Peter C Glover's WIRES (blog)

The above titled piece from me was published by Energy Tribune this month. Go here.

The above titled piece (co-written with Professor Michael Economides) has just been published over at Energy Tribune in the Features section. If you want to know the true cost of politically correct, taxpayer-funded, windy rhetoric, you'll find it here.

TCSDaily has today published a piece I co-wrote with Professor Michael Economides which reveals just what a great scam the wind farm/ turbine industry actually is. This particluar version of the article was written for the US market, to warn them/US taxpayers about the massive dangers and enormous technical problems that are associated with the industry.

So much so, that only taxpayers in the major wind power countries will invest in it. No one else, as we say in the piece, would be so stupid as to (invest private equity, or) "touch it with a wind turbine rotor blade"!

To read the piece go to 'Blowin' In The Wind' at TCS Daily. 

In the face of growing energy realities EU nations are - in the face of the EU's usual idealistic fuzziness - is being forced down the nuclear path. Political wets, greens and countless head in the cloud environmentalists are still in denial over the enormous contribution clean nuclear power is going to make to all our futures. National energy security considerations are currently driving EU states making nuclear power a key plank of EU energy policy as my piece Europe's New Nuclear Age reveals. . 

Waling around with a propeller strapped to your head may suit the David Cameron's of this world but the rest of us living on Planet Reality continue to prefer to drink cold beers from our fridge, turn on our computers at all hours and shower in hot water. If Cameron was an honest man he would admit he is no different. But as he isn't...

Some of the articles I have recently been drafting for Energy Tribune magazine and online  - including today's 'Climate Change - the EU's Mission Impossible' have now been published online as well as Tribune's August EU special magazine.

Others by me and just published include:
The Great EU Energy Policy Switchover (on the impossiblility of the EU meeting renewables targets)
 The EU & Russia: An Uneasy Oil and Gas Bond (a two-parter on the interesting three-way energy relation between the EU-Russia-Germany) and (with Robert Bryce) The EU and US Energy Markets: side by side (analysing relative energy consumptions et al).

From the Sepember issue I will be covering energy and energy poltiics issues for both ET's Europe and Middle East sections including an interesting look ahead entitled: Does the Middle East Matter? 

Our finest moral minds will be preaching 'a better way' to you at Live EarthI don't normally double-up on postings on both of my sites. However, given the scale of the global idiocy pandemic associated with the parading of gullibility (by a generation which prides itself on being 'anti-establishment) endemic in the Live Earth project...

Here's what appears in a post today over at Global Warming Hysteria.  Now don't you get fooled again...!

It has always been a paradox that the anti-establishment 'music can change the world' generation tends to be the first to line up and parade its anti-intellectual gullibility buying into the latest mass media 'establishment's' populist and scary propaganda.  Live Earth is just the latest naive manifestation.

Even parts of the mainstream media are beginning to grasp the irony of the situation. Here's is a key excerpt from a recent piece at Reuters: 

'Glitz and glamour risk making the fight against climate change sound like a passing fad championed by a bunch of hedonists'

 

It does indeed - not the mention the irony of hundreds of stars jetting about the world having given themselves a-moral (on their own hypothesis) CO2 passes.  But then it is surely because they are more important than the rest of us? And all that's before we get to the real science which reveals warming stopped in 1998, the sun, not CO2, is responsible for that warming and we have had less than a degree of warming when, at times in history, it was far warmer.

 

The above quote is taken from 'Can stars save the plant'. The answer must surely be a simple: No chance -- given they are such hypocrites who believe themselves exempt from their own strictures on  CO2 emissions. (Why, for instance, not erect a giant screen and beam performances live from wherever these guys happened to be?) Imagine if Jesus Christ had preached the sermon on the mount - then gone off for a 'clandestine' weekend in Capernaum - and you get the picture. 

 

I also note the criticism Live Earth has had from some rock stars including Bob Geldof and Coldplay, including from one of my favourite bands, The Who. They are not performing (though hardly - see link - for the best of intellectual reasons). Won't get fooled again? If you are a subscriber to the Sucker for Propaganda Generation you will.

I have been pleasantly surprised that not to many reports appear to have invoked climate change during the recent national floods in the UK - and rightly so.  To do so, of course, they would have to mention global warming as the prime cause - and Britain has had (April apart) the lousiest and coolest May and June for some years.. 

Not to long ago many environmental alarmists were bleating about the threat of widespread drought. Those voices have gone strangely quiet. Essentially, as bad as it has been, it has just rained heavily. And if the flooding is testimony to anything it is testimony to the continuing foolishness of policies which allow building on flood plains (where much of the flooding has taken place) which are there, un-built-on previously, for a reason.

Game, set and match to the pragmatic local planning offices which decided to ignore history and build houses on sites coveted by our waterways.  

NB. Not many Brits, I think, will today be reading a new UN study which suggests that "desertification" is destined to become the "greatest environmental challenge of our times". Not in the UK I think - and not if the increasing scientific evidence, that slight global warming periods are, historically, precursors to far more serious global cooling periods, is right either. (Anticipated around 2011-2 onwards. For more read recent postings at my Global Warming Hysteria site.)

Well, the answer is not very. In fact, more a sort of yellowy-brownish, if you get my drift - and the same goes for the Green hypocrite Forrest Gump Cameron. I am currently working on a couple of energy articles for publication that show that that the Prius, the prince of Green cars, is NOT as green as we all thought (once you take into account the ludicrously high energy and environment cost put into its manufacture - you will NOT believe this!) and neither too are allegedly low-energy light bulbs that environmentally-friendly either.

However, this week's concern has to be over the Chancellor's apparent decision to double the road tax bill for Brits, should be a real warning to us all of more that is to come. And here is where we ought to start getting very annoyed at the Green lobbies and at those who have been too ignorant to grasp just how much this issue is not just about aesthetic debate - it is about hitting us all hard in the pocket too.  The joint ignorance of politicians and voters is going to cost all of us (and it'll hit the poor the hardest) hard cash as these taxes pile up - and for no environmental benefit whatsoever - even if we believe the climate alarmists.

So if you don't want to find yourself paying a raft of useless taxes (unless you want the windfall this will give central government) get on over to Global Warming Hysteria.com and do some reading!  

A New York audience invited to a debate on whether global warming amounted to a crisis voted 57.3% to 29.9% that it was a crisis BEFORE the debate took place. But, AFTER hearing the open debate between 3 sceptics and 3 alarmists, they flipped their decision 46.22% to 42.22% finding that GW is NOT a global crisis issue.

What was witnessed at the Asia Society debate forum this week was a microcosm  of the power of genuine debate when the playing field for both sides is levelled with only science facts and reasoned argumentation at their disposal. 

For more details, including the audience cheering when Michael Crichton called for ALL private jets to be scrapped - the alarmist organizations are headed by some of the worst private jet flying polluters - and for environmentalists to actually practice themselves what they preach others should do. They don't of course - they buy 'moral' carbon offsets instead.  Al Gore's home is among the worst CO2 producing homes on the planet. Go here for more.

I hate to mention GW once more here, but this (on my sister site) evidence you HAVE to see if you don't want to find yourself being a gullible mug over global warming and climate change. The eivdence for a warming across the whole solar system, not just Earth, is now an empirical fact of real science.

For those who live on Planet Gore, of course, the (slight) warming on the earth will of course remain an exception to the rule of the cosmos, it alone being down to something other than solar activity.

And this is mostly additional to the evidence in tonight's Channel 4 documentary 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' at 9pm.  I would nip out and light a fossil fuel fire to celebrate - but its just too warm, is it not? 

My thanks to WorldPress.org for publishing my debut piece with them today. A New Climate of Cool? relates how the GLOBE group of G8 leaders met in advance of the June G8 summit and introduced a new, less alarmist, tone into the climate debate (to be welcomed). But the piece notes how bad a month February was for the alarmists in general (which may have aided that new tone) with scepticism on a steep rise.

Take a look at the future. Superconducting wires are the real deal for our science future.Given the previous post, here is something far more positive and exciting in the technological sphere: superconductivity and a 'new age' of super materials. The real future you see doesn't depend on getting 'back to nature' by de-industrializing (and keeping the world's poor in poverty by preventing them industrializing) it is rather depends on better and more efficient technological advancement using the world's resources far more efficiently!

Levitating high-speed trains, super-efficient power generators and ultra-powerful supercomputers would become commonplace thanks to a new breed of materials known as high temperature superconductors (HTSC).

All this has taken longer than many initially anticipated, but things appear now to be well on track. The future is not orange or green, its rosy, technologically speaking it seems. I am actually reading Michael Crichton's 'Timeline' at this moment which just happens to be a novel about this whole area of science.  It s about quantum mechanics (that's beaming things about, Star Trek-like). That bit, Crichton himself admits is not going to happen (at least any time soon). But the superconductivity of metals and ceramics et al, up to a point, is happening now! It has already given us MRI scanners in hospitals - and what would we now do without them??

What it would mean is greater efficiency of computers, energy etc - and use of the world's resources too. More exciting than the Green neanderthal vision, is it not?  And all of this is much more in tune with the Judeo-Christian moral worldview - of good stewardship of resources, advancement through human endeavour and for the for the good of all (without going backwards to the Stone Age) . 

Okay, so what would installing a wind turbine on your roof save you on energy consumption? Well it seems around £10...a year (that's a little less than $20). And here's another article that points out (to 'Dave' Cameron the simple fact is that renewable wind power won't support a families needs - actually, they say "a hairdryer") On that basis it would take 150 years for a turbine - costing £1500 - to pay for itself. Of course, that doesn't take into account the on-going maintenance for the turbine and its fixings - so you can forget that £10 saving too. Neither would it prevent housing areas and the countryside from looking like an aircraft propeller factory much as Scotland is set to look like.

But, on the upside, it would guarantee you being able to light your torch for a full two weeks, energise your car for two trips to the shops (if they are not too far away) and give you six inches of tepid water to bathe in at least once a week (if the wind blows, that is).

Personally, I can't wait to get one, can you? I find there is nothing like 'progress' enviro-liberal style.

I don't like overlapping too much with my sister site at Global Warming Hysteria.com but it is worth mentioning an apocalyptic media event - the first expose on UK TV of the scam that is global warming alarmism! Channel 4 is running 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' on Thursday March 8 at 9pm. Do not miss it!

Anyone who cares not just about GW but about truth in the media needs to see this programme's contents. At last, a programme in the mainstream will give a proper platform for some of the mass (and I do mean mass!) of scientists who are not only unconvinced by man's alleged role in GW but believe solar activity is the real cause.

Note also that NASA probes to Mars have reported that the Mars south polar ice-cap has been melting for years. Now if warming is taking place on Mars who then is to blame: Little Green Men...or solar activity. Take you time. No rush... Go here for more.

A new malarial drug is being introduced to help the thousands who suffer and die from the disease in sub-Sharan Africa. Let us hope it helps these poor children.

Of course if DDT had not been banned in the first place these kids would not even be sick. And who is responsible for this mass slaughter of the innocents? It is out 'friends of the earth' (but no mankind) environmental friends who, if governments tried to reintroduce it (even though we know DDT is NOT carcinogenic), would mobilize their vast army of 12,000 agencies and their £20 billion of resources to prevent it.

I wouldn't want to be in their shoes come Judgment Day.