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Posted by James Ruppert | Dec 13, 2024 | Alliance of British Drivers, Articles, Car Manufacturers, Electric Cars, Emissions, Environment, Low Emission Zones, Net Zero, ULEZ

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.
lobal Climate/ Social/ Political Developments:
1. Northern India’s Big Freeze Intensifies; Cold Wave Enters Vietnam; Freezing Lows And Heavy Snows Hit U.S., More To Come; + Everything Causes Climate Change:
2. Kashmir Freezes At -18°C (-0.4°F); Below Average Antarctic Plateau; Another Round Of Lake-Effect Snow; Cold Waves Lifting Natural Gas Prices; +The Little Ice Age:
3. Snow Returns To Scotland And Wider Europe; Global Temperature Tumbles; Antarctic Sea Ice Recovery; Cold U.S.; + EV Failure:
4. The Era Of Global Boiling Is Over:
5. Severe Cold Hits Pakistan; Florida Set For Record Cold; Snowy November At RED Mountain; Global Wine Production At Historic Lows; + “Climate-Friendly Milk”: Safety Concerns Over New Cow Feed Additive:
6. U.S. Battered By Cold And Record Snow; Parts Of Ontario Under A Meter Of Snow; Early-December To Deliver Another Burial To Europe; + Solar Decline:
7. Antarctica Sea Ice Has “Slowly Increased” Since 1979, Science Paper Finds:
Antarctica Sea Ice Has “Slowly Increased” Since 1979, Science Paper Finds
8. Six Dead As Record Snowfall Hits S.Korea; Farmers In Northern China Struggle During Record Cold/Snow; Harsh Chill Grips India; Canada At -40.6°C, Greenland Sees -56.3°C; + America’s Arctic Outbreak:
9. Record Snows Hit Siberia And Russian Far East; ECMWF Forecasts Cold Winter For Europe; Half Of China Registers Record Low Temps, Snow Records Broken; NH Snow Cover Steps Up; + Greenland’s 20-Year Cooling Trend:
10. Record Russia Snow; Seoul’s Heaviest November Snow Since Records Began (In 1907); Arctic Blast To Impact 230 Million Americans; + U.S. Cold Front Sends NatGas Futures Soaring Amid Falling Production:
11. Greenland Surface Temperatures Fall for 20 Years in Further Blow to Climate Alarm Narrative:
Greenland Surface Temperatures Fall for 20 Years in Fresh Blow to Climate Alarm Narrative
12. Current “rare” meteorological conditions not so unique, once Hunga-Tonga after-effects are considered:
https://x.com/\_ClimateCraze/status/1861234773512835318
13. The “blisteringly hot” Summer the UK didn’t experience in 2024 – contrary to the eco-zeolots’ predictions:
14. ‘Green’ policies advocates ignore that the main beneficiary of European industry offshoring is China; with anything BUT ‘clean, green’ energy generation:
https://x.com/clim8resistance/status/1865011684311732571 &
https://x.com/EdConwaySky/status/1864944187096936938
Climate Reality is Setting in, and That’s ‘Strange’ to the Washington Post:
15. Climate realism reset time? Though a Man-(should be Mann-)made climate change believer, Helm pinpoints why COPs never succeed. Wish he’d apply similar attention to objective climate science assessment:
16. Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Landman’ Isn’t About A Real Landman At All:
17. Big Tech’s Sudden Rush to Nuclear is a Win/Win for America ( & a wake-up call for ‘Mad Ed’ Milliband):
18. In 2018, Broken Hill City Council announced its goal to become Australia’s first carbon-free city by 2030. Extended power outages have turned Broken Hill into a Potemkin Village:
https://judithcurry.com/2024/12/05/wind-and-solar-cant-support-the-grid/#more-31718 &
https://x.com/curryja/status/1864725668036252159
19. Seven Reasons To Be Skeptical About SMRs. Small Modular Reactors are promising. But commercializing them will be difficult and require staggering amounts of money. Only a few SMR companies will survive:
20. The Home-Based Battery Storage Fantasy:
21. New South Wales’ reliance on reliably unreliable solar & wind power has hiked prices to >15$AUS/kWh:
https://x.com/OldMateEngineer/status/1863502156885786639
22. The UK is leading the world in decarbonising and switching to renewables, & so now has some of the highest household electricity prices (36p or 46¢/kWh):
https://x.com/BjornLomborg/status/1863556124965761277 &
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/international-domestic-energy-prices
23. Oh, For The Days When Curtailment Simply Meant Putting Less Coal In The Power Station Furnaces!
24. Chinese coal-powered energy generation massively outstrips that from its “ruinables” (renewables):
https://substack.com/@doomberg/note/c-79052238
25. The Case for Prudence- Emmet Penney’s remarks at the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Conference:
26. Texas AG Ken Paxton Sues Big ESG Firms for Rigging the Coal Market:
27. The Energy Realities Podcast – 12.2.2024: The Canadian Clown Show:
28. OPEC+ Preserves Export Cuts Amid Slowing Demand Growth:
29. Trump on Energy, ‘Liquid Gold,’ and the Green New Deal Hoax:
30. COP29 is no different to previous ones: they’ve made naff all difference except siphon money from poor people in once rich countries to rich people in poor countries getting richer by using cheap, abundant energy:
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1861110006478737495
31. Talking Politics Podcast, 12.4.2024: Analysis of the 2024 election outcome & the shifting demographics in the US voter base that led to the greatest political comeback in American history:
32. Romania’s Supreme Court has overthrown the results of the presidential election. Elites say the vote was hijacked by ‘disinformation’ & ‘foreign interference’. Don’t be fooled by this brazen assault on democracy:
33. Bookmark This One and Reopen in 2044: Eco-alarmism – litany of catastrophic doomsday predictions – all of which have abjectly FAILED to materialise:
34. UK Funds UN Crackdown On Climate Dissent. Britain is one of the main financial backers for this attempt to stifle debate about climate change:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/uk-funds-un-crackdown-on-climate-dissent/ &
U.K. Government Pours Big Sums into Latest UN Crackdown on Climate Dissent
35. The UN’s Melissa “We Own the Science” Fleming has resurfaced with yet another stupendous lie: “The climate crisis is already causing immense suffering around the world”. Defund the UN climate scammers:
https://x.com/UN/status/1862966834875785410
36. ‘Green’ climate scammers are virtue-signalling frauds: They want to feel good about themselves; but couldn’t care less about the environment:
https://x.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/1861142212312211650
37. In 2007, ‘experts’ predicted an ice-free Arctic “as soon as 2010 or 2015.” Since then, there has been no trend in the Arctic sea ice minimum, mean or maximum extent:
https://x.com/TonyClimate/status/1861118148243792270
38. NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: “At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions”. That ended well:
https://markey.senate.gov/imo/media/globalwarming/resources/articles\_id=0018.html
39. Green power that isn’t at all “green”:
https://x.com/lawrie\_dr/status/1861089099471331728
40. Denmark receives NO BIDS in its largest-ever wind power tender:
41. Just as @neso_energy is doubling down on hydrogen as the mainstay of its #FES25 report, BP axes 18 hydrogen projects because they’re not profitable enough:
42. EU Net Zero madness creates an accumulating mountain of unsold BEVs outside Essen in Germany:
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1861465530600722579
43. Ford losing £Bns on BEV sales in the UK as well as in the USA:
44. Biden Crony Capitalism’s Last Gasp Goes to Rivian:
45. Doug Sheridan: US EV Startups Are In Dire Straits As Biden’s Days in Office Run Out:
46. Thanksgiving Tragedy: Three Dead in Fiery 3 am Electric Car Crash, Driver Right Behind Them Rescues Lone Survivor:
47. An Education in Energy Realism ft. Dr. Scott Tinker:
48. Buttigieg Tries Fact-Checking Elon and Don Jr. on EVs, Ends Up Humiliating Himself Instead:
Buttigieg Tries Fact-Checking Elon and Don Jr. on EVs, Ends Up Humiliating Himself Instead
49. Tyre & brake particulate air pollution is already worse than from combustion in some places (12.5 times larger in Bologna (2018), 13.9 in Firenze (2020), 11.8 in Torino (2020) & will become main source with electrification:
https://x.com/BjornLomborg/status/1862458503375257723 &https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/2020/1/28/tyres-not-tailpipe
Recent Local/ National Developments:
1. Wales Flooding Update: November Data:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/storm-bert-wales-flooding-putting
2. £328Bn of Net Zero & energy related subsidies. not too far from the £500Bn p.a. McKinsey estimated NetZero would cost the UK economy (i.e., its taxpayers):
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1865688591206080660 &
3. From a former head of Oil and Gas UK: “The achievement of Net Zero is a delusion & will have no meaningful impact at the global level”:
https://x.com/aDissentient/status/1865009247559262286
4. Nuclear plant closures paused amid fear of Net Zero blackouts: EDF is to extend the lifespans of four power stations designed in the 1960s by another two years. Won’t be a surprise if it becomes longer in practice:
5. New data from the Government shows the UK has the highest industrial electricity prices in Europe almost entirely as a consequence of insane Net Zero-driven policies:
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/uk-industrial-electricity-prices-highest-in-europe
6. Consumers Set to be Reamed by REMA? Proposals for zonal pricing set to send bills even higher:
7. “Energy policy is a vital part of national security & you’ve got Ed Miliband following a completely crazy energy policy… We have our own energy resources, we need to develop our independence:
https://x.com/i/status/1861069599417983393
8. Post COP29 we’re not so much transitioning to renewables as turning away from energy altogether:
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1861127383484395883
9. New UK nuclear plants the only way to provide reliable, despatchable low hydrocarbon footprint energy, Blair think-tank warns (truthful for a one-&-only time) – along with next gen. CCGT (tellingly omitted):
10. The Judge found the Tooting4 guilty of harassing Sadiq Khan. This is a travesty of justice & a deliberate political policy to stop anti-ulez protests. Howard Cox will be supporting an appeal:
https://x.com/HowardCCox/status/1864950118966796342
11. Not only is democracy dead. The illusion of democracy is also dead:
https://x.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1583200003765719042
12. How Net Zero accelerated Britain’s national decline. Widespread push-back against plans to curb carbon emissions leaves the UK isolated:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/29/how-net-zero-accelerated-britains-national-decline/
13. Time for Starmer to Be Honest About What Net Zero Means: Rationing, Blackouts and Travel Restrictions in the Next Five Years:
14. Liam Halligan: Britain has a choice: amend the electric car mandate or let the industry go bust:
15. Reeves Tax Raid Budget crashes UK business confidence:
16. Starmer & Co. (470 strong!!) return from COP29 committed to 81% UK Man-made CO2 reduction by 2030. Rest of World committed to ………..zilch, All UK pain, no UK gain:
https://x.com/latimeralder/status/1861310420361068881
17. Mad Ed Miliband describes NetZero as: “The economic opportunity of our time”, on the day these same insane policies cause the closure of the Vauxhall van manufacturing site in Luton:
https://x.com/aDissentient/status/1861449660570669122
18. Stellantis closes Luton van plant due to government’s Net Zero rules:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8n3n62wq4o
19. Net Zero BEV sales mix mandates come home to roost. Government baulks at resultant job losses:
20. UK Government & Blackrock working hand-in-hand to compromise UK food security?
https://x.com/GSGB01/status/1861519576611340626
21. The mark of the beast has arrived: Digital ID to be introduced for pubs and clubs:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/12/08/digital-id-to-be-introduced-for-pubs-and-clubs/
22. We’ve been told repeatedly “renewables” are “9x cheaper than gas”, & that “gas sets the price”. Complete (rhymes with) ‘rowlocks’: David Turver’s analysis shows you pay £14.5 bn in subsidies alone for <100 TWh of wind & solar >14.5p/kWh:
https://x.com/EyesOnThePriz12/status/1865346696302952846 & https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1865169449235423344
23. MSM sneer at citizen journalists when breaking news they should have, but are too lazy/ afraid to research themselves. UK Government committed to sneaking in CH4-reducing chemicals to ALL cows by 2030:
https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1865048842615267834
24. We’ve been lied to; Deep State exposed:
https://x.com/beverleyturner/status/1864382774565589031 &
25. Storm Darragh Hype Is A Climate Lockdown Nudge:
26. UK “must reduce meat & dairy 50%” – Climate bureaucrats:
27. DESNZ is “costing” renewables using maximum, rather than average, output”. So all DESNEZ’s cost projections belong in the rubbish-bin marked “ludicrously optimistic”:
https://x.com/aDissentient/status/1863539301322998240
28. Curtailment Update: The Scandal Deepens:
29. Dale Vince unsuccessfully tries to discredit nuclear power; fearing it will derail the renewables gravy-train:
https://x.com/2still\_learning/status/1865149808089960943
30. The No.1 idea for selling more BEVs is to even further subsidise them: workers subsidise the bosses to swan around in Teslas. How progressive:
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1863325290211979670 &
https://x.com/Theothebald/status/1863141483089424685
31. In news that will surprise absolutely no-one, EV quotas are open to all kinds of manipulation:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/news/how-zero-emissions-vehicle-mandate-skewing-uk-car-market/
32. Fart-Proofing Cows To Save The Planet – Arla, Aldi, Tesco & Morrisons To Poison Animal Feed to ↓CH4:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/fart-proofing-cows-to-save-the-planet
33. Busted: Carbon Brief’s Phony Extreme Weather/Climate Change Attribution Map:
34. BEV/ICEV sales ratio rules to be watered down?:
https://x.com/RichardWellings/status/1861413501983482128 &
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/11/26/britain-poised-to-water-down-electric-vehicle-rules/
35. The ‘real reason’ for Nissan collapse revealed as car manufacturer’s finance chief steps down amid bankruptcy battle:
Narrative Developments:
1. Greenland ice is melting………….. ERR maybe not:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153616/ &
https://x.com/MatthewWielicki/status/1861518390533226841
2. Flooding Chippenham, UK. Just as predicted – vast areas of the UK are now experiencing major flooding. You should know why already (hint – it’s not Climate Change):
https://x.com/i/status/1860987773173256692
3. The people running the climate alarm show aren’t interested in discussing any details that might be awkward for their assertions of a crisis. Everything being opaque and supposedly beyond question suits them fine:
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2024/11/30/ipcc-climate-dogma-under-the-microscope/ &
4. The world is heading in the wrong direction because of individuals like Klaus Schwab. His vision is for corporatism = Government facilitated corporate greed masquerading as virtue. A virtue con-trick for an enormous asset and wealth grab by mega corporations:
https://x.com/i/status/1861193030805438477
5. On a scale of 0-100, how willing are you to change your life in order to meet Net Zero targets? Me: -100:
https://x.com/wideawake\_media/status/1861112656163147909
6. Every “net zero” scammer should be forced to watch this video. Life without fossil fuels is cold, dark and short. That is an indisputable fact, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 an opinion:
https://x.com/i/status/1860901676053373346
7. You are not bound by anything unless you consent. Lawful Rebellion is a right, stop consenting:
https://x.com/wolsned/status/1863241645782954202
8. The age of the silent majority is over … It’s time for the majority to roar”:
https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1863292245794852945
9. We won’t dictate to you how you live your life, BUT by 2050, there will be no flying, no shipping, no meat, you will live in a mud hut, be dead by age 40, & at least half the world’s population will have died:
https://x.com/i/status/1861453384491913551
10. Due to Net Zero, we’re on the way to blackouts & chaos within years. People will die – in cold, dark homes & in hospitals with no power. Every ‘expert’ who’s nudged this along will have blood on their hands”:
https://x.com/i/status/1861368114459361493
11. There is NO climate ‘crisis,’ and the entire climate agenda is a global political & financial power & control fraud pushed by Rockefellers, UN, Gates, King Charles, EU, WEF and a few global corporations:
https://keihatsu.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-climate-change?r=2kx8r6&triedRedirect=true
12. A big company bribes farmers to make changes with a slightly higher price for their products. Unnecessary, experimental, toxic cow-feed additives are introduced into the food-chain to solve a non-existent problem but almost certainly create lots of as yet unforeseen new ones:
https://x.com/A1an\_M/status/1863233910626205981
13. At what point does the wilful refusal to look at hard data about renewables costs become dishonesty?
https://x.com/Sam\_Dumitriu/status/1860983720016011669
14. GWPF warn of blatant government Net Zero Hypocrisy:
https://x.com/i/status/1861358679687078244
15. One more stepping stone towards “you will own nothing”:
https://x.com/wideawake\_media/status/1863358288521298391






