In WWII the Nazi’s bombed London with flying bombs. People were safe so long as they heard the bomb’s engine, but they would dive for cover when it stopped.
Likewise serious reporting on Global Warming stopped ages ago. I can’t remember when there was last anything new to report, I can’t remember the last time I saw a newsmedia article (outwith WUWT) that was worth reading …
…. but how frigging long does it take for this scam to hit the ground?
Logically, at some point Jo public is going to get angry when the realise that no one really takes global warming seriously any longer – but we are still forking out £1000s to the scum behind the wind scam.
The next climate agreement is dead – so it’s a waste of time blogging on that. The climate will cool sometime – but who knows when. The alarmist academics aren’t putting out the same daft non-science – but neither are the telling the truth – so nothing to report there. Likewise the politicians know that global warming is a poisoned chalice – they are damned if they kill and damned if they don’t.
In short, the end is nigh for Global warming but I’m sick to death waiting for it to explode and who the heck knows when that will be?
There’s no point flogging a dead horse to prove it’s dead.
But please do wake me up if something happens.
Sadly, still alive in Scotland. http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/events/event.php?id=394
To understand the situation all you need ask is “who benefits” – and you will find that those who benefit from the SNP obsession have been the English.
Because for every additional birdmincer the SNP got the Scottish electorate to pay for – it was one the English electorate did not have to pay for.
In short, no one in England from the GWPF to the Green party has any interest in stopping the SNP.
The SNP are doing the English a favour by putting up birdmincers in Scotland so that the English met their international treaty obligations. They are the most incompetent bunch of nationalist I’ve ever head about (with the possible exception of the Judean People’s popular front)
“it was one the English electorate did not have to pay for.” How do you work that out? AFAIK subsidies are paid for from electricity bills. All bills. Only if Scotland goes it alone do those agreements fall apart.
In fact one of the demands the SNP made before the referendum was that those agreements should stay in place even when we were different countries. Even the EU balked at that saying that paying subsidies to a different country was illegal. You’re trying to make out that green insanity is just an English thing but all evidence points to a cross border mania. Only you’re side is going one further by banning nuclear and c
coal.
Sorry about that, my computer is knackered.
If you didn’t realise the promotion of renewable energy (aka how much to suck out of consumers) was almost the only new power given to the Scottish parliament that hadn’t been part of the old Scottish office.
If I had been PM – that would have meant that we would all have paid a lot less because I would have included the 8% Scottish Hydro – so no birdmincers needed at all to achieve 8% renewables.
In contrast, the English lackey SNP decided to set a higher target for Scots ignoring our Hydro – with the result that even excluding Hydro, we pay more than people in England.
Which the English government is more than happy for the SNP to do, because it means the UK meets its international obligation without much contribution from England.
Of course, if renewables had not been devolved, then Scotland would have had just as many bird-mincers. Except rather than us in Scotland having to fund all those Scottish-based bird-mincers, it would be paid by a common level of taxation across the UK.
BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT IF RENEWABLES WERE (OR WERE KNOWN TO BE IS MORE ACCURATE) AN ENGLISH POLICY FOISTED ON SCOTLAND, THAT THE SNP WOULD HAVE FOUGHT IT ALL THE WAY.
Scotland has more wind so the power companies started there with their trials. As windmills started to make power better from low wind, they spread south.
Pure business calculations. No conspiracies.
Scotland has higher targets and Scottish consumers pay out more on our bills – because Scotland politicians are gullible – and were more than willing to sacrifice the Scottish landscape for the financial benefit of the English, Scottish media are gullible because they didn’t once even consider that we in Scotland have been conned to pay out more than those in England.
And unfortunately – though understandably when we are led by such gormless sheep – the Scottish electorate is gullible and keeps voting for the moronic SNP who go out of their way to benefit the English at the expense of the Scots.
And don’t think the GWPF would do anything
The GWPF is run by the English for the benefit of the English. And why on earth should they do anything when the stupid Scots are so so so very willing to benefit the English??
So basically you’re blaming the English for the actions of the SNP? Do you want to be taken seriously?
Here’s the SNP case for the English needing Scottish renewables. Apparently we’re lucky to have it because it’s so cheap.
http://www.businessforscotland.co.uk/energy-and-scottish-independence/
The English civil service, politicians are focussed on England. Just as I would expect the SNP to be focussed on serving Scotland.
But the SNP are so appalling incompetent that they’ve left the Scots paying for the Bird Mincers England should by rights have in England.
You haven’t demonstrated you are paying more.
I did the calculation a very long time ago. But no one was interested so I’ve not bothered since.
The SNP have higher obligations in Scotland than they do in England. Unless we have a lower price per unit – that means higher prices.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/415791/qep222.xls
Ok, the government have done the calcs for me and you’re right, they do vary. Northern Ireland pays the most. What it doesn’t indicate is how much of this is due to tax, transmission costs or market competition. Supposedly 2014, when green tariffs were highest, the difference looks to have reduced.