Categories for Climate Change

Ed Miliband’s Net Zero Department Given 22% More Cash to Waste on Green Energy Unicorns – and Other Budget Horrors

David Turver looks at the energy horrors in Labour's Budget, including 22% more cash for Ed Miliband's Net Zero Department to waste on green energy unicorns and billions more in renewable subsidies.

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Leading Green Intellectual Demands Deindustrialisation, Rationing and the End of the Banking System to “Save the Climate”

Leading green intellectual Ulrike Herrmann demands deindustrialisation, rationing and the end of the banking system to "save the climate". This is the real green agenda, says Eugyppius, and it's already well advanced.

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Electric Vehicle Battery Size Should be Cut by One Third Due to Acute Lithium Shortage, Say U.K.’s Top Engineers

Electric vehicle battery sizes should be cut by one third due to an acute lithium shortage, Britain's top engineers have said, leaving range-challenged EVs facing further sales disincentives.

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No, Fossil Fuels Are Not Being “Subsidised”

No, fossil fuels are not being "subsidised" by the Government, as the Guardian claims, says David Turver. It turns out what they mean is they're not being taxed as much as they think they should be. Tax is not a subsidy.

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Shocking Rise in Whale, Dolphin and Porpoise Strandings as Wind Farms Proliferate Around British Coast

The evidence that offshore wind farms are responsible for more and more strandings of whales and Dolphins is becoming increasingly hard to ignore, says Chris Morrison, the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor.

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Why Do Policymakers Overestimate the Cost of ‘Doing Nothing’ to Mitigate the Risk of Climate Change and Underestimate the Cost of Doing Something?

Policymakers routinely exaggerate the risk of climate change, bordering on being hysterical, as well as being alarmingly complacent about the costs of their schemes to mitigate it. Why? asks Andrew Sibley.

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The Country Where Taxpayers Are Charged Billions When the Sun Shines

In Germany, taxpayers are being charged billions of euros when the sun shines under contracts that commit the Government to paying solar energy producers the difference between a generous fixed tariff and the market rate.

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Starmer’s International Investment Summit Was a Sham

Keir Starmer's much-hyped International Investment Summit claimed to secure £63bn, but nearly two thirds of this is not new and much of the rest is subsidised and will only lead to higher energy bills, says David Turver.

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Clueless ‘Fact Check’ of Daily Sceptic Climate Article Descends into Pure Gibberish

A clueless AFP 'fact check' descends into pure gibberish as it brands a Daily Sceptic climate article "misleading" for quoting a Nature paper that found no "recent surge in global warming", says Chris Morrison.

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The Green Blob Gets Itself a “Special Representative for Nature” to “Put Climate at the Heart of Foreign Policy”

The Green Blob has got itself a "Special Representative for Nature" who will "put climate and nature at the heart of our foreign policy". Good grief, says Ben Pile. Don't we have any real external threats to deal with?

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