News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
No new offshore wind project contracts have been bought by developers at a key Government auction, dealing a blow to the U.K.'s renewable power strategy that critics said "may represent a landmark moment".
The electric car debacle shows the top-down economics of Net Zero don’t add up as the fundamentals of supply and demand are ignored by the ‘cart before the horse’ approach, says Ben Marlow.
The wind industry has written to the Government threatening to abandon the U.K. unless subsidies are hugely ramped up, in a move that gives the lie to years of propaganda claiming falling costs.
The Swedish Government has ditched its targets for “100% renewable energy” amid a shift back to nuclear power in the latest blow for the unreliable and inefficient technology.
The collectivist Net Zero political project is starting to come apart before our very eyes. Making everyone poor, cold, hungry and confined to small living territories was always a tall political ask.
Professor Wade Allison, an eminent mathematician and physicist, has written an eye-popping report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation about the inadequacies of wind power. "Wind power fails on every count," he says.
In one of those stories that requires a double-take, Greta Thunberg has been taking part in a five-day protest blocking the entrance to Norway's energy ministry to protest against wind turbines.
The latest claim from Net Zero activists is that wind and solar power is now cheaper than coal in the U.S. But that's a fiction created by the $369bn of new Government subsidies, writes David Craig.
If Scotland were to cease to exist tomorrow, the impact on global temperature, according to IPCC models, would be negligible. Undeterred, the Scottish Government is set on driving its energy supply into catastrophe.
Conservative MP Chris Skidmore has laid out a “Costless and Clueless” roadmap for his expensive Net Zero fantasy, writes Chris Morrison, the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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