The United Nations established the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change in 1988 and in 1995 the first climate change Conference of Parties (COP1) was held in Berlin. There has been a COP meeting every year since then, apart from 2020 when covid intervened. Last year COP28 was held in the United Arab Emirates and was attended by 84,000 delegates who flew in from all around the world to lecture the rest of us about the importance of reducing our carbon footprint.
In the nearly 30 years since COP conferences began, the U.K. has halved its CO2 emissions so that we now account for a mere 1% of the global total. But in this same time interval the developing world has massively increased its CO2 emissions. For example, China’s CO2 emissions have quadrupled and now account for 29% of the global total. India’s have tripled and now account for 7% of the global total. Both countries are still increasing their CO2 emissions.
The problem is that ‘green’ technologies are not very good. Electric cars and renewable energy are more expensive and inferior in performance to their fossil fuel equivalents. So as the developing world industrialises it is using fossil fuel technology to keep its costs down. Is it right for the privileged people of the First World to tell the poorest people in the Third World that they now have to stop operating gas and coal-fired power stations and stop driving petrol cars because of worries that in 50 years time the planet will be warmer? Climate modelling is so complex and uncertain that we don’t know how much warmer and we don’t know the consequences of that warming. Quite understandably the priority for the leaders of the developing world is to improve the lives of people now rather than worry about what may or may not happen in 50 years time.
Despite the fact that we only produce 1% of global CO2 emissions, our Government has decided we must press on with being world leaders in Net Zero. Because our ‘carbon footprint’ is already so small, reducing it further will have no measurable impact on global temperatures, but it will further impoverish British people. For example, we are repeatedly told by the green lobby (which these days occupies influential positions in politics, the media, universities and business) that renewables are now the cheapest form of energy generation and we should build ever more wind farms and solar farms. Since the U.K. is already a world leader in offshore wind it follows that we should have some of the lowest electricity prices in the world. In fact the opposite is true, the U.K. has some of the highest electricity prices in the world. Typically people in this country pay more than twice as much for electricity as they do in the USA, where shale gas has transformed the energy market, and more than five times as much as in China, where they are still building coal-fired power stations. The reason the U.K.’s electricity prices are so high is because there is a massive hidden cost in renewables which its supporters gloss over or never mention, namely the need to have back-up energy generation for when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine.
The sales growth of electric vehicles in this country has stalled as people realise just what poor value they are. They are expensive to buy and inconvenient to drive because of the long charge times and the scarcity of public charging points. There is also the issue of how green electric vehicles actually are after taking into account the environmental impact of mining the rare earth metals and manufacturing the batteries. Yet our Government is blithely carrying on with its plan to ban petrol cars.
If the world is going to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the best way forward is to encourage research and development so that we improve green technologies. Imagine for a moment a time in the future when ‘green’ technologies might be cheaper and better than their fossil fuel equivalents. If this were to happen then people would want to buy green technology and the world’s CO2 emissions would fall quickly and naturally. In the meantime we have the Conservative, Labour and Lib Dem parties all wanting to inflict more of this junk green technology on us. Only Reform offers any sanctuary for the Net Zero sceptic.
Dr. John Fernley is a retired scientist.
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It’s becoming laughable at this point. If a news article talks about a violent attack, or about assault and rape, or about sexually abusing minors and you don’t see the name or photo of the criminal responsible for it, you can already assume his immigration status, and you’d be right 90% of the time. Terrorists are screaming out why they’re doing all these attacks, but the media is deaf. But get 10 people together that are displeased with how the government runs things and the media won’t shut up about “far right” and “white supremacy”.
How delusional do you have to be to trust the media these days?
Why can’t we just accede to his desire for martyrdom?
This one’s doing the rounds, in case you didn’t see it. I honestly thought it was AI-generated, but apparently it’s legit. The contrast with the backdrop is just seriously peculiar…How many were in attendance, I wonder?
https://twitter.com/WayneGb88/status/1755302991760937255
Absolutely grotesque.
Plod excelling at F. A.
Yes, agreed. That’s how my mind works now too. A bit like if somebody dies suddenly and unexpectedly, especially decades before the end of their expected lifespan, I always assume it’s the death jab until proven otherwise.
And I note that Afghan alkali attacker in Clapham still hasn’t been found. For somebody who’s reportedly got ”significant facial injuries”, in a city that has masses of surveillance cameras, it’s surely safe to assume he’s being helped and kept hidden by somebody he knows. Well, either that or he’s walking around freely, identifying as a Muslim woman, complete with burka and niqab.
Here’s another depressing travesty of justice. Another non-accidental ‘error’ by the Home Office ( as if we were born yesterday! ) to add to the extensive list. But I’m sure he’s seen the error of his ways and is now a totally reformed character, so that’s okay then;
”A terrorist who murdered three people was allowed to stay in the country after a series of “woeful” Home Office errors.
Khairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and David Wails, 49, in Forbury Gardens, Reading, on Saturday June 20, 2020.
Now, an inquest has heard how Saadallah had wrongly been granted five years’ humanitarian leave to remain by the Home Office.
The department made a series of “woeful” errors in handling the case, which included allowing him to stay in the country even though he had served five prison sentences for violent offences.
The inquest was told that the Home Office had no record of Saadallah’s arrival in Britain on a multiple-entry tourist visa with his father in March 2012 and again in September 2012, reports The Times.
The department also had no record of his failure to depart by the visa expiry date on September 28 before he claimed asylum on October 16.
Six years later, Saadallah was still in the country. This is despite exhausting all his appeals, after launching a new legal challenge to his deportation.
He argued that Libya had become unsafe in the meantime due to a new round of conflict in the country. He was eventually granted five years’ leave to remain on a humanitarian protection basis and withdrew his legal appeal.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/reading-terrorist-khairi-saadallah-home-office-failings
I do not blame the trash that are coming here. I do however blame the trash that brought the trash here. —-Government. hand wringing parasite globalists that will facilitate our cultural destruction so they can get a little gold star on their lapel from the One World Government people at the UN and WEF
When the mistakes always go one way, maybe they’re not mistakes.
Or they only turn into mistakes when they happen to become public.
I remember that (I was in the Forbury earlier that day and the police blocked all of the area for days). But this wasn’t a run-of-the-mill islamist terror attack. The victims were all gay and I strongly suspect this was someone having seriously violent second thoughts about “experiences he had shared with them”, ie, that the motivation was rather personal than religious. That’s obviously not an excuse. But still a different kind of murderous delusion.
Self hating projection.
Jealousy would be another conjecture. Or some drug-fuelled tete-a-tete somebody really didn’t want to remember when he became sober again. As far as I can recall, nothing about the motive for the murder was ever published. This happened on a sunny day right in the center of a popular public park which suggests that it was rather a targetted than a random attack.
We’re already being set up for the Afghan chemical attacker being declared to have “mental health problems” as justification for his murderous attack.
A fellow Afghan appeared on the news pleading for the Afghan community not to assist him because he “needs medical attention and may have mental health issues.”
I knew people could sleepwalk but I never knew a whole continent could. ——-But in the last 20 years or so I have realised that Europe is SLEEPWALKING
How perfectly horrendous everything is: these obviously terrorist Muslim attacks, the cancer epidemic (as in Dr Dalgliesh’s article), the wars. All extremely depressing but only to be expected in the spiritual war we are in, essentially waged against us by the devil. We need to (re)turn to God.
I don’t really agree with this statement. But it’s certainly a lot better than many others. Defeatism always ends in defeat.
I don’t mean to sound defeatist – sorry! I resist at every opportunity: masks, lockdowns, jabs, and now in our area, Lower Traffic Neighbourhoods – a couple of other guys and I, all in our 70s or more, are standing at the very badly signed barriers warning motorists of the fines they can expect if they drive thorugh). We do what we can! And fight on!
You didn’t. That was the part of the statement I liked — it offered a positive perspective instead of the more common “We are doomed!” mongering. I’ve been raised by pretty religious parents and used to call myself a Christian during most of my lifetime. I’ve started to reconsider that due to too many bad experiences with organised (protestant) churches.
So I expect you disagreed with what I said about returning to God? I’m sorry you have had bad experiences with churches. We were blessed with ours, which although it closed initially during lockdowns did manage to stay open in one way by having ‘support groups’ where we all had lunch together, pray together, etc. And now we have a large percentage (of a very small church) who are on board with everything and still tolerate those in the church who aren’t on board (as they tolerate us in spite of disagreeing with us). I hope and pray that should there be another lockdown or other measures, we’d stay open. There’s no perfect church because there’s no perfect human being (Jesus being the only one!).