Predictably, there was a bit of a fuss and McGuire subsequently withdrew his post – “not because I regretted it”, but because people took it the wrong way, he explained.
Tag: Net Zero
Looming Aviation Fuel Shortages
Little wonder, when oil refineries are punished with carbon taxes, electric car mandates and the Net Zero energy transition.
Starmer: It’s Up to Miliband Whether We Drill in North Sea
Sir Keir Starmer has said it is Ed Miliband’s decision whether Britain drills for oil and gas in the North Sea, claiming he has no power in the matter.
Brits Told to Work From Home and Use Ovens Less Amid Energy Crisis – and Reeves Can’t Help “Because She’s Maxxed Out Britain’s Credit Card”
Brits are being urged to work from home and use ovens less as the energy crisis deepens, amid worries that Rachel Reeves can’t help because she’s “maxxed out the nation’s…
Hormuz Choke Point Displays ‘Green’ Vulnerabilities and US Power
The crisis also showcases America’s capacity to support allies and the poor. Long‑term LNG contracts with Asian and European partners, coupled with support for reasonable financing of oil and gas…
CCC Deny Reality
Households are already £800 worse off a year as a result of Net Zero policies on electricity costs, whether directly via energy bills or indirectly via higher taxes and prices.…
Ursula von der Leyen Calls Abandoning Nuclear Power “A Strategic Mistake” – 15 Years After Supporting the Nuclear Phase-Out
While in 1990 one-third of Europe’s energy came from nuclear, today it’s only close to 15%. This reduction in the share of nuclear was a choice. And in hindsight, it…
Another £150 Billion For Net Zero–OBR
These costs are only the tip of the iceberg, as far as Net Zero is concerned. They are only the items that appear on the government’s balance sheet.
IEA’s 2026 Ministerial Meeting Was Its Most Consequential
The IEA has done much excellent work in the past half century. With demand for all forms of energy certain to grow into the foreseeable future the IEA should have…
How Labour Betrayed Britain’s Working Class in the Name of Net Zero
In Aberdeen, the warning sirens are no longer coming from offshore rigs but from the unions themselves. A recent study cited by the GMB union paints a stark picture: the…
Industry is Being Sacrificed to Net Zero Ideology, Says Siemens Energy Boss
Joe Kaeser said strict zero-emission targets had crippled manufacturing and heavy industry in Germany and beyond. He called on the German Government to work on a more “economically feasible plan”…
The UK’s Electricity Crisis is Not Caused by “Poor Market and System Design”. It’s Caused By Net Zero
To blame “system design” while defending Net Zero is to rearrange the analytical furniture in a sinking ship. The UK’s electricity crisis is not a bug in an otherwise sound…
Eye-rolling climate science from China
From the “central committee told me to pay lip-service to China’s net-zero pathway” department …
Suppressing Climate Dissent Cannot Prevent Reality From Asserting Itself
Here in the U.S., the second Trump administration has largely pulled the plug on the suite of crazy energy policies marching under the banner of “fighting climate change.” But the…
Update on Australian NetZero efforts
There has been little decarbonisation since 2020. Aging, increasingly unreliable coal fired power stations are still the backbone of the electricity supply. The price of energy is inexorably rising. Australian governments, both…
Net Zero Costs Could Exceed £7 Trillion – IEA
Reaching 2050 target could exceed even highest official predictions of £7.6tn amid ‘faulty assumptions’
Africa’s Pipeline Rejects Climate Dogma and Foreign Control
This sends a terrifying signal to the climate czars that the developing world is waking up. Leaders like President Mnangagwa and industrialists like Dangote are realizing that the “Green Energy…
Britain’s Surging Reliance on Gas Deals Fresh Blow to Miliband Net Zero Hopes
Britain’s reliance on fossil fuels has increased for the first time in four years, dealing a major blow to Ed Miliband’s Net Zero hopes of decarbonising the grid by 2030.
Attention, Energies Media, Sea Level Cannot be Submerging Tokelau if Tokelau is Growing
Energies Media seems to have relied on a lot of very outdated information to make their fearmongering claims about Tokelau. If the media outlet was really interested in the facts…
No more ‘Great Reset.’ It’s now the ‘Great Retreat’
The “Great Reset” promised a rapid economic transformation. What’s unfolding instead is a quiet unraveling—banks backtracking, companies revising targets, and governments hedging. Behind the rhetoric, reality is forcing a course…