From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Robin Guenier
They’ve gone completely mad!
From the Guardian:
Labour has confirmed it will block all new domestic oil and gas developments if it wins power, proposing instead to invest heavily in renewable sources such as wind and also in nuclear power.
The shadow work and pensions secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, said details would be announced soon.
“What we’ll be doing in the coming weeks is outlining how we want to invest in the green jobs of the future, to bring bills down, to create a more sustainable energy supply,” he told Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday show.
“We’ll be outlining that in a significant mission in the coming weeks, and we’ll be announcing more details then.
A party source said: “We are against the granting of new licences for oil and gas in the North Sea. They will do nothing to cut bills as the Tories have acknowledged; they undermine our energy security and would drive a coach and horse through our climate targets.
Quite how developing North Sea oil and gas “undermines our energy security is a mystery.
[UPDATE from Willis Eschenbach]
In the UK, the Labour Party has said it will block any further use of North Sea oil and gas. So let’s run the numbers and see what difference that will make to the temperature.
Labour would block new North Sea oil and gas developments, report claims
Proven UK North Sea oil and gas reserves are about 15 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
Typical CO2 per 42-gallon barrel of oil is about 425 kg.
So that’s about 6.4 billion tonnes of CO2.
Over 8bn barrels of oil and gas reserves located within 30 miles of North Sea assets
Including immediate sequestration, it takes about 17.4 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions to raise atmospheric concentration by 1 ppmv.
So if all the North Sea oil and gas proven reserves are burned, it will raise atmospheric CO2 by ~0.4 ppmv.
Current atmospheric CO2 is ~ 420 ppmv.
Per IPCC assumptions, warming is ~ 3°C per doubling of CO2. So the warming from a 0.4 ppmv CO2 increase would be
log2( 420.4 / 420 ) times 3°C
which is …
…
… wait for it …
…
0.004°C.
Four. Thousandths. Of. One. Measly. Degree.
Driving UK gas prices through the roof for a possible but far from certain cooling of 0.004°C? …
Madness.
For comparison, when you gain altitude, the air is cooler. How much? About 1°C per 100 meters vertical movement.
So if you go up 100 meters vertically, it’ll be about 1°C cooler than where you started.
This means that stopping North Sea oil might (or might not) cool the planet by the same amount as you’d cool yourself by stepping from the floor up onto a chair.
The stupid, it burns …
w.
Dale Vince recently gave a large donation, £1.5 million from what I’ve read, to the UK Labour Party.
Dale Vince: British “green energy” industrialist. A former New Age traveller, he is the owner of the electricity company Ecotricity.
Someone who has made himself wealthy on the back of green energy subsidies. Green energy subsidies coming from UK taxpayers.
So UK taxpayers are giving money to a freeloader who is using the loose change to bribe a political party into closing the competition whilst leaving them further out of pocket and shivering in the dark.
It’s obscene
You forgot to mention that Dale Vince set up and ran Just Stop Oil, meaning that Labour has been supported by ecoterrorism for the last 10 years as well as the ‘green energy’ lobby. It’s no wonder that Starmer is caving to JSO demands to stop oil and gas development – Labour’s bank balance depends on a certain quid pro quo.
I wasn’t aware of that.
I thought Roger Hallam and Aileen Getty were involved at the start and Dale Vince only became involved financially later when he saw there was an opening to make more money from the taxpayer
You might be right on that – after posting I found other sites with different information. It’s probable that he is partly responsible for funding Just Stop Oil, in a similar manner to Aileen Getty and Adam McKay, the director of ‘Don’t Look Up’.
Willis’ straightforward math versus the woke, feel-good wishes and hopes of the CC alarmists for a “better sustainable world”. In more reasoned times, the science would trample the unfounded dreams and that would be the end of it.
As it is, to re-emphasize Willis’ closing statement: the stupidity, it burns.
Better consider a mass migration by boat to Norway where they are better at presenting a green front on an oil state.
Unfortunately I imagine Norway is far better at stopping boats than we are….
Liz Truss was right. Her policies re fracking etc would have worked. And BTW, Liz Truss was elected (sort of*) by the party but Rishi Sunak was not elected he was appointed. Before he was appointed and was trying to get elected he said he supported fracking. On appointment his first action was to ban fracking. Where is the Tory party when you need them?
*I say Liz Truss was ‘sort of’ elected, because the candidates were pre-selected by an inner cabal, a bit like Xi Jinping pre-selects the candidate for Hong Kong elections. If there had been a genuine UK Tory party leadership election then Kemi Badenoch would probably have been voted in.
The sorry part of all this is that the brainwashed public in the UK will vote for a Labour government. For myself the stupidity of my fellow man is almost unbelievably . .
But please don’t forget that it is the inalienable right of every citizen to be both ignorant and indifferent. Taking advantage of that ignorance and indifference, though, should be a crime.