Breaking Motoring News 3

The Alliance of British Drivers, The Motorcycle Action Group and Fair Fuel share all the important stories about motoring, the environment and politics whic affect us all on a day to day driving basis. Here are the headlines and the links you need to find out the truth.

Global Climate/ Social / Political Developments:

1. Another Meter Of Snow Hits The Alps; Europe’s Crop Losses Worsen:

   https://electroverse.info/another-meter-of-snow-hits-the-alps-europes-crop-losses-worsen-the-biggest-disaster-of-the-last-100-years-journalists-should-do-their-job/

2. Europe Breaks Historic Low Temperature Records amid Spring Snow Falls On Major Cities:

   https://electroverse.info/europe-low-temperature-records-rare-snow-establishment-obfuscations/

3. Antarctica is colder and icier now than at any time in the past 5,000 years, says new study:

   https://twitter.com/JunkScience/status/1780045149789131132

4. Back-To-Back Bumper Snow Seasons; European Cold And Snow Persists Into May; +El Niño End:

   https://electroverse.info/socals-back-to-back-snow-seasons-cold-may-europe-el-nino-has-ended/

5. Global hurricane activity not worsening. You would never know it, listening to the “mainstream media”:

   https://mailchi.mp/63a419a0c272/global-hurricane-activity-not-getting-worse-new-report-confirms-201571?e=2c28606ca0

6. New Paper Finds Effect of Human-Caused Carbon Dioxide Emissions on Climate is “undiscernible”:

   https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/08/fresh-science-challenges-unproven-claims-that-human-caused-carbon-dioxide-controls-climate/

7. Peer-Reviewed Scientific Evidence That CO₂ Emissions Can’t Warm Atmosphere due to saturation. Nobel physics laureate Dr. John Clauser also expressed himself in terms that all can understand: “I assert there is no connection whatsoever between climate change and CO₂ – it’s all a crock of crap, in my opinion.” https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/24/new-scientific-evidence-that-co2-emissions-cant-warm-atmosphere-because-it-is-saturated-published-in-peer-reviewed-journal/

8. Frost Damage Reported From FR To UA; Growers In Canada And Northeast Also Suffer; + Australia To Shiver Into May, Defying BoM Predictions:

   https://electroverse.info/frosts-from-france-to-ukraine-american-growers-suffer-australia-to-shiver-into-may/

9. Ontario’s ‘SMART’ meter-administered energy pricing model is one to avoid like the Black Plague:

   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/bills/canada-surge-pricing-experiment-backfired-britain-next/

10. Chris Wright, CEO of Liberty Energy, on the energy transition, & implications of climate policies:

    https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-question-episode-97-chris?publication_id=712558&post_id=143952005&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

11. New Study Identifies Big Reductions In Future US Natural Gas Emissions:

    https://blackmon.substack.com/p/new-study-identifies-big-reductions?publication_id=712558&post_id=143895986&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

12. Stationary Energy Storage Solution that Might Actually Work?:

    https://blackmon.substack.com/p/at-last-a-stationary-storage-solution?publication_id=712558&post_id=144036162&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

13. Wind Turbines Don’t Run on Wind; they run on subsidies:

    https://twitter.com/ClimateThere/status/1780272327097217165

14. Climate change will not kill you… Human attempts to solve climate change very well may:

    https://graziamagazine.com/me/articles/cloud-seeding-uae/

15. Global BEV bubble bursting?:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13314449/Is-global-EV-bubble-bursting-tesla.html

16. EV Giant Tesla Begins Mass Layoffs, Loses Two Top Executives:https://www.westernjournal.com/ev-giant-tesla-begins-mass-layoffs-loses-two-top-executives/

17. Breathtaking Ford US Q1 BEV Losses: $132,000 per BEV sale Q1 2024:

    https://blackmon.substack.com/p/fridays-energy-absurdity-fords-ev?publication_id=712558&post_id=144032300&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

18. US BEV “bloodbath” being hastened by (Chinese owned) Volvo by the back-door?:

    https://blackmon.substack.com/p/volvo-brings-the-chinese-made-ev?publication_id=712558&post_id=144164853&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

19. Overlooked socio-environmental costs of BEVs:

    https://twitter.com/jameswoudhuysen/status/1780490241809203260

20. European EV Bust a Red Flag for Climate Goals? Scientific, economic & political sanity prevailing?:

    https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-ev-bust-in-europe-is-a-red-flag-for-region-s-climate-goals-1.2061197

21. Forget About Peak Oil; We’re not at Peak Coal Yet. China & India continue using rising amounts of it:

    https://blackmon.substack.com/p/forget-about-peak-oil-we-arent-close?publication_id=712558&post_id=143671985&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

22. Senior UN official admits ‘Net-Zero’a PR problem for climate alarm religion. Just ‘a problem’?:

    https://blackmon.substack.com/p/tuesdays-energy-absurdity-net-zero?publication_id=712558&post_id=143886042&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

23. The Guardian reported that in 1949 RAF + international scientists experimented with artificial rainmaking:

    https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1780519818224971996

24. Washington Post Favourably Covers Geo-Engineering. That tells you all you need to know:

    https://blackmon.substack.com/p/tuesdays-energy-absurdity-washington?publication_id=712558&post_id=144165228&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

Recent Local/ National Developments:

1. Ten times the cost of a gas-fired power station, but delivers half the output. Madness:

   https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/6440359/peterhead-windfarm-approved/

2. Conservative backbenchers brand government’s Net Zero strategy as “out of touch” with the country:

   https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/government-accused-being-touch-ruthless-123048485.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACHhoQiaSt5B3CtyYIMI1JqgPhyB7QV7voy_Z6vtf6Z_hcU7fijJ3enlzVHq1rapbQ8Plq0kZC0_bbxCwfzPrAtNjykAidYupHgOXjR4vzbiXVqEL2tLk4u3Ga0e8GpnS4D2QzCt4b_Wcnx5KEepk4QvZSv-faSPCvgBzqNKuBzs

3. Hammersmith & Fulham council’s figures show in its 2 LTNs, 5 in every 6 PCNs illegally imposed on authorised vehicles, netting up to £1.5 million a month:

   https://twitter.com/Togetherdec/status/1784900437919048104

4. Lambeth Council spent £2m of public money on LTN implementation consultants:

   https://newsfromcrystalpalace.wordpress.com/2024/04/28/exclusive-blocked-off-roads-cash-strapped-lambeth-splurge-2-million-on-consultants-over-low-traffic-neighbourhoods-foi-request-by-news-from-crystal-palace-reveals/

5. Welsh Labour needs to stop LYING about reversing the absurd blanket 20mph urban speed limit policy:

   https://twitter.com/WelshConserv/status/1784487050189648330

6. Stellantis boss: ‘terrible’ BEV rules will destroy the UK industry. Carlos Tavares speaks out damningly:

   https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stellantis-boss-uk-electric-car-rules-promote-self-destruction-of-the-industry-qx3fpr8jq

7. Data reveals extent of UK electric vehicle battery fires: dramatic increase in 2023:

   https://cesafety.co.uk/news/data-reveals-extent-of-electric-vehicle-fires-around-the-uk/

8. Tory MP Says Government Needs to Wake up to Fire Risk From Electric Vehicles:

   https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/in-depth-tory-mp-says-government-needs-to-wake-up-to-fire-risk-from-electric-vehicles-5522382?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=top-news-uk-featured-news-1-large-top-news-uk-featured-news-title-0

9. Surge pricing manages demand, rather than maintaining supply, hammering the poor. There is only so much redistribution of wealth from poor to rich that the population is prepared to take:

   https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/smart-meters-could-soon-cost-you-a-whole-lot-more/

10. It has been known for years speed restrictions don’t improve air quality, yet the UK still spends money implementing such restrictions and fining people for breaking the speed limit:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/20/netherlands-may-reverse-motorway-speed-limit-cut-net-zero/

11. Those challenging A66 Northern Transpennine dualling/ upgrade should be held to account legally for every casualty occurring due to project delays:

    https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/a66-northern-trans-pennine/about-the-project/

12. Parliament to debate carrying out independent review into Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTNs):

    https://twitter.com/Togetherdec/status/1784877786374787240

13. In the Guardian, the National Grid is paying for shameless propaganda which does not stand up to scrutiny:

    https://davidturver.substack.com/p/national-grid-propaganda?publication_id=1285567&post_id=143632592&isFreemail=true&r=rbgxo&triedRedirect=true

14. UN’s Chris Stark says No to Net Zero Name, but keep the same policies, then everything will be fine:

    https://davidturver.substack.com/p/chris-stark-says-no-to-net-zero-name?publication_id=1285567&post_id=143896862&isFreemail=true&r=rbgxo&triedRedirect=true

Narrative Developments:

1. Why there’s no need to be alarmed about unusually warm temperatures:

   https://energytalkingpoints.com/why-you-shouldn%E2%80%99t-be-alarmed-about-unusually-warm-temperatures/

2. The Renewables Scam & The Impossibility Of ‘Decarbonising The Grid’:

   https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/the-renewables-scam-the-threat-of?publication_id=576327&post_id=143953859&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

3. “Rushing to adopt heat pumps and EVs won’t make this country more energy secure but will risk blackouts:

   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/15/true-british-patriots-have-gas-boilers-and-petrol-cars/

4. Energy Gang of 4 talk about the global ban plastics mania to & the inevitable horrible consequences of it:

   https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-realities-podcast-4292024?publication_id=712558&post_id=144140444&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

5. NO_x Reduction Targets achieved 2 Years Ago & 7 ahead of target. So why more restrictions?: https://browncarguy.com/2024/04/23/we-hit-nox-reduction-targets-two-years-ago/

6. Britain’s roads have become so bad that they are even being scornfully reported in France:

   https://twitter.com/FranceTVLondres/status/1780153921262035306

7. China now emits more Man-made CO₂ than the entire developed world: two new coal plants every week: https://twitter.com/wideawake_media/status/1785237903536185435

8. Mandating social changes to achieve net zero emissions is foolish & will not succeed:

   https://blackmon.substack.com/p/ronald-stein-mandating-social-changes?publication_id=712558&post_id=143651522&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

9. Avalanche Hits Kashmir; Mid-May Frosts Forecast For Europe; Prairies Plantings To See Snow Delay; +California ‘Snow Deluges’ To End by 2100, So Says New (BS) Study:

   https://electroverse.info/avalanche-india-may-frosts-for-europe-prairies-snow-delay-california-no-more-snow/

10. Constant catastrophising of weather & climate thanks to bankrolling by a few fanatical billionaires:

    https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/16/the-amazing-tale-of-how-three-billionaires-plunged-the-world-into-climate-catastrophism/

11. The aim of mass road transport electrification was always to reduce mass private car ownership & use; i.e., restrict mass personal mobility – welcome to climate serfdom. Accept or Reject – Your choice:

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/electric-car-glut-could-tip-manufacturers-into-crisis-7fx536hw3

12. Extinction Rebellion funder Sir Christopher Hohn funds UK100, to squeeze the public out of politics:

    https://twitter.com/Togetherdec/status/1780189398018961835

13. ‘Socialist’ Belgian mayor orders police to shut down free speech event featuring Farage etc:

    https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/socialist-belgian-mayor-orders-police-to-shut-down-event-featuring-cardinal-muller-orban-farage/

14. Brussels police temporarily shut down the National Conservative Conference – @NatConTalk:

    https://twitter.com/gjpappin/status/1780212093037260851

15. Government has no idea of the cost of Net Zero, but will implement it anyway. Extremely bad government:

    https://netzerowatch.com/all-news/government-doesnt-know-cost

16. The EU’s war on cars destroys its economic foundations. Attacks on ICEVs motivated by spiteful ideology:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/22/eu-war-on-cars-destroying-economic-foundations/

17. Canadian perspective on ICEV phaseout/ ‘Nyet Zero’ climate policies & Hague Court of Appeals filing by Lindzen, Happer & Koonin:

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-5?taid=662d1304ce74510001c11cee

18. Oil Field Leader Podcast: Reclaiming the Narrative (from irrational eco-alarmist nutjobs):

    https://blackmon.substack.com/p/oil-field-leader-podcast-reclaiming?publication_id=712558&post_id=143985820&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

19. Ronald Stein: Environmentalists’ silence on humanity and environmental atrocities:

    https://blackmon.substack.com/p/ronald-stein-environmentalists-silence?publication_id=712558&post_id=143892172&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

20. The Cornell ‘Fartbox:

    https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-cornell?publication_id=712558&post_id=144123536&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true

21. It’s not even worth bothering to set it up. Methane has a barely measurable effect on the terrestrial climate:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m73QY… &

    https://wvanwijngaarden.info.yorku.ca/files/2020/12/WThermal-Radiationf.pdf?x45936