The Simple Empirical Observation That Blows the CO2 Climate Narrative Out of the Water

 There's a simple empirical observative that blows the CO2 climate narrative out the water; it's the inconvenient fact that winter has warmed much more than summer.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

The above principle, stated by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, is one of the foundations of science, yet this seems to have eluded many in the world of climate science.

If rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is the primary driver of recent warming, we should expect relatively uniform warming across the months of the year. Carbon dioxide is a well-mixed gas; its radiative effect does not change strongly from one month to the next. The world’s longest continuous instrumental temperature record tells a different story....<<<Read More>>>....

The longest continuous temperature record proves CO2 does not drive climate change

 An analysis of the Central England Temperature record, the longest continuous instrumental temperature record in the world, from 1659 to 2025 shows that carbon dioxide (CO2) cannot be the driver of global warming, also commonly referred to as “climate change.”

Stephen Andrews presents a more viable explanation for global warming: the Cosmic Ray Hypothesis.

If rising atmospheric carbon dioxide is the primary driver of recent warming, we should expect relatively uniform warming across the months of the year. Carbon dioxide is a well-mixed gas; its radiative effect does not change strongly from one month to the next. The world’s longest continuous instrumental temperature record tells a different story...<<<Read More>>>...

Burnham and Healey Set to Defy Miliband Over Rosebank Oil Field

 Andy Burnham is ready to defy Ed Miliband by giving the go-ahead to drill the North Sea’s Rosebank oil field. The Mail has the story:

Whitehall sources revealed that the Prime Minister and Chancellor John Healey are plotting to override the opposition of Mr Miliband and Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh by pumping Rosebank’s 500 million barrels of oil.

Mr Miliband has previously referred to proposals for the oil field as “climate vandalism”.

The decision is understood to have been reached during tense preparations for Wednesday’s Budget, which have highlighted the fragile state of the nation’s finances, the lack of growth in the economy and the destabilising effect of high energy prices.

Mr Healey is struggling to put together a package of support for low-income families and suffering businesses against a backdrop of high Government borrowing costs and shrinking ‘fiscal headroom’ – the cushion of extra money kept by the Treasury as an insurance against unforeseen hits to the economy.

Drilling Rosebank would be a further blow for those environmentalists and Labour MPs who objected to a decision last week to approve the exploitation of the Jackdaw gas field.

They say Rosebank, which lies 80 miles west of the Shetlands and is the UK’s largest undeveloped oil and gas field, would emit seven times the carbon dioxide of Jackdaw.

More than 90% of its reserves are oil, the majority of which is likely to be exported to the global market....<<<Read More>>>...

Food for Thought #1306

 

Lord Christopher Monckton: “The CO2 storyline has purely been the pretext which they are using in order to establish a global government” (2015)

 In 2015, Lord Christopher Monckton exposed that, since the early 1990s, the “evidence” for anthropogenic climate change has been spurious. He also explained the real agenda behind the climate change alarmist narrative.

“This entire process of saying there is a global problem that requires the West to shut down itself and to subsidise the rest of the world is a double whammy … They’ve been trying to achieve this at the UN for a long time,” he said.

“Only four years after the IPCC had been set up … already, the UN was planning to use [climate change] as a way of making itself into a global government … The CO2 storyline has purely been the pretext which they are using in order to establish a global government.” 

 

To be able to establish a One World Government, “They had to say there was a global problem and only global action can solve it. That’s why they chose CO2,” he said....<<<Read More>>>....

Debate Intensifies Over Climate-Focused Environmental Policy and the Role of Carbon Dioxide

 An article published Sept. 11, 2026, by Watts Up With That? examines what it describes as a shift in environmental priorities away from traditional conservation concerns and toward a dominant focus on climate change. According to the article, carbon dioxide is beneficial for plants, and the climate change narrative is misleading. The piece further states that this narrative has been used to restrict domestic energy production.

The article's central argument is that environmentalism has been reframed around a single variable – atmospheric carbon dioxide – at the expense of other priorities such as pollution control, habitat protection, and access to clean water. It cites historical accounts of environmentalism that emphasize conservation and public health and contends that the current framework has narrowed the scope of environmental concern. 

The article states that carbon dioxide is required for photosynthesis and is beneficial to plant growth. According to the article, higher CO2 concentrations can increase plant productivity. A 2011 interim report on the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that an extra 450 ppm of CO2 increased the fresh weight of spinach shoots by about 67 percent and their dry weight by approximately 57 percent, and boosted soluble sugar concentrations by approximately 29 percent and soluble protein concentrations by about 52 percent.

Mainstream agencies classify CO2 as a pollutant, the article notes, while critics dispute that characterization. In 2009, the EPA issued an Endangerment Finding declaring carbon dioxide a pollutant; on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled "Unleashing American Energy," directing EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to reassess that finding. A 2018 article argued that CO2 levels of 800 to 1,200 ppm would unleash reforestation, greening, and food crop production....<<<Read More>>>...

 

‘Supercharged’ Global Greening in African Savannah: CO2 Brings Huge Boost to Grass Growth

 Global greening is being supercharged in the African savannah, new research published in Nature has found, with higher CO2 levels driving a 28% increase in plant growth in just 32 years, writes Andrew Sibley.

More evidence of global greening from carbon dioxide fertilisation has been published in the prestigious publication Nature. The research involved 70 experiments and three decades of field data from many locations in the savannah of South Africa’s Kruger National Park. The international scientific team was led by Dr Kimberley Simpson of the University of Sheffield, the paper entitled ‘Increasing CO₂ levels fertilise C4 grass production‘. Phys.org reported the study as follows: ‘Rising carbon dioxide is supercharging grass growth in African savannas, study finds.’ The latest study challenges the previously held view that the dominant grasses in the savannah (known as ‘C4’) benefit little from rising levels of carbon dioxide...<<<Read More>>>....

The Climate Debate Was Never About Saving the Planet vs Doing Nothing – it Was Always About Statism vs the Free Market

 In a recent monologue on climate change, LBC radio host James O’Brien hit out at politicians opposing Net Zero, framing them as in denial of objective reality. To many on that side of the debate, a simple opposition to EV mandates, dietary changes, ULEZ, accelerated deindustrialisation, or any other harmful policies associated with Net Zero is a rallying cry of climate denial. They tell us how many jobs the Government is creating, and how good for everyone the Climate Change Committee’s advice will be.

Anyone suffering high energy costs and industry layoffs can see that promises of Net Zero bringing prosperity are plainly untrue.

While niche left-wing blogs might accuse us all of climate vandalism, the reality is far removed from this. I am not a climate denier, nor have I ever been one. Millions of Net Zero sceptics aren’t either; many realise that what was once an aspirational target has now hardened into a stifling reality. Some of us didn’t grasp it in 2019, when the Climate Change Act amendment was passed, but the blatant statism that goes along with a statutory target of Net Zero by 2050 is now hard to deny....<<<Read More>>>...

ENSO events, not CO2, are a driver of global temperatures

 On the natural climate driver side, we disagree, which fuels debate. No one marches in lockstep toward an agenda-driven goal where the only disagreement is over how to doom-and-gloom each other.

Recently, a movement to discredit the global temperature has arisen on the premise that it’s not truly a physical or thermodynamic process as a climate variable. I see where these people are coming from, and why, but I disagree that statistical measurement is meaningless. The hype is the problem, as it tries to portray the planet as something boiling away and then jumps to man-made emissions without considering other factors, as I will show below.

But to me, and most meteorologists and climate people, [statistical measurement is] far from meaningless; it supplies a view of the scorecard of the duel between warm and cold. And if we know what drives that, then we can conclude heat is being added to the atmosphere.

The upcoming El Niño exposes the idea that it is man-made emissions driving the climate. Those pushing that idea are all drooling at the temperature spike that is coming. So right there, the visible real-world evidence of the oceans warming the air is in front of them. They don’t even know they set up their own circular firing squad.

Here, in a nutshell, is their claim: Man-made emissions warm the atmosphere and trap heat. The oceans warm because of that, and then, El Niño releases the warmth back into the air....<<<Read More>>>...

Cloud cover, not CO2, is a driver of global warming

 

A July 2026 Environmental Research Letters paper authored by Bellocchi et al. attributes ~80% of the rise in Earth’s absorbed solar radiation since 2000 to declining high-reflectivity cloud cover, primarily from circulation-driven contraction of storm-cloud zones.

The study highlights the climate’s “albedo governance,” suggesting a 1% shift in Earth’s albedo corresponds to a 1°C surface temperature change.

With more cloud cover, more solar radiation is reflected and the surface cools. With declining cloud albedo, which has been observed since 1980, less solar radiation is reflected and the surface warms.

Cloud cover changes are driven by natural atmospheric circulation modes and internal variability. This is supported by reconstruction data showing cloud cover decline has for centuries occurred independently from “greenhouse-gas forcing.”....<<<Read More>>>....

Global Greening Hits New Record as Climate Emergency Fails to Materialise

Global mean vegetation greening reached a record high last year, extending an already significant multi-decade upward trend, according to recent findings published in Nature. In fact, 2025 set a record for global vegetation greening with a steepening of the average trend. Top of the list with 77.6% showing extra greening was croplands, meaning more food is becoming available to boost global diets.

This greening story – a tale that gets more impressive every year – is largely absent from the mainstream media. It was certainly missing from a recent climate contribution from Sandwich-board Stanley (a.k.a. Tim Stanley of the Telegraph) who made an unsourced claim that one third of the agricultural production of Bangladesh “is feared to vanish by 2050”. Happily, there is no sign of that invented fear coming true since agricultural production has more than doubled in the country since the turn of the century. Notes Stanley: “The evidence is stacking up – we only have to look out of our windows,” a comment that suggests journalists hired to broadcast opinions and beliefs should steer well clear of science where data and facts are given a higher priority.

Back in the real increasingly verdant world, the Nature-published scientists note that herbaceous ecosystems such as grasslands and crop fields dominate the greening signal. 72.1% of grasslands showed greening while the overall satellite data reveal 68.% of the total vegetation area showed improvement, up from the previous record set last year of 67.7%. Greening ‘hotspots’ were observed in southern Africa, southern South America, northern Australia, Europe, central North America and northern China. Some ‘browning’ was observed in eastern Siberia, and this was attributed to anomalously cold growing-season temperatures.

The Case for EVs Has Failed

 The pantomime scene called 'CO2 Is Innocent But Let's Blame It For A Non-Existent Crisis" is in full swing but people have woken up and have seen through the deception

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UK Net Zero policy aims at balancing the production and removal of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide by 2050. The primary greenhouse gas from transport is CO2 produced by burning fuels containing carbon such as petrol and diesel in conventional internal combustion vehicles. The entire Vehicle Excise Duty regime pivots on this single metric. Current Government transport policy is aimed at reducing CO2 emissions to help meet Net Zero targets. In addition, Government documents also mention as objectives reducing local pollution from transport, improving connectivity across Britain, growing the economy by enhancing the transport network and increasing the global impact of the UK to boost influence and maximise trade. However, these other objectives are not clearly prioritised, the costs and challenges of implementation are not specified and flagrant contradictions between these different aims are simply ignored.

The scale of the challenge of ‘decarbonising’ transport is very large. Transport accounts for 26% of total UK emissions, which is 0.27% of total global emissions. As a rough guide from Government statistics, the major contributing sectors to transport emissions are road transport (70%), aviation (20%) and marine (8%). In Great Britain, there are around 42 million registered road vehicles – 34 million cars, five million vans and 0.8 million heavy goods vehicles and buses. Of these vehicles, as of March 2025 only 1.5 million were pure battery electric vehicles. Cars and vans account for about half while heavy goods vehicles and buses account for 15% of total transport CO2....<<<Read More>>>...

UN declares every nation has a legal duty to obey its climate decrees – or face the consequences

More and more people recognise that the so-called climate emergency is not about the Earth’s climate but is a vehicle for wealth redistribution, central planning and eroding national borders in favour of supranational governance.

So the UN is trying to muscle in, take control and force its climate scam on all nations. The Globalist organisation has taken it upon itself to declare that its climate decrees are “international law” and nations must obey or face the consequences.

Irrespective of what the UN or any of its puppets say or do, we must never lose sight of the facts: CO2, the gas of life, is not the enemy; centralised power pretending to save the planet at the expense of liberty is....<<<Read More>>>...

UK’s Net Zero costs are soaring out of control

In the following article, David Turver demonstrates how the UK electricity grid expansion for Clean Power 2030 is in chaos. Costs are exploding and projects are massively delayed.

When the National Energy System Operator (“NESO”) produced their plan to deliver Ed Miliband’s Clean Power 2030 (“CP2030”) goal, they said that all the planned transmission grid expansion works must be built on time and that “involves twice as much in the next five years as was built in total over the last decade.” From the outset, delivering on that part of CP2030 was always a tall order.

I have been contacted by several people over the past few weeks highlighting several issues that indicate these ambitious plans (some may say fantastical) will probably not be achieved. For those of us sceptical of Net Zero generally and Clean Power 2030 in particular, this represents both good news and bad news.

First, the good news: Slipping schedules means they will not spend all the money earmarked for grid expansion, which ought to mean our bills do not go up as much as feared. The bad news is that, based on the limited data available, it looks like the costs of this work are soaring out of control.

Let’s dig into the details, beginning with the bad news so that we can end on a high note....<<<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>>>...

Climate change and biotechnology agendas merge, as promoted by Associated Press

 On 10 April, the Associated Press made the ridiculously false claim that “climate change” is outpacing evolution, putting 1 million species at risk of extinction.

The claim was made to promote their “solution”: Genetic engineering of the natural world.

Conservation genomics, AP said, will help species adapt faster than evolution normally allows. And of course, so AP claimed, reducing emissions and protecting habitats is also necessary.

Anthony Watts explains why AP is talking a load of baloney.

The Associated Press (“AP”) claims in ‘Climate change is outpacing evolution. Scientists are using DNA to catch up’ that climate change is moving so fast that species cannot adapt quickly enough, forcing scientists to intervene genetically. This is ridiculous and false. The dramatic comparison between evolutionary timescales and modern warming is rhetorically powerful but scientifically shallow, and it ignores how evolution, ecological adaptation and climate variability actually work.

The article opens with the declarative line, “Evolution works over millennia. Climate change is moving far faster.” That framing sets up the entire scare narrative. It suggests an unprecedented mismatch between biology and climate that will inevitably result in ecosystem collapse.

But the time comparison AP made is completely irrelevant.....<<<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>>>...

Dale Vince Slams Heat Pumps as Overhyped and Mis-Sold

In comments sure to rile Ed Miliband, green energy tycoon Dale Vince, speaking to the Telegraph’s Alex Marsh, says heat pumps are overhyped and mis-sold, warning that Labour’s Warm Homes Plan could leave the country’s poor out in the cold. Here’s an excerpt:

“I’ve been using heat pumps for 20 years,” he says. “I know what they can and can’t do. The idea that you can get your bills down is going to be a very rare case.”

As one of Britain’s foremost green energy tycoons, Vince’s cynicism is striking. His declaration that heat pumps have been “mis-sold” has made national headlines at a time when Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, is heavily pushing them – not least because Vince has donated around £5 million to Labour.

Miliband’s latest green energy announcement, the Warm Homes Plan, sets aside £2.7 billion to fund heat pump grants worth £7,500 each, with a target to hit 450,000 installations a year by 2030.

Heat pumps warm homes by drawing air from the outside, and are considered a low-carbon alternative to a boiler as they run on electricity rather than gas.

Yet many – including Vince – are doubtful that the economics of installing a heat pump stack up at a time when Britain’s electricity costs remain among the highest in the world.

“Gas is a quarter of the price of electricity so a heat pump has a monumental task ahead of it just to keep bills the same,” Vince says.

To prove cost-effective, a heat pump needs a coefficient of performance – the measure of how much heat is produced per unit of electricity used – of four. According to a Government-funded report published at the end of 2024, the average is around 2.8, which Vince says would push an energy bill up by 30%.

Telegraph analysis has found it costs £80 a year more to keep a home warm with a heat pump than a gas boiler in Britain. Research by the Green Britain Foundation, a charity founded by Vince, revealed that two-thirds of heat pump owners find that their home is now more expensive to heat than under their old heating system....<<<Read More>>>...

The Nutty £4 Billion Scheme to Pipe Carbon Dioxide 120 Miles That Risks Asphyxiating Those in its Path

 Only a complete eco-nutter would want to compress carbon dioxide to dangerous asphyxiating levels and then run it through a three foot-wide near-surface metal pipe costing at least half a billion pounds, along a 120-mile path near human conurbations strewn with subsidence-causing, uncharted, ancient mines. 

At a hopefully intact end, the highly pressurised CO₂ is then tipped into a former gas hole in the Irish Sea where over time it is likely to escape as the numerous mining caps start to fail. Add in another £4 billion for the whole pointless and potentially dangerous carbon capture project, and it is all in a day’s spending for the Miliband-led lunatics. Small change, of course, for the lying (‘wind is cheaper than gas’), dishonest (‘grid will be 95% renewables in 46 months’ time’) freaks involved in a political attempt to wreck the British economy on the pretext that ‘settled’ science says we should all freak out about the gas of life.

The Peak Cluster CO₂ pipeline is in early planning and public consultation stages, and it aims to take the gas from four cement and lime factories in Derbyshire and Staffordshire. It will run through Staffordshire, Cheshire and the Wirral and connect to an offshore storage site in depleted gas reserves under Morecambe Bay. The pipeline is said to be the world’s largest cement decarbonisation initiative, capturing three million tonnes of CO₂ a year. This amounts to just 0.00008% of global emissions, or if you prefer fractions, 1/1,266,667. The effect on any global temperature movement can fairly be said to be unmeasurable. In total, the sinister, hard-Left Net Zero minister Miliband plans to spend over £20 billion of borrowed state money to capture equally miniscule amounts of CO₂ in a number of other sites over the next 20 years.

But at least impoverished UK taxpayers can sleep easy in their beds knowing they are leading the world in exciting new green technologies....<<<Read More>>>...