Days after China sent US climate envoy John Kerry home empty handed, Beijing has given Alok Sharma, the COP26 President and the UK’s senior climate official, the same message: China won’t cave in to Western demands, plunging Joe Biden’s and Boris Johnson’s Net Zero agenda into doubt. Beijing has told Britain that it will not […]

Britain’s fragile electricity system is a national embarrassment and a warning to the world London, 7 September – Yesterday, National Grid, the Electricity System Operator, was forced to paid over £20m to “balance” the system and avoid blackouts, ten times more than normal.The entire UK wind fleet was in effect completely absent for much of […]

You couldn’t make it up … Britain was forced today to turn to coal power as the amount of electricity coming from wind farms fell dramatically. Having to resort to coal to keep the lights on is a rather humiliating development for Boris Johnson in the run-up to COP26. Policy makers around the world are, […]

A new cost-sheet published by the Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) shows that green hydrogen is too expensive to have any widespread application. That’s because most of the input energy – electricity from offshore wind farms – is very expensive and much of it will be unavoidably wasted in the conversion to hydrogen. According to […]

The Independent on Sunday is reporting that some of the world’s top financial figures are resigned to what we have been predicting for some time — the likely failure of the UN climate summit in Glasgow (COP26) to achieve ‘anything meaningful.’ Boris Johnson, of course, is being blamed for the likely debacle, paying the price […]