US Heatwave Brings CCN Lies
By Paul Homewood
The CCN climate disinformation unit is keen that the MSM bang the climate change drum about a few hot days in the US West this month!
Naturally the mandatory fraudulent weather attribution has been wheeled out:
“virtually impossible” without climate change
Virtually impossible?
Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial
By Paul Homewood
h/t Doug Brodie
This is frightening. Indeed it is truly Orwellian:
From the Guardian:
A U-turn by the UK’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom means it will investigate complaints of climate change denial on television and radio for the first time since 2017. The move marks a victory for campaigners who have accused the regulator of allowing some broadcasters “to spout dangerous climate lies” and “flout” rules on accuracy and impartiality.
By Paul Homewood
Now Miliband has been contradicted by the expert in these matters!
From the Telegraph:
The head of British Gas has called on the Government to drop its ban on exploiting untapped oil and gas fields in the North Sea, saying the move would help ease spiralling energy costs.
Chris O’Shea, the chief executive of Centrica, which owns British Gas, said an increase in drilling would play a role in efforts to bolster energy resilience after the Iran war sent prices surging.
He said: “I do think that we should look at producing the resources that we have got ourselves. It makes sense. If you’ve got resources, you should.
“It’s not a silver bullet; nothing in and of itself will fix this. But these activities will bring prices down. It would definitely make a difference.”
A Blot on Science
By Paul Homewood
A timely intervention from GWPF:
London, 24 March. Extreme weather attribution studies are based on flawed logic and generate misleading headlines, according to a new briefing paper from The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).
In Contorted Science: The Flawed Logic of Extreme Event Attribution, Dr. Ralph B. Alexander argues that studies attempting to link specific heatwaves, hurricanes and floods to human-caused climate change are fundamentally misleading and have been created for legal and political, rather than scientific reasons.
BBC’s Heat Pump Propaganda Backfires!
By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
The BBC’s Evan Davis is desperately trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear!
Instead, he trips himself up and succeeds in showing just why heat pumps are useless in the UK:
I know that not everybody is interested in the precise form of plumbing by which they heat their home, but it’s a topic I’ve become obsessed with. That’s partly because I have a French husband and we bought a very old, leaky house in northern France some years ago, which already had a heat pump installed.
Why renewables are not a hedge for volatile gas
By Paul Homewood
Usual excellent summary from Kathryn Porter
Iran War Offers a Glimpse of a Net Zero Future
By Paul Homewood
The war in Iran has polarised opinions around Net Zero. While many have issued a wake up call to start drilling again in the North Sea, Ed Miliband has doubled down, according to the Telegraph:
Is this the crisis that proved Ed Miliband right?
In recent days, the Energy Secretary has pointed to the Iran conflict as proof that Britain must “double down” on Labour’s net zero policies.
In contrast to volatile oil and gas, the Government’s clean power plans will lead to improved energy security, good jobs and lower bills, he says.
“We won’t ignore the lessons of the past as others are seeking to do,” Miliband says.
Meanwhile the Guardian’s main concern is that 5 million tonnes of CO2 were emitted in the first 14 days of the conflict.
U.K. EV Rules Threaten Chaos For Locals, Success For China
By Paul Homewood
A nice summary by Neil Winton of this parish of our crazy EV mandates for the American audience, who must think we are crackers!
From Forbes:
European electric vehicle manufacturers are making huge losses in Britain and want the government to dilute the rules, which call for an EV market share of 80% by 2030. Manufacturers say this target is impossible and unless modified, analysts reckon Chinese companies will dominate the market and force bankruptcies and job losses for the locals.
Major global automakers have written off about $65 billion in losses over the past six months, driven by costly pullbacks from over-ambitious EV strategies. The surge in write-offs was led by Stellantis, which announced a $26 billion hit.
European governments have determined that EVs have a key role to play in the fight against climate change and instead of letting consumers drive the market, they mandated quotas to force an eventual monopoly.
Full story here.
Wind Output Drops Away
By Paul Homewood
There’s been a lot of anti-cyclonic over Britain and much of Europe in the last few days.
On Friday, for example, wind power dipped to under 3GW in Britain. Fortunately we could turn to gas to keep the lights on. We were also desperately reliant on imported electricity, which at the moment of writing is providing 23% of our electricity, half coming from France.
Electric Car Mandates Start To Bite
By Paul Homewood
Car manufacturers must ensure that electric cars make up at least 33% of their total registrations this year or face swingeing government fines of £12000 for every car they are short.
So far, they are struggling at below 22%, which is even less than at the same stage last year. They finished 2025 at 23.4%, well below the government Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) mandated target of 28%. The harsh reality is that few private buyers want one, despite what the government orders.
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