senior operating person. “This Bill,” explained Ed Milliband’s older brother in 2007, referring to the Climate Change Bill in his capacity as Secretary of State for the Environment, “will constrain every future U.K. Government to ensure that its carbon emissions do not exceed the level of budgets that are agreed between a carbon committee, made up of independent people, and Government itself.”
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Robert Conquest’s third law of politics surely applies to the government: “The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.”
It shows how batshit crazy Millibacon is when you consider his speech where he talks about “Energy Security” along with closing down all our Energy Security and relying entirely on unsecured, overly expensive imports of electricity, oil and gas. We will be 100% reliant on foreign powers, produce nothing secure and be subject to any old price rise foreign powers decide to inflict. Somehow this is a good thing?
Miliband is the most dangerous cretin in government. I know the entire political class are in on the climate scam that isn’t even really about the climate, but this goon in Public Enemy NUMBER ONE
I meant “is public enemy number one”
“Somehow this is a good thing?”
If they are following the instructions of the Davos Deviants then yes.
The intention is to make the country so broke that it will be sold off to the money men and…”you will own nothing and be happy. “
I know millipede is a ideological fanatic but where does the monk bit come in?
Austerity.
Like the famous mad monk Rasputin (who wasn’t a monk). Austerity for other people.
Austerity for us, not for him and his mates
Yes. I updated my comment to say similar just about the time you posted. Apologies.
No worries. I didn’t realise Rasputin wasn’t a monk.
My source is that most reliable: QI!
More a kind of lay-prophet well attested in the Russian tradition. A good, and mainly positive, example is in The Brothers Karamazov.
Thanks. Funny I am reading The Idiot at the moment, will keep a look out for such characters.
Not for him. Even though he professes to be green and caring and environmentally conscious he hasn’t even bought his own EV yet. Work in progress apparently. I can’t wait for his own department to purchase a ministerial fleet of electric cars which either self combust or become so unreliable they keep running out of juice. In fact I would wager that he will virtual signal his commitment to net zero by being driven around in a ministerial EV limousine only to have a second petrol vehicle follow him around as back up to ensure he gets to his destination on time. The sheer stupidity of this man is beyond a joke. Yes, austerity is the name of the game but not for him and his ilk.
He’s waiting for them to produce wind-powered cars.
Ra, ra!
🤣👍
New governments must been seen to be doing something. Setting up another committee is quick and easy an a gret way of rewarding their pals.
Renaming an old body is what Yvette Cooper is doing too.
Milliband deserves to be hung drawn and quartered. The entire family are venal twerps and it’s an indictment of the establishment of this nation that both brothers have risen so far.
Hanged. Pictures are hung, people are hanged.
Goodness I can just hear my late Mother’s voice saying “it’s hanged dear, meat is hung”!
Well worth following the link in:
Written in early 2009 it gives an excellent history of how our politicians brought us the Climate Change Act.
Green Fascism with tech that is not ‘green’, 5-10 x more expensive and unreliable. So in clown world this is ‘sustainable’ and ‘secure’. No doubt ‘safe and effective’ too.
Monks serve a societal purpose. Milipede the Communist does not.
Labour voters must be so proud.
A very perceptive article by Ben Pile and all of fifteen years ago.
Thanks for the link 👍
Nobody in the Labour front bench has any kind of scientific qualification so how can they claim to have any idea what this is about?
Exactly, but it isn’t and never was about science.
Come on!
Ed has an A level in Physics, I am ashamed to say:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Miliband
So he ought to have the ability to understand why windmills in the North Sea will, over time, in their own time, only generate 25% of their capacity.
From Pretty Polly, a commentator on TCW:
“Politicians and officials make huge amounts of money out of the green fraud. Tony Blair became rich after providing Soros with the Climate Change Act 2008 which Soros wanted. All the hangers on have done very nicely out of it too. Including Sir Alok Sham-Sharma MP, President of COP 26, who has just been given a Rockefeller job as a green finance supremo.
Tony Blair received $millions in consultancy fees from Soros. David Miliband, Environment Secretary in 2006-7, did the groundwork for the Climate Change Act and was given a now million dollar Soros financed job in New York. Soros part financed Conservative think tank Bright Blue which recommended Legal Net Zero 2019 to Theresa May. The first chairman of the Climate Change Committee, Lord Adair Turner, received a Soros job as chairman of Soros’ Institute for New Economic Thinking. Lord Turner is described by the Daily Telegraph as being in “an alliance” with Soros so it’s no surprise that Turner is now chairman of the Energy Transitions Commission and doing exactly what Soros wants. David Cameron whose Conservative Party voted for the Climate Change Act 2008 was given a Soros financed job and later brought back into government thanks to Soros. The present CEO of the Climate Change Committee, Christopher Stark, who has been given a gravy train pay grade of $225,000 pa, previously worked for Soros’ friend Gordon Brown who signed off the Climate Change Act 2008 which Soros wanted. Piers Forster, current acting chair of the Climate Change Committee, is an ”agenda setter” at the World Economic Forum just like George Soros. Steven Fries, who is a member of the Climate Change Committee, is a senior fellow of Soros’ Institute for New Economic Thinking. There are other CCC members with Soros connections.
The list of green politicians and officials who got rich quick from, or are connected to, the Soros bought and paid for green fraud goes on and on. The Climate Change Committee in effect is clearly a Soros management group ensuring that Soros didn’t waste his money buying the Climate Change Act 2008 from Tony Blair.
No wonder not one PM from Major to May inclusive wrote about Soros in their memoirs despite their close connections to him. Obviously because they didn’t want to be found out and are part of the Happy Soros Family!”
It’s heartwarming to reflect on human mortality. Soros is not long for this world.
Brilliant. Thanks 👍
And that is before all the mass immigration NGOs that he seems deeply involved in. So much chaos by one individual.
Some facts from Goldman Sachs’
Friday report, which is normally pretty close to the button:
”Peak oil demand is a decade away”
That’s a shame. Fusion power is 30 years away. Always was, always will be. 🙂
More seriously, I note they say ‘Peak oil demand…’. As China steps in to fund development in parts of the world where the IMF (and other Western constructs) refuses to fund ‘non-Green’ development I expect peak oil demand to increase and disappear into the far future. As some of these less developed countries have vast untapped hydrocarbon wealth beneath their feet they’ll grab development opportunities and tell the IMF etc to go hang. China will continue to invest in its own best interest, of course – which is entirely reasonable.
England has vast untapped hydrocarbon wealth beneath its feet, but it’s immoral to think of touching it.
Yet. 🙂
That’s because they cannot read data… the data that shows increasing demand for energy, so despite more ‘green’ energy, demand for oil remains on the up.
Evidently they think that energy demand is static – like some sort of pie. So as the ‘green’ slice gets bigger, so the fossil fuel slice must get smaller.
I wonder what they think the word ‘developing’ means in the term ‘Developing Countries’?
Then there is the huge increase in energy demand being created by AI, which certainly cannot be met by ‘green’ fantasy energy.
It has been a decade away for as long as I can remember.
“hatred of humans” ——Oh yes precisely. ——–Earth Day was not chosen as 22 April 1970 randomly. This was the 100th birthday of one of the first and most radical environmentalists –Lenin. He impoverished his people by outlawing hunting, chopping wood, and agriculture was decimated etc etc. Basically he stopped people living and eating properly and decided all of the land and everything in it belonged to the government. This caused poverty and death
Wind on to the present and the same eco tyranny has now been perfected into an art form. Capitalism to the radical leftists like Lenin, todays political class of bureaucrats at the UN/WEF and the latter-day environmental groups like Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, WWF, and all the useful idiot groups like Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil etc has to be defeated because although they admit it has increased health, lifespan and prosperity, it is out of the hands of these people who think they should be telling us all how to live based on their irrational fear that population will outgrow resources. But all of that Malthusian nonsense has been dispelled by the work of Economist Julian Simon who demolished these arguments and declared that “Humans are the greatest resource”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/un-summit-future-global-governance/5862230
I think you might appreciate this varmint.
cheers. ——-I know you say you don’t look a red thumbs down, but it is curious how your comment is the only one that has one. —–perhaps it was a slip of the hand. —-I will look at that link
Yes I checked this out. ———-No one on this website can say I haven’t been banging on about this on here for about 2 years, but also in other places since about 2007. —–Thanks again for you communications and what you do on this site.
Many thanks for your kind words varmint.
Good grief! That picture of him makes my skin creep!
Oh come on now! That’s not creepy!
This is creepy!
Weirdo Ed sniffing Laura Tenison, the managing director of Jojo Maman Bebe.
🎜 I can feel it coming in the air tonight 🎜
A disgusting eco socialist piece of crap
‘Ere! I like (some) chocolate!
Oh! You mean Weirdo Ed?
Alok Sharma, the so-called Conservative who blew up two of our last 3 coal-fired power stations, has recently landed a highly lucrative “job” with the Rockefeller Foundation.
That explains Red Ed’s obsessive zealotry.
There is already trouble in the Green scam paradise with too many people trying to share the same cake. They will implode from within as they are beginning to implode over Biden & the unelectable Harris.
It will be hilarious if the Biden family have already ‘laundered’ all those recent donations.
None of the Climatrons and Net Zeroids understand basic physics and basic economics.
Intermittency makes wind and solar unviable as a business. No business can survive if it cannot plan and guarantee its output and vary it according to demand, and information from pricing to compete in the market.
Batteries – the technology for ones large enough doesn’t exist – does not prevent intermittency but is a forlorn hope to plug gaps in supply caused by intermittency, yet recharging such batteries will itself suffer from the same problems which arise from intermittency.
The only viable solution is a parallel capacity from gas-power stations running in constant back-up to guarantee base load and grid stability, particularly frequency stability which wind and solar cannot.
In short: intermittency is a matter of physics and is an unavoidable cost.
The effect of intermittency and its cost increases as more of it – wind & solar – is added to the grid supply.
Forcing intermittency on to gas-powered suppliers makes their businesses unviable as it also creates a cost they wouldn’t otherwise have, and by its nature have reduced revenue to cover and yield a profit.
Net Zero renders the whole electricity generating and distribution businesses unviable without massive subsidy from taxation or via energy bills transferring wealth from consumers into the pockets of investors in the energy sector making us all poorer, and without which the private sector would not invest.
Wind and solar, we are told, are cheaper than fossil fuels but only if that intermittency cost and grid infrastructure is not part of the calculation.
Worse still – the more intermittency, the more wind and solar, the less reliable supply… the lights will start going out on a regular basis.
It is a fine example of cognitive dissonance among the Net Zeroids when they urge us to use less electricity, whilst at the same time insisting we must use more.
“ the Climatrons and Net Zeroids”— wonderful new words to describe that lot!
We were lucky this winter it didn’t get too cold – I’d imagine there are some pretty nervous folk at National Grid on some days as we run closer and closer to generating limit vs demand, and ‘running out of electricity’. Once you get into that situation, the only option is to start shedding parts of the grid. I wonder how we’d do these days with a black start of the grid if it was needed… wind and solar is no use for that, it’ll be gas or hydro needed
I’m really not that bright and I understand that intermittent energy sources are a waste of time. I can’t believe that Millipede and the rest of them don’t know this.
Another great photo of the Deranged Millipede. Well done to whoever found that gem!
There are no surprises here. As soon as Starmer confirmed Red Ed would be the man to implement this policy, the writing was on the wall.
Starmer said he would tread gently on our lives, many more lies will follow.
Nobody that voted for Labour can complain when they start to see and feel the impact of Labour’s Zealotry, they are culpable and complicit in this.
I think we have reached the ‘the worse the better’ moment.
We know that it will end badly so, the quicker the demise, the greater the number that will realise that not only policies must change.
There needs to be informed discussion with people competent in the large variety of needed skills, not just Historians of any flavour, Lawyers, Philosophers, and certainly not Politics graduates, or Activists! The problem is that is what we have had for over twenty years, and look at the result. And it’s the unseen, missed opportunities, often in the STEM specialities, that cause the greatest damage, not just the waste.
I hope this is work is in progress, somewhere, within Britain.
One of the many consequences of having little to no Engineering expertise within Westminster, Whitehall or the Legacy Media is that the technological advances that used to be prevalent are not even on the radar. (Yes, that was an example.)
Suddenly, there is a demand from the Political Bubble for state of the art technology, and the Arts, Humanities and Social Science graduates (from both universities), from within this bubble, buy from abroad! As we are witnessing, they define the problem and are not aware how to use a plan, or even know why they exist, or why it needs to be continually checked against reality, by knowledgeable and experienced people from a wider selection of disciplines, as more information is gathered.
It’s why the evidence that we are not in a Climate Emergency caused by CO2, and that our Sun plays a significant role in changes to our Weather and Climate, is ignored.
Another ‘instant revelation’ that has been mismanaged is Civil Nuclear Power, and there are too many varieties to dismiss it, like they do. Here is a selection of what is being missed and, before you get excited about new technology, this video is already 12 years old:
https://youtu.be/P9M__yYbsZ4?si=EYmY2laN2IiqBZXB
Just think what we could have done instead, for £1billion, at the time. But that would have given STEM graduates a goal, and for some, even the prospect of a good, wealth creating, career.
A bombast of devils, and legions of demons have, it seems, infiltrated the corridors of power, and the “mad monk” maestro Milliband, conductor and bellwether in chief, at last seizes his long awaited opportunity to wreak chaos and disorder on a naïve and unsuspecting electorate.
We thought the world had gone completely lala around 2020.
Little did we know.
We reap what we sow.
Except… I had absolutely nothing to do with the manifestation of this toxic cluster.
I doubt many on here did. Still we must suffer the same doom as the hoi polloi.
Doesn’t feel right somehow.
This is mainly a rerun of Ben Pile’s greatest hits. He has little to say about Ed Miliband.