As if Kingston upon Hull did not have enough problems. Once a thriving fishing port, that industry is long gone; we were the most bomb-damaged place by area of the city in Britain during the Second World War; we are home to what is considered one of the largest and worst municipal housing estates in Europe, Bransholme; we have the third highest rate of teenage pregnancy in England and Wales; our football team, Hull City AFC, are in a race to the bottom of the Championship; dreadful Dame Diana Johnson is one of our most prominent MPs; we are likely to become part of a Net Zero obsessed devolved unitary Hull and East Yorkshire local authority which plans, among other things, to impose heat network zones; and the University of Hull is once again in a dire financial state, threatening job cuts and departmental closures.
On top of all that, Coldplay have announced two dates here in August next year at Craven Park, the home of rugby league team Hull Kingston Rovers. These are the band’s only dates outside of London and quite what we have done to deserve this is not clear. The words I would use to describe the music of Coldplay are probably unprintable – even in an open-minded publication like the Daily Sceptic – but ChatGPT came to the rescue, describing their music as “a blend of thoughtful introspection, anthemic energy and genre-crossing experimentation, designed to evoke both deep emotions and joyful communal experiences”. Despite that, they still seem to sell records and seats at their concerts.
Not content with inflicting their music on us, this tour is also a massive hyperinflated virtue signal regarding one of the band’s pet topics, the ‘climate emergency’. The band “first pledged to cut their carbon footprint in 2019” and told the BBC they would stop touring until they could tour “in a more sustainable way”. Sadly, they seem to have worked out how to do that and they are on the road again this year and next. It is either that or the “conscious uncoupling” of their frontman Chris Martin is proving more expensive than expected.
Coldplay are patrons of Client Earth, an environmental – with the emphasis on ‘mental’ – organisation which is at the “forefront of changing the way the planet’s resources are governed” and which claims: “Rising carbon emissions are accelerating climate change. Our forests are disappearing. The air we breathe and the oceans we depend on are polluted. Vulnerable plants and animals are under threat.” All palpable nonsense as readers of the Daily Sceptic will know.
The Wembley concerts, but not the Hull ones, will be powered entirely by solar, wind and kinetic energy and a satellite stage at each of the London shows will be powered fully “by the audience via kinetic flooring and power bikes”. Satellite stages, or B-stages, are used by several bands as a means for the band to perform out in the middle of the audience and are reached by catwalks. So, if you want to see Coldplay on the satellite stage not only do you have to pay for your ticket, but you must also work up a sweat for the privilege. This sounds like just the job for Ed Miliband and Sir Keir Starmer who, presumably, will be getting freebie tickets for the Coldplay gigs in any case. The band claim that their current tour has produced “59% less CO2 emissions than their previous stadium tour in 2016/17”. The proceeds from their current tour have also led to nine million trees being planted; it’s just a pity that they are working hard to reduce the very CO2 those trees will need to thrive.
Quite why Coldplay are coming to Hull is not clear. Frontman Chris Martin had expressed a desire to do something ‘up north’, had been given a range of options and chose Craven Park in Hull. We are not in the top 10 green cities in the U.K. (nor are we in the bottom 10). There are much bigger stadiums available even in Hull where the MKM stadium, home to both ailing Hull City AFC and our other rugby league team Hull FC, is twice the size of Craven Park.
We do have a reasonable musical history, being the home of two of David Bowie’s Spiders from Mars and producing the jangle pop band The Housemartins (later The Beautiful South). We have one of the most famous small musical venues on the U.K. at The Adelphi, capacity 200, where Oasis played in 1994 (tickets £4) and also bands such as Radiohead. Coldplay have pledged 10% of their takings on the U.K. leg of the tour to the charity Music Venue Trust, which supports small venues such as the Adelphi. Nevertheless, none of that is explicit.
However, a Facebook posting by BBC Humberside probably gets nearest to the truth. While claiming to speculate, the posting points out the proximity of Craven Park to the waterfront Siemens Gamesa factory, which manufactures wind turbines for offshore wind farms. The shafts of the turbines dominate their area of the waterfront and will be easily visible from the upper tiers at Craven Park. The turbines are destined for the Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the world’s largest offshore wind farm. Between Beverley and Hull, the Dogger Bank Wind Farm Converter Station – built to receive electricity from Dogger Bank B and pass it on the National Grid – is blotting the formerly bucolic landscape.
Readers of the Daily Sceptic will need no reminding that, in addition to being unsightly and environmentally deleterious, offshore wind turbines are a colossal waste of money. The Dogger Bank project alone costs £11 billion, wind turbines only generate electricity when the wind is blowing and, at best, wind contributes only 17% of the electricity we need here. To date it has not proved to be cost-effective, as demonstrated in 2023 when the Government failed to get any bids for new offshore wind projects (solar and tidal projects did get bids). Earlier this year BP froze its offshore wind endeavours due to lack of financial returns.
I imagine that none of this has gone unnoticed by Chris Martin and his bandmates, and I’ll eat my Oasis tickets if their visit to Hull is not aimed at giving the offshore wind project a shot in the arm. Who knows, Mr. Martin may even be asked to throw the switch that connects it all up to the grid – after all, this part of the project is due to go live in 2025. You heard it here first.
Dr. Roger Watson is Academic Dean of Nursing at Southwest Medical University, China. He has a PhD in biochemistry. He writes in a personal capacity.
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Until a government minister says it how it is – that the entire premise of “Net Zero” is FALSE, I’ll put Mr Gove’s little statement in the same box as usual – the one labelled More of The Same Sh*te.
So we now see the election trail to the next general election, has started. But what the main parties miss is that their aint a lot of people who would trust either mob to do what would be right for a Country that contributes so little to the purported global climate apocalypse.
They can’t have it both ways.
Either Nett Zero is essential to preserve human life on Earth, in which case everyone should do it regardless of cost or consequences, or it isn’t.
If the existential threat to all human life is flexible enough that they can play with the timings, and the content of what actions are to take place, then its not really an emergency, is it?. Perhaps Rt. Hon. Mr Gove would like to go and pull the plug out of the Kings Doom clocks, if that is the case. Perhaps consider some mitigation measures for the effect of a 1.5c rise, maybe, if it happens, (Edinburgh will be as warm as Manchester is today), and dismantle the apparatus currently wasting an extraordinary amount of the citizens money might be the best idea.
Let me help you – it’s total bollocks.
I realised that a long time ago LM, but there are still many who believe with heart and soul that this is a thing, the biggest thing ever, and they have to ‘do something to save the world’. People are waking up quite quickly to this one though, I think. Everytime the Elite try to fool us, it will be more and more difficult for them to get away with it.
A radical option might be to have a political party that promises to do things FOR the benefit of the people and which admits that more taxation and larger government damages a country.
We can keep these “radical” ideas alive, eh. Least we can do, I suppose.
As huxleypiggles so often writes, “salvation shall not be achieved via the ballot box” (or words to that effect).
“The revolution shall not be televised.”
Steady on DJ. That’s a far too rational strategy; it’ll never catch on. Sadly.
Strange words from the man who used the ‘pandemic’ as a religious crusade.
When the only solution presented by government and media entails higher taxes, more state control and the acceptance of further restrictions to individual liberty, you can be guaranteed that the problem is in fact a scam.
Thank you, Uncle, lest we forget what almost every man jack of these barstewards did to us in the name of “safety”.
Few exceptions there are. Thank you, Mr Andrew Bridgen.
PS did you ever play The Dane?!
Hahaha! Cheers Marcus.
Never played the Dane, I’m afraid!
”It’s the most devastating moment in a young mans life, when he quite reasonably says to himself, “I shall never play The Dane!” It is at that moment that all ambition ceases to exist.”
He is just saying “Look at me, I would be a good choice for PM”
When seeing Gove I am reminded of Dizzy’s character assassination of Gladstone. “ A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.”
‘…as environment secretary under Theresa May, he was a champion of the original move to put the overall 2050 deadline into law’
Time for reading and comprehension tests for politicians
‘Net Zero regulations and actions are scientifically invalid because they:
https://co2coalition.org/publications/challenging-net-zero-with-science/
We already have enough enemies. We don’t need friends like Gove!
Judge them not by what they say, but by what they do. ULEZ is as much a Tory policy as it is Khan’s.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fine-particulate-air-pollution-pm25-setting-targets
The above then led to this:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/96/made?view=plain
It is a Civil Service policy. The two main political parties are merely vessels to be used however the civil service wishes. Actually, it is a policy originally dreamed up by the Club of Rome and now being pushed by amongst others the WEF and UN.
“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”
UN
‘In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill….All these dangers are caused by human intervention….and thus the ‘real enemy, then, is humanity itself….believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is ‘a real one or….one invented for the purpose.’
Club of Rome
‘A keen and anxious awareness is evolving to suggest that fundamental changes will have to take place in the world order and its power structures, in the distribution of wealth and income.’
Club of Rome
‘Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system. Ten or twenty years form today it will probably be too late.’
Club of Rome
‘The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation.’
UN’s Commission on Global Governance:
‘Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time.’
Club of Rome
‘The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists and scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal predicament and then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of international crises into the future Utopia of humanist hope.’
Club of Rome
The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man’
Club of Rome
‘…the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million people but less than one billion’
Club of Rome
‘A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible’
UN Commission on Global Biodiversity
Thank you for posting this. The Roman Empire never went away. Daphne’s laurels are prominently used by the UN and the WHO etc., and were seen in abundance at the Coronation. The resurrection put an obstacle in the Roman Empire’s path but the Roman Catholic Church with its current support of a One World Religion has preserved much of the Empire and when it has accomplished its ambition we will be but muzzled digital slaves. This time the means to own and oppress fully and effectively exists and it is called technology. See Hugo Talks – even if you do not believe spiritually, what matters is that the megalomaniacs do.
Several years ago, Gove sat there rictus grinning while that mentally ill f***tard teenager Thunberg dribbled on in front of him and a bunch other patronising, sweaty men about the environment. It’s like an axeman at the end of a mass execution saying ‘Perhaps we should order a retrial!!’ Gove – a deranged lockdown supporter – needs to shut his gob and never reopen it.
Greasy little weasel.
If there is any human-caused “climate change” it’s almost certainly down to increased population (out of control population growth, really), the construction of 100’s of new heat-trapping concrete mega-cities (the result of out of control population growth) and the slashing and burning of critical rainforests – again the result of out of control population growth.
Look at a weather map of the UK and 90% of the time London is the warmest place. It’s a concrete heat trapping mega-city. In the last 11 years we added 1 billion to the world’s population. That’s 100 Londons.
Climate Change has nothing to do with greenhouse gases or your Skoda diesel hatchback or cow farts. But those are the only “causes” the maniacs in power around the world want to throw our money at. Madness.
Could you explain “out of control population growth?”
Agreed. There’s no reason why the planet can’t sustain many times the current population. As technology improves over the decades, we might find ways to push back the deserts and even properly inhabit landmasses such as Siberia!
“There’s no reason”??????!!!! How about corrupt money stealing politicians, particularly in 3rd world countries where they out and out steal most of their country’s budgets and aid money for themselves?
Of course such corruption is also appearing in the west now in the form of leftist and uniparty (think The Conservatives in the UK) governments wasting trillions on Net Zero madness, shipping billions to their pals in companies that control renewable energy.
I seriously doubt whether 50% of the world’s current population enjoys even a half decent standard of living. We can’t just keep adding to the poverty with a doubling every 20 years of populations of many 3rd world and poverty stricken countries. If you think the UK immigration problem is bad now you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Jordan Peterson’s take on the subject: –
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XiXVkPGjncdh/
Yes I can. Take a country like Nigeria. Its population has more than doubled in the last 20 years. Another 20 years and it’ll be 500 million. It has been shown that richer countries have almost no population growth (except for immigration which threatens to destroy most of them but that’s off topic). A better standard of living means parents aren’t panicking into having 6 or more kids hoping their children will look after them in their dotage.
The reality is, though, that due largely to the corruption of their political leaders, the vast majority of Nigerians will never have a decent standard of living but they WILL slash and burn their country to oblivion before starting the inevitable mass exodus to the west.
A snake, he has his eye on the Party leadership. Remember what he did during Covid. The vaccine passports, the crap around sitting down in a pub no mask, standing up a mask, a scotch egg was it a meal or not, a most heinous creature. Gove you will note does not suggest scrapping net zero he just wants it postponed, my guess until the next election is out of the way and if by some almighty stroke of luck the Conservatives win he will be backing all the unenlightenment policies once more. Oh and by the way in case anyone has forgotten this is the guy who oversaw the censoring of journalists whose articles he didn’t like.
Mr Gove, incase you haven’t noticed, pretending to save the planet and forcing people out of their cars and ripping out their gas is a religious CRUSADE. Our western politicians (except Trump) are Eco Crusaders. You will now find out all about the religious zeal that the crusaders will unleash on you and try to send you to the burning fire. ——–Every eco fundamentalist lunatic will be after you and would string you to the cross for you sins against this pristine world. You are now a heretic that denies the coming apocalypse.
How do we know if Gove is lying? His lips move. He could do press ups under snakes with the number of about faces he’s performed.