- “Cops must ends witch hunts on free speech and focus on real crime, MPs warn” – MPs have insisted that cops must end the “pathetic” witch hunts on free speech and focus on real crime, reports the Sun.
- “How Rachel Reeves undermined Angela Rayner’s building blitz” – Angela Rayner’s homebuilding targets are under threat from soaring inflation and the Chancellor’s National Insurance raid, says the Telegraph.
- “Fewer benefits claimants face sanctions for refusing to work” – Fewer claimants are having their benefits cut after refusing to work, according to official figures, despite Labour’s pledge to tackle Britain’s joblessness crisis and boost employment, reports the Telegraph.
- “Lord Hermer was forced to reduce bonus after biggest cost claim in legal history” – The Attorney General was ordered to reduce his “no win no fee bonus” after being part of the biggest cost claim in British legal history, reveals the Telegraph.
- “‘Dartford Disneyland’ theme park disaster lands taxpayer with £5 million bill” – The taxpayer lost £5 million on a doomed attempt to create a £3.5 billion Disneyland rival on the Thames Estuary, reports the Telegraph.
- “Nigel Farage hits back at Keir Starmer as he claims PM ‘getting desperate’ in bid to tackle Reform” – Nigel Farage has hit out at Sir Keir after the PM accused the Reform leader of perpetuating “dangerous policies” in a major warning over the populist party, according to GB News.
- “Ant Middleton redoubles vow to become Mayor of London” – SAS tough guy Ant Middleton is doubling down on his bid to oust Sadiq Khan, claiming the embattled Mayor “has to go” with the city now one of the world’s murder capitals, reports the Mail.
- “‘BBC exposes its own bias against Reform UK in coverage of major policy’” – The BBC’s recent coverage of Reform UK’s Net Zero policy announcement is nothing short of a masterclass in bias and misinformation, says Lois Perry in the Express.
- “Hydrogen boilers are a waste of time, climate committee to warn Miliband” – The Government’s independent climate advisers are poised to tell ministers that burning hydrogen to heat millions of homes would be a waste of Britain’s already stretched resources, reports the Telegraph.
- “Miliband quango changes logo after being mocked for copying” – Ed Miliband’s Great British Energy has ditched its logo in under a year after getting roasted for nicking the icon of an ad agency, says the Telegraph.
- “Miliband accused of playing into hands of Putin with plan to concrete over Britain’s last gas wells” – Ed Miliband has been accused of “playing into Vladimir Putin’s hands” as he waves through a plan to plug Britain’s only shale gas wells with cement, according to the Telegraph.
- “EPCs to be used as a stick to beat us” – David Turver’s latest warns that the Government’s new Energy Performance Certificates reforms are less about energy efficiency and more about using regulations as a stick to beat homeowners into Net Zero compliance.
- “Britain depends on Norway for energy. Some Norwegians want to cut us off” – Tensions in the Nordics are rising as residents begrudge the cost of keeping Europe’s lights on, writes Eir Nolsøe in the Telegraph.
- “It may be too late to save Germany from the economic abyss” – In the Telegraph, Liam Halligan warns that Germany’s economic collapse could cost Friedrich Merz the chancellorship unless he pulls off a major financial rebound.
- “CDU in driver’s seat after German election but coalition might be necessary” – Friedrich Merz is poised to become Germany’s next chancellor after exit polls predicted a convincing victory for his centre-Right Christian Democratic Union party, alongside a nationalist surge, according to BBC News.
- “Germany faces its worst nightmare – becoming France” – The German economy, the richest in the EU, has been the envy of Europe for decades. But things are now taking a turn for the worse, says James Crisp in the Telegraph.
- “How the humble heat pump pushed Germany to the far-Right” – The rigid Net Zero stance of Olaf Scholz’s coalition has proved to be electoral dynamite, says Mattie Brignal in the Telegraph.
- “BBC bosses to demand answers over Gaza film’s Hamas link” – Tim Davie and other BBC executives have demanded a meeting over the airing of a Gaza documentary presented by a Hamas minister’s son, reports the Telegraph.
- “The BBC is turning into a megaphone for Hamas” – The entire BBC organisation needs a root and branch cleansing of this tendency to whitewash a murderous, rapist, Islamist terror group, says Nicole Lampert in Spiked.
- “Taliban arrest British couple in their 70s for teaching mothers” – A British couple in their seventies have been arrested by the Taliban, apparently for teaching parenting skills to mothers over 30, according to the Sunday Times.
- “Terrorist arrested over France attack is unmasked as extremist” – The terrorist arrested for the stabbing attack on police in France has been identified as an extremist who had been attempted to be deported 10 times, according to the Mail.
- “Zelensky offers to step down in exchange for peace” – Volodymyr Zelensky is willing to “immediately” step down as President of Ukraine in exchange for peace or the country being given membership of Nato, reports ABC News.
- “The war hero, the Putin stooge and the champion boxer: who could replace Zelensky?” – With Ukraine’s President indicating he is willing to leave office, the Telegraph profiles the contenders to replace him.
- “Bad peace is better than good war” – It is good news for peace that President Trump is setting the record straight on the West’s war in Ukraine, says Michael J. Sutton for the Brownstone Institute.
- “Why Russia wants Ukraine to join the EU” – Moscow has vetoed Nato membership and foreign troops, but has its own reasons for encouraging its foe’s European ambitions, writes Kieran Kelly in the Telegraph.
- “Elon Musk gives all federal workers 48 hours to explain what they did last week” – Elon Musk has told hundreds of thousands of US Government workers to explain what they accomplished over the past week or be forced to leave their jobs, reports ABC News.
- “Why we should worry about Tony Blair’s bromance with tech tycoon” – In the Mail, Mark Hookham warns that Tony Blair’s cozy connection with tech tycoon Larry Ellison could give Ellison the keys to a giant data empire – and your privacy.
- “‘Why should I let American AI pirates steal my work?’” – In the Mail, author Louis de Bernieres warns that AI is stealing creative work without consent, leaving writers’ livelihoods at risk.
- “Brazil judge orders suspension of Rumble platform amid censorship lawsuit” – Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has ordered the suspension of the video-sharing platform Rumble over the company’s failure to comply with court orders, reports NTD.
- “Seventy Christians beheaded in Congo” – Seventy Christians have been found beheaded in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in what has been described as the latest devastating attack on believers in the north east of the country, according to Gript.
- “Slash benefits for those with ‘anxiety’ to boost defence cash – Tories” – The Tories have called for Britain’s “ballooning” welfare payments – such as benefits for those with anxiety – to be slashed to fund greater defence spending, reports the Mail.
- “Elderly struck down with flu at record rate after winter fuel raid” – Over-85s are being admitted to hospital at record rates with the Conservatives and Lib Dems blaming Labour’s winter fuel allowance cut, says the Telegraph.
- “Bird flu: owners ordered to keep birds indoors to stop spread” – All bird keepers in Northern Ireland are being ordered to keep their birds indoors from Monday in a bid to stop the spread of bird flu, reports BBC News.
- “#together Social Care campaign” – The Together Declaration Health and Social Care Campaign team is calling on the public, the scrutiny committee and MPs to take a hard look at the insights and warnings in their discussion paper on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
- “Covid Inquiry Module 4 revisited” – On the HART Substack, Dr Lisa Hutchinson’s review of the Covid Inquiry Module 4 exposes a shocking whitewash – burying evidence of vaccine harm and gaslighting the injured.
- “Covid vaccine victims left disabled and blind after taking shots” – The Mail speaks with five Americans who claim they were injured by Covid jabs following a bombshell report from Yale researchers on post-vaccine harms.
- “Woody Harrelson tears apart Anthony Fauci on Joe Rogan’s show” – Actor Woody Harrelson has accused Dr Anthony Fauci of doing some “extraordinarily evil sh**” during a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, reports the Mail.
- “Schools could face Sandie Peggie-style legal dispute, group warns Swinney” – John Swinney has been warned that schools could face a Sandie Peggie-style legal dispute over gender self-ID policies, reports the Herald.
- “Trans sports mafia’s secret plan to infiltrate sports” – The ECB is taking advice from activists who claim it’s a “myth” that trans women are taller, heavier and stronger, says the Mail.
- “Gender cannot be a get-out-of-jail card for violent men” – There’s a reason that some unstable narcissists choose to transition behind bars, writes Kathleen Stock in the Sunday Times.
- “The Queen of Woke just exposed the hypocrisy of the virtue-signalling Left” – Once a fierce advocate of identity politics, Ash Sarkar now seems to be repudiating the dogma, notes Rakib Ehsan in the Telegraph.
- “Jeff Bezos must not milk James Bond dry like Disney did with Star Wars” – Ian Fleming’s creation remains some of the best intellectual property in the world – it must treated with respect, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
- “‘In five years, scientists predict we will have the first ice-free Arctic summer’” – A video on X has resurfaced of John Kerry’s 2009 climate prophecy – spoiler: he got it completely wrong.
"In five years, scientists predict we will have the first ice-free Arctic summer."
— James Melville
John Kerry predicts the future back in 2009. pic.twitter.com/CiUYSTacu2(@JamesMelville) February 23, 2025
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God bless you Chris. Now the green lobby claim desert good, rain forest bad! Deserts are a sign of co2 stress, IE concentrations are too low to allow plants to grow in non optimum conditions.
Somewhat akin to the Royal Society for Protection of Birds being fervently behind windmills which are murdering tens of thousands of birds every year in our own waters and land alone.
Amazing isn’t it, socialists hate that the main bi product of capitalism is plant food, so they had to invent pseudo science to dismantle it.
The Climate zealots are anti human, they want less of us around, and so anything that causes depopulation in their crazed minds is good, anything that encourages human population growth is bad. When its viewed from that very simple angle it makes everything else we have been witness to in the past 4 plus years fall into place.
Succinct.
The real agenda is Depopulation.
What do the WWF have to say about that considering they’re are a clone of the WEF!
They say that polar bears are having to learn to live in trees!
WWF are right behind it even though it is killing all sorts of wildlife, whales, dolphins, birds
Nature in net zero transition plans | WWF
It seems obvious to me that milder winters at the end of the Mini Ice Age, allied with perfectly normal climate change, is causing CO2 to increase. After all, what is the primary purpose of plants other than to survive? Absorb CO2 and produce Oxygen.
Now, given that CO2 levels are, apparently, rising, despite the fact that temperatures have not risen for nearly 30 years, proves that CO2 does not have a definitive relationship with temperature. Indeed, the evidence that CO2 follows temperature is copiously detailed and reviewed. There is not one document in the entire world that proves the opposite without modelling. Modelling is about as accurate as Labour’s “1.5 million homes by 2029”.
In my layman view the Science is pretty obvious: the end of the Mini Ice Age and the Moon being on a ten year tilt cycle is causing ideal conditions for plants. Increased numbers of plants are, indirectly, producing more CO2, feeding more vegetation. It is exactly the same effect that was seen in humans since the invention of modern energy and better nourishment. There is also, of course, the increase in Oxygen levels, which plants absorb via synthesis causing healthier plants.
Quite agree. Do not forget the Vostok ice cores which lag temperature as pretty by Henry’s law.
Law?
It’s only his opinion!
Who is he, anyway?
Another candidate for decolonisation.
Although all organic life uses oxygen, green plants through photosynthesis give out oxygen whilst metabolising CO2. Quite a useful byproduct for the rest of us who use up oxygen and emit CO2.
Actually, in the UK, a lot of rarer species of plants like poorer less green habitats (not necessarily arid, as plenty of rain the UK, and when we had very dry springs in 2020 and 2021, then seeds did not geminate). But it is no good if there is dense vegetation such as Hogweed, cocksfoot and nettles- the rare plants get outcompeted and are lost. How much an increase of Co2 effects this I don’t know.
“…it is no good if there is dense vegetation such as Hogweed, cocksfoot and nettles- the rare plants get outcompeted and are lost.”
This I believe is now referred to as “re-wilding.” Or leaving the land to return to scrub when it becomes useless to man and beast. Land, all land requires management.
Not always. many nature reserves or wild places need some sort of management, hence conservation volunteers. Even in the mountains, they have to cull the deer as often there or too many, and some times fence areas off.
People often forget that nature reserves are semi-natural in many many cases. The scrub clearance and grazing has been done for thousands of years, so it is hardly surprising.
Scrub that is probably not indigenous to that “re-wilded area”.
They’ve tried shutting off large area in Mid-Wales and the Molinia grass, which is natural, has completely out competed everything else to form a sort of desert that not even the voles like and birds cannot nest in. Birds of prey cannot prey etc, etc. Idiocy.
As you said, rewilding results in scrubland, not pristine forests as they imply.
Plants are often rare and in marginal habitats because they are poor at competing. I was a botanist and remember studying rare plants, like Trinia glauca, a small umbellifer growing in the Avon Gorge. It was interesting to see a relic population, perhaps having migrated in after the last glaciation, but I wouldn’t obsess about its retention at all costs.
Thank you Chris for your continued contributions. They are a ray of light in these dark times.
How is the 4% human CO2 contribution figure calculated?
Professors Will Happer and his collaborator William van Wijngaarden(Tom Nelson Podcasts 56 and 158) attribute the recent modern CO2 rise to fossil fuel burning.I know that Professor Ian Pilmer and others quote 4%. Can anyone help?
Despite the Alarmist Club of Liberal Progressive Governments and Media telling us droughts are getting worse because of climate change, the opposite is true. Even the infamous CRU at East Anglia’s data reveals decline in drought since 1950.
——Incredibly reports that are the opposite of what is really happening are the norm on mainstream media. This means that the public are being thoroughly brainwashed, but why would that be? My friend recently said to me “Why would people say there is global warning if it isn’t true”? To an ordinary person like my friend that is busy with work and family life, who does not have the time to investigate every issue, and who may think mainstream news are doing that on his behalf, it is something he finds difficult to comprehend. So he just assumes what he is hearing will be mostly true. This is the power of propaganda.
—- We will all on this website have been in the company of friends and family and perhaps made statements that are contrary to current orthodoxy, and that the friends and family will not have heard before. The result is often a stare at you as if you are from Mars, and this suspicion that you are one of those conspiracy theorist people like those who think America did not land on the Moon or who think UFO’s are being hidden by the Military etc etc.
——-I have had a friend say to me “What makes you think you know more about this than the scientists”? They cannot see how silly that question is even when I ask them what scientists they are referring to. It is enough for people to just accept that this is all about science and that all the scientists agree and know what they are talking about. I have even had a person say to me with a look of exasperation on his face “David Attenborough says there is a climate crisis and that is good enough for me”. ———-Oh dear.
There are some people, far too many who are not worth talking to they have been so seriously brainwashed. Walk away or ridicule is the only answer.
I could walk away but I would probably be left with no friends. I give the example of my friend as typical of the general population. Apparently politicians today are less trusted than ever before, but somehow when it comes to climate change people seem to believe it all. They think it is all about science. —–No, it is bought and paid for science. Almost all science regarding climate change is funded by government. The same government that no one trusts anymore. —-Getting that message across however is not easy.
I’m experimenting with meeting such people half way by saying “yes you are half right but have you considered ….” I am hoping that they will be more open to further new facts. A work in progress and it is very tricky with close family and friends.
It is interesting isn’t it that the best of such conversations happen with total strangers at the bank or market or garden centre and a throw away remark gets the nod.
And bringing up the Hunga Tonga underwater volcanic eruption and 13% more water vapour in the atmosphere is normally a good move.
Spot on. It takes patience. Don’t try overloading their propaganda-soaked brains too quickly!
Always, first, follow the money.
‘……he just assumes what he is hearing will be mostly true…’
And that’s a big mistake; one should assume that the reverse is the case until proven otherwise. The MSM is a prime propagator of propaganda.
Start with Miliband, and once you realise he is a total charlatan, then you can move on to the rest of the eco socialist parasites.
The Great Climate Hoax – Ideology, Not Science!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ZcPuVpg5s
My recent climate related chat with exceptional researcher and talent Ben Pile
Godfrey Bloom Official
Godfrey Bloom for PM.
% of CO2 in the atmosphere 0.04
% man made 4
% generated in the UK 1
I’ve asked many people who expressed concern over ‘climate change’ if they knew any of these numbers.
% who did? Zero.
Try it.
Indeed. I’ve had people answer 50% (in a hesitant voice) when asked what proportion of the atmosphere is CO2. The figures you show are never reproduced in any msm promoting AGW, I wonder why?!
And that tells us the state of our edukashun system. As a young child I knew atmosphere was 79% Nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 1% trace gases.
I blame the schools.
That’s 1% of the 4% in the UK, not 25% of total as some might construe from your list.
And 96% of CO2 resides in the oceans and there is a constant exchange between ocean and atmosphere determined by water temperatures, which are dependent on incident solar radiation, but also upwelling, downwelling of warmer/colder waters. This and the CO2 cycle with plants changes air carbon dioxide concentration.
None of this is controlled by Man.
I love doing this. The blank looks are sheer joy
Yes I have tried it many many times. But climate alarmists will say this—–“How is that you think a small amount of CO2 in the atmosphere cannot cause global warming while at the same time you claim it is causing global greening”. ——–I try not to fall into that trap. My way of saying it is this —-“There is no evidence that CO2 is causing or will cause dangerous changes to climate”. This stumps them every time because it puts the ball right back in their court and they are now required to provide evidence, which they cannot do because there is NONE
Tell them a further 2-3 % is made saving data around the world( cat videos!) or bit coin mining
And then the electrical energy requirement of AI…
Wales and Ireland look nice and blue. Speaking of Ireland, seen the protests on GBN with those Police fascists who are the useful idiots of the state spraying pepper spray even at Councillors now. Those pigs make my blood boil, if they piled on me I’d at least want to severely damage one of them. When were the Irish people asked to be dumped on like this.
“When were the Irish people asked to be dumped on like this”
And when the English?
..or the Welsh??
The assumption behind the warmists case is that the world was an ideal place around 1930. All change in the climat and all weather events since then have been the fault of mankind and before that we had millenia of calm, routine (yawn) boring sameness in the climate and weather.
Daft, of course, but that seems to be their starting point.
Perhaps they read “End of History” and believed it. Thought it also applied to science.
Thanks Chris – excellent article as usual.
Environmentalism became the new home for Socialists as their idol the USSR imploded. Socialism is all about planning and control using pseudo-scientism to predict and manage social and economic outcomes.
Spontaneous, emergent order terrifies the Socialist as they lose control particularly when outcomes are more successful than their plans. For them it’s all about process, best outcome is not the priority.
Commercial greenhouse maintain an air concentration of carbon dioxide between 1 000ppm to 1 200ppm which is optimum for plant growth, to speed up growth to produce strong, healthy plants requiring less water and fertiliser. (And, strange to report, none of these greenhouses ‘boil’ or catch fire.)
All that new plant growth around the World is also new habitat for myriad fauna. And food-crop yields have also increased.
Why do people obsessed with ‘rewilding’, ecosystems, biodiversity, etc want to kill off natural ‘rewilding’ and all those plants and animals on a massive scale by reducing CO2 (an absurdity anyway) to meet their ideological fantasies? Why do they want people to go hungry?
“Greening created by agricultural irrigation of fields can “obliterate arid-land ecosystems”.
But clearing vast tracts of natural vegetation – and keeping them clear of regrowth – to accommodate planting of non-native trees as ‘carbon-offset’ for royalty and celebs private-jetting around the World is OK?
You are right about greenhouse management. I think a fair bit of it is done by using the exhaust from gas fired heating; no need to waste it by exporting it into the outside air.
Correct, which is why Eart Day is on Lenin’s birthday
https://thenewconservative.co.uk/dr-green-will-see-you-now/
Roger Watson at thenewconservative with a cracking taking apart of ‘Dr Green’ aka The Royal College of Physicians and their “Green physician tool kit.’
“I leave you with this gem (not made up) which is given as an example of what a physician could say to a patient: ‘When cars burn petrol, they emit toxic air pollutants that can be bad for your health. Remember to carry an inhaler, avoid busy roads where possible and consider wearing a mask outside.’ As I may have mentioned already, who said Covid-19 lockdowns were not softening us up for something?”
I saw an old 1963 film where Sir John Betjeman travelled the long lost Dorset and Somerset railway from Shelton Mallet to Burnham on Sea.
Most notable the landscape was barren and lacked vegetation. I know that area well and today it is like a forest, rich in trees and hedges.
The Net Zero bandwagon is simply a gang of fanatics and business people with vested interests in scaring people to death, it’s Covid Mk2.
No——-The climate scare was there 30 years before covid.
It goes to prove that the planet can quite happily look after itself despite (not because of) our interference. .
‘This recovery of CO2 levels in the atmosphere holds out hope for higher food resources in many parts of the world that suffer from periodic famines.’
Excellent as always from Chris. But I’ve seen the point made that extra bulk greenery doesn’t mean proportional extra nutritional value. A parallel increase in nitrogen is needed for that.
Opinions, please.