The Alliance of British Drivers, The Motorcycle Action Group and Fair Fuel share all the important stories about motoring, the environment and politics which 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:
- India Chills; Heavy Snow To Batter Western U.S.; New Study Challenges Climate Change Orthodoxy; + COP29: Trillion-Dollar Con:
https://electroverse.info/india-chills-heavy-snow-to-batter-western-u-s-new-study-challenges-climate-change-orthodoxy-cop29-trillion-dollar-con/ - U.S. Snowfall Totals; Accumulations In Kashmir; Big Freeze And Heavy Snow To Hit Europe; + “Dark Doldrums”:
https://electroverse.info/u-s-snowfall-totals-accumulations-in-kashmir-big-freeze-and-heavy-snow-to-hit-europe-dark-doldrums/ - Yakutia’s Deep Freeze; South Africa’s First Major November Snow Since 1939; Snowfall Records Approached In New Mexico And Colorado; + The Guardian Offers “Emotional Support Services” To Its Staff After Trump Victory:
https://electroverse.info/yakutias-deep-freeze-south-africas-first-major-november-snow-since-1939-snowfall-records-approached-in-new-mexico-and-colorado-the-guardian-offers-emotional-support-services-to-its-staff/ - Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass Above 1982-2012 Average; 4 Feet Of Snow To Hit New Mexico, Warnings Issued; + climate fraudster Al Gore Copes:
https://electroverse.info/northern-hemisphere-snow-mass-above-1982-2012-average-4-feet-of-snow-to-hit-new-mexico-warnings-issued-al-gore-copes/ - Heavy Snowfall Hits Northern China; Saudi Arabia Deserts See Their First Ever Snow; Global Temperatures Cooled In October; + Politics:
https://electroverse.info/heavy-snowfall-hits-northern-china-saudi-arabia-deserts-see-their-first-ever-snow-global-temperatures-cooled-in-october-politics/ - IMD Forecasts Severe Winter For India; Russia Suffers -40.1C; Britain Importing Record Amounts Of Electricity; + The Lancet’s Climate Health Falsehoods:
https://electroverse.info/imd-forecasts-severe-winter-for-india-russia-suffers-40-1c-britain-importing-record-amounts-of-electricity-the-lancets-climate-health-falsehoods/ - Mt Hutt, NZ, Could Reopen After A Meter Of Spring Snow; Early Snows Hit Pakistan; Alaska’s Record-Breaking October Snowfall; + Fanaticism, Wrapped In Green:
https://electroverse.info/mt-hutt-nz-could-reopen-after-a-meter-of-spring-snow-early-snows-hit-pakistan-alaskas-record-breaking-october-snowfall-fanaticism-wrapped-in-green/ - Early Winter Hits Northern Europe; Heavy, Disruptive Snows Sweep Morocco; More Mainstream Polar Bear Twaddle; + Data Shaping:
https://electroverse.info/early-winter-hits-northern-europe-heavy-disruptive-snows-sweep-morocco-more-mainstream-polar-bear-twaddle-data-shaping/ - Heavy Spring Snowfall Hits New Zealand; Eastern Russia Buried; Early Snow Blankets Mauna Kea; The Rise In Global Volcanism; + CME Arrives:
https://electroverse.info/heavy-spring-snowfall-hits-new-zealand-eastern-russia-buried-early-snow-blankets-mauna-kea-the-rise-in-global-volcanism-cme-arrives/ - Skewed Tropical Cyclone Reporting; AMOC Collapse: Hype vs Reality; Expanding Polar Sea Ice; +The Latest Climate Delusion: Diamond Dust:
https://electroverse.info/skewed-tropical-cyclone-reporting-amoc-collapse-hype-vs-reality-expanding-polar-sea-ice-the-latest-climate-delusion-diamond-dust/ - October Snows Blanket Whitehorse; Record Halloween Snow For Anchorage; Europe Set For Severe Winter As Siberian Snowfall Builds; + Simply Wrong:
https://electroverse.info/october-snows-blanket-whitehorse-record-halloween-snow-for-anchorage-europe-set-for-severe-winter-as-siberian-snowfall-builds-simply-wrong/ - “The Tonga volcano eruption is the cause of the current overall warm and wet weather events. The extra stratospheric water is slowly coming back down”:
https://x.com/socratesccost/status/1852084343495098619 - I don’t know the local details, but the chances of “green” policy (rather than “climate change”, being the primary contributor to the severity of recent Valencia flooding seem very high to me”:
https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1852776884418850823, &
https://x.com/ClimateAudit/status/1853016158519054656 - Roger Pielke Jr. speculates on the effects of globally declining birth rates on (anyway arguably highly questionable) IPCC derived temperature predictions:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/take-the-under?publication_id=119454&post_id=150807006&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Electrifying Everything Means Higher Energy Costs For Consumers. These DOE Numbers Prove It (Again):
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/electrifying-everything-means-higher - Fintan’s Lie And Mad Ed’s Wet Zero Dream: At least when all Mad Ed’s Net Zero chickens come home to roost, another Labour/ Green government won’t be elected for generations, never mind decades:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/fintans-lie-and-mad-eds-wet-zero?publication_id=576327&post_id=151207853&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true, &
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/05/millions-more-switch-off-ed-miliband-net-zero-targets/ - We’ve forgotten the lessons of the past, dismantling protections that safeguarded generations and then pointing fingers at climate when nature inevitably takes its course:
https://x.com/MatthewWielicki/status/1853453079665954943 - Doug Sheridan: The Vaunted “Hydrogen Economy” Isn’t Happening:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/doug-sheridan-the-vaunted-hydrogen?publication_id=712558&post_id=150836124&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Robert Bryce’s interview with El Mercurio, Latin America’s oldest newspaper, headlined: “Hydrogen, green hydrogen, blue hydrogen, it’s an illusion, nonsense”:
https://substack.com/@robertbryce/note/c-73019816 - The Fishtank: Musings on Energy Policy. Useful energy policy information resource with a US slant:
https://travisfisher.substack.com/?referring_pub_ids=1664779%2C502811 - Solar Costs Jump, More Offshore (And Onshore) Wind Woes, SMR Update, More H2 Cancellations:
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/solar-costs-jump-more-offshore-and?publication_id=630873&post_id=150715363&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Roger Pielke Jr.: Memo for Trump’s Energy Czar:: Four common sense pillars for a new US national energy policy:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/a-memo-for-trumps-energy-czar?publication_id=119454&post_id=151509473&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - The Kier Starmer Clown Show Targets Donald Trump – Unintentional Hilarity Ensues:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-kier-starmer-clown-show-targets?publication_id=712558&post_id=151548617&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - COP29 Kicks Off Under Trump’s Shadow. The former U.S. leader’s re-election has cast a pall over tense climate talks in Baku. Great News!!
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/11/cop29-climate-talks-finance-trump-azerbaijan/?tpcc=editors_picks - “Drill, Baby, Drill” Is A Slogan, Not A Business Plan:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/drill-baby-drill-is-a-slogan-not?publication_id=712558&post_id=151513769&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDAxNTc2ODIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE1MTUxMzc2OSwiaWF0IjoxNzMxMzQ4NjY3LCJleHAiOjE3MzM5NDA2NjcsImlzcyI6InB1Yi03MTI1NTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.9eOmzNbZMPHjVjMuVNSQTUfPeCywHA7FM4oXqkzXJX0&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Ex-Dem A/C Repairman Set MSNBC Straight on Why Kamala Harris Lost; & why in UK Labour will:
https://www.westernjournal.com/every-american-see-ex-dem-c-repairman-set-msnbc-straight-kamala-lost/ - Draining the Swamp: Trump’s 10-Part Plan to Dismantle Deep State Should Shake DC to the Core. Similar actions urgently needed in the UK:
https://www.westernjournal.com/draining-swamp-trumps-10-part-plan-dismantle-deep-state-shake-dc-core/ - Net Zero is killing Europe’s car industry, one funeral at a time. #CostofNetZero:
https://www.politico.eu/article/audi-brussels-to-close-in-early-2025-signaling-deepening-crisis-of-vw/ - Rock and Roll Wisdom: Reject Authoritarian Vehicle Mandates. A glimpse into a dystopian future should strengthen Americans’ resolve to drive whatever car they want. This applies equally to the UK:
https://travisfisher.substack.com/p/rock-and-roll-wisdom-reject-authoritarian - What the Frak? How is Fracking Still Controversial in 2024?
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/what-the-frak-how-is-fracking-still?publication_id=712558&post_id=151065262&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Sustainable Fuel: Future or a Fantasy?
https://browncarguy.com/2024/11/04/sustainable-fuel-future-or-a-fantasy/ - Will AI Drive A Nuclear Renaissance, Or A Natural Gas Boom?
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/will-ai-drive-a-nuclear-renaissance?publication_id=712558&post_id=150994255&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Kamala Harris has similar plans for trashing the US economy as ‘Mad Ed’ Milband does for trashing the UK’s. With political ‘friends’ like these two, you don’t need any enemies:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/washington-update-from-the-us-oil-301?publication_id=712558&post_id=150932013&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Biden/Harris BEV Policies Are Not Sustainable in Any Way:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/bidenharris-ev-policies-are-not-sustainable?publication_id=712558&post_id=150934472&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - BEV Bloodbath continues: Ford Lost Another $1.2 Billion in Q3 On BEVs; a $58,391 loss for every BEV sale during the quarter:
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/ford-lost-another-12-billion-in-3q?publication_id=630873&post_id=150861920&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Another Day, Another Lithium-ion Battery Fire:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/another-day-another-lithium-ion-battery?publication_id=712558&post_id=150977985&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDAxNTc2ODIsInBvc3RfaWQiOjE1MDk3Nzk4NSwiaWF0IjoxNzMwMzc1MDkwLCJleHAiOjE3MzI5NjcwOTAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi03MTI1NTgiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.06wtvOg1SRVVK2pJIfmUCExFhE7qaQuLI_SVlzYO6vk&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true - Local authority number plate recognition scameras are capturing cars more than a billion times a year:
https://x.com/BigBrotherWatch/status/1853788238835527863, &
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13965845/ANPR-network-ULEZ-low-emissions.html
Recent Local/ National Developments:
- Net Zero cultism in a nutshell: Reverse Robin Hood: taxpayers having to pay the green elites:
https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1852986181316690318 - “Already, massive electricity imports while closing nuclear plants. Switching to heat pumps & BEVs, doubling consumption, with no idea where it’s coming from, meaning blackouts & energy blackmail”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/02/britain-importing-record-amounts-of-electricity-from-europe/ - Very bad day for renewable generation today. The green sliver is wind and the orange one is solar. Apparently in just 5 years’ time we won’t need all that gas (purple) any more. Doesn’t seem very likely to me:
https://x.com/KathrynPorter26/status/1853224701289443390 - David Turver on why the UK has the highest energy prices in the West, & what kind of dystopian future current government energy supply policies are likely to create:
https://youtu.be/6ml0IzxJ9EQ - OBR is forecasting Capacity Market costs (keeping reliable plants on stand-by for cold, still nights) will quadruple from £1bn in 23/24 to £4bn in 27/28. Renewables increase energy security & reduce bills??!!:
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1852041036547473658 - Labour kick the nuclear can down the road. Blackout alert!!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/10/31/race-to-build-britains-first-mini-nukes-delayed-again-reeve/ - The Net Zero Clearances: Jeremy Clarkson is correct I fear:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/the-net-zero-clearances?publication_id=576327&post_id=151452945&isFreemail=true&r=2bg2cy&triedRedirect=true, &
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14065067/jeremy-clarkson-farm-tax-rachel-reeves-budget.html - Four major reasons they installed Starmer as PM:
1. Wreck the economy with radical green policies
2. Push the UK back under EU control
3. Destroy freedom of speech
4. Bring in a totalitarian system of digital IDs:
https://www.ukauthority.com/articles/office-for-digital-identities-and-attributes-goes-live/ - “Ed Miliband’s Net Zero Dept Given 22% More Cash to Waste on Green Energy Unicorns – & Other Budget Horrors”:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/31/ed-milibands-net-zero-department-given-22-more-cash-to-waste-on-green-energy-unicorns-and-other-budget-horrors/ - Millions more households to be asked to switch off to hit Ed Miliband’s scientifically illiterate, insane, Net Zero targets. Hasta la Vista, Ed:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/05/millions-more-switch-off-ed-miliband-net-zero-targets/ - Budget VED Hikes – The Sting in The Tail for New Buyers. Extra pain for new car buyers:
https://browncarguy.com/2024/10/31/uk-autumn-budget-2024/ - Prof. Dieter Helm on the avalanche of regulation to which the British economy is already subject, & the likely future trajectory of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB8LTOIN01I - U.K. Met Office inventing temperature data from over 100 non-existent weather stations. One such ‘ghost’ station, Dungeness, closed in 1986 but still reports “observations”:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/05/science-shock-u-k-met-office-is-inventing-temperature-data-from-100-non-existent-stations/ - Electric vehicle battery sizes should be cut by one third due to an acute lithium shortage, Britain’s top engineers have said, leaving range-challenged EVs facing further sales disincentives:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/30/electric-vehicle-battery-size-should-be-cut-by-one-third-due-to-acute-lithium-shortage-say-u-k-s-top-engineers/ - Living near a wind farm can cause sleep loss, stress and anxiety, government review finds.. from 2016:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3887624/Living-near-wind-farms-cause-sleep-loss-stress-anxiety-government-review-finds.html - Sadiq Khan is now offering a to-your-door home cremation service via randomly spontaneously self-combusting, mobile refuse collection crematoria…..:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/28/electric-bin-lorry-bursts-into-flames-in-central-london/
Narrative Developments:
- UN Trisectoral Networks: antidemocratic Public-Private-Civil Society collaboration to public disadvantage:
https://x.com/_Escapekey_/status/1852087749689721118
