A Place to Stand

UK needs 330 billion pounds energy investments by 2030

If we stick to the official doctrine of windmillery.

Isn't it only recently that we were being told it would be £200 bn.

But for 1/10th of the price we could build 40 new nuclear plants and replace virtually all our current generators.
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Blaming Hurricane Sandy on the greedy and industrious is just as mad as blaming it on gays (or witches)


--------------- Bananas will replace potatoes as a staple food - gone in 24 hours global warming nonsense story of the week. No evidence, no research, but if you mention "climate change"the media will give some parasitic "academic" his 15 minutes of fame. -------------------------------   Peter Lilley, sceptical and very smart MP (so not in the government then) complaint about how the BBC ambushed him in what they laughlingly call "debate". They told him it would be about the economics of fighting CAGW and made him agree that he would not in any circumstances criticise the "science\" that warming is happening - then deliberately turned it into a piece about alleged "new research" which they knew wasn't new & was evidence free, saying the "science" was more alarming than previously pretended. -----------------------------   Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, came forward to “take responsibility overall” for the attacks  at Benghazi, but per Ed Klein we now know behind the scenes Bill Clinton advised his wife  to resign over the possible criminal fallout of the Benghazi massacre.  Today we learn from sources  that not only did Hillary ask for added security, and was denied, but her closest advisers strongly suggested she seek legal counsel just days after the attack.     Move along - the media says nothing to see here. ------------------------------------   Germany is dumping electricity on its unwilling neighbors and by wintertime the feud should come to a head. The power grids in Eastern Europe are stretched to their limits and face potential blackouts when output surges from German wind turbines.

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The Unbalance Sheet - An essay by John Brignall on how politics works

Rather long but worth it. An excerpt
 "a three-cornered conspiracy of selective silence between three parties – the zealots, the media and the political class. Consider the case of the hug-a-husky stunt. A politician seeking to raise his public profile arranges a highly choreographed sledge trek, accompanied by reporters and photographers, to view a retreating glacier. Any unbiased journalist worth his salt would have checked whether this phenomenon was the norm. Perhaps some did, but there was no mention in the media that he could have visited several other glaciers in the same country that are advancing, as are many throughout the world. The media, however, had their scare story, the politician got his splash and the climate scaremongers got their propaganda coup."
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James Woudhuysen

The idiocy of the New Catastrophists

The disparity between commentators’ warnings of doom and their proposed social solutions is hilarious.
You might not know it, but we have just 50 months to pull the Earth back from an irreversible tipping-point that will likely lead to ‘climate disaster’.

One of the best writers on Spiked