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Why climate catastrophism is a cult, and why that should worry you.

If Renewables are the cheapest form of energy, why does the EU need a carbon border tax to protect EU based industries?

“There are two reasons that gas is more expensive in California, and neither of them have to do with price gouging. The first reason, which we’re all very familiar with, is the extra taxes that are added on,” Edward...

The ideological environmental movement imposes the views of mostly wealthy, comfortable Americans and Europeans on mostly poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans...

Elliott’s entire piece is a blend of disaster-porn, wishful thinking, and eco-moralism. He claims we’re on a runaway train of global capitalism, hurling toward an apocalyptic climate breakdown. His solution? Pull the...

A radical new plan to reduce international air travel from Europe to minimal levels over the next few years has been proposed by a group of Net Zero fanatics led by the New Economics Foundation (NEF)...

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Germany’s economic situation has deteriorated drastically this year. Instead of the expected growth, Economics Minister Robert Habeck is now forecasting a decline in economic output. Originally a plus of 0.3 percent was...

It’s time to stop making Western taxpayers sacrificial lambs at the altar of climate politics while countries like India and China burn huge amounts of fossil fuels to the benefit of their people.

ESG investment momentum has slowed on both sides of the Atlantic since 2022. In 2022, for the first time in more than a decade, investors pulled more money from funds marketed as “sustainable” than they added. In the...

In any case, here is an even greater mystery: why are people who are sat shivering at home in poorly insulated, under-heated social housing paying about twice as much per kWh for off-peak electricity as EV owners, swanning...

Kincardine produced 144 GWh last year, so the total cost equates to £562/MWh. They have a PPA in place which generated £13.3m at £92/MWh. On top of that ROC subsidies worked out at £217/MWh

As we can see, the ONS survey is full of these make-work schemes providing jobs that can only exist by rigging free markets and providing eye-watering subsidies from consumers and taxpayers...

The addition of the newer, cheaper offshore wind farms has not had a significant impact on the subsidy per MWh. The reduction in average strike price has been overwhelmed by a combination of the indexation upwards in April...

Out in the real world where serious money talks, it is becoming obvious that the conclusion has been drawn that many green technologies, unless subsidised by the state, provide profit-free, second-rate solutions to problems...