By Cartoons by Josh with a credit to Ben Pile @clim8resistance
Friday Funny: Net Zero Hits the Fan
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It’s China that is close to suffocation,
A-any moment now! Within days of Russia running out of artillery shells.
not Trump and America. We have lots of oil.
So? Will USA sell it to all the vassals, satellites and fellow travelers, at the OPEC cost? If not, the whole thing will collapse on itself, one way or another. After which Maoists and Trotskyites tumlrinas and neocons are welcome to screech at each other indefinitely, nobody outside the nice house with soft-walled rooms will have very good reasons to give a damn.
Of course the millionaire nepo baby has no problems…americans on the other hand…
Americans cut spending due to higher gas prices and see no relief in sight, CNBC survey finds
You greens are funny. Always getting it wrong. And then refusing to acknowledge it.
Then and now
Drax can continue to be as reliable, flexible and cost effective as it is today well into the future, but, importantly, as a low carbon business.” ” For Drax, 2010 was a year characterised by strong financial results and excellent operation – Accounts
As with the push for diesel over petrol, by their own terms they got it all wrong
Time to end the biomass scam: Drax, Britain’s largest carbon emitter, received £1bn in subsidies last year – £2.7m a day and more than £100k an hour, which we all pay for – DM
Never mind the deforestation in the new world Drax depends on…
Not that big a deal. Most Americans now make enough income to barely notice a buck increase in gas prices. Of course those with EVs are seeing much large electricity prices- but they don’t mind as they’re earning virtue signaling points. Guess what Trump said yesterday to an idiot woke journalist: “Would you prefer lower gas prices or Iran with nuclear weapons” That’s a paraphrase but I love the way he knocks down woke “journalists” asking stupid questions.
April 24, 2026 2:46 am
IEA data for total global tons of coal burned by year. Each year represents a new record for coal consumption:
2022: 8,347 Mt
2023: 8,614 Mt
2024: 8,737 Mt
2025 (preliminary): 8,845 Mt
Net zero policy is an absolute farce.
Net-zero goals strictly target the deindustrialization of the West. It’s working! The EU is falling apart, it continues to deindustrialize.
The quickest path to WW3 is net-zero because of a weak West—which ironically translates to hyper CO2 growth for those only concerned about CO2. There’s no doubt that Russia/China are biding their time, they’ll take advantage of conditions at a time of their choosing if the West doesn’t snap out of it.
Why is China massively increasing the size and capability of its military? Their mission is published material even if one chooses to not to hear the saber rattling in the South China Sea.
Call the before “physical causality for the picking” for those who ignore everything else except a myopic focus on CO2.
April 24, 2026 3:33 am
Not so funny! Trump gets it dead wrong. Is it an intel failure?
“”Trump also said Starmer could only recover if he scaled up drilling in the North Sea and dealt with immigration: ” If he opened the North Sea and if his immigration policies became strong, which right now they’re not, he can recover, but if he doesn’t, I don’t think he has a chance.”” – GF
Starmer, whatever he now does on either front, is toast. Right now the backbenchers haven’t the spine to declare their utter lack of confidence in his, er, leadership. But there will be a challenge over the summer; if not before the end of May. Every day brings a new party crisis to manage. Labour’s corrupt and utterly entitled gaggle of MPs – mainly people who did a PPE, worked for a charity etc have never had a real [private sector] job, run a business or organisation. They are sixth formers with retarded development. And it shows.
In one cartoon strip of Gilbert Sheldon’s ‘Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers’ the brothers went into a supermarket. Every shelf they looked at they found a reason to boycott the products – and eventually left the store left empty handed.
That is a pretty accurate description of the Labour government.
April 24, 2026 4:28 am
After seeing all the cartoons displayed here in response, a thought entered my mind:
They can actually ALL be right.
Yes, Trump is doing himself AND the US in. Yes, the Greens/ Miliband are mad and yes, the stock market is still buzzing ( if you don’t consider every other metric in the game).
Yep.
When you lose your sense of humor, it’s time to check out.
So that’s how I deal with the absurdities of the ideologues.
Treat their irrationality as something to be laughed at, not taken seriously enough to be deeply considered.
Because reason / logic / rationality and ideology cannot function in the same mind space at the same time.
April 24, 2026 2:05 pm
The realists recognized from the outset that Net Zero was an unattainable pipedream since the renewables that were supposed to expedite it were nowhere near reliable, consistent or cheap enough. And now as it has become, obvious that the pursuit of it would have an adverse effect on the economy for businesses, industries and consumers, there has been less commitment to even proposing it unless you’re hoping to profit from it through tax revenue, subsidies, or government mandates.
