Dale Vince: Ed Miliband Has Turned Net Zero Toxic

 Green energy tycoon Dale Vince has blamed Ed Miliband for the “toxification of Net Zero” and branded him unfit to become Chancellor. The Telegraph has more.

The Labour donor accused the Energy Secretary of putting “ideology before the economy” and questioned whether he had a grasp of “even the basic notion of value for money”.

Miliband’s spending record in the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) demonstrated his economic incompetence, Vince told the Telegraph.

In particular, the green energy entrepreneur criticised the decision to commit tens of billions of pounds to heat pumps and carbon capture technology, the latter of which remains largely unproven on a global scale.

“It’s about economic competence,” he said. “It’s about having an understanding of even the basic notion of value for money. I question whether he has that when you look at spending decisions like carbon capture and storage.

“It’s madly uneconomic so this makes me question whether he’s putting ideology in front of [the] economy. We need something else from a Chancellor and someone who is more business-like.”

Since his appointment as Energy Secretary in July 2024, Miliband has committed to spending billions of taxpayer cash on green energy technologies as part of his mission to achieve clean power by 2030....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1144

 

UK “emissions” reduction has come at the expense of vital industries

 The UK government loves to boast that it has halved greenhouse gas emissions since 1990.

However, the “emissions” reductions the Government claims are a sleight of hand. They are only reporting their calculated “emissions” within the UK’s borders. All the Government has done is move the generation of “emissions” to other countries.

You can see the obvious problem for net zero zealots: atmospheric carbon dioxide, for example, doesn’t adhere to country borders. It doesn’t say, “Oh, I was emitted in China, so I’ll stay lurking over China.”

This is just the first of the problems with “emission accounting” that David Turver points out.

The UK government’s zeal to reduce emissions is not an environmental success story; it is a sorry tale of industrial destruction – jobs, investment and economic growth have been destroyed, tax revenue forgone and reliance on imported electricity increased – to make Ed Miliband and his acolytes feel and look good at United Nations climate change meetings.

The destruction of electricity generation capacity and the collapse of vital industries should be a source of shame, not celebration, he writes....<<<Read More>>>...

Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Net Zero Dream

 The Net Zero nightmare is collapsing. On Monday, Belgian author and commentator Drieu Godefridi posted the news that should have sent shockwaves through Brussels: the IPCC had formally admitted that its most extreme climate scenario, RCP8.5, is “implausible”. The very pathway that underpinned the entire European Green Deal, trillions in spending, farmer-crushing regulations and two decades of energy-suicide policies across the EU, UK, Canada and Australia has been exposed as fantasy. “The house of cards is falling,” Godefridi writes. “Von der Leyen and the entire EU Deep State are cornered.” Science, he says, demands the explicit repudiation of all EU documents, legislation and communications built on this doomsday scenario – and therefore the repeal of the Green Deal in its entirety.

Roger Pielke Jr., the American political scientist who has tracked this issue for years, put it even more starkly in late April: “RCP8.5 is officially dead.” The international committee responsible for the scenarios feeding into the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report has eliminated the high-end pathways – RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5 and SSP3-7.0 – that have dominated climate research, headlines and policy for the better part of two decades. As the new van Vuuren et al. framework for CMIP7 makes clear, these extreme scenarios are no longer credible....<<<Read More>>>...

Shock New Evidence Showing No Link Between CO2 and Temperature Over Last Three Million Years Stumps Net Zero Activists

 The climate science world (‘settled’ division) is in shock following the discovery in ancient ice cores that levels of carbon dioxide remained stable as the world plunged into an ice age around 2.7 million years ago. Levels of CO2 at around 250 parts per million (ppm) were said to be lower than often assumed with just a 20 ppm movement recorded for the following near three million-year period. In addition, no changes in methane levels were seen in the entire period. Massive decreases in temperature with occasional interglacial rises appear to have occurred without troubling ‘greenhouse’ gas levels, and this revelation has caused near panic in activist circles.

The assumed level three million years ago of CO2 was around 400 ppm, a convenient mark that has been used to explain the subsequent ice age and a drop to 250 ppm. Due to the recently published paper, this explanation has become more problematic and natural climate variation is correctly noted to have occurred with the temperature changes. Alas, similar explanations are mostly ignored in discussing today’s climate changes in the interests of promoting the Net Zero fantasy. Some cling desperately to a dominant CO2 role, including one of the authors of the findings published in Nature. The co-author states that the results suggest even greater climate sensitivity to the warming effect of CO2. In short, there is a great deal of applying the laws of physics and chemistry to one era, but failing to extend the same courtesy to another.The title of the paper, produced by 17 America-based scientists, was enough to set alarm bells ringing in the ‘settled’ science, Net Zero-obsessed community: ‘Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past three million years.’ A related paper examining ocean heat content derived from the ice core record was also published. Carrie Lear, Professor of Past Climates and Earth System Changes at Cardiff University, claimed that the papers “don’t rewrite the role of CO2, they underline how sensitive the climate system is… that is why today’s rapid CO2 rise is so alarming”.

Ah, yes. Even if CO2 movements are minimal, probably within a margin of potential error, they are still responsible for large variations in temperature. The laws of climate science are ‘settled’ – if the trace atmospheric gas CO2 is rising, falling or generally stable, it is almost wholly responsible for large movements in global temperature. Under this rather shaky assumption, humans must stop burning hydrocarbons and return to a neo-Malthusian pre-industrial age...<<<Read More>>>...

Tech giant Microsoft backs EXTINCTION with its support of carbon capture programs

Microsoft's aggressive CO2 removal programs could starve plant life of carbon dioxide, the essential building block of photosynthesis, triggering a catastrophic collapse of ecosystems.

Its Climate Innovation Fund has allocated $793 million toward carbon reduction, catalyzing an additional $12 billion in climate-related investments. The company dominates the carbon credit market, purchasing 63% of global removal volume in 2024 alone.

Carbon capture is a globalist scam to justify centralized energy control while failing to address real pollution. These programs allow corporations to profit from carbon trading while continuing industrial poisoning and geoengineering. Removing CO2 would devastate agriculture, forests and marine phytoplankton – the foundation of the food chain. Past mass extinctions (like the Permian-Triassic event) were driven by carbon cycle disruptions.

Mike Adams warns that every dollar spent on Microsoft funds mass death and urges consumers to shift to Linux, which is open-source, user-friendly and not aligned with depopulation agendas.

Tech giant Microsoft is supporting carbon dioxide (CO2) capture programs, which could trigger a catastrophic collapse of Earth's ecosystems.

The Health Ranger Mike Adams took to Brighteon.social to warn that the tech giant's climate agenda threatens to starve plant life of CO2, the essential building block of photosynthesis. Microsoft's aggressive decarbonization strategy risks an "Extinction Level Event" for humanity and the biosphere, Adams reiterated.

The Natural News founder's post comes as Microsoft accelerates its billion-dollar investments in carbon removal technologies. The Big Tech firm's Climate Innovation Fund, launched in 2020, has already allocated $793 million toward carbon reduction and removal projects, catalyzing an additional $12 billion in climate-related investments.

The company dominates the carbon credit market, purchasing over 63% of global removal volume in 2024 alone. Recent deals include an $800 million agreement with Fidelis and AtmosClear for 6.7 million tons of removals and a 10-year contract for 3.3 million metric tons with Stockholm Exergi.

The latest expansion of Microsoft's carbon removal portfolio includes a July 2025 deal with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) and Denmark's Vestforbrænding to retrofit a waste-to-energy facility with carbon capture technology. The Gaia project, set to launch in 2029, aims to sequester 500,000 tons of CO2 annually while supplying heat to 10,000 homes. Microsoft Senior Director Brian Marrs framed the initiative as aligning with European Union waste policies, stating it "helps unlock more carbon-free energy." ...<<<Read More>>>...

UN relentlessly propagates fear about man-made climate change to grasp control

 The United Nations has again been spreading misinformation and hyperbole, particularly regarding climate change and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels.

The UN’s weather and climate agency, the World Meteorological Organisation, has recently claimed that atmospheric CO2 was up by a “record amount” in 2024. This is not true says Herb Pinder. Recently, the CO2 levels have declined to near extinction of life levels.

The UN is a power-hungry behemoth, relentlessly propagating fear, he says. These latest mistruths are merely part of the UN’s ongoing grasp for control.

There was another menacing headline in the Toronto Sun on 15 October, providing a cogent example of the thesis of my recent column – the deliberate hyperbole and blatant dishonesty of the United Nations. No doubt widely published, from the World Meteorological Organisation (the UN’s weather and climate agency), “CO2 in the atmosphere is up by a record amount in 2024, the biggest one-year jump since recording began in 1957.” This is misleading and likely, for much of the media and its readers, successfully so.

My recent column reviewed estimated CO2 levels of 800 ppm, 600 million years ago, 20 times higher than today, and 500 million years ago, 10 times higher. For reasons no one can claim with any assurance, more recently, the level of CO2 declined very close to the extinction level of 150 ppm. An important and relevant observation pointed out by my Editor – the end game of Net Zero is, by definition, also the end of life.

Previously explained but worth repeating, the unique mix of water, carbon dioxide and oxygen fosters life on Earth.

Eliminate any of them, and plant, animal and human life terminates. The Net Zero objective is a silly and impossible outcome, also revealing the paucity of science underlying the climate crisis...<<<Read More>>>...