Tag: Net Zero

In a major re-evaluation of data from weather balloons rising through the troposphere, scientists have confirmed that temperatures have mostly paused since around 1998.

Woke capitalism is fast going out of fashion as hard realities catch up – as they inevitably do – with progressive posturing.

Before COP26, the UK announced a ban on new petrol and diesel cars in 2030, hoping to inspire others. But no other country went along with inflicting this policy on its population. It's not hard to see why.

Whisper it quietly, but Arctic ice is making a comeback. The coverage is now very close to the 1991-2020 average, well above a 2012 low point and higher than 2020. No sign of an alarmist catastrophe here.

A (well-paid) senior EU official says the continent must accept that the two necessities of life – food and fuel – have been far too cheap for a generation and to save the planet we must all pay more.

The Government-funded Energy Saving Trust has produced a report on a field trial of heat pumps. Here's a translation of the key findings from the executive summary into plain English.

The Government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has said Brits should fly less and eat less meat as part of the "behaviour change" required to achieve Net Zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

Net Zero, like the response to Covid, is part of the Permanent Emergency, under which the whole of life must be a demonstration of fealty to the scientism of collective welfare in which no behaviour is truly private.

There are clear reasons for the UK, which produces just 1% of global CO2 emissions, to pedal slowly to Net Zero. But with most scientists supporting AGW it is not realistic to expect governments to abandon it altogether.

Abrupt changes in global temperatures are commonplace. Movements as high as 5-10°C have been recorded over periods of just a few years, and these compare with the 1.1°C warming in 150 years seen today.