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Question the Dogma: Guy Faulkner’s climate sceptical song
Read moreGuy Faulkner has been a semi-professional musician and composer all his life. He is ‘very unhappy with the climate debate – because there isn’t one. Dissenting views are excluded. I have found the ‘cancel culture’ mentality particularly upsetting, hence my song ‘Question the dogma’ I’ve eaten too much, drunk too much,What can I say about […]
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Forget Net Zero: Fossil fuels will constitute 50% of global energy mix by 2050, analysts predict
Read moreEnergy analysts predict that fossil fuels will still constitute 50% of the global energy mix by 2050. According to The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” Specifically, “Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would need to fall […]
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Some coral reefs are keeping pace with ocean warming
Read moreSome coral communities are becoming more heat tolerant as ocean temperatures rise, offering hope for corals in a changing climate. After a series of marine heatwaves hit the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) in the central Pacific Ocean, a new study finds the impact of heat stress on the coral communities lessened over time. While a 2002-2003 […]
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Green Europe faces gas shortages and energy crisis as winter looms
Read moreThe cost of natural gas and electricity is surging across Europe, reaching records in some countries, as the devastating impacts of rising carbon taxes, renewable energy subsidies and fracking bans are hitting home. In Europe, plans to decarbonise the economy to Net Zero are playing a significant part as utilities are forced to pay near-record […]
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Electricity at £200/MWh coming soon
Read moreThe Low Carbon Contracts Company publishes a very useful dataset on payments under the Contracts for Difference subsidy scheme. This enables us to see how the rates paid to generators increase over time. The four lines represent groups of windfarms with the same strike price. The steady rise in the price paid to generators is […]
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Maldives & most Pacific-Indian Ocean islands expanding, not sinking, scientists reveal
Read moreA global-scale analysis of 221 islands in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans reveals “a predominantly stable or accretionary trend in the area of atoll islands worldwide” throughout the 21st century. The Maldives islands alone expanded by 37.5 km² from 2000 to 2017. For over 3 decades we’ve been warned “entire nations could be wiped […]
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Tilak Doshi: Biden’s oil and gas policy is as deranged as his Afghanistan policy
Read moreBiden has done everything to obstruct US oil and gas producers in the name of fighting climate change – while imploring Saudi Arabia, Russia and others to increase oil production to keep pump prices down. Few would disagree with former US vice-president Mike Pence’s view that President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan “is a foreign-policy humiliation unlike […]
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Guilty Greens: Europe’s tryst with biofuels destroyed 10% of world’s orangutan habitats
Read moreIn 2010, the EU set a 10% renewable energy target for transport by 2020. As a result, the demand for cheap crop-based biodiesel, such as palm and soy oil, increased, destroying several million hectares of forests in Asia and South America. ‘A policy that was supposed to save the planet is actually trashing it. ‘ […]
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UK Govt under fire as nuclear industry claim they have been banned from COP26
Read moreUp to 15 applications from nuclear-related bodies are understood to have been rejected by Mr Sharma’s COP26 Unit in the Cabinet Office Alok Sharma has come under fire for preventing a series of nuclear bodies from displaying exhibits at the COP26 climate change summit. In an open letter to Boris Johnson’s minister in charge of the […]
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Vijay Jayaraj: India’s energy priorities are a major roadblock for Net Zero and COP26
Read moreThis November, political leaders from the West will attempt to formalise a more radical emission reduction strategy at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow. However, with the growing opposition to Net Zero plans and other extreme emission reduction policies like the Green New Deal, the UN climate summit is unlikely to witness any significant or legally […]
