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So Farewell Then Roger Harrabin – May We Never See Your Like Again

by Chris Morrison
14 March 2022 7:00 AM

The BBC’s long-serving Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin is due to retire in June. What must his thoughts be as he contemplates the possible destruction of his cherished Net Zero fantasy, crushed, as seems more than likely, by its first encounter with hard financial reality? A lifetime’s work, all for nothing, as people, inexplicably, turn their back on the prospect of blackouts, being colder and poorer, restricted diets, personal travel rationing, impracticable electric buggies and no foreign holidays. How could they be so selfish?

It was all so carefully prepared from the seminar he helped organise back in 2006 that led green activist cabals from within and outside the BBC to stamp out debate about the science of climate change. From that date on, the science was ‘settled’. To this day, the BBC has ignored scientific work that disputes humans cause all or most climate change. This work involves hundreds of dissenting atmospheric scientists, and many of their findings have been reported in the Daily Sceptic. Rather than repeat ourselves, further details are available in a recent article here.

For the last 20 years, a highly politicised doomsday agenda has been constructed that highlights the work of ‘post normal’ activists determined to show that burning fossil fuel is leading to a ‘climate emergency’. Describing themselves as scientists, Harrabin and his pals have created increasingly implausible doomsday scenarios, full of value judgements, light on evidence and easily debunked. Many of these people work out of re-branded geography and social science university departments and seek to impose a command-and-control Net Zero global system. The IPCC has come to play a central role in promoting this narrative.

Let’s have a more detailed look at how Harrabin helps the agenda along. Last week he published the following article on the BBC News site. Here is the heading: “Climate change: Can the Russian energy crisis help to curb global heating?”

What is this “global heating”? Nothing to do with domestic warmth, of course. Rather, it is a product of the doubling down that the BBC and Guardian undertook a few years ago to rebrand global warming as global heating, since that sounded more threatening. This rhetorical upping of the ante was necessary because the small rise in temperature from the late 1970s started to run out of steam two decades ago. For over seven years the global temperature hasn’t moved, so obviously something drastic had to be done. A similar exercise was undertaken around the same time by upgrading bad weather to ‘extreme’ weather. According to Harrabin:

The Business Department (BEIS), and most experts, tell him [Boris Johnson] existing plans to cut fossil fuels to protect the climate will help shield the U.K. from rocketing global prices for oil and gas.

Classic wishful thinking. Quite how reducing the supply of a commodity already in short supply will “shield” the U.K. from rocketing prices is not immediately clear. Even the imaginative BBC fact-checking department might have difficulty with this one. But it must be true – “most experts” say so.

Insulation is another no-brainer quick hit… A speed limit of 55mph could be set… Trains could reduce their top speed… Boilers running on imported gas would be replaced by electric heat pumps powered by electricity generated by British wind farms… Save energy – bath with a friend.

May the leprechauns dance on your bed, and bring you sweet dreams, as my Irish grandmother used to say. Is it too unkind to suggest that Harrabin is away with the fairies with these suggestions? The recent report from Professor Michael Kelly for the Global Warming Policy Foundation put the cost of this ‘quick hit’ of insulation at around £2 trillion, equivalent to the current GDP of the U.K. Installing heat and air pump systems in houses that haven’t been sealed completely is a waste of time. It has been estimated that the average expenditure per house for new insulation and heat pumps is over £65,000. There are also another 5.5 million non-residential buildings to consider and Professor Kelly reckons that £3 trillion will be required for a full retrofit of all U.K. buildings.

Meanwhile, doing 55mph on the M25 these days is an increasingly rare experience, while Kremlin leaders must be quaking in their boots to hear that the Brits are taking a very serious view of recent events in Ukraine by reintroducing 1970s style communal bathing.

 … Economists warned that any fracked gas would be sold on to the global market so it wouldn’t lower U.K. prices much anyway

Ah, the old increase supply and prices stay the same argument. Even if it is true, Harrabin, inexplicably, failed to note that well paid and badly needed British jobs would be created in deprived areas, tax revenues would get a massive boost, dividends would flow into cash-strapped pension funds and Britain would become energy self-sufficient again. Another small advantage is that the war coffers of people who don’t seem to like us will not be filled quite so quickly.

Former head of the gas giant Centrica Iain Conn – previously a shale fan – told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I don’t think it is possible to drill enough wells to be able to make a material difference to the U.K. supplies.”

So says Mr. Conn, a man who earned £13 million for four years work at Centrica. During his period of employment, he put the company’s oil and gas exploration interests up for sale, lost over two million customers and saw the company’s share price fall significantly.

On-shore wind power is cheap… There is no fossil fuel bonanza in the North Sea… The International Energy Agency wants to halt all new fossil fuel operations because enough has been found already to wreck the climate.

Wind power is not cheap since it requires an annual subsidy of £11 billion to bring it to market, rising to £14 billion in 2026. In addition, it needs efficient gas fired turbines to stand idle, ready to be fired up when the wind doesn’t blow. In total, wind and solar provide just 5% of total U.K. energy needs (as opposed to electricity needs, where the proportion is higher). There is plenty of oil and gas left in the North Sea and higher prices and improved technology will help extract it. That is why green activists will do anything to stop production and demonise the exploration companies.

 And “wreck the climate” – what is that about? A gently warming climate – warming since long before mass industrialisation – and higher levels of CO2 have led to record levels of global food production and falling incidences of famine. So-called extreme weather events such as hurricanes and flooding are not generally increasing. Wildfires have shown a dramatic fall in North America over the last 100 years and coral is growing furiously across the Great Barrier Reef. Wine is produced commercially in the south of England, as it was during the Roman Warming Period. So no change there.

We wish Mr. Harrabin well in his retirement, as he enjoys the pleasures and standard of living made possible by a BBC pension and fossil fuel. These fuels accounted for about 80% of the energy mix 100 years ago. They still account for that percentage today and it’s likely the figure will be similar in the next century. In the meantime, the BBC should take advantage of Harrabin’s departure to remove the infantile ‘settled’ science ban, stop slavishly promoting the political and financial interests behind Net Zero, and start to report on all the different views surrounding this increasingly controversial agenda.

Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic‘s Environment Editor.

Tags: BBCClimate AlarmismClimate changeGlobal WarmingThe Science

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Grahamb
Grahamb
3 years ago

I bet he doesn’t retire and continues as a consultant in some capacity.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  Grahamb

I came to say exactly the same thing, that, or he gets a ridiculous “advance” for a crap ghost written “best seller” nobody really reads.

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Grahamb
Grahamb
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Most likely get someone more media friendly for the next phase

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Grahamb

Mouth full of teeth and floral frock perhaps?

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Ah, I see you’re also aware of how WEF / Davos / Common Purpose rewards its most loyal zealots. Then on to the “lecture circuit” where bored bankers throw a boozy party and pay bigly to let them mumble a bit on stage.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Grahamb

Never heard of him, probably because I deny myself access to MSM tellyvisual lies.

He isn’t even a scientist, no surprise. Wiki (lazy I know) calls him a journalist who took English at Cambridge.

Going into journalism he covered environment and general issues collecting various Fellowshops and Visitations along the way.

Ideal candidate for the space filling yet lucrative Sunday supplements. No wonder he doesn’t look 66 years old

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StoppingtoThink
StoppingtoThink
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

“He isn’t even a scientist” is an irrelevant attack on the person. Few of us are scientists and yet we are all capable of reading and forming our own thoughts – we’ve been doing it most of our lives.

The problem comes when the likes of the BBC ignore increasing evidence that run counter to their narrative, either through ignorance or bias.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

“……an irrelevant attack on the person”

Hardly.

This is a man tasked with reliably informing the British public about ‘the most pressing issue of our time’ which is so complicated highly credentialed scientists fail to agree on it.

Instead of making announcements perhaps Harrabin and his successor could introduce the beliefs of Will Happer, for example, to balance those of Michael Mann, then the public might be able to form a balanced opinion.

Perhaps they could have investigated Climatgate as intrepid journalists and express even some concern over the behaviour of those involved. But no, not a murmur from Harrabin, his continued employment at the BBC was far too important.

With fewer qualification than Harrabin even I have serious questions about the hysteria and patent lack of any catastrophic events promoted over the last 50 years, none of which have materialised, and none of which have been questioned by Harrabin.

Harrabin is not merely unqualified to comment on climate change, worse, he’s incurious but presents himself as qualified.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

When I came online 15 years ago internet security was all the rage with anonymity being encouraged.
I duly located Tuvalu for my Yahoo email home as Chump Charlie was saying it was sinking beneath the Climate Cha Global Warming induced waves but its still with us.

I’m not a fashionista so it took a few days seeing that T-Shirt guy on the BBC 6 0’Clock Lies to see him ad thhe President of Ukraine.

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StoppingtoThink
StoppingtoThink
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

@RedhotScot @karenovirus
Ad hominem attacks are pointless and weaken the argument. Harrabin may well have studied climate change informally as many of us have. The problem comes when a one sided view is presented. If only certified scientists were allowed to comment where would we be?
There are many who think that the climate change agenda flies in the face of science – I certainly do. Ad hominem attacks on them would equally be wrong because they too are often well versed in what the data says but studied something completely different previously. They may not be competent to carry out scientific research but are more than capable of reading and analytical thought.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

Because Harrabin never called anyone a “climate denier” LOL

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

It’s an ad hominim article but my comment was not an ‘attack’ on anybody.
As a remark it could equally apply to the writer for inaccurate reporting.

I believe Climate Change has always happened both in the past, in the present and into the future.

I am in favour of a bit of current Climate Change if it means a warmer Britain and lessens the chances of a new Ice Age during my lifetime.

The question is how much does human activity exacerbate the likelihood of it occurring to a notable degree.

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StoppingtoThink
StoppingtoThink
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

I agree with you re climate. I just think we should play the ball not the man.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

I’m not going to repeat myself just for your benefit.

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StoppingtoThink
StoppingtoThink
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

I’m not asking you to repeat yourself.

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

With Harrabin, the ball IS the man.

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BrigadierLethbridge77
BrigadierLethbridge77
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

I certainly don’t want a warmer Britain, as I suffer from an illness which makes me extremely sensitive to heat. It causes dizziness, sight disturbances and slurred speech. I have to sit on top of my air conditioner, drink constantly and throw water over my head during the Summer. We don’t all love the blazing sun. (Some unimaginative half-wit is going to call me “miserable” now)

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  BrigadierLethbridge77

Your discomfort versus tends of thousands of winter deaths.

Tricky one.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  BrigadierLethbridge77

You’ll be fine then, because most of the “global warming” is in extreme N. Hemisphere, in winter, at night, I doubt anyone up there is complaining abuot it. (but they never tell you that on the BBC)

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/02/23/northern-winter-nights/

Warming is generally better for health, there are far more excess winter deaths than there are excess summer deaths.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Para 1. Just as the inevitable inflation caused by Quantative Easing (printing money we don’t have) is soaked up by the housing market. The BBC don’t say about that either.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  BrigadierLethbridge77

Sorry to hear about what sounds like a rare condition (not my downticks btw).
At first I thought you were describing a false hangover which is one of the recuring symptoms of my own current medical misadventure.

I didn’t actually say ‘blazing sun’ just warmer; have you tried moving to Scotland? (Joke).

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
3 years ago
Reply to  BrigadierLethbridge77

“blazing sun” is unlikely. Not having to turn the bloody heating on in April is more like it. You’ll prefer it, believe me – if it actually happens.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  BrigadierLethbridge77

Sleep outside in a tent…in Summer?

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The old bat
The old bat
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Yes, bring on the warmth. More people die of cold than of heat, so I have read. I would like to see vinyards in Northumberland, as there were in Roman times, and in Greenland they can start growing their own food again. Britain must have been a wonderful place to live during the Roman and Medieval warm periods.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

An ‘ice age’ would take thousands of years to manifest itself.

The whole subject is contaminated by hysterical rhetoric and wild exaggeration.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

It’s what we were scaryfied with throughout Infant and Junior School. Probably to distract from thoughts of nuclear anhiliation.

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BrigadierLethbridge77
BrigadierLethbridge77
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

I agree. Ad hominem attacks are what we have all had to endure isn’t. How many times has someone said to a sceptic “but are you a doctor?” (By which they mean G.P. as if G.P.s are experts in every discipline)

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  BrigadierLethbridge77

Never to me not once. Not even when working throughout lockdown proper meeting with other out and about folk (medics and engineers) while most hid indoors.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  BrigadierLethbridge77

Exactly; How do you know a GP is generally ignorant? – when they mention BMI/Cholesterol/Cardiovascular/saturated fat in the same sentence as a prelude to prescribing Statins.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

See my response above.

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The old bat
The old bat
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

Whatever one’s qualifications, I would have thought the most important thing is to keep an open and enquiring mind about all subjects. Anyone who has such fixed views as this person is, to me, not demonstrating a great deal of intelligence.

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

It is not an ad hominem attack when I point out Harrabin’s complete lack of objectivity. There are things in the alarmist narrative that I frequently point out to others that they should consider before abusing people who insist CO2 causes climate change.

When someone at the BBC, supposedly an objective entity, fails to offer a balanced opinion on ‘the most important event of our time’ then they are open to criticism for their biased views and violation of BBC policy.

We pay Harrabin’s salary. I expect him to represent all of us not just his own beliefs or the instruction of his BBC overlords.

The new DG came into the BBC on a promise to address the bias in the corporation. What happened? Did climate change get a free pass?

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Davie is “holed below the waterline” because of his attendance at the “Settled Science” conference – unless he recants publicly and reinstates impartial objectivity in ALL BBC output. Don’t see any sign of that or am I a confirmatorially biased perpetual BBC fine paying zealot?

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

Again, it’s hardly an “attack”. It’s an objective appraisal. The man is a charlatan and criticism is justified.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

It is the mechanistic “science is settled” drivel that people like him are either blinded by or adopt to blind others when they push their illiterate narrative. It also strikes me that they, and especially Harrabin, adopt a “Shaman” like guise, blinded themselves to their messianic mission to convert the rest of the heathens who have not seen the light – yet.

In “Inherit the Wind”, the Spencer Tracy Defense Lawyer attempts to bring reason and logic to the proceedings and is thwarted at every turn despite the logic of his case as evidence. Matthew Harrison Brady as the star witness for the defence is torn to shreds by Henry Drummond and ended up disappearing in a maelstrom of (biblical) rantings which lead to his dramatic denouement. I don’t wish ill on Harrabin, but I feel his suspension of reason in refusing to consider all the evidence, and not just that which he subjugates to bolsters his evident bias, and his intervention at the “Settled Science” conference, at which I believe Tim Davie was present, illustrates his mendacity as well as his disgraceful self promotion as some kind of (imho cod) expert.

I think we have all had enough of “experts”….

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  RedhotScot

Exactly.

Harrabin’s lack of scientific qualifications might have been excusable if he had conducted himself as a journalist but he failed even on that score.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

From the article
“Describing themselves as scientists, Harbinger and his pals. . .”

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BrigadierLethbridge77
BrigadierLethbridge77
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

I agree. We don’t have to be directors to recognize a badly directed film, or musicians to notice a badly-tuned guitar.

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  BrigadierLethbridge77

The latter worked for “Canyons of your mind”….

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

“He isn’t even a scientist” is hardly an “attack” – and while I agree that we can have our own thoughts, I personally am a bit more persuaded in questions of science by, er, scientists, as opposed to English graduates. But if he wants to say something interesting about Shelley, I’ll listen.

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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

If you aren’t being tongue-in-cheek in your last sentence, may I beg to differ? A career built on lying and scaremongering has given him the look of an aged, non-extinct Galapagos tortoise.

Nowadays, it puzzles me that people like Harrabine and squads of politicos, false modellers and so forth kit themselves out in suits, yet neckties (not the hempen variety) seem in short supply, along with razors and blades. I guess that every day is now a “Dress Down Friday” in many sections of the white-collar population, when it ventures out from the WFH environment.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless - "TN,BN"

I’d just woken up when first seeing that pic so possibly in an over relaxed frame of mind rather than tongue-in-cheek as you suggest.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless - "TN,BN"

I’ll say it for you:

He’s a scruffy old Herbert.

(No offence to any Herbert’s on here,I’m just mindful of the language bans).

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

66? Nope, more like 88!

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

Rotten woodwork is infested with creatures we have never heard of!

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

A dead man still walking by the look of him and is he really only 66? I rather suspect that the triple jab has lot to answer for.

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JXB
JXB
3 years ago
Reply to  Grahamb

He’ll become Emeritus BBC Environment Analyst… we’ll worth the licence tax.

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3 years ago

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago

The Science is a cult.

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kaddy89
kaddy89
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

The “Jim Jones ” cult. Too much poisoned Koolaid drinking …leading to mass suicide

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rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago

Is Shukman still in post? Can’t he be told to pack his bags and go too??

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

And the Tipperary ‘ex motoring correspondent’ Matt Grath

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kaddy89
kaddy89
3 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

Fingers and toes crossed

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TheGreenAcres
TheGreenAcres
3 years ago

NetZero isn’t going anywhere. It’s not something that will be defeated by making the best scientific argument or proving what the data actually show when not manipulated. Like Covid, Net Zero is now both an act of faith, and a deliberate ploy to transfer power and wealth to unelected trans-national technocrats.

The only way it will be defeated is for the mass population to wake up and kick the entire lot out. Sadly that doesn’t seem to be happening any time soon, no matter how bad things get.

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Mr Taxpayer
Mr Taxpayer
3 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

Elections are held in spring. A large chunk of the population will likely spend the preceeding winter sitting in a cold dark home because of Net Zero and other green stuff. They will vote for the party offering warmth and light. And that could well be Nigel Farage…

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tom171uk
tom171uk
3 years ago
Reply to  Mr Taxpayer

Democracy? I can’t see that catching on.

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kaddy89
kaddy89
3 years ago
Reply to  tom171uk

Democide

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paul parmenter
paul parmenter
3 years ago
Reply to  Mr Taxpayer

They will all be offering warmth and light. Like they have all been offering improved everything since time immemorial. And loads more money for the NHS of course. The cold and dark will be blamed on the “other lot”. Millions of brainwashed sheep will continue to believe what they are told to believe. They will probably still be wearing masks every time they venture outside, and will trundle along to the polling booth to show their vax passes, receive a stamp on their foreheads and waste their votes on the same old failures.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Mr Taxpayer

It could be for UKIP 3.0.

However, based on track records, it won’t be.

I very much hope to be wrong about that, but UKIP 3.0’s performance so far, even in low turnout by-elections, has been insipid. They just got beaten into 4th place by an openly communist candidate.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

These quasi religious movements are hard to defeat because they manipulate people in the same way that religions have.

They give people a sense of purpose, something to believe in and strive for, which is so essential to our human existence.

In spite of not being a fervent christian by any stretch of the imagination, I was always very wary of the assault on modern day christianity because I could see it served a useful purpose and something would have to take its place.

The way I see it, climate change, woke culture and fighting covid all rush in to fill that existential vacuum. They require sacrifice, strength of belief, they provide a sense of community. Basically the things that christianity (and other religions) gave us.

If people are going to drop their belief in climate change they’re going to have to be given something else to believe in.

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Robin Guenier
Robin Guenier
3 years ago
Reply to  TheGreenAcres

You’re right that NetZero cannot be defeated by scientific argument. But it can, I suggest, be defeated by pointing out that most major non-Western countries are either unconcerned about the impact of greenhouse gases on the climate or don’t regard the issue as a priority, focusing instead for example on economic growth, poverty eradication and (increasingly) energy security. Yet these countries – comprising 84% of the world’s population and all its poorest people – are the source of 75% of global emissions whereas Britain is the source of less than 1%. 

It therefore makes no sense for our government – facing a severe energy crisis – to pursue a policy that will make energy increasingly expensive and unreliable, that will wreak further damage to our already weakened economy, that will depend on China for key products, components and materials – and that, in any case, cannot make even the slightest noticeable difference to the continuing growth of global emissions.

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CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago
Reply to  Robin Guenier

Unassailable logic one would think, assuming our government has any sense is where it all falls apart. Good to see you here, I recognize you as a regular commenter on the Paul Homewood site.

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
3 years ago

The king is dead …
The Beeb will replace him with another clone. It’s who they are.

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kaddy89
kaddy89
3 years ago
Reply to  NeilofWatford

They will probably give it to the mad eyed Thunberg puppet of one of her many clones

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The old bat
The old bat
3 years ago
Reply to  kaddy89

I notice Greta has gone very quiet just lately. I wonder if her handlers have decided she’s outdone her usefulness? (I can only hope).

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago

Thank you Chris great article.
As Graham says above I am sure his admirers in Davos will have an offer he cannot refuse.
Meanwhile your item above about insulation and heat pumps is if interest.
Up here in the Scottish Gulag ‘skukes’ are operating in winter with wide open windows.
This is to allow the WuFlu which all the poor weins are carrying in their hypothermic bodies to fly out.
Which raises an important point.
When all schools are equipped with these wonderful heat pumps which require buildings to be sealed like a space suit, how will the next plague visited upon us by the CIA escape?
We should ask Mr Harripin before he retires.

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago
Reply to  watersider

‘Skools’

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago

“For the last 20 years, a highly politicised doomsday agenda” yes, this prepared the ground for lockdown.

Far from being a conspiracy, lockdown was the result of environmentalism being put into practice, environmentalism has been taught for decades as science.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  Moist Von Lipwig

Far from being a conspiracy

Checks climategate notes… pulls awkward quizical sideways look onto face…

Jones said he would prevent research articles by competitors from being published, even if he had to redefine what peer review means (e-mail, 8 July 2004)

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

And how is that proof of a conspiracy rather than what I claimed? Environmentalism is a mediaevalist and totalitarian ideology and he was consistent with it.

Conspiracy theories reject all ideas, they focus on people, not the reasons why they act.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  Moist Von Lipwig

even if we have to redefine what a conspiracy is….

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Even if you have to ignore what’s been taught as science for decades, you mean.

You essentially deny man has a mind and, in your case, it’s true.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  Moist Von Lipwig

don’t be silly, it does you no favours.

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

Oh ImpObs, dem wer de daze! When we could actually read the conspirators talking to each other. Good old Climategate it never dies does it?

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

Like the pharma grants to Universities, the environment is all about the grants, if someone would pay bigger grants to dispute climate change, it would end. Follow the money, again.

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MikeHaseler
MikeHaseler
3 years ago

He should have his pension removed

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  MikeHaseler

And that is just the start!

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
3 years ago

I think I must have smashed up about 20 car radios and 15 telly’s listening to this scientifically illiterate nincompoop!

Harrabin and his ilk have done nothing but demoralise and destroy. No doubt he will now live like a monk and practice what he preaches…

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

Personally, I tend to rely on the channel change knob!

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RedhotScot
RedhotScot
3 years ago
Reply to  iane

Not seen one of those in decades…….

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago
Reply to  BJs Brain is Missing

Don’t be too sure I would not be surprised if our nearly woke global cultist Queen gives him a knighthood ‘for services to science ‘ don’t ya know

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  watersider

Aye, because the bloody Windsors are up to their necks in this shite.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

Climate change policy isn’t about climate. It is about geo-political power. Liz Truss gave it away last week when she warned that we needed to stop our reliance on fossil fuels from places with unsavoury governments. George W Bush warned about it in a State of the Union address back in the early 2000s saying the US had to drop its addiction to oil. Every so often they’ll let slip what it’s really about.

It has always been about geopolitics. The west has lost control of the global supply of fossil fuels. Our oligarchs don’t want to lose their power to oligarchs from other places. The centre of geopolitical power is shifting away from Washington and London other countries and their oligarchs become more richer and more powerful.

The way I see it, they want to create a world in which the burning of fossil fuels is demonised to stop the rise of these fossil fuel rich nations and retain power in the west.

This is a goal that in fact many who know there is no imminent climate disaster might still agree with. The problem is that it’s not easy to have that conversation in the open, so they’ve decided to go with the climate change story and they’re sticking to it.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Havent you noticed that oligarchs in all countries tend to belong to the same cabal?

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Amtrup
Amtrup
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

I think there are different subgroups/teams of oligarchs.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  Amtrup

Its no different to the monarchs of old who all stemmed from the same genetic lineage and continued to intermarry but often fell out and this gave rise to wars.

The monarchs have now been deposed by the banking/corporate elite who largely share a common but different genetic lineage – but the same falling outs continue.

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Corporate Wars then…

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Amtrup
Amtrup
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Thank you for that very enlightening comment. Makes a lot of sense of a lot of things going on recently/now.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  Amtrup

The cosmopolitan elite who now own us have no national borders. They move effortlessly from one profit source to another.

Protected by private security firms and jetting from one island fortress to another, this new elite are insulated from the sea of social misery they create. Carved out of the nation states in which they reside, their gated communities’ mirror the social, economic, legal and political loopholes in which they operate.

From their various domains, they look out upon the rest of the world with disdain – viewing it only as source of cheap servile labour and a well of resources to be plundered.

The social and political turmoil the West is now experiencing is a manifestation of this elite’s last great effort to consolidate their stranglehold on the West. In essence, they want to destroy nation states and create a globalised borderless economy which they can better control and more efficiently exploit.

This is where Stewarts argument fails.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Stewarts argument is not mutally exclusive!

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

It seems to me we are saying pretty similar things.

The world is run by an oligarchical class. They compete with each other. “Our” oligarchs (i.e. the western ones) are losing ground to those in fossil fuel rich nations, and also China.

In the past our oligarchs have managed to make alliances with other oligarchs, like the Saudis for oil, until recently with the CCP barons in China. But it looks to me like these other oligarchs have become more powerful and don’t necessarily want to play second fiddle to our lot.

The rest of us are just pawns.

What I don’t see is any desire to get rid of nation states. They’re very useful to them as means of controlling populations.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

What I don’t see is any desire to get rid of nation states.

It’s more of a bypassing democracy type thing, see UN, e.g. agenda 21 inertined into every facet of western government down to local gov level, ruling global farming, we’re all in ‘lockstep’ with it, WHO running global health regulations etc.

When they talk a of a “global government” they’re talking about the UN.

It doesn’t matter who gets the vote, they’re all following UN agendas.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago
Reply to  ImpObs

I think that’s right. Power and governance is being shifted away from national institutions and leaders to international institutions and leaders.

And I don’t think that results in nation states being done away with. Far from it, it’s a very useful structure for the international institutions and leaders to project their power.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Of course globalisation spells the end of independent nation states. If decision making power continually ebbes away to glbalist organisations like the UN, IMF, World Bank and also private members clubs like the WEF, Bilderberg and Chatham House, then governments become the equivalent of regional administrative units and MPs have as much power as a county councillor.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

We are not saying the same thing. There is no such as thing ‘our’ oligarchs and ‘their’ oligarchs. Most of the the worlds oligarchs are from the same genetic group of people. They have no borders, and if they look to a nation state at all, it is usually Israel.

Look who started the FED, bankrolled the 1917 revolution, established the USSR, bankrolled Mao and started the CPC? It was the same group of people.

Its a very small club – and you aint in it.

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ImpObs
ImpObs
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Boom! I was big into the Peak Oil scene 20yrs ago, reaiding Michael C Ruppert etc. every day, then I looked at the history of it, Club of Rome, the limits to growth BS, Paul R Ehrlich, the eugenicists, all controlled by the old money banking families. Watching that morph into the global warming BS was instructive. It’s always been about geopolitics.

Peak Oil has effectively been manufactured, BP started bying back it’s own shares in the 1980’s instead of spending on exploration. The result will be the same, depopulation. We’re witnessing the birth of the great die off, accelerated by geopolitics and the old money banking families reaching into every facet of life, globally. A global technocracy.

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tom171uk
tom171uk
3 years ago

A speed limit of 55mph could be set…

Tells you all you need to know about the agenda. Any excuse for control freakery and sucking all the joy from life. I’m surprised he didn’t say we all have to become vegans because the climate is being wrecked by cows farting.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago
Reply to  tom171uk

Actually they already have, no links to hand but they are out there.

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Baron_Jackfield
Baron_Jackfield
3 years ago
Reply to  tom171uk

I’m wondering how much CO2 output I’ll “save” by never being able to get my car into top gear on the motorway…

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago

Long article for a nobody so just a couple of quickies from memory.

Insulation Dad used to bore me shitless over Sunday Lunch in the early 1970s about how The Council were going to compensate him for getting the family home ceiling lagged with something or other.
Working it all out by the square yard using trigonometry at the dining table ffs.
So its nothing new.

55 mph. Also during 1970s, an Oil Crisis (Arab embargo they mean). Ronnie Reagan was told 55mph was the most fuel efficient way to use Americas long straight Freeways if conservation was the primary concern.

RR duly imposed a 55mph legal speed on Freeways (if you couldn’t get to 55 you couldn’t use the Freeways).
This time The Experts got it right so much reduced fuel consumption on Freeways.
Seems less accidents because with everyone doing the same same speed no badly judged overtaking but, I expect, more falling asleep at the wheel through sheer boredom.

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Bolloxed Britannia
Bolloxed Britannia
3 years ago

So what’s his plan for his tax payer funded retirement? Job with some anthropomorphic climate change bollox NGO? Jet around the globe on hypocrisy airlines as a talking head producing spurious globalist orthodox crap?
Maybe he could accompany Attenborough on one of his taxation with menaces funded propaganda jaunt’s? He could carry his Zimmer frame…

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Bolloxed Britannia

Book “advance” and then the “lecture circuit”. How all his kind are rewarded for their service.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago

Fossil fuels liberated the working class. Its why we no longer toil in the fields. Its why we eat like kings, have warm homes and jet off twice a year. They are the great equaliser – and that is why the “You will own nothing and be happy” elite and their Marxist ‘useful idiots’ want to take them away from us again.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

None of them are immortal either, despite what they think

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

They do not solely act for themselves in the short term, but for their collective in the long term. This project has been ongoing for centuries.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Don’t worry – they’re working on that as well.
Control of ageing – Mrna again. Research abounds into telomeres/prevention of genetic material being modified over time/epigenetics.

Just think – immortality may beckon for the likes of Blair, Gates, Schwab, Fauci

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago
Reply to  Sforzesca

Oh no immortality for that shower of shit is bloody scary

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

They live in remote, gated, guarded estates though. The ones really in control, not their mere political puppets.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Dear old Maurice, the CCP’s most useful idiot

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CovidiotAntiMasker
CovidiotAntiMasker
3 years ago

Good article, should be on the front page of all the tabloids, keep banging the drum, for anyone unaware Paul Homewood’s blog is a brilliant resource: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  CovidiotAntiMasker

Actually worth reading in full.

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John
John
3 years ago

Don’t expect any change in the output from the BBC on climate change. The next environmental analyst could be Greta Thunberg or worse.

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psychedelia smith
psychedelia smith
3 years ago

Haribin and most of his BBC colleagues all have large investments in carbon trading and renewables. Most of the BBC’s pension fund has been invested in carbon trading too. If this all falls apart, so do their finances. This is why you can’t even watch a Sunday afternoon nature show about ants the Andes without being hectored about global warming.

For the rest of them, it’s just a foppish bourgeois metropolitan death cult.

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FrankFisher
FrankFisher
3 years ago

I’m sure he will be happy with his vast pension.

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Doom Slayer
Doom Slayer
3 years ago

Farage is trying to open a few eyes with the vote power not poverty movement rally, but 2 venues have cancelled due to pressure from green zealots. Not sure if they have a third. As with brexit, a majority of the country will probably be against, but the msm and establishment will do everything they can to smear and bully them. The people most affected by the cost of net zero are the ones without a voice.

Its all the same types of people backing the rabid net zero policies as the vax and mask zealots. The are ideologues and it doesnt matter to them whether they are right or wrong. Most wouldnt understand even the basic science of the climate.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Doom Slayer

I reckon Uncle Soros will be offering a bounty to the first crustafarian to superglue his/her/zitself to Farage.

Sure, ecomentals are zealots, but zealots can actually move beyond screaming into more incendiary action, and most venues won’t want to take the risk.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

Wha a totally unpleasant looking man!

Beware though ! The Carbon Zero Loons have the ear of the infinitely malleable PM – on the pillow!

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Well, they’ve got him firmly grasped by one flesh party of his anatomy, anyway.

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Yes SHE has!

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JXB
JXB
3 years ago

‘Ah, the old increase supply and prices stay the same argument. ‘

Supply cannot be divorced from demand which is the other side of the equation, the equation which determines price.

it is demand that is the driver. You can supply as much of a good as you like but if nobody wants it you are wasting your time.

The perfect situation is supply = demand, which produces the market clearing price of a good, but that state seldom exists for long for a variety of reasons.

UK fracked gas fed into the global market place would lower prices if it pushed supply nearer to meeting or over demand. If the market were glutted, then it would not be economical to sell UK gas in the global market. As more producers reduced supply insufficient to fulfil demand, prices would go up making it once again economically viable to sell UK fracked gas and prices would fall. That’s how the markets work.

It doesn’t work that way with wind, because whilst you can increase or decrease supply of gas (or gas produced electricity) at will, you can’t do that with the wind.

Of course wind generated electricity is going to save consumers huge amounts on their bills, because for most of the time they won’t be getting any electricity at all so will be paying for very little therefore.

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mikec
mikec
3 years ago

Just reading that the Maldives are planning to open 10 new airports in the next 5 years. Not bad for a group of islands that were supposed to be under water by 2015. Speak out against net zero every chance you get, (re)-educate your kids to put right the infantile twaddle they’ve been fed by their leftist teachers, challenge blanket statements like ‘climate crisis/catastrophe’ and ask for evidence. I guarantee it won’t be forthcoming.

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Adrian25
Adrian25
3 years ago
Reply to  mikec

Excellent comment.
🙂

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago
Reply to  mikec

A friend, a grammar school science teacher, has just retired. The best thing about it that “after 26 years I can stop clenching my teeth every time I have to tell them about the dangers of climate change”

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186NO
186NO
3 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

IOW, I like the Teachers Pension Scheme sooooooooo much , I surrender my principles for an easy retirement funded by the tax payer sheep.

Is that not a prime indicator of the lack of moral and ethical fibre of large parts of the “culture” of the UK? If your friend “knew” what they were saying was bollox, why did “they” not feel so aggrieved at the deliberate attack on their professional standards as to walk away and do something “useful”?

It is the same abandonment of ethics, morals and standards that has blighted the “career politician” for a few decades, all for money power and influence – and Bliar is the epitome of that degenerate cohort imho, along with others of the same – ish – political persuasion.

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ElizaP
ElizaP
3 years ago

Well I admit to more than a little scepticism about any Government ever really caring about the environment. From the 1970s onwards it had become very clear to me that the evidence they do NOT care is that they continued paying out family allowances/etc for children born AFTER the Pill became freely available and abortion is legal and therefore no-one needs to have a child they’ve not planned on any longer (ie encouraged population growth – as many people would think twice if they had to cover all their own costs of having children). The other point being they are still not helping ensure that any woman that decides to get sterilised can do so without problem. I recall telling my doctor I was needing a referral to get sterilised back in my 20’s and getting refused and had to solve that problem by paying out to have it done privately (cost would be around £3,000 in today’s terms) at a private clinic (that, for some reason, now only offers sterilisation to men!!!!) and yet there are still women in their 20’s being routinely refused sterilisation now (ie about 40 years later!!!!!!!!). People are THE main pollutant – the planet would survive an awful lot better if it didn’t have so many people on it and the population is still growing currently. So I’ll really believe Governments are serious about Net Zero and the like once they ensure no-one/but no-one has a child they haven’t planned on deliberately and accepted that they personally will have to pay for.

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watersider
watersider
3 years ago
Reply to  ElizaP

What utter tripe! Are you a member of the New World Order Malthusians Eliza?

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago
Reply to  ElizaP

Re not having kids I too paid to be sterilized back in the 70s six weeks wages as I recall. Never had kids and given the state of the world evet since I am glad that I made that decision

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago

Can a fairy be considered to be “away with the fairies”?

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adamcollyer
adamcollyer
3 years ago

In general, yes, but we should be fair on the costs of insulation. Prof Kelly’s figure of £2 trillion (£77,000 per home) was to achieve zero emissions. I’m not sure that Harrabin, with his “no brainer quick hit” insulation, had in mind to insulate every house so much that zero heat escaped. The cost to make sure every home had basic insulation (double glazing, decent loft insulation, cavity wall insulation etc) would be far less.

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mark tyndall
mark tyndall
3 years ago

Much as you can accurately point out that the investment in wind power (both on and off shore) to date has required very large subsidies, it does appear that current new-build projects don’t require any, and can be profitable at current electricity prices. All projects do of course enjoy the benefit of not being required to provide the necessary storage (the costs for which are picked up elsewhere in the system) to make their electricity truly useful on a 24/7 basis, but this is a somewhat different problem.

The cost effectiveness of the latest generation of turbines in our energy supply will become clear once current projects start to generate electricity, but we will still have a very sub optimal energy supply matrix given the intermittency of renewables.

Simply castigating wind for being subsidised will not suffice as we move (at long last) to try to formulate a more rational, resilient energy policy based on engineering, geological and market realities, rather than wishful thinking and net zero dogma

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
3 years ago
Reply to  mark tyndall

‘we will still have a very sub optimal energy supply matrix’ 
On the 25 or so days every UK winter when there’s no wind in the British isles or in its immediately surrounding waters, I can just picture us all, sitty wooly-hatted, overcoats on, shivering in our living rooms, uttering the national curse: ‘Gosh, this is sub-optimal!’

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Less government
Less government
3 years ago

Superb article. Sent it to my MP.

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Smudger
Smudger
3 years ago

For a moment I thought it was an obituary

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
3 years ago
Reply to  Smudger

For a beautiful moment there, so did…no, that’s uncharitable.

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Luis RCoelho
Luis RCoelho
3 years ago

Oh, so you guys a re BBC lickers???

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Colin
Colin
3 years ago

Harrabin’s article is actually more balanced than you suggest. He suggested a “cheeky campaign like the 70s “bath with a friend” campaign”. He did not suggest bathing with a friend. He pointed out that the 55mph speed limit is less effective than smoother braking and acceleration. He points out that environmentalists favour nuclear as a backup to wind power.
Misquoting and distorting your subject’s writings undermines your position.

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dr.slop
dr.slop
3 years ago

Harrabin is no more a journalist than he is a scientist. He runs his copy past those he wants to keep on the good side of: https://www.theregister.com/2008/04/08/bbc_blog_bully/

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