Peter C Glover's WIRES (blog)

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. 

One of the great marks of our age is the determination to absolve ourselves of personal responsibility and guilt (what the Bible calls 'sin' - but let's not upset peoples psyche by mentioning that too often as it implies there is a God to whom we are answerable for that sin). And nowhere is this propensity found more keenly than in the current attempt to blame our genes for our personal 'wrong-doings'. 

It seems the 'experts' believe (i.e. employ faith) they have discovered an obesity gene. So getting fat is not really anyone's 'fault' it is an inescapable fact of life for some people. Now here's a shock. But even if there was such a thing as a 'pre-programming obesity gene' it doesn't make a scrap of difference to the moral lifestyle choices some believe that implies.

Let us say, for instance, the 'experts' (who say butter is bad for you one day then good for you the next) believe that there is a paedophile gene. Would that 'fact' exempt the 'carrier' of it from moral and social norms? Would it mean treating him any differently after he raped or indecently assaulted a small child?  Predilection or not, there are some things you just cannot do - without moral, social and national consequences.

Here's another fact: 35% of all sicknesses are associated with obesity. Work out what that costs the nation - and each one of us who have to pay to treat these sicknesses brought on through 'immoral' over-eating. My wife is a director of finance in the NHS. She will tell you fat people (together with smokers) and their need for treatment is bleeding the NHS dry.

Blaming genes for our personal sins is no different to saying "The devil made me do it". It is always someone else's fault - never mine. And, just for the record, if bleeding heart liberal do-gooders don't like this opinion, they should understand this: it's not my fault, just put it down to a faulty opinion gene.

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.

Next to Travesty (Amnesty) International, the NSPCC (don't touch those kids you parents or we'll get you imprisoned!) Greenpeace has to get my vote for the most obnoxious, dangerous and worthless movement of Western liberal nosey parkers on the face of the earth. So imagine my delight when Greenpeace founder Sir Patrick Moore revealed today he has come out in favour of nuclear power today.

Nuclear power ought, of course, to be at the top of our agenda as the most sensible proposition for us as we seek to develop energy source to avoid the coming energy crisis and power cuts - unless of course you were aboard the Rainbow Warrior was sunk by the French (I never thought I'd empathize with them). Though Moore is plainly driven by a fear of global warming he still makes an eloquent case . You can read it hear in today's New York Post.

I don't know about you, but Greenpeace's idea of living in 'quaint' mud huts, ferrying water buckets back and forth with open fires (all that smoke!) - much like the world's poor they want to keep in their yet-to-be-industrialized poverty - doesn't appeal.  How about you?

I am a big fan of the film The Insider in which Jeoffrey Wigand whistleblew exposing the lies of the big cigarette companies (including Phillip Morris) when they denied having scientific proof that nicotine levels were high because it promoted addiction. But I agree with this latest US Supreme Court decision to throw out a heavy fine and lawsuit against cigarette giant Phillip Morris this week.

A lower court had ordered the cigarette company to pay a cancer victim widow $79.5 million after her husband died after 40 years of smoking. The trouble is there is such a thing as personal responsibility (not to mention rank stupidity) in life. The whole point of Wigand exposing the corruption was that the science truth was now a matter of public record  and that the cigarette companies had operated a cartel, not least in keeping what they knew - that doses of nicotine promoted addiction - from the public.

Neither, by the way, does it take a rocket scientist to grasp the obvious link between inhaling massive amounts of smoke and some detrimental effect to the body - science or no science.  (Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors often did not live long partially because they had open fires in the centre hearth of their hut/houses.) The Wigand decision (if you want to rely on the court rulings alone) was way back in the 1970s. This man died in 1997. Give up smoking and your body can clean itself up in months the evidence tells us. So why did he keep smoking after the ruling?

What is astonishing is that the Supreme Court ruling was by so narrow a margin (5-4). But then not so surprising when one realizes the liberals on that bench whose prime motivation is for government and the courts to run peoples lives and limit their freedoms.The widows' case was that her husband had believed the cigarette companies when they told him cigarette's were safe. Oh please lady...please...!  

NB.  And here also is an interesting Wall Street Journal editorial on this ruling.  

Wow, just 24 hours since the GWH site got picked up more broadly. I have just checked the figures and well over 2,000 visitors have been on the site so far!

I have heard from 1 US Senator's office a number of scientists and organizations doing good work on the issue and countless well-wishers. One lady in the US also asked a highly pertinent question: where can I send my children online where they can read about environmental issues? Their teachers keep sending them to poltical sites. I found it quite sad. I hope I have managed to point her in the right direction. But it really does reflect how serious a problem and threat politicized environmentalism has become.

But it seems like all the hardwork on the GWH work and site may be paying off. Now if only someone would pay me to do this work I could eat too!  

NB. Here is an update to the above on Friday morning. Main page traffic at GWH has been well over 3,500 - raw hits at well over 5,000. 

Many thanks to the many people who have sent personal emails about the new site. Currently the traffic indicator is beginning to go through the roof. I expect that will settle and flatten soon however.

For the record, I changed my mind on the comments issue. So Al (Gore) if you aren't too busy...Of course, commenting and expecting 'shootout' responses upon demand may have worked in Tombstone but they won't work on GWH (unless I choose to respond). Others can battle out the micro issues of they wish via the comments.

As for me I will be out in my English garden enjoying the benefits of a glass of dry white wine the fruit of the tended grapes I shall soon be able to grow courtesy of the whole extra degree of global warmth that appears, strange when you think about it, to upset so many others.

Ever wondered what all the fuss was about? So will you if you read the evidence on this new site - now at its permanent home at www.globalwarminghysteria.com

Do go and take a look around. If you find it helpful to you then please email friends, organisations and the odd (and they are odd) environmentalist about it. I shall henceforth be covering the subject on this blog with less frequency given the blog on the new site. GWH is permanently linked for your ease at the side of this site and blog.

Let me know when material may be suitable to add to it and I will include you name with the posting. In truth its main purpose is not to upset the average Green environmentalist (although that would be a welcome by-product) but to provide access to key materials that the mainstream media simply refuses to cover and publish. NOTE: how just this weekend the Telegraph featured Professor Svensmark's important new book The Chilling Stars (which points the finger at cosmic rays (increased sun activity) as the likely warming agent - and how the rest of the MSM has totally ignored it. See what I mean?

Many thanks to everyone who has commented and emailed me over the new site: Global Warming Hysteria - cooled. Just to let you know that it is today just about complete. You can imagine that doing this entails a lot of work however and I am holding back a day or so. We have visitors this weekend so that rules out being able to go live over the weekend. 

I am confident however that (though some construction may be on-going) it will go live during Monday or Tuesday next week. I will try to let everyone know who has asked however. And do, if you like the results, think how many people and organizations you might notify. It should provide you all with a one-stop site to point anyone toward and to get all kinds of info from. And I hope you will help me keep it well-fed with new info in the days ahead...

One of the joys of doing it was that I also came up with new evidence and new international groups to whom I will be linking. I may have to leave a couple of sectins turned off for the moment but...we'll get there. And no doubt the enviro-mentals will be mixing their anti-free speech buckets of Vitriol as we speak..I lose sleep regularly over them...no really...

Have a great weekend everyone.  

NB. John Hawkins at RightWingNews in the US has popsted a mini-interview with Dennis Avery one of the authors of Unstoppable Global Warming today - a book which features strongly on my new site. Go here.