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It’s worse then we thought – again!

“Scotland experiencing hottest day of the year so far”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2wwwl73reo

Not just the UK “experiencing hottest day of the year so far” – now it is a part. Coming soon – before summer, I guess – “Kent [or Lancashire, or Argyllshire] experiencing hottest day of the year so far”.

Then Derby – or Preston or Chipping Sodbury – experiencing the hottest …

Then Station Approach [but not Main Road], Little Glossop experiencing …

Be afraid – be very afraid – we have never had anything like this – er, since last year [but whisper that last bit]!

It’s completely unprecedented [since the depths of the winter just gone].

All very sad.

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So, the UK’s national finances are in a mess – as a nation, we MUST pay north of £100,000 million, each year, in interest payments [not paying a penny off the outstanding debt, note].

One reason [there probably are many] is the green nonsense – here is one example: –

Council to spend £10m to decarbonise buildings [Oxfordshire]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdxz003rmzo

Also being spent – a grant from Westminster of £360,000.

And this will save 333 tonnes of plant food [CO2]. This week? This year? this century? The council doesn’t know, or the BBC [them!] doesn’t care or won’t say.

Now, ‘some’ of the works ‘would need doing, even without decarbonisation’ … “In addition, a reactive only maintenance approach has left much of the council’s estate in very poor-quality condition, with many components past their expected working life and in need of replacement irrespective of the carbon neutrality target.”

Appalling management, then. But we’ve suckered London – and our ratepayers – for millions.

And China is still burning 13,000,000 tonnes of coal every day.

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Government spaffing our money (and a BBC team credulously boosting it) on a ‘new’ carbon capture adventure.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr788kljlklo

I understand the University taking grant money. It is what they have to do. But the Government (and Civil Service) – surely – need to think about the places they spaff taxpayers’ money.

This particular adventure threatens the entire marine ecosystem, they say, by changing the amount of dissolved CO2 in the water; may need much of the oceans to be covered in solar panels (storms at sea may affect their lifespan), and need to pump 1% of the water in the oceans (a year?, didn’t say … ): that’s about five million cubic kilometres a year.

Oh wow!

Do note the use of ‘consensus’ and ‘believe’ early in the piece.

and making the seawater more acidic… (and then more alkaline); it is unclear where the chemicals (and permits!) to do this will come from …and the charred cocoanut husks – there’ll be no room in the tropics for solar panels if this is scaled up!!

Quote – “Removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is essential in helping us achieve net zero,” says energy minister Kerry McCarthy. End quote.

But Nut Zero is itself wholly unnecessary!

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BBC again – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23meelzelgo

“Rowing research finds UK seas are warming”

“Data, collected by rowers who circumnavigated Great Britain and analysed by university researchers, has found that sea temperatures have risen. A report by the University of Portsmouth and GB Row Challenge found UK seas were, on average, 0.39C (32.7F) warmer in 2023 compared to 2022. The data was collected by a crew who took part in the 2023 GB Row Challenge which saw participants travel more than 2000 miles (3219 km) around Britain. Professor of environmental pollution at the University of Portsmouth, Fay Couceiro, said: “We expect fluctuations but we don’t want to see this increasing number of marine heatwaves.” Some regions, including the Celtic and Irish Seas and the northern North Sea, experienced temperature increases exceeding 2C (35.6F), during a marine heatwave.”

One year.

I wonder if Professor Fay Couceiro has heard of weather. Or natural variability.

And the BBC – surely not the good professor – has carefully converted DIFFERENCES in temperatures, as if they are temperatures outside … And, of course, accurately [ISH]. [More than 2000 miles – 3219 kilometres!] But, hey, the author of the bit on the Beeb is Curtis Lancaster, who has a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Media and Entertainment Technology h/t Linked-In.

Finally, hats off to the rowers – no mean feat to row round Great Britain – 2000 miles plus! – and possibly in some – ah – entertaining weather!

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‘Subsidy free’ wind turbines – claim promulgated by the BBC [in one case, at least].
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmk94zgekyo
“Developers hope to put up 22 turbines measuring 115m (377ft) in place of 23 existing 41.5m (136ft) ones at Cold Northcott Farm in St Clether near Launceston.”

These will be MUCH taller than the ones they replace [I wonder how old the ‘old’ ones are, needing replacement].
“In a statement, the applicants, said: “The proposed development is conservatively modelled to produce sufficient renewable electricity to power approximately 10% of homes in Cornwall. The development will be subsidy-free and provide a reliable income stream for the benefit of the wide range of local farmers involved in the project and enhancing Cornwall’s energy supply security.””
No subsidy at all? No constraint payments down in deepest Cornwall? No help to meet demand when the wind doesn’t blow?

Auto, not really bemused at the BBC’s insouciance with the verifiable truth.

Reepham school told to limit use of ‘noisy’ heat pumps – BBC News

“School told to limit use of ‘noisy’ heat pumps”

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“UK pledges to make electric cars cheaper to buy”

Electric car purchases will be cheaper, pledges Heidi Alexander – BBC News

The Transport Secretary said “I can guarantee to your viewers that we will be making it cheaper for those who do want to make the switch to an electric vehicle.” 

The Transport secretary did not say “I can guarantee that we will have dispatchable power to enable you to charge your electric car, subsidised by the taxpayer.”

Nor was there any sense that the Government was giving us our own money back, if we want an electric car – but after charging us costs for the Civil Servants … and much of thje purchase price will go to China.

Delusional – or committed to the downfall of the UK.

You judge.

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Bird choppers – on steroids …

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2025/08/05/153-metre-wind-turbine-blades-head-to-testing-after-leaving-chinas-yantai-port/

“153-Metre Wind Turbine Blades Head to Testing After Leaving China’s Yantai Port”

“The ultra-long blades for what will be the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine have been shipped from Yantai Port in China’s northeastern Shandong province and are en route to a test base.”

“Three blades, each measuring 153 metres long and weighing 83.5 tonnes, were loaded at the Port of Yantai on 1 August. The ultra-long blades are planned to be installed on a 26 MW offshore wind turbine, which is being developed by Dongfang Electric Corporation.”

So 26 MW from one bird chopper.  If the wind blows nicely.

“The wind turbine’s hub centre is 185 metres high”  – add 153 metres, and tips of the blades will be not less then 338 metres high [depending on the dimensions of the hub and generator nacelle at the top of the – er – pole]!

Nearly a hundred feet taller than the Shard …

3 blades – just over 250 tonnes, plus the nacelle.

Could the UK manufacture anything like this, in these days of ‘gween energy’?

Let alone do so at a modest profit?

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New satellite will help ‘transform’ forecasting capability – Met Office

Nice words, including –

“Met Office Managing Director of Products and Services Simon Brown is part of the team that represents UK and Met Office interests within EUMETSAT. Speaking ahead of the launch, he said: “Trusted weather and climate intelligence begins with having the most detailed and accurate observations you can, “

My bold.

Obviously Simon Brown doesn’t know – or, conceivably, doesn’t want to know – about the Met. Office’s own Class 4 and Class 5 sites. The latter are ‘accurate’ [is that the word?] to +/- 5 Centigrade [9F!].

No doubt the new satellite – to be launched on 13 August 2025, will help with observations … but if they get homogenised, or adjusted, or ‘tampered with’, or “Fiddled”, they lose some of their value – as Simon Brown indicates.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxyezqx4r5o“Erin rapidly intensifies to category five hurricane”

More misdirection it seems
Although the BBC report includes – “Hurricane Erin has rapidly intensified into a category five hurricane, packing maximum sustained winds of 160mph (260km/h). National Hurricane Center Director Mike Brennan told a briefing that the “extremely powerful” storm had “explosively deepened and intensified” overnight after growing from tropical storm strength on Friday.”

Category 5?

Ventusky suggests that this storm, still out in the Atlantic, where nobody much is able to see – let alone measure – it, is possibly not possessed of hurricane [>64kt] winds at ‘ground level’ – perhaps 60-66 Kt winds, at 10 m above sea level.
Certainly at greater altitudes, the wind is stronger – I’ve spotted winds north of 85 kts at about 2000 metres.

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“Fifteen illegal workers arrested at solar farm”

Fifteen illegal workers arrested at solar farm in Bristol – BBC News

“Supported by Avon and Somerset Police, the Home Office’s Immigration Enforcement team arrested 15 illegal workers at the Goldbeck Solar Farm in Bristol.”

Plainly, employment law is complex.

This is certainly not Chinese slave labour – “Those arrested were of Kazakhstani, Turkish, Georgian, Uzbekistani, Kyrgyz and Tajikistani nationalities, and 13 had entered the UK on temporary work visas. All 13 submitted asylum claims prior to their visas expiring. Of these, 10 claims remain outstanding and three claims have been refused.”

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ECO4 and the Great British Insulation Scheme

“30,000 homes fitted with botched insulation under government schemes, ministers admit”

[So roughly one home in a thousand across the entire United Kingdom!]

30,000 homes fitted with botched insulation under government schemes, ministers admit – BBC News

Whilst sensible insulation is often a good thing, if it cuts people’s bills – net! over, perhaps 10 years – the demented green fixation with a trace gas has been seen to allow clown outfits to rip people off.

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Met Office warns – wind may blow leaves about!

Shock!! Horror!!*

UK weather: Met Office issues rain and wind warnings as named storm possible – BBC Weather

Ahhh … it’s the Beloved Bolshevik Conspiracy exaggerating an already over-egged Met. Office warning of autumn gales … in – wait! – autumn.

“Met Office yellow weather warnings have been issued for wind and rain impacts on Thursday in the United Kingdom. This severe weather come as a deepening area of low pressure heads across southern England that has the potential to be a named storm.”

The money quote, however; –

“Impacts for the UK do not look severe enough for the Met Office to name this weather system.”

It’ll rain, locally heavily, no doubt, somewhere [tho the BBC certainly can’t say where!]. And windy, with gusts i the usual places – up mountains, off coastel headlands, etc.

But another chance to ‘raise consciousness’ of the weather [in the UK, FFS!] – and its intimate link to meat-eating, driving a car, being free, making your own mind up and all the rest that the Blob frowns on.

Remember masks?!

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