From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
It seems that our cretinous Prime Minister is the only leader of a major country to go to COP29.
The courageous Craig Mackinlay blows the nonsense to pieces:
As he rightly says, we will win the Net Zero race because nobody else is in it!
Meanwhile the planet savers think it is OK to fly in 66778 grifters to Azerbaijan, in order to tell the rest of us to how to live our lives.
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Quote without comment – from the Spectator:
But even if the government could somehow reach its target to decarbonise power entirely by 2030 it still wouldn’t get it close to the new target of cutting overall emissions by a further two thirds by 2035, for the simple reason that electricity generation only currently accounts for 11 per cent of UK territorial emissions.
The quote is gibberish. It’s nonsense-speak.
Not sure what the problem is. Rough numbers. The UK does about 4.5 million tons a year of emissions. Of which about 500k (11%) is due to electricity generation. So abolish the emissions from that and you are left with about 4 million tons. But the goal is a reduction of 66%, which is about 3 million tons. So decarbonizing electricity generation is not going to make much impression on the goal.
Maybe I am missing something?
Starmer, promoted by a desperate, brainwashed electorate to PM, was urged by his war-mongers, to come to the US, to try to get permission for firing long range missiles far into Russia, to “help proxy/vassal Ukraine” which already is a lost cause.
Trump will not support “lost causes”
The US knows Russia’s capabilities.
One missile, at about 15 times the speed of sound, that can take evasive action, as needed, will arrive after a few minutes, in the center of London, and pulverize everything within 50 miles, because it carries ONE 100 megaton hydrogen bomb.
Hiroshima was 16,000 tons of TNT
I guess actually they would claim that the intended move to heat pumps and EVs will reduce
…domestic transport (29 per cent of emissions in 2023) and buildings (20 per cent)….
Well, maybe so. If you really believe you can more or less double electricity demand from these sources at the same time as you move the country almost entirely to wind and solar generation.
If you really believe
The religion of global warming/climate change/global heating etc etc preaches doom and punishment, and straying from the righteous narratives results in heresy and excommunication. Possibly a public burning at the stake on social media, too
They tend to believe religion has an ability to help people cope; although it has to be said in this particular religion the results are quite the opposite with anxieties and phobias and melancholia.
Boom time for the quacks.
Ed believes he can install 55GW of offshore wind by 2030 so he would have no problem in believing your last sentence
I think the plan is to have 90GW of wind in total, plus 40GW of solar for 130GW total. But the problem will be that on a week like the last one, there will be day long periods when the 90GW of wind produces 5GW or less. Between 4pm and 8am there will be no solar at all, and minimal amounts even during the day.
Meanwhile, by 2030 peak demand (4pm or so?) will be north of 50GW, due to the move to heat pumps and EVs, and it will keep on rising.
This cannot work. Its a recipe for nationwide blackouts with no spinning reserve to restart.
Nick and the other renewable mavens here need to tell us how this is supposed to work. Where is the 50+GW of power going to come from in 2030-2035?
More importantly, where will 130GWmonths of storage come from? And I’m lowballing the storage need by saying a month’s worth of storage – and I forgot to mention the need for extra generation capacity to enable the charging!
Agree completely and I believe Ed has altered the offshore wind target to a total of 50 GW up from the 15GW today
This is what NESO says about the new target.
“Offshore wind contracting and deployment must happen at an unprecedented pace, far exceeding previous records”
“Once contracted annual deployment of offshore wind will have to be at a scale multiple times higher than ever achieved before”
But Ed still presses on regardless!
What ever the plan, it will not get the UK out of deep do-do
Regarding the disintegrating rotor blades in Cape Cod, ultrasonic testing is fine, radiological testing is fine, but FIELD TESTING of fully instrumented, 351-ft long, rotor blades on a mast, for AT LEAST one year, in a windy area of the North Sea, is the most important and vital part, which GE executives decided to “omit”.
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These rotor blades are about three times as long as an airplane wing of a Boeing-747.
Nobody with a sane mind would ever “omit” field testing, including torsion testing.
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What were these GE top executives thinking?
How in hell did they get into these top positions?
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Then, falsifying test records to endanger people, and the environment, and ocean fauna, and fisheries, and tourism?
All these are felonious offenses.
All involved should be fired and prosecuted for gross malfeasance, and blacklisted, and never again be allowed to be employed in any industry.
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Bureau of Safety and Environment Enforcement, BSEE, (what a name for a useless bureau) WANTS TO ESTABLISH FACTS ON THE GROUND (by building wind turbine projects without rotors) SO PROJECTS WILL BE HARDER TO CANCEL BY SANE PEOPLE IN EARLY 2025. Downright treasonous.
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Forcing utilities to pay 15 c/kWh, wholesale (after 50% subsidies), is gross economic insanity, plus all of us:
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– paying for grid reinforcement and extension
– paying for traditional plants counteracting wind/solar variable output, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365
– paying for traditional plants providing electricity during low-wind (and during high-wind periods, when rotors are locked in place), and during low solar conditions
– paying owners of wind and solar systems for the electricity they COULD have produced, if not curtailed
– paying for expensive hazardous waste landfill of gigantic rotor blades, etc.
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The insanity and environmental damage it all is off the charts.
No wonder Europe’s near-zero, real-growth economy is in such big do-do
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Europe wants to foist high electricity prices onto the US (using the canard of global-warming/climate-change), so the US will be in big do-do as well, TO PRESERVE ITS EXTREMELY ADVANTAGEOUS TRADE BALANCE WITH THE US.
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Why in hell is GE, a US company, building several hundred EXPERIMENTAL rotor blades in Quebec, Canada, and have them transported, from Cape Cod to France and back, on European-owned, specialized ships, to a French blade production facility, which happens to have a suitable testing lab?
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How low and idiotic can a US company and US government go by screwing US workers out of jobs?
The Inflation Reduction Act was sold to the gullible public, because “it would create jobs in the US”
But why not get the point? There is absolutely no scientific need to decarbonise the economy or the world. That science has been shown – even now by the IPCC – to be wrong. Worse, scientists at both NASA and NOAA stand accused of changing past data to try and make people think there is something to it all. Let us have a series of apologies and a repayment from those countries who have benefitted from this nonsense science..
Plants require at least 1000 to 1200 ppm of CO2, as proven in greenhouses
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-eruption
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-periodic-global-warming
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Many plants have become extinct, along with the fauna they supported, due to a lack of CO2. As a result, many areas of the world became arid and deserts. Current CO2 needs to at least double or triple. Earth temperature increased about 1.2 C since 1900, due to many causes, such as long-term cycles, fossil CO2, and permafrost methane which converts to CO2.
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CO2 ppm increased from 1979 to 2023 was 421 – 336 = 85, greening increase about 15%, per NASA.
CO2 ppm increased from 1900 to 2023 was 421 – 296 = 125, greening increase about 22%
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Increased greening: 1) Produces oxygen by photosynthesis; 2) Increases world flora and fauna; 3) Increases crop yields per acre; 4) Reduces world desert areas
The ozone layer absorbs 200 to 315 nm UV wavelengths, which would genetically damage exposed lifeforms.
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Energy-related CO2 was 37.55 Gt, or 4.8 ppm in 2023, about 75% of total human CO2.
One CO2 ppm in atmosphere = 7.821 Gt. Total human CO2 was 4.8/0.75 = 6.4 ppm in 2023. See URLs
CO2, human plus natural, to atmosphere was 421.08 ppm, end 2023 – 418.53, end 2022 = 2.55 ppm; to oceans 2.50 ppm (assumed); to flora and other sinks 1.35 ppm; natural CO2 increase is assumed at zero.
Mauna Loa curve shows a variation of about 9 ppm during a year, due to seasons
Inside buildings, CO2 is about 1000 ppm, greenhouses about 1200 ppm, submarines up to 5000 ppm
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Respiration: glucose + O2 → CO2 + H20 (+ energy)
Photosynthesis: 6 CO2 + 12 H2O (+ sunlight+ chlorophyll) → 1 glucose + 6 O2 + 6 H20
Plants respire 24/7. Plants photosynthesize with brighter light
In low light, respiration and photosynthesis are in balance
In bright light, photosynthesis is much greater than respiration
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https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2/co2_annmean_mlo.txt
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/new-study-2001-2020-global-greening-is-an-indisputable-fact-andhttp://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/05/05/anthropogenic-global-warming-and-its-causes/
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/summary-of-world-co2eq-emissions-all-sources-and-energy-related
https://issuu.com/johna.shanahan/docs/co2_pitch_4-3-24_baeuerle_english
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Oceans Absorb CO2
Sea water has 3.5% salt, NaCl, by weight.
CO2 molecules continuously move from the air into sea water, per Henry’s Law
CO2 and NaCl form many compounds that contain C, O, H, Cl, Ca
They sustain flora (plankton, kelp, coral) and fauna in the oceans.
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At the surface, seawater pH 8.1, and CO2 421 ppm, the % presence of [CO2], [HCO3−], and [CO3 2−] ions is 0.5, 89, and 10.5; “Free” CO2 is only 0.5%; CO2 out-migration is minimal, given the conditions.
The oceans are a major sink of CO2 (human + natural)
https://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/14-4_feely.pdf
Starlin is certainly racking up the air miles…
“”Guido has crunched the numbers by tracking Starmer’s flights on government jets for overseas trips since 5th July. The PM and his crew have racked up an astonishing 125 hours and 30 minutes of flight time since they got into government. That means Starmer has spent, in hours, the equivalent of over three working weeks jetting around the globe…””
https://order-order.com/2024/11/12/starmer-spends-3-working-weeks-on-private-flights-in-travel-obsession/
Quite simply, this is what being PM means to Starlin and Lol Lol Labour: Freebies and junkets, and lots of them. They are way out of step with populist Europe and now the US, too. Well behind the curve.
What a poser…
Really don’t understand this criticism of a UK PM seeking influence abroad.
It’s not as though doing half a D-Day event or avoiding the EU strengthened the UK.
Ah yes influence abroad.
Starmer’s charm and wit is well known to all I am sure his presence will advance our ‘influence’. If that doesn’t do the trick then he can always turn to his top intelligent Foreign Secretary to carry on the good work.
“”Really don’t understand this criticism of a UK PM seeking influence abroad.””
Seeking influence? Sorry, that was quite funny.
“”Starmer forced into discussion of slavery reparations as Commonwealth chiefs say ‘time has come'””
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/starmer-reparations-commonwealth/
It all has a price tag, you know.
Looks to me like he is trying to make a complete numpty of himself.
Influence ??? .. not even remotely.
So, if the big boys are being mean he should run and hide at home?
It didn’t work for the last 14 years, did it?
Isolationism is the global equivalent of pulling the duvet over your eyes and pretending that the morning hasn’t come. It’s dumb.
You have to get out there and do something.
Criticise him for not doing what you want him to do, sure. But don’t complain because the world is so scary that he ought to be hiding away.
When all he does is go to global meetings – where it ends up costing us a lot of money – I think he’d be best off at home where he can’t do quite so much damage.
His domestic policies are expensive enough as it is. Don’t forget Miliband is going to pledge a lot of money at the CoP (Beggar’s Banquet).
What a totally weird comment !!
The guy is living in far-left fantasy world devoid of any reality at all.
He is destroying the UK…
He is not seeking influence.. he is seeking “virtue”.
And you seem to want to lick his toes !
Bizarre !
Does it really have to be face-to-face? What about Zoom? Would save a lot of CO2, plus all the lavish dinners and hotel rooms.
Criticize him for being a hypocrite – jetting all over while Greens as a whole want to shutdown flying because of emissions.
He can lead the way by using video conferencing. Just like other Spectre agents did in the old Bond movies.
He doesn’t have to try, he is a complete numpty. Being out of the country conveniently reduces his exposure to the criticism being heaped on his rotten excuse of a government back home.
Never was the term “Nobby no mates” more appropriate, to describe Starmer’s presence at COP29.
Perfect description
O/T But amusing. Obviously, free PTSD counselling is not enough
The Guardian tells its hundreds of readers, who will no doubt be dismayed, that it is quitting X:
Our reporters will also be able to carry on using the site for news-gathering purposes, just as they use other social networks in which we do not officially engage.
De Botton making waves already. The paper finishes with a fluorish: “We can do this because our business model does not rely on viral content tailored to the whims of the social media giants’ algorithms.” Translation: We’re not popular anyway…
https://order-order.com/#_@/wJLubnJnb8s3yA
Prozac all round.
Hundreds of readers? Does the Guardian really have that many?
In academia, the bureaucratic blob etc, quite probably. But it does manage to lose £40 million a year, which is why it is trying to offload The Observer…
Apparently I am one of their most prolific readers according to their begging letters on every article. I read over 100 articles a year.
It’s sad to watch, but funny anyway…
I read over 100 articles a year.
You laughed at them…
Zig Zag, I agree. Watch your enemies’ propaganda, then you may be able to work out what they are thinking. And to Strativarius: I don’t laugh at them, I just record what they have told me, for possible use against them in the future.
You have a stronger stomach than I.
Probably they do have that many readers, especially if you include the free subscriptions given to employees and family.
That’s 81%…
On the equinoxes…
After having washed the dinner dishes.
Cretins do at least have a reason for their condition.
Starmer and Miliband are complete and utter morons who know the green agenda off by heart but haven’t the mental agility to understand that the agenda is only supportable via guaranteed baseload supply at the very least..
Perhaps Messrs Starmer & Miliband can tell us where the guaranteed baseload is coming from in each of 2025, 2030, 2040 and 2050. Perhaps there are European countries willing to help us out with these targets and we should be told that now because otherwise there just isn’t a plan at all and the Labour Party manifesto is a complete and utter fraud. The form guide alone tells me the UK is in deep **** with Starmer and company..
If the UK were going completely nuclear energy only by 2050 we would be green and clean but we will not ever be slightly nuclear under apparent Labour Party policy (or even Tory Party policy as they stand). We are well and truly stuffed but perhaps a fuse will blow and save us all one meaningful Xmas Day?.
“Perhaps Messrs Starmer & Miliband can tell us where the guaranteed baseload is coming from in each of 2025, 2030, 2040 and 2050.”
They just need to go to New York and buy some of those Dispatchable Emissions Free Resources. /s
Isn’t the UK banking on getting limitless solar power from Arabian solar farms?
If you look at last week, what you can count on is a bit under 10% of installed wind faceplate. It goes below 10% for some hours, but maybe you could deal with that with storage and load shedding, if you could be sure of the great majority of the time being 10%.
Well, to get to 50GW, you are going to need 500GW of wind. Its completely impossible to build. But equally bad, if you did build it, you’d have similar percentages of the time when its delivering more than there is demand for. Not just a bit, either, it would be a few hundred GW when demand is 50GW.
It cannot be done. The dilemma is, build enough to have manageable amounts of storage and you have the overproduction problem. Build 90GW, as they are currently planning, and you cannot afford or commission enough storage to avoid blackouts.
Actually, with wind, its even worse, the problem would be that your 500GW might be producing 300 GW when demand is not even 50GW, but down in the mid teens. There is no correlation between production and demand, it can be max when there’s none, and min when its peaking.
The meaningful Christmas Day, sadly, will have many, many people freeze to death.
Only when people start dying in large numbers, larger than the false predictions from a climate cause, will this nonsense end.
“… people dying in large numbers” is a feature, not a problem, for the misanthropic eco-nazis.
Yah, it’s fun watching green eco-nazis heads implode when they figure out the only cure to the left’s current CO2 Boogie man is their nuclear power Boogie man from the last century!
The field test of fully instrumented rotor blades on a mast, for AT LEAST one year, is the most important part, which GE excecutives “omitted”.
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These rotor blades are about three times as long as airplane wings of a Boeing-747.
Nobody in their sane mind would ever bypass field testing, including torsion testing.
What were these GE top executive folks thinking?
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How in hell did they get in these top positions?
Falsifying test records to endanger people, and the environment, and ocean fauna, and fisheries, and tourism? All these are felon offenses.
All involved should be fired and prosecuted for malfeasance, blacklisted, and never again be allowed to be employed in any industry.
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Bureau of Safety and Environment Enforcement, BSEE, (what a name for a useless bureau) WANTS TO ESTABLISH FACTS ON THE GROUND (by building wind turbines without rotors) SO PROJECTS WILL BE HARDER TO CANCEL BY SANE PEOPLE IN EARLY 2025
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Utilities paying 15 c/kWh, wholesale (after 50% subsidies), is gross economic insanity, plus all of us paying for grid reinforcement and extension, plus
– paying for traditional plants counteracting variable output, on a less than minute by minute basis, 24/7/365, plus
– paying for traditional plants providing electricity during low wind, low solar conditions, plus
– paying for expensive hazardous waste landfill
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The insanity and environmental damage it all is off the charts.
No wonder Europe’s near-zero, real-growth economy is in such big do do
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Europe wants to foist high electricity prices into the US (using the fig-leaf canard of global-warming/climate-change), so the US will be in big do do as well, TO MAINTAIN ITS EXTREMELY ADVANTAGEOUS TRADE BALANCE WITH THE US; money talks.
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Why in hell is a GE, a US company, building several hundred EXPERIMENTAL rotor blades in Quebec, Canada, and have them transported, from Cape Cod to France, on specialized European ships, to a French testing facility?
How low and idiotic can a US company go by screwing US workers out of jobs?
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Socialist, left wing, incompetent, Democrat, cabal, using feeble BIDEN/joyful HARRIS as their puppets for 4 years, did their Wind thing, and their Open Borders thing, that ended up screwing US viability, and US people, and play into the hands of Europe, the reason the European elites like Biden/Harris so much.
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What was the traitorous, Socialist, left wing, incompetent, Democrat cabal thinking?
Now you see why the American people finally had to take revenge by voting the cabal idiots out
Now you see why European elites hate Trump, because he puts AMERICA FIRST, UNLIKE TWO-FACED RINOS, LIKE SENATOR COLLINS, etc.
STORY TIP
Speaking of COP[OUT] 29, we have the following storyline coming out of it….
COP29 Host Calls Oil & Gas Energy a ‘Gift of God’ | Newsmax.com
“Azerbaijan’s president said countries should not be blamed for having oil, gas and other natural resources or bringing them to the market.
The president of COP29’s host country told the UN climate conference that oil and gas are a “gift of god.”
Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev criticised “Western fake news” about the country’s emissions and said nations “should not be blamed” for having fossil fuel reserves.
The country plans to expand gas production by up to a third over the next decade.”
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That the president of the host country would say that at a COP conference is quite amazing. Unsurprisingly, Secretary-General Guterres didn’t like it. LOL.
I think its dying. None of the big emitters are attending any more at a decision making level. None of them are making even gestures at real commitments. The inability of wind and solar migration to either work or to make any contribution to reducing emissions is becoming clearer every month.
If Trump were to announce that the US will not be attending or contributing to the next one, along with a package of measures to kill net zero in the US, that might well kill the whole thing off.
Hope you are right Michel. As I have said previously, the next four years with Donald Trump in the White House should be very interesting to watch….
Probably worth stocking up on popcorn – even getting an air popper and the bagged popcorn to save many because we’re going to be eating a lot of it considering how big the show is going to be!
Why does China continue to deploy so much wind and solar? I know the rest of the world has drunk the Kool-Aid, but the technocrats running China know better than that, that’s why they are also building lots of coal, gas and nuclear generation and hydro too. But why the goofy stuff too? I haven’t heard that they were building ridiculous amounts of storage either.
Can it really be just as a sales tactic, to entice the western useful idiots into a green building competition?
The world leader, who leads nobody to COP29. Leader, haha. World??
Is the UK still a major country, even after their best efforts to ruin the place?
I read my wife the snarky “grifter” comment, to which she replied, “COP29 should be a Zoom call.”
Not quite fair – certainly Starmer is a leader amongst those formerly industrialized nations seeking third world status. Germany’s early lead in the race to the bottom may evaporate quickly, but then Germany’s status as an EU vassal was never in doubt.
Wonderful. Labour out of control again.
Why do we they persist in wasting money sending Starmer when no other country follows suit with their political leader? Climate change is no longer an issue (just as was the panic of a new ice age in the seventies. Even the IPCC now says that there have been no consequences of note from so-called (but misguided) assumptions of change to climate from CO2.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/ipcc-attributions-climate-and-extreme-weather/