Just Stop Oil doctor who sabotaged petrol pumps ‘had no regard for public safety’ - "A doctor who smashed petrol pumps with a hammer during a Just Stop Oil protest had no regard for public safety, a tribunal has heard. Dr Patrick Hart, a Bristol GP, said he took part in the demonstration because he he had a “moral duty” as a doctor to “protect life”, comparing his actions to Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison for causing thousands of pounds worth of damage to the M25 service station in August 2022. A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) has now suspended him from practising for 10 months after the panel said he showed a “disregard for potential harm and for public safety”... “He said governments and wealthy societies had failed to meet legal and moral obligations under international climate agreements. Dr Hart linked this to professional and moral duty, arguing that as a doctor he felt compelled to act to protect life. “He compared his actions to historic examples of doctors who broke laws for social justice, such as suffragists and 19th century reformers contending that similar civil disobedience was now necessary given the urgency of the crisis. “Dr Hart also reminded the Tribunal of actions taken by figures such as Martin Luther King Junior and Nelson Mandela.”"
Weird how climate change hystericists don't feel a moral duty to go to China to sabotage it. It's almost as if it's all performative virtue signalling preying on Western self-hatred
Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest - "Three Just Stop Oil activists have been cleared over a protest at Stonehenge last year after using human rights laws in their defence. Rajan Naidu, 74, Niamh Lynch, 23, and 36-year-old Luke Watson were found not guilty of damaging an ancient protected monument and causing a public nuisance after jurors had deliberated for six hours... The trio denied the charges against them, but accepted taking part in the protest and cited in their defence their rights under Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights to freedom of speech and freedom to protest... Judge Dugdale said “activity that would otherwise be unlawful would be regarded as lawful” to protect their human rights under the ECHR. “All of this is the essence of our free society. It’s how our society has developed over the centuries and the reality is we are very fortunate to live in a free society,” he added. “There are times when protecting the right to freedom of speech and freedom to protest can mean that activity that would otherwise be unlawful would be regarded as lawful by the court to protect those rights.”"
Get ready for even more destruction and chaos. Good luck if your peaceful protest is part of the "far right", though
Meme - "That moment when Dutch researchers prove you wrong."
"There Is No Cataclysmic Sea Level Rise. A first-of-its-kind study actually went out and measured ocean levels locally instead of relying on extrapolations from computer models based on faulty assumptions."
*Upset He-Man Greta Thunberg* *Smiling Dutch Boy*
Labour will chop down forests to make way for solar panels - "Woodlands face being cleared to make way for solar farms and wind turbines under Labour’s latest plans to hit net zero targets. Ministers are spearheading a legal change that would open up England’s forests to host massive new renewable energy projects. The proposals have sparked alarm among conservation charities, peers and MPs, who fear they will lead to the loss of precious natural spaces... The Woodland Trust, a charity which manages 82,000 acres across the UK, is among those to have expressed concerns about the plans."
How ignorant. Don't they know that renewable energy is better for the planet?net ze
On the eve of COP30, nations are sidelining the climate 'crisis' - "Way back during the final days of the Justin Trudeau Liberal era in Ottawa, the environmentally activist regime rarely missed an opportunity to proclaim its dedication to the climate crisis. In October of 2024 Ottawa imposed a 100 per cent tariff on imports of electric vehicles from China. While obviously a trade protectionist move, the Trudeau team could not resist dragging in the climate issue: “China’s EV production is characterized by a distinctly higher emissions intensity, mainly attributable to a comparatively high carbon footprint in EV battery production and key inputs, such as aluminum and steel.” Does China’s EV carbon footprint matter anymore? In fact, it is hard to see how the carbon footprint from any economic activity matters much as Canada and the world appear to be turning away from the global climate crisis. A recently released report from a trio of international environmental and sustainability institutions concluded that major nations, including Canada, are failing to meet carbon-reduction targets agreed to in the 2016 international Paris Agreement... The United States pulled out of the Paris Agreement and will not be attending COP30 — reflecting President Donald Trump’s view that climate change is a “hoax” and, more recently, “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” Other nations are at odds with one another. Back in July, the European Union and China embraced one another in recognition that “green is the defining colour of China-EU co-operation, and that the two sides have a solid foundation and broad space for co-operation in the field of green transition.” The green turned red last month after the EU’s chief climate diplomat called China’s carbon control plans “disappointing,” creating concern that the conflict would damage the prospects for meaningful agreement at COP30 — especially since the EU group of nations appear to be far from agreement on climate targets among themselves. In Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, the CEO of Saudi Aramco has declared that the great green energy transition promoted by Carney is a failure. Oil demand is surging and there is no sign of a reversal on the horizon. Even if all nations were to agree, coming up with targets is actually the easy part of climate policy. The real challenge is hitting the targets, as the fossil fuel consumption graphic demonstrates."
Flying 5,700 miles to lament the ‘climate crisis’ perfectly captures our elites’ hypocrisy - "It may only be the first week of November, but I believe the award for Headline of the Year 2025 is already as good as won. It will surely be impossible to beat the following contender from BBC News, published in March. It read: “Amazon Forest Felled to Build Road for Climate Summit”... Rather than eagerly embarking on long-haul flights, wouldn’t it be a touch better for the planet if all these politicians who care so deeply about climate change just stayed in their own countries and communicated by Zoom? Wouldn’t that set a better example to the public – or at least make the public less likely to feel that flying all the way to Brazil to blather about the “climate crisis” perfectly sums up our elites’ nauseating hypocrisy? All good questions. But, at any rate, our own Government clearly has no plans to stop lecturing the rest of us. It’s now ordering schools to teach lessons about climate change to pupils as young as five. Mind you, perhaps our children are getting off lightly. In Spain, the Guardian recently reported that children aged just three are to be given lessons on “how to respond to floods, wildfires, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, in a drive to help prepare them for the growing impact of the climate emergency”. Those poor tiny tots – they’ll have nightmares. Just like all the pupils of the 1950s who were taught to prepare for a nuclear attack by hiding under their wooden desks."
How common is severe climate change anxiety in Canada? Study offers a glimpse - "Two new studies are helping to shed light on the extent Canadians feel climate change is impacting their mental health. A national study published today suggests about 2.3 per cent of people in Canada experience climate change anxiety at a level the authors considered "clinically relevant," causing meaningful distress and disruption in their lives... 37 per cent of Canadian teens who responded to a survey said they felt climate change was impacting their mental health... Climate change anxiety appeared to be less common in Canada than in some other countries, the authors said, while also underlining several challenges with comparing studies. Other studies found the prevalence to be about 9.4 per cent in Australia, 3.6 per cent in the United Kingdom and 11.6 per cent among French-speaking European and African"
Climate change hysteria has very real harms.
Meme - "$2.2 billion solar plant in California turned off after years of wasted money: 'Never lived up to its promises'"
"BEHOLD! OUR PUBLIC GREEN ENERGY PROJECT."
"WHAT'S SO GREEN ABOUT IT?"
"THE FUEL! *shoves money into fire*"
Meme - "Doctor, I'm depressed about the predicted weather in 2050."
"Have you tried annoying others by defacing art or blocking traffic?"
Record copper prices spark turmoil for green energy projects - "Record-setting copper prices have sparked turmoil for wind and solar farm developers who face rising costs to build green energy projects... Liam Fitzpatrick, an analyst at Deutsche Bank, warned that the surging price of copper had raised doubts among bosses about the viability of some future green energy projects. He said many attendees at the bank’s copper conference last month admitted the surging price “does not support the development of major new greenfield projects”. Wind farms, solar panels and electric vehicles all rely heavily on copper cabling to connect to the national grid. Wind farms, for example, use it for vital cables and transformers to transfer power."
Keir Starmer to fly over 9,000 miles to attend Brazil’s Cop30 climate summit - "Sir Keir addressed the Cop29 summit in Azerbaijan last year despite the event being snubbed by other prominent world leaders, including Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, and Olaf Scholz, the then chancellor of Germany."
Revealed: Guyana's £52m road to nowhere - that British taxpayers are funding - "A £52m road through the Amazon jungle is being built using British aid that is intended to help the climate, The Telegraph can reveal. The road in Guyana goes nowhere other than a tiny village and has long been criticised by environmentalists, though it is celebrated by the oil industry. It is just one among hundreds of schemes funded by taxpayers through the International Climate Finance initiative (ICF)... dozens of ICF projects have become mired in claims of corruption and waste – while many purportedly green programmes seemingly have nothing to do with the environment. Projects funded by ICF money include a push to stop ocean plastic pollution in landlocked African countries, support for the Nigerian oil industry, and the distribution of free condoms in the Congo to try to stop deforestation by slowing population growth. The revelations come days before the Cop30 climate summit, where Sir Keir Starmer will attempt to establish himself as a “world leader” on climate action and net zero... The British Government believes it can harness the power of what is described as “youth-led storytelling” to “turn the tide” on the plastic polluting the oceans – but has spent the cash in landlocked countries. The £4m Championing Inclusivity in Plastic Pollution (CHIPP) scheme has received green aid in order to “educate and empower young people” and give them a “voice” to tackle marine plastic. Projects were launched in Zimbabwe and Uganda as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has a tiny 25-mile coastline. These grants to landlocked counties were smaller than those going to coastal nations, including India, Madagascar and Kenya, officials argue in the latest review of the project... Zimbabwe’s government ministers lined up to applaud a solar project in 150 rural schools, paid for with UK aid. Journalists were taken on a tour of selected classrooms and told how the scheme would transform education, allowing pupils to use computers and attend evening classes. But when the Foreign Office did its own field visit, it found a different story. Headteachers raised concerns about rusting and broken panels in their schoolyards which were not powerful enough to run a TV. They did not even have computers to run off their new electricity, and the “main use” was for teachers in the evenings, British officials were told. Concerns reported in July 2024 included theft of the panels, which pictures show were left unsecured outside ramshackle one-storey buildings. Some teachers raised concerns that they didn’t have any IT equipment to power from the new electricity. The project review continued: “The current system is insufficient for the running of domestic appliances such as fridges and TVs... Others said that systems were rusting, or components such as switches and lightning conductors were missing or broken. Two schools surveyed said “the only benefit they could see was charging phones of parents and teachers”... “They are an insult to the British public, who rightfully demand that their taxes are spent on their priorities, and are suffering under the highest tax and national debt burden in a generation. “When you have people struggling to choose between heating and eating, these warped priorities make a mockery of their hardship.”... critics have questioned whether ministers are rushing to spend ICF money to appear green rather than thinking of the impact of their spending. John O'Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "Taxpayers are sick of seeing their hard-earned cash whittled away on questionable projects in far-away places while living standards at home continue to slide."
Bernie on X - "Er … Sadiq Khan’s hiring a Head of Climate Change … on £91,000 a year to run a team of 25 people! Whilst closing 250 police front desks. Strange priorities where funding a department with no quantifiable benefit is more important than citizen safety 🤡"
Meme - Emily Rarick @_emilyrarick: "Putting solar panels on our home was the worst financial decision we have ever made. We were told that we would get $8000 back on our taxes for them.. that was a lie. We were also told that it would increase our home value. Also not true. We have now found out that most of the insurance companies in our area will no longer insure homes with solar panels on them due to damage to roofs, potential leaking, and possible storm damage. It is going to make selling our home incredibly hard and we may potentially have to pay them off in full, remove them, and then re-roof our home. Do NOT buy solar panels. We learned the hard way."
Dissident West on X - "No disrespect to my catholic friends, but I don't see how you can possibly defend this. Christians are being genocided in Nigeria and the pope is praying over a block of ice to appease climate change Marxists. Make it make sense."
Based Jessica on X - "A coal-fired power plant in China's Sichuan province. China now emits more CO2 than the USA, Europe, Canada, Japan and South Korea combined. Meanwhile, Europe is regulating their manufacturing out of business to "save the planet". It is all ridiculous. They close their factories in Europe, move to China, then pay for the ocean shipping to transport the finished products to Europe ... that is their solution? How does that make any sense? All they are doing is transferring their wealth to China and making everyone in Europe and the USA poor. Bring back manufacturing to Europe and the USA. Stop this insanity."
Packham uses Remembrance Sunday to call for ‘war’ on climate change - "Chris Packham has called for world war-style action against the climate crisis on Remembrance Sunday. Packham said Britain must “step up and lead as it did in World War Two” by developing a global action plan for tackling climate change. He declared it was “our D-Day moment” for climate action and that “history will not forgive hesitation” to act by politicians. The BBC presenter and campaigner has announced he will lead a “national emergency briefing” later this month for MPs and peers about climate change. He said the Government should then broadcast a televised “emergency briefing” for the public... The BBC presenter had previously taken aim at the Prime Minister over how the planning reforms will impinge on the green belt and damage to the environment. At the Hay Festival in May, he urged people to chain themselves to trees and sit in front of bulldozers if the Planning and Infrastructure Bill went ahead. Sir Keir and Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, have vowed to make it easier for developers to push ahead with projects, which have been held up by concerns about wildlife. Packham took legal action against the Conservative government against the decision to remove or delay several green policies."
Left wingers can't leave anything alone
Labour forced the green transition on us, and now it wants us to pay for it - "the 3p-per-mile levy on journeys will only be imposed on owners of electric and hybrid vehicles: less than ten per cent of those on the road. Does anyone seriously believe this will last? How impossibly tempting it will be for this grasping Labour Government, in a year or so’s time, to do what they always do, and come back for more, rolling pay-per-mile out to all 33 million cars on our roads. More importantly, why is the Chancellor choosing to clobber the very group of voters who have dutifully done exactly what her net zero-obsessed Government has always demanded? These people have shelled out up to double the cost of a standard car to “go green,” thinking they are doing the right thing. Now they are being specifically targeted. With dismal predictability, the language the Treasury is said to be using in an attempt to justify the proposal has been plucked from the top ten most used words in the socialist lexicon: “fairness.” Exempt from paying fuel duty, apparently EV and hybrid car drivers have it too good. What is truly unfair is browbeating motorists into going electric, using tasty tax incentives to reel them in, only to scrap almost every original advantage. (Initially exempt from vehicle excise duty, drivers of electric vehicles now get just one year at a reduced rate, before being forced to pay the full whack.) We have been here before, of course, with the great diesel car con – not just the infamous fiddling of emissions data by manufacturers, but the wholesale scamming of the British public by the Blair government. In 2001, the then-chancellor Gordon Brown encouraged drivers to buy diesel vehicles, on the grounds that they were less polluting – only for it to emerge that diesel is far dirtier than petrol. A former Labour science minister, Lord Drayson, would later go so far as to say that diesel cars were “killing people”. Marvellous! Millions of folk bought these cars in good faith, naively trusting our leaders not to talk rubbish, and are still paying the price. As motoring gets ever more ruinously expensive in the UK, it is, as always, the Chinese who are grinning. Having modern-day colonised the parts of the world they need to control to ensure cheap access to critical minerals for semi conductors and other car parts, they are now crashing our car market. British manufacturers simply cannot compete with models put together by impoverished labourers using parts and systems heavily subsidised by Beijing. Bullied by successive UK governments into “transitioning” from traditional to hybrid and EV vehicles, our car makers have been left totally exposed to a tsunami of cheap imports. Without protective trade barriers, the threat is little short of existential. As our once proud car industry fights for survival, British-made electric vehicles languish unsold on forecourts – and some 500,000 jobs are at risk."
The ‘rich countries’ are no longer in any state to pay for everyone else - "it makes less and less difference what the “global north” does or doesn’t do. The European Union, along with the UK, has led the world in using taxes, levies and targets to dramatically decarbonise their economies. And yet the EU only accounts for 6 per cent of global carbon emissions, and the UK for less than 1 per cent. The other 93 per cent is accounted for by Asia, North American and Africa. As the “north” becomes less and less part of the problem, it is inevitable that it will no longer be a meaningful part of the solution as well. The momentum needs to shift elsewhere. Second, it is in no state to subsidise the rest of the world. What Correa do Lago refers to as the “global north” is also a synonym for the “rich countries”, and there is an underlying assumption that they need to be made to pay for everyone else. And yet, that is less and less true. The United States is still a very wealthy country – largely because it ignored the Cop crowd and secured its energy independence with fracking – but Europe, including the UK, is becoming a poor continent. Growth has stagnated, and its debts have spiralled out of control. It can hardly pay its own bills, never mind anyone else’s. Finally, it has become increasingly clear that the targets imposed by the likes of Correa do Lago are, at least in part, to blame for the stagnation that the “global north” is now trapped in. Rising welfare bills and over-regulation are, in fairness, a big part of the collapse in growth, and the decline in living standards, but the obsession with “leading the world on climate change” has also played a big part. Sure, everyone agrees that climate change is an important issue, and one that needs to be addressed. But Correa do Lago and the Cop elite also turned it into a mandate for huge transfers of wealth around the world, for a form of globalized egalitarianism, and for creating climate bureaucracies that were accountable to no one. The voters in the “global north” have woken up to the racket, even if some of the leaders have yet to get the memo. They want their own countries put in order before they start paying for everyone else – and if that means spending less on Cop-led initiatives then that is fine."
Toby Young on X - "Renewables subsidies have risen yet again, taking them to £11.4 billion a year, all of which is added to energy bills. No wonder our energy prices are the highest in the world, says Paul Homewood."
Matt Ridley on X - "Stop calling them renewables, @toadmeister: that's unfair on hydro. The word is "unreliables"."
Weird. We keep being told that renewables are the cheapest way of generating energy
Meme>/a> - RAW EGG NATIONALIST: "Be under no illusion: this isn't just about energy. It's also about destroying the unique heritage and identity of European nations. That's why the 1000-year-old Reinhardwald in Germany, which inspired the Brothers Grimm, is being deforested for solar panels too."
Meme - Delegate Michael J. Webert: "Yesterday I attended a conference on energy and it was fascinating how much land on average renewables take up. As well as the new nuclear technologies that are coming to market."
Toyota Math: 9 Million EVs Are Just as Polluting as 27 Million Hybrids - "Akio Toyoda is a man who speaks his mind. He’s been saying for years that forcing everyone to buy EVs isn’t the way forward. Toyota’s chairman is adamant that the transition can’t be rushed and that going all-in on electric vehicles would have massive repercussions across the automotive industry. He believes millions of jobs throughout the supply chain could be at risk if the combustion engine is phased out too quickly. On the environmental front, Toyoda maintains that EVs are still much dirtier than hybrids. The grandson of Toyota founder Kiichiro Toyoda claims the company has sold around 27 million hybrids since launching the first-generation Prius in 1997. According to him, those hybrids have had the same carbon footprint as nine million fully electric vehicles when adding battery and vehicle production into the equation."
"Greens commence deforestation of Germany's enchanted forest to make way for wind turbines"
Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo: "Hundreds of thousands of centuries-old olive trees have been cut down in recent years in Spain's Andalusia to make way for solar panels"
"Density of US Energy Resources
Nuclear 307 W/m2
Coal 182 W/m2
Natural Gas 101 W/m2
Crude Oil 22 W/m2
Solar 8 W/m2
Hydroelectric 1.7 W/m2
Wind 1.0 W/m2
Ethanol 0.3 W/m2"
Time to clear more land for solar panels and wind turbines
