It’s him again …
There’s a new quip making the rounds: ‘conspiracy theories are actually spoiler alerts’. It’s correct, as today’s news show. A year ago some sceptics pointed out that the ‘covid experience’, of restrictions imposed by diktat, of people accepting their loss of civil liberties without a murmur, were a blueprint for the ‘climate’ fanatics. Nah, it couldn’t happen here, said the green & good.
Well, it is happening already. Firstly, there’s the latest report by the UN’s Climate Change entity, the IPCC. The BBC reported the under the screeching title, ‘Code Red for Humanity’ – but I suggest you look instead at a first assessment by Paul Homewood in his blog ‘Not a lot of people know that’ (link). If you’re more into watching videos, then watch what Tony Heller of ‘Real Climate Science’ has to say (link).
Fortified with their observations we can now delve into Carrie & BJ’s green policies. It’s worse than we think, not least because the costs of their ‘Net Zero by 2050’ agenda are going to be horrific:
“With Britain racing to hit Boris Johnson’s target of being carbon net zero by 2050, there is far less agreement about what saving the planet will cost. The country is embarking on its most radical economic overhaul since the industrial revolution, with no business to be left unscathed and trillions of pounds needed for the switch – a bill which will ultimately be borne by taxpayers, employers and consumers. It is estimated about £50bn of investment will be required each year between 2030 and 2050 but the true cost could be higher still.” (paywalled link)
‘Taxpayers’ and ‘consumers’ – that’ll be us peasants then, what a surprise. Never mind that the country is already sitting on a pile of debt thanks to covid – a few billion quid more in taxes are neither here nor there, are they!
It will all happen as predicted by us ‘conspiracists’ thanks to the uber-expert who will guide BJ, Whitehall and us peasants to the glorious heights of ‘Net Zero’. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you – Sir Patrick Vallance! Once an ‘expert’, always an ‘expert’!
Those of us who over a year ago have pointed out that the SAGE covid statistics were strangely akin to those produced by ‘climate change’ experts, have also pointed out that what worked for covid will be made to work for ‘climate change’. We’ve been proven correct.
“Britain’s chief scientific adviser has called on governments to produce climate change “road maps” and a new emissions dashboard as the world emerges from the Covid crisis. Sir Patrick Vallance said that the time for vague promises on climate change was over and yesterday’s “stark and rightly uncomfortable” report by the UN’s intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) showed the need for immediate action.” (link, paywalled)
‘Emissions dashboards’? Are those going to be like the death-graphs and case graphs we’ve become accustomed to? Well, I suppose so – after all, those graph-producers need to be kept in work. Here’s more from the amazing Vallance who has read that IPCC report in one sitting and then produced his proposals: a true scientific champion! More:
“[Vallance said]: Every government needs to develop an evidence-based road map setting out the technologies that they require and by when to achieve net zero . . . monitoring progress against those road maps is going to be crucially important.” (link, paywalled)
“Evidence-based road map”, is it? As ‘evidence-based’ as the covid casedemic? Is this ‘evidence’ coming from the usual ‘climate experts’ according to whom the Arctic should’ve been ice-free for the last six years, the small Pacific islands should’ve been drowned by now and “we” should’ve had sizzling summers with weeks of hot sunshine? Those of us who can recall the 1970s know what a proper heatwave is like – and it’s not one short week of hot weather!
We better get used to the ‘new twosome’ lecturing us, the ‘expert of experts’, professor Patrick Vallance and the Met Office’s chief scientist, professor Stephen Belcher. They penned an article just for The Times. The fluffy language is hiding the restrictions to come. Here’s some of the fluff:
“Nations need urgently to revise their paths to net zero, through their nationally determined contributions. Global net zero emissions will ultimately stabilise the climate, but unless mitigation measures are deployed quickly it will not be enough to achieve the Paris goals.” (link, paywalled)
I’ll omit their wail about how much ‘carbon’ was produced in the last year – funny that, given that most of the industrialised countries were in lockdown – and won’t point out that just one volcanic eruption will spew forth more CO2 than “we” could ever mitigate. I won’t even mention historical events like the eruption of Krakatoa in the early 19th century, creating ‘the summer that never was’, with the Thames freezing over.
Next, Vallance and Belcher tell us that “we” must press ahead even though the UK emits only 1% of global emissions- because the UK could ‘make a huge difference by promoting innovation across the globe.’ (link, paywalled). Here’s the appeal which comes under ‘we’re all in this together’:
“We need to change how we live our lives to move all of us from energy hungry habits on to clean technologies and reduced energy consumption. And there are other benefits to be gained: paths to net zero could provide greater energy security through local production and improve health through better air quality.” (link, paywalled)
Note that ‘health’ had to be shoved in: can’t leave the NHS out in the cold, can we! Then they describe how they envisage this ‘change in our lives’ to happen. I bet some are already working on apps to support those ‘measures’:
“Progress needs to be measured. Building on the fair and transparent approach, a live dashboard needs to track current emissions of carbon dioxide. […] Presently, emissions are based on estimates of fuel use, farming practices, etc, which are then aggregated into emissions from sectors, such as transport, agriculture, etc, and then into national contributions. Building on these inventories, an objective system could directly measure greenhouse gas concentrations and use modelling to infer emissions in near real time.” (link, paywalled)
‘Objective measures’ – like those which defined ‘covid deaths’, the goalposts having been shifted by diktat? Real-time measurements of ‘direct emissions’ and ‘greenhouse gas emissions’ provide the fodder for modellers like Ferguson. Never mind that he was wrong every single time – he’s apologised for that. He and his ilk will produce CO2 scare graphs – bank on it.
Now see why the duo of ‘chief scientists’ are shamelessly proposing this scheme – it is about surveilling us, it’s not about “objective measurements”:
“Such a measurement system would chart the immediate effectiveness of mitigation policies and allow further targeted action in polluting sectors. As fossil fuel use decreases over the next decade or two, an enhanced system will need to assess accurately emissions from other sources. This direct measurement is achievable, and a pilot system is being trialled in the UK, and should be pursued now.” (link, paywalled)
That’s where new apps come in – like the one which created pingitis. Three guesses as to who those ‘other sources’ are! Three guesses as to who will define what the latest ‘pollution sector’ is going to be! I was going to propose that we might like to start breeding mules for transport – it worked in the Middle Ages – but perhaps better not: who knows if their farts and piles of dung will be deemed pollution worthy of punishment.
Rest assured though that the Green & Good won’t be in the same boat with us! Paul Joseph Watson in his video describes the current situation. This will only get worse. I wonder if the rip-off scandal of PCR testing (link) will wake up some of the green & muzzled lemmings.
Here’s another point the uber-scientists have left out. Renewables are not producing constant electricity. So there will be black-outs and brown-outs. What will the Met Office do if their supercomputer, so dependent on electricity, will have to be switched off because our NHS needs electricity to keep patients alive?
Moreover – what will ‘Generation Smartphone’ do when the batteries of their precious smartphones run out of juice and can’t be recharged because there are electricity shortages? I’m not even going to mention electric cars … nor will I mention the push for ‘home heating with electricity only’.
Here’s one prediction I can make with confidence: WFH on ‘normal pay’ will be sold to us as ‘green solution’, as a step towards ‘Net Zero’. After all, those ‘workers’ aren’t using ‘transport’, thus ‘saving energy’ all round … no, don’t mention heating costs or home electricity bills reflecting PC usage …
One thing is certain: if covid and the measures for ‘preventing’ covid haven’t yet quite killed off our democracy, then Carrie & BJ’s “green net zero revolution” certainly will. If that’s what ‘Generation Smartphone’ desires then they deserve all that’s coming to them.
KBO!
Photo by UK Prime Minister
“I give you – Sir Patrick Vallance! Once an ‘expert’, always an ‘expert’!”
Once a conman always a conman.
You do know also that he worked for many years at GSK, supplier of, er, now let me see, what is it again?
Conflict of interest? Pah! Who care these days?
I wondered why Vallance was getting more time in the spotlight. Did others notice?
Mary, you are right it does get worse every day.
Well done Viv for digging out the Not a lot of people know that link.
We knew this crazy was likely to get worse leading up to the Glasgow shindig but surely ‘the people’ will wake up now.
The IPCC needs to be disbanded to stop its scaremongering; all based on seriously flawed “science” which has been trashed by real scientists who know better.
In the same way that CO2 level follows temperature, not drives it (because warmer oceans can hold less sequestered CO2) the IPCC report absurdly, for a nominally scientific report, follows the political summary.
Homewood and Heller are modern heroes. Great to see them linked here.
Heroes too are McIntyre and McKitrick who comprehensively discredited the original study (by Michael Mann) used by Gore in publishing his Hockey Stick illusion. Needless to say their work has been ignored by those in power.
With all the rain my rhubarb has replaced the Amazon rain forest as a carbon sink.
bet thats not in the Covid/climate doom models .
I recall the boss of Shell no less forecasting in the 1970s that oil would run out by about year 2000.
Then there was the hole in the ozo layer.
Who filled it in ?
Then the South of the UK was going to turn into the Sahara.. was that about 2005?
Thee BBC was telling us to pee and not flush , share our toothbrush water etc.
The flooding did not happen because its not in the Stalinist plan .
Oh remember petrol bad , diesel good ?
Veggie diesel ?
LPG ?
as for the no light lightbulbs.. well I do like LEDs until they blow .
So we are left with teslas for the rich , sod the working poor.
And you dont get a vote cos its an emergency.
What are we doing about it ?
Moaning! Waiting for someone else to make the first move? Hoping for a miracle? Pretending it isn’t really happening? It will all just go away wont it??????
eugene power. Your rhubarb is a bit like green fields – grass – wot cows should be eating. Watch ‘they’ don’t concrete over it or put wind farms there.
I agree with everything you say.
Just switched on. Not read anything yet.
I’m reading V.C.’s ‘Bloodless Revolution’. Written I believe, even before our Referendum. It is incredible how much back then, we had already become a Fascist, or Totalitarian State.
Also how the same means of imposing it were being used then, as now.
Some, but not all, was coming from the E.U.. Some from our own bureaucracies and media but much of it from the three main political parties.
V C – Vernon Coleman
Every day I read Viv’s piece thinking it can’t get any worse. But it does.
mary. Sorry about the nag comment. I’d spoken to you several times but as I come late to the site you’d probably missed me.
I had just gone through a difficult couple of days and had to cope alone as best as maybe.
I’m lucky to have a good GP but he is unfortunately definitely part time. I don’t blame him as I’ve heard there is at least one bureaucratic cock up affecting older G.P.s.
He has put me in touch with other help that is available here, through my medical centre.
That involves the County Council and is more to do with emergency care in general, rather than a nurse visiting but one way and another I am managing to sort myself out a bit.
Oh, and Doctor Hutchinson can be contacted through Medical Centre reception but it might take a while for him to be available.
In some ways he reminds me of Doctor Vernon Coleman in his Bilbury books!
Well we carnivores have a good natural stock ( rabbits ducks beaver and boar, pity about the wimps who are vegans. My family will survive and possibly rule. 😊
PS. I suggest we use the yardarm of HMS Victory
For the hanging, Boris first followed by Vallance Belsher etc
Mike, that’s a bit harsh, we don’t want to be damaging that historic ship with the ever burgeoning weight of Downing Street’s resident buffoon. How about taking another boat to sea, and forcing him to walk the plank. One plank deserves another………
Runnymede would be a good place to have a gibbet ready for him and others.
You’ve all left out the drawing and quartering bit.
Also as far as green blobbery is concerned surely the keeper of his zip should be the first one hung.
OK let’s have two gibbets so they can hang out together. I wouldn’t be surprised if it were necessary to furnish a whole mile of suitable roadside verge with them to deal with the demand should we be able to bring about a re-run of the Nuremberg trials. If only…
The Tories deservedly will lose the next general election unless they rid themselves and us of Johnson Labour have no credibility either the sdp or UKIP for me
Unless things change drastically I have a feeling that there will not be a General Election. ‘They’ will find some way to stop voting! They have postponed local elections so why not the General? `Alternatively there will be massive voting ‘adjustment’ to ensure that the ruling junta remains unchanged!
AD Hiley, you may well be right there on both counts, however most people who keep up with life know who the leader of UKIP is and what it stands for, but nobody knows who leads the SDP these days, where they are based, what their telephone number is, or indeed whether they have any policies. I would suggest that quite a sizeable number of people when asked about the SDP will say ‘don’t they deliver parcels’ or something similar
ADH – Under the existing voting system we can vote only for the candidates who stand in our own constituency. If we bypass that, as most people have done for far too long, and seem ready to do all over again, and vote again for THE PARTY, we voluntarily give up our last vestiges of the concept of parliamentary democracy. “The Party” only ever considers the needs of “The Party” and its relationship to its power over people.
Let’s just cut off the labels and take a long, hard look at the candidates. Better, having voted for a local candidate, let’s have an annual performance review with a view to keeping good or replacing not so good performers. Good employers do that to hired staff as a matter of routine. We could eventually do away with so many General Elections if we would do that with our politics and politicians.
When the whole kit and caboodle falls flat and theres no Electricity for everybody. A small wind generator the same as many garages around the uk had as advertising aids on the forecourt. can be wired int a battery charger or Inverterto change to AC, at a total cost if anyone can make it nowadays. As a director of Linwood Electronics Who made most of britains Battery chargers and Inverters It’s School cert stuff.. Start getting the bits together nowwire and battery about battery whatever . But in the 90’s the inverter £2.00 theCharger about £ 8 and wire and battery whatever. ]
Failing that water pressure from the tap can do other things, without involving Dyson although he could certainly help but he’ld probably be bought off..
The claptrap being touted Which involves huge pocket money of billions finding its way into the pockets of electricity confidence tricksters boards, who’s entire value is to type out invoices distribute the cash, .and bully people into having another subserviant electronic device in your home.
Instead of lying stealing hiding and thieving for the benefit of landowners strapped for cash. Let the Dysons of this world do it profitable and costing a thousandth or lots more for ever ( Well as long as the windmills still work and you vcan find idiots to climb and oil them ) Given the stresses the bearing must be interesting.
TG Spokes, I have read this over and over again, but I have no idea what you are talking about. How about re-arranging the words so that it makes a bit of sense. However, surely you’re not suggesting that that the water pressure in a domestic tap could produce hydro-electricity, even with the assistance of someone who makes vacuum cleaners are you? Its like a script out of Dr. Who. Hold on though aren’t you a…….
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The water pressure from a tap is quite capable of running a fridge or freezer. Or even, if you do not heat the water a washing machine. The wind generator mentioned is quite capable of charging car or even Fork lift batteries. I have several times explained that tumble dryers do not need a heater and work perfectly without. In warm countries most people wash with cold water perfectly adequately. I have never tried making tea with cold water but I expect to be told to do so soon.
I humbly apologise for my poor journalistic skills, but as I have explained before I never bothered and found a top secretary was far superior skilled than I. And could always reword satisfactorily. Got them from Bond Street Bureau and never had any but incredible. Although they did have a tendency to pregnancy and marriage.. Or v.v. Anyway, I have never had to parse a sentence or etcsince the age of 25
Don’t forget that tap water is not free and the available flow rate to many properties quite low; often not enough to run multiple outlets satisfactorily. For brewing up with no gas or electricity a volcano kettle is a good option given a few twigs as fuel. My parents along with many others relied on a washing line for drying which was usually satisfactory. In warm countries washing with “cold” water is not the same as here.
We might well be advised to consider some of the options common before the all electric age, as backup if not regular use.
When there is no ‘electrical power’ the whole of daily life as it is now lived will come to a halt! ID passes will be useless if phones cannot be charged. Shops and businesses will not function if they cannot use electronic tills or payments, There will be nothing to sell anyway because the system that control the logistics of distribution all require ‘power’ to function! WFH will be impossible with no computer links. Life in the ‘modern’ world will be reduced to subsistence level. Real life will mean a return to absolute basics. I suggest an investment in Kilner Jars for food preservation (as we used to do before everyone had a freezer). Buy lots of salt (it doesnt decay or go ‘out of date’!) for when you need to slaughter the pig hidden at the bottom of the garden and preserve it for the winter. Stock up on wood for camp fires. Invest in camping gaz equipment for food heating and lighting (in addition to stocks of candles). Buy lots of paper and learn how to do proper arithmetical calculations once again – no computers or calculators will be there to help you in the great re-set awakening!
I have been saying for a very long time….what will people do when the power runs out! I remember power cuts back in the seventies (I think!) at that time I was always glad I had a gas cooker for heating and cooking. Piffle and Carrie Antoinette will of course put paid to gas; coal and wood heaters.
I am seriously looking into the possibility of a new roof with inbuilt solar panels and a Tesla battery wall so that the power generated comes for my own use first and is not hived off by energy companies and ‘sold’ back to me later. It will be an expensive investment but possibly the way to go. Unless of course Pearly Gates carries out his plan to surround the earth with a chalk layer in the sky to blot out the sun…..(in which case we need not bother as, without the sun, all life will eventually perish anyway!)
The people who are promoting this idiocy are completely and utterly mad! MAD! They have been overtaken by their own complete bull$h!t and are now more dangerous to the survival of the planet than any of the supposed CO2 output ever could be!
Welcome to the “Brave New World”!
“Brave New World” and “1984” might well be instruction manuals for Bojo and friends.
Maybe so Jack but…..I refuse to love Big Brother after all!!!!!
If its not one fear campaign its another ready in the wings.
The link to Tony Heller on YT was very confirming. The label ‘Generation Smartphone’ very true, just as the Smart meter is another piece of surveillance equipment. The digital world is totally owned by the ‘Controllers’. Technology has been poisoned along with science.
Where is the evidence where is the proof. Policies that will cause suffering based on theories without proof. When evidence is cited where is the trust to be found among the lies.
Perhaps people aren’t suffering enough? Yes that is it we are not suffering enough. We have got so comfortable that we have to fall down below all the layers of comfort. Pass through the basic survival threshold and end up somewhere below a third world ghetto level. Then will people wake up? Detach and defend.
When there is no power smart meters will not work anyway! Keep refusing to have one fitted!
Agree Frederica. I have been told they won’t work if you wrap a good grade tin foil around them.
Agree. I avoid everything smart. Except I got talked into having my old computer hub replaced by BT, although I doubted their motives. Why were BT so keen on this? is it all part of the joined- up internet of things for their brave new world in smart cities?
Someone I know who is usually quite clued up, said BT simply wanted to give me a better service for the same price (which it was); so I gave in ; although I’ve got doubts.
I always cover the webcam though.