The UK is being hit by its worst winter death toll in 42 years. It is estimated that 20,275 Brits more than average died between December and March. It means this winter is set to total at least 48,000 deaths due to cold weather – which works out at an average of one death every three and a half minutes. Campaigners have called the deaths a “national tragedy” as cold weather victims fatalities could be prevented – especially in the elderly. —Hayley Coyle, Daily Star, 7 April 2018
In Britain, winter excess deaths had been falling over the past century, but in the past decade, that progress has stalled. The trend could even go into reverse as bills increase to support unreliable renewable technologies. The temperature of centrally heated homes has also been falling, suggesting that the rising cost of energy is preventing people heating their homes adequately. This is all the more surprising given that improvements in insulation should have resulted in warmer homes, not colder. –Harry Wilkinson, The Conservative Woman, 9 March 2018
The Office for Budget Responsibility has just published the Spring Statement. It’s Economic & Fiscal Outlook reveals that the cost of Environmental Levies this year will be £11.3bn, a rise of £2.0bn over the last financial year. —Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 7 April 2018
Britain’s biggest solar farms receive more cash from green subsidies than from selling the electricity they produce, figures reveal. Energy producers were encouraged to start solar farms with generous handouts funded by a ‘green levy’ on taxpayers’ bills. But many of them now make the majority of their cash from the subsidy – instead of the electricity they produce. —Colin Fernandez, Daily Mail, 9 April 2018
New data and analysis from the US government show that during the recent Bomb Cyclone storm of late December 2017 and early January this year, the electricity system of the eastern half of the country avoided blackouts only because of increased output from conventional sources, particularly coal and, incredibly enough, oil. The performance of renewables was disappointing. The warning for Europe is loud and clear. –John Constable, GWPF Energy, 8 April 2018
Just imagine how much worse it would be if not for Global Warming!?
Actually, why would any thinking human think that solar would be a good idea for generating electricity in a country as far north as the UK, made worse by the fact that its weather is frequently cloudy and rainy year round but especially in the winter? Oh wait, the “greens” don’t really think things through.
But as many of us already know the radical Eco-Wackos so caught up in Ehlrliches Population Bomb poppycock want few humans in fact many want people to ge the way of the Dodo and become extinct I sure wish the Eco-Wackos would go live on some island for a year without anything but their bare hands
Rakooi, that was Sunday, January 6. Not a record.(1939)
Is Australia hogging the carbon dioxide blanket? I’m shivering.
Drewski
You are a LIAR
Meanwhile in the Midwest, our temperatures remain 15 to 20 degrees below normal with predictions of FALLING temperatures for at least the next week. This has been part of a larger regional pattern for the last several years. And all the Climate Left can say in response is, “Don’t believe your lying eyes…”
Al Gore is wearing no clothes!
How cold would it be if CO2 fell back 25% to 300 ppm? 300 ppm CO2 is referenced as pre-industrial . Ice Age? No.
Global warming precedes (causes) the increase of CO2. We might be cooling now, but that is being masked by manipulation of temperature records by anarchists.
48,000 premature deaths in the UK based on deceitful public policy designed to do exactly what is happening . Kill old /poor people .
Mass genocide based on a purposefully orchestrated fraud .
The climate models used to perpetuate the grossly exaggerated global warming fraud were discredited years ago yet the politicians
paid off their pals and raised costs to facilitate mass genocide in the UK .
There is a class action lawsuit sitting on a silver platter that will
cost the UK hundreds of $billions as they wipe out a soccer stadium per year of fuel poverty victims .
Governments have know the original global warming fear mongering projections were done on purpose . They created and have encouraged the supply of misinformation to start with .
No scary global warming story no funding .
You could survive WW2 but you ain’t no match for a government that wants you off the pension system .
Rakooi, you often try to make a case that fossil fuels are causing deaths, but this is where deaths are really happening. The climate change movement is causing thousands of death by inflating the cost of power so people can not adequately heat their homes.