Heat pumps could bring the German economy to its knees

Emissions would come down. It would create a high skill, high wage economy. And it would reboot industry, accelerate productivity, and deliver a boost to growth. For years we have been told that moving to Net Zero would create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and billions of euros, dollars and pounds have been thrown at the companies promising to make that happen.

But hold on. Now it turns out that the green jobs are disappearing at an accelerating pace – and the investment in creating them will have been squandered.

h/t DS

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According to the UN, the People Have Spoken and They Want Governments to do Even More About Climate Change. Never Heard of the People’s Climate Vote? Hard Cheese

How did you vote in the 2024 global People’s Climate Vote?

The People’s Climate Vote…

You’ve never heard of it?

Well, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the people have spoken. Between September last year and May of this, thousands of people all over the world were selected by dialling mobile phone numbers at random. Those who didn’t hang up were asked a series of questions about their climate views. According to the results, 80% of the global population believe their country should strengthen its commitments to addressing climate change. Seventy-eight per cent of the world believes their countries should provide more protection from extreme weather events. And only 17% believe their countries are addressing climate change “very well”.

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Big Three Ignore Collapse of Vicious Anti-Energy Cabal

A massive asset manager abandoned an alliance dedicated to crushing cheap American energy. ABC, NBC and CBS didn’t bother telling their evening viewers.

Goldman Sachs left Climate Action 100+, a gargantuan environmental social and governance (ESG) pressure group, on Aug. 13. However, for three consecutive nights, NBC Nightly News, ABC News’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News failed to cover the latest trillion dollar asset manager to leave the Climate Action 100+, MRC Business can confirm.

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New Research Debunks the Latest ‘Tipping Point’ Climate Scare to Frighten People into Supporting Net Zero

Last year the mainstream public prints were full of Net Zero-inspired nonsense claiming that the Gulf Stream could collapse by 2025. Classic green fear-mongering of course inspired by the 2004 Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow with its harrowing portrayal of weather-related natural disasters. The overturning of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could plunge the North Atlantic into a new ice age and have dire weather impacts across the globe, according to a new study. The author, Peter Ditlevsen of the University of Copenhagen, told the constantly-alarmed Guardian: “I think we should be very worried.” But this was a scare story too far and even some scientists expressed doubt about it last year. Now, a new study has been published that points out this alarm about the collapsing Gulf Stream was contingent on unreliable climate models and any collapse could occur from now to infinity.

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Polar Bears, Dead Coral and Other Climate Fictions

Whatever happened to polar bears? They used to be all climate campaigners could talk about, but now they’re essentially absent from headlines. Over the past 20 years, climate activists have elevated various stories of climate catastrophe, then quietly dropped them without apology when the opposing evidence becomes overwhelming. The only constant is the scare tactics.

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‘We’re not criminals’: what Just Stop Oil’s poster girls told me

Whatever you think of Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland’s decision to throw soup at one of the world’s most famous paintings, it is undeniable that their act of eco-protest has had an unusual cut-through.

The two Just Stop Oil activists are likely to be given jail terms in September after being found guilty of criminal damage for throwing the contents of two tins of tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in the National Gallery in London.

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The real reason Just Stop Oil target airports

Just Stop Oil’s campaign to infuriate ordinary people has moved up a gear. After bringing traffic to a standstill and disrupting play at the snooker, now its activists are targeting those havens of peace, harmony and low blood pressure: Britain’s bustling airports during the school summer holidays.

A group of JSOers sat themselves down on the floor and locked their hands together at Gatwick’s south terminal yesterday, in an attempt to block the path through security. (Intrepid holidaymakers merely stepped over them and they were swiftly removed.) Now, JSO poster girl Phoebe Plummer – fresh from her conviction for throwing soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers – has popped up at a protest in which paint was sprayed around Heathrow Airport.

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GUNTER: Parks Canada’s wokeism doomed Jasper

Bureaucracy and environmental wokeism did in Jasper.

Wait for it. There will be an onslaught of accusations that climate change is behind the devastation that occurred in the lovely mountain resort in Alberta.

Environmentalists, academics and the current Liberal government have blamed the Fort McMurray fire in 2016, the Lytton fire in 2021 and last summer’s Quebec fires on climate change. Why not blame it for Jasper 2024, too?

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Just Stop Oil Activists Who Threw Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Get Prison Time

Two activists from the protest group Just Stop Oil have been found guilty of criminal damage after throwing tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh‘s Sunflowers.

On October 14 of2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw soup at the painting, housed at the at the National Gallery of Art in London, before super-glueing their hands to the nearby wall.

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I Wrote an Article for Forbes Defending J.D. Vance From Accusations of ‘Climate Denialism’. Forty Eight Hours Later, Forbes Un-Published the Article and Sacked Me as a Contributor

An article I wrote for Forbes about J.D. Vance published on July 18th began as follows:

Within a day of ex-President Trump’s announcement of “climate denier” Mr. J. D. Vance as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, the climate industrial complex and supportive mainstream media had the knives out.

Little did I know that within a day of publishing that article, the knives would come out for me. 

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Hundreds of celebrities rail against ‘injustice’ of Just Stop Oil sentences

Celebrities for public nuisances

More than 700 lawyers, celebrities and artists have called for an urgent meeting with the attorney-general to address the “injustice” of the historic sentences handed to five environmental activists for peaceful protest.

Roger Hallam, 58, was last week jailed for five years for co-ordinating the protest that disrupted the M25 in London over four days in 2022, during which 45 protesters climbed gantries on the motorway, forcing police to stop traffic. Daniel Shaw, 38, Lucia Whittaker de Abreu, 35, Louise Lancaster, 58, and Cressida Gethin, 22, were each given four years after being found guilty along with Hallam of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

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We’re all getting sick of the lectures on climate change

In theory, people being more political sounds great. Less dreary conversations about the weather and the ‘footie’, and more water-coolers surrounded with colleagues fizzing with enthusiasm about democracy and its pleasures. But the actual practice of this presupposes that we will all be open-minded and curious and – unless we are extremely learned about something – that the opinion of all citizens shall be equal. Above all, it fails to observe that pontificating about something you’re not an expert in – just because you have a more elevated station than the people you’re preaching to – totally negates this democratic dream. It simply sets the stage for a silly symphony of busybodies.

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Anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson arrested in Greenland. He faces possible extradition to Japan

BERLIN (AP) — Greenland police said they apprehended veteran environmental activist and anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan.

Watson, a 73-year-old Canadian-American citizen, is a former head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society whose direct action tactics, including high-seas confrontations with whaling vessels, have drawn support from A-list celebrities and featured in the reality television series “Whale Wars.”

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