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UK and European temperature records tumbled in June, but when the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) met in London, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright served as cheerleader for climate change denialism. ‘“Most of the major European countries are well aware of the energy mistake they have made and are trying to understand how they are…
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In a recent Truth Social post, US President Donald Trump declared: “GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that “Climate Change” is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! For far too long Climate Activism has been used by…
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The Institute of Economic Affairs is a right-wing think tank (for this piece, the IEA, but elsewhere in my blog, not to be confused with the International Energy Agency, also the IEA, which does really important work). Under new leadership from Lord Frost, Boris Johnson’s Minister for Brexit, the IEA is following in the tracks…
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Yesterday’s newspapers were awash with headlines about Ed Miliband planning to close the North Sea. I do not want to make comments on politics as such, but I do want to apply some Popperian rational criticism to the statements that have been made. What the Government has set out plans to do is to prevent…
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Puberty Blockers All electrons have spin, and electron spin is a binary quantity: 50% of electrons have spin +1/2 and 50% have spin –1/2. If an electron was discovered that had a spin of +3/2 or –3/2, we would need to rethink our understanding of atomic structure. Such is the degree of confidence that we have in…
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Building in a Swamp According to Karl Popper, science is a process of conjecture and refutation. A hypothesis is formulated, and using deductive reasoning, empirical tests are proposed; these tests are performed and the hypothesis is either corroborated or falsified. For a new hypothesis to falsify an existing one, it must have greater explanatory power…
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The Steam Engine When George Stephenson’s Rocket was revealed to the world at the Rainhill Trials in 1829, a surprisingly large range of objections was raised. Operators of canals and stagecoaches feared competition from a vehicle that could travel as fast as 25 mph (!) and there were fears about the safety of steam engines…
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Recently, Nigel Farage and Liz Truss were speakers at a seminar in London organised by the Heartland Institute UK, whose Executive Director is Lois Perry, formerly the leader of the UK Independence Party. What are the aims of the Heartland Institute UK? The landing page for the Institute offers this statement: “CSDDD: The European Union’s…
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The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch, has launched a new campaign in an attempt to seize control of the political narrative about energy security. In a film on the Conservative Party YouTube channel Mrs Badenoch says: “its time for us to drill our own oil and gas in the north sea so I’m calling…
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Few subjects have generated more misinformation in the UK than arguments about the price of electricity. If we are so good at producing renewable energy, the argument goes, why is it that electricity is so expensive in the UK? It seems simple. If renewables were as cheap as it is claimed that they are, and…
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