UK Health Security Agency boss criticised for tropical disease claims
A leading expert in mosquito-borne diseases is fiercely critical of Professor Dame Jenny Harries, head of the UK Health Security Agency, calling her recent pronouncements on mosquito-transmitted...
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2023: Global temperature, statistics and hot air
While 2023 will be the warmest year of the instrumental era, nobody knows why or what it means for the future of climate trends. As can be seen from the year-to-date graph from NOAA below, 2023...
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Heat pumps are a vote loser
In the wake of the EU’s decision to delay plans to push European households to shift to heat pumps, campaign group Net Zero Watch is warning Rishi Sunak that if he sticks to his guns, it will hit...
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The Great Climate Fight… to be relevant
A review of ‘The Great Climate Fight’ which was broadcast on Channel 4. By NZW’s Head of Policy, Harry Wilkinson.There is a certain kind of celebrity who is so worthy they can’t contain it. For Hugh...
View ArticleClimate Change Committee boss ‘should have been fired’
Campaign group Net Zero Watch has welcomed the resignation of Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), but says he should have been fired years ago.Stark controversially...
View ArticleNimbyism will not save the countryside
The landscape impact of the so-called ‘energy transition’ is being felt across the country. Scotland’s mountains are already blighted by windfarms, and with planning rules having been relaxed south of...
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The state of Texas…
Austin, TX, 15 January 2024A cold snap has raised concerns once more about security of electricity supply in Texas. Our energy editor, John Constable, happens to be travelling there and reports at...
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What is climate?
This is a guest post by Professor Richard Lindzen.We are generally told that the following defines ‘climate’… Figure 1 Global average temperature anomaly. Actually, we are not looking at ‘average...
View ArticleMiliband will bring wholesale deindustrialisation
Thatcher’s coalmine closures “will look like a walk in the park”Net Zero Watch has said that Labour’s green dogmatism will be a disaster for the working classes, bringing industrial closure on an...
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Your predictions please, for the temperature in 2024
Each year we invite readers to predict the temperature for the year ahead, as measured by the Met Office Hadley Centre. This has turned into a fun competition between Net Zero Watch and the Met Office...
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Are Labour sleepwalking to energy disaster?
It now looks likely that Labour will form the next government. However, it is also probable that Keir Starmer’s administration will, during its term of office, face an unprecedented energy crisis. This...
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Will 2024 be hotter than 2023?
What a year 2023 was - as far as global temperature goes. A record-breaker for reasons that no one quite understands. Looking at the results of the Net Zero Watch poll taken late in 2022 to predict the...
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A remarkable coincidence
Four national institutions have failed to model the 2050 energy system correctly, and all of them in ways that lead to understatement of the costs of Net Zero.Over the weekend, the Sunday Telegraph...
View ArticleFour major national institutions have made erroneous estimates of the cost of...
London, 24 January. Campaign group Net Zero Watch has revealed that four major UK institutions have produced erroneous estimates of the cost of decarbonising the economy.Last weekend, the Sunday...
View ArticleDoes the Climate Change Committee understand the energy storage problem?
Its boss appears not to grasp the key issueYesterday, I reported that four national institutions – the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the National Infrastructure Commission, National Grid, and the...
View ArticleThe Times covers up for the Green blob
Since the Sunday Telegraph revealed the Royal Society criticisms of modelling of the 2050 energy system by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the Green blob has been rallying round its under-fire CEO...
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New study warns of soaring energy bills
Official Net Zero models have grossly understated costs.It has recently been revealed that almost all major studies on Net Zero contain serious modelling errors, and thus have grossly underestimated...
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Cold, hungry, stuck at home: Net Zero’s drastic lifestyle changes
Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith (CLS) recently started a row by pointing out that the Climate Change Committee (CCC) made a mistake in its grid design calculations. We do not need to go into all...
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The Net Zero music stops
National security concerns must take precedence over the climate There is a respectable peacetime economic case for closing the Port Talbot blast furnaces and ceasing production of basic oxygen steel...
View ArticleNet Zero threatens national security
As the EU shifts its spending priorities from the Net Zero agenda to investing in defence, a prominent expert on national security has called for the UK to go back to coal, oil and gas and to start...
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