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Climate change fanatics want to bankrupt the entire world for little to no reward

These urgent priorities could easily require an additional 3%-6% of GDP. Yet green campaigners are loudly calling for governments to spend up to 25% of our GDP, choking growth in the name of climate change.

If climate Armageddon were imminent, they would have a point. The truth is far more prosaic.

Two major new scientific estimates of the total global cost of climate change have been published recently.

These are not individual studies, which can vary greatly (with the costliest studies getting copious press coverage). Instead, they are meta-studies based on the entirety of the peer-reviewed literature.

One is authored by one of the most cited climate economists, Richard Tol; the other is by the only climate economist to win the Nobel prize, William Nordhaus.

The studies suggest that a 3 degree Celsius temperature increase by the end of the century — slightly pessimistic based on current trends — will have a global cost equivalent to between 1.9% and 3.1% of global GDP.

To put this into context, the United Nations estimates that by the end of the century, the average person will be 450% as rich as he or she is today. Because of climate change, they will feel “only” 435%-440% as rich as today.

Why is this so different from the impression we have been given by the media?

Alarmist campaigners and credulous journalists fail to account for the simple fact that people are remarkably adaptable and tackle most climate problems at low cost.

Take food: Climate campaigners warn we’ll starve, but research shows that instead of a 51% increase in food availability by 2100 if there were no climate change, we are on-track for “only” a 49% increase.

Or weather disasters: They killed half a million people annually in the 1920s, whereas the last decade saw fewer than 9,000 fatalities each year.

The 97.5% reduction in mortality is because people are more resilient because they’re richer and can access better technology.

Extremist climate campaigners and far-left politicians reveal their true colors when they push for “de-growth” to cut emissions.

Making people worse off and reversing gains against extreme poverty would be a tragic mistake, making it harder to address all our other problems.

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Hot Topics at Davos: Long-acting Injectables, ‘Climate-sensitive’ Vaccines and ‘Misinformation’

Tech-driven precision medicine, long-acting injectables, “climate-sensitive” vaccines, and mRNA therapeutics for non-communicable diseases were among the topics of discussion at this week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

“Misinformation” is also high on this year’s agenda. The WEF’s Global Risks Report 2025, released alongside this year’s annual meeting, named misinformation as the greatest global risk over the next two years.

President Donald Trump, in a speech to WEF participants on Thursday, said “misinformation” is a label used to censor people.

The meeting, held in Davos, Switzerland, focused on artificial intelligence (AI), as reflected by this year’s theme, “A Call for Collaboration in the Intelligent Age.” Over 350 governmental figures, 60 national leaders and 1,600 business leaders attended.

This year’s meeting was relatively subdued compared to previous years. Several key global figures, including the leaders of the U.K., China, France, India and Italy, were absent from the event, as were prominent figures like Bill Gates.

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Are the cover-ups and corruption at the power station that’s Britain’s biggest green hoax – and burns 27 million trees a year – finally about to be exposed?

Since it began to change from burning coal 15 years ago, Drax has got through the equivalent of 300 million trees. Most – and currently all – of this wood was imported from North America because we just do not grow enough here. You would have to burn the entire New Forest every two years just to fuel this one power station.

Drax is strangely reluctant to boast about its unique activity. In a lengthy statement released this week to justify its wood burning, its spokesman managed to avoid using the words ‘wood’ and ‘tree’ altogether, preferring to talk about ‘biomass’.

‘We understand that we need to do more to demonstrate that the biomass we use is genuinely sustainable and that we are taking the necessary steps to operate our business responsibly,’ said the spokesman.

Drax is Britain’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, another record the company refrains from mentioning. It produced nearly 12 million tonnes of the gas in 2023, which is significantly more than when it was burning coal.

That is not counting the emissions from the diesel trucks that bring the trees from the forests to where they are turned into pellets; from the diesel-powered ships that bring the pellets across the Atlantic; or from the trains that finally bring the fuel from the Tyne to Drax.

Incredibly, Drax’s 12 million tonnes of emissions are not included in Britain’s carbon accounts. They are deemed to be emitted in Canada and America – even though the combustion happens in North Yorkshire.

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Private jet flights soar by 170 per cent as politicians and business leaders descend on Davos 2025

As the World Economic Forum kicks off in Davos, world leaders, CEOs and business leaders have descended on Switzerland in their hundreds. But how did these high-flyers get there?

The World Economic Forum (WEF) urged its delegates to consider more sustainable travel this year. They made it free to travel there by train and provided snow grips for shoes to encourage attendees to walk rather than drive around the conference.

But did delegates listen and choose a more sustainable transport solution for Davos?

How many private jets flew into Davos in 2025?

According to data from flight tracking website Flightradar24, private jet activity at airports around Davos was significantly elevated over the past couple of days.

At Zurich, the nearest large airport to Davos, 54 private jets landed on Monday, an increase of 170 per cent compared to the average for the past week.

A spokesperson for Zurich Airport told Euronews Green, “Immediately before and during the WEF, we record around 1,000 additional flight movements. These may be business jets, state aircraft or helicopter flights.”

Other airports frequented by Davos delegates include Saint Moritz, Friedrichshafen and St. Gallen-Alternheim. All three had higher-than-usual private jet activity on Monday, with Friedrichshafen seeing 33 per cent more jets than the average.

At Zurich, the longest private jet flight arrived at lunchtime on Monday from Kailua-Kona in Hawaii. Operated by charter firm NetJets, the €72 million Bombardier Global 7500 flew for 14 hours and 40 minutes to cover the 12,404 km to reach Zurich.

Other very long flights arrived from California, Seattle and Beijing, although we can’t say for sure if their passengers were heading for Davos.

Several flights were under 500 km, including one operated by FAI rent-a-jet from Milan, which flew for only 204 km to reach the airport. 

Two other flights from Milan, one from Genoa and two from Paris also landed in Zurich on Monday, all covering less than 500 km.

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The Climate and Nature Bill will destroy the UK economy and end private property

The Climate and Nature Bill has its second reading in Parliament on 24 January 2025. If it becomes law, it will bring in compulsory re-wilding of more than 30% of the UK and place controls on travel and consumption.

“You may think that all the bills that have gone through Parliament already in the last six months have been disastrous and have been an attack on our way of life our culture and our economy. But there’s something else coming up which is as bad or even worse as everything that has gone before. And this is something called the Climate and Nature Bill,” David Kurten said.

“It will destroy the economy, essentially, and it will give the Government powers over your private property …  Because of [something to do with] the climate or … nature then the government can essentially take your property,” he warned.  “Because everything that happens in the country will have to be beholden to the targets in this Climate and Nature Bill.”

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U.S. Federal Reserve withdraws from global climate coalition

The United States Federal Reserve has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a global coalition of central banks engaged in the study of climate risk that was launched in 2017.

“While the Board has appreciated the engagement with the NGFS and its members, the work of the NGFS has increasingly broadened in scope, covering a wider range of issues that are outside of the Board’s statutory mandate,” the central bank said in a statement on Friday.

The Fed has come under pressure in recent years from Republican lawmakers, including over concerns that climate concerns have unduly influenced financial regulation and that the central bank has become increasingly politicized.

In September, two House Republicans asked the Government Accountability Office to evaluate U.S. bank regulators’ membership in the NGFS.

Graham Steele, a former Biden-era Treasury official, said the Fed’s decision is “clearly a political move.”

“It defies what we know about the science and economic science risks of climate change,” Steele said in a statement. “There is no way to read this as anything other than responding to short-term political considerations.”

The central bank joined the global coalition in 2020.

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Top UN “Court” to Issue Landmark Ruling on “Climate Change”

At the request of the United Nations and its member governments, the top UN “court” is set to rule on the supposed legal “obligations” of governments when it comes to fighting CO2 emissions and the alleged man-made “climate change” they supposedly cause. Experts say it may be the most significant case ever heard by the global body.

The Biden administration joined governments around the world asking the court to take a strong stand on the issue. But critics are sounding the alarm. Agriculture, energy, transportation, and other industries are all in the crosshairs, fueling concerns over more government-mandated economic carnage ahead.  

“Largest Ever Case”

While the ruling expected from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) later this year is officially considered “advisory,” it will have profound economic and political implications for the entire world. The UN is calling this the “largest ever case before the UN world court.” Media propagandists, meanwhile, framed it as putting “the entire industrialized world on trial.”

UN leaders expect governments around the world as well as international organizations to craft their “climate” policies based on the findings of the controversial judicial body. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a proud socialist, was one of many key figures touting the significance of the case in the evolution of the global “climate regime,” as they call it.  

Encouraging the UN General Assembly in 2023 to ask the ICJ to rule on the issue, Guterres said the body’s decisions “have tremendous importance and can have a long-standing impact on the international legal order.”

The ruling, expected later this year, he continued, will “assist the General Assembly, the United Nations and Member States to take the bolder and stronger climate action that our world so desperately needs.”

“It could also guide the actions and conduct of States in their relations with each other, as well as towards their own citizens,” added Guterres. “This is essential.”

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Climate Hustle: EPA Advisor Admits Sending Billions to Climate Groups Before Trump Takes Office

An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advisor has been caught on hidden camera admitting that the outgoing Biden administration is funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to climate organizations as a hedge against the incoming Trump administration.

Brent Efron who is a special advisor for implementation for the EPA, was recorded by Project Veritas bragging about sending tens of billions of dollars in grants to climate nonprofits as “an insurance policy” against Trump’s promises to rein in government spending.

Efron exhibits zero shame as he laughingly equates the frantic effort to get as much money as possible to climate-related allies as “throwing gold bars off the Titanic.”

When asked where that money is going, Efron responds, “Nonprofits, states, tribes,” explaining that the effort would continue, “until the Trump people come in and tell us we cannot give out money.”

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An independent energy expert explains how the UK’s “Net Zero” strategy will result in blackouts by 2030 – how the solution is nuclear and how natural gas could have reduced bills for decades

The UK plan is to shut down natural gas and so remove the back up to intermittent “renewables”.

Gas and nuclear rely on turbines rotating at 3,000 rpm to produce 50 cycles – renewables produce direct current – requiring an adjustment to convert to the alternating current used by the grid.

From here:

Gas powered electricity accounts for at leas 50% at all times. The Marxist lunatics want to turn it off by 2030.

Here is a 47-minute video:

Will blackouts come to Britain?

On 8 January 2025, wind provided just 2.5 GW (out of the claimed 17 GW) and imports of electricity from overseas interconnectors could only provide 5.7 GW – demand was for 47 GW.

Loss of load probability was 29% – it is usually zero – meaning power blackouts were possible.

NESO = National Energy System Operator – a quasi-autonomous non-government organisation – QANGO – formed when the Marxist Labour government bought out the grid assets from National Grid plc – with taxpayers money a few months ago.

Demark had to defer maintenance in order to supply 700 MW (not GW) from Demark – thy dd the UK a favour – the Danes were under no compulsion to send the electricity over.

All about “where did the reserves come from and how much back-up is available?”

Prices on 8 January 2025 reached £5,500 per MW – normally 120-150 per MW – a power company made a few million pounds in a few hours – why would not ALL power companies take advantage of the price?

Don’t forget, the flip side, if the power from wind turbines is not needed, “curtailment fees” are paid to the wind turbine operator – for NOT producing energy!

The YouTube write-up says this:

“Did the UK only narrowly avoid a blackout last week? Freddie Sayers is joined by energy analyst Kathryn Porter to break down the National Grid numbers and find out how Net Zero might cause blackouts by 2030.”

The solution is to get KEPCO (South Korean Electricity Company) to build 8 nuclear power stations in the UK over the next decade and let everyone make out like bandits!

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Climate and Nature Bill is the UK’s version of the UN’s Agenda 2030

On yesterday’s episode of Trending, Gareth Icke and Richard Willet dive into the UK Climate and Nature (“CAN”) Bill, currently sneaking its way through Parliament without scrutiny.

Very much like the WHO Pandemic Treaty, the CAN Bill would give unelected bodies sweeping powers to take over land, prevent travel, and control meat consumption, among other draconian powers, in the event of a “climate emergency.”

Icke and Willet also discussed the Los Angeles wildfires and the possible connection to the LA Smart City 2028 agenda, the BBC’s climate change propaganda, including the vilification of family pets as a cause for climate change, and the UK’s release of a new two pound coin to commemorate the life of 1984 author George Orwell. The coin features the Big Brother eye.

In the following, we focus on Trending’s discussion of the CAN Bill.

The Climate and Nature (“CAN”) Bill has largely gone under the radar. It was reintroduced in the UK House of Commons by Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage on 16 October 2024 and has its second reading scheduled in 9 days, on 24 January.

“The reason it’s gone under the radar is they don’t want any scrutiny of it. The reason they don’t want scrutiny of it is because it ain’t going to be very good for us,” Icke said.

The Bill is a rebadged version of the UN Agenda 2030. The Bill includes provisions for forced rewilding, which is another way of saying that the government will grant itself powers to seize land from farmers and others if they do not meet sustainable goals.

It also includes retrofitting of homes, which would require homeowners to make changes such as installing insulation, heat pumps or solar panels at their own expense.

Of course, the rules which allow the government to grab land and property or require homeowners to make changes to their homes are made by a select few using arbitrary arguments and can change at a whim.

The Bill aims to ban fossil fuels, which would lead to pressure on the energy supply and drive up prices, making energy unaffordable for some people.

The government would have control over various aspects of people’s lives, including energy use, food consumption, travel and what can be fitted or not fitted in their homes, with smart meters playing a role.

“They’ll be able to order you not to travel, not to leave certain areas, not to fly …  they’ll be able to control food consumption what you’re allowed to [eat] … What will also tie into this is what you say,” Icke said. “Another thing that’s on there is energy use, so they can control how much energy you use.”

“It should also be pointed out,” said Willet, “This will all be monitored on your digital ID system.  So all of this data will be collated on a digital ID system.”

Usually, a bill has two or three sponsors.  The CAN Bill has over 200 sponsors in Parliament, indicating strong support for it to pass in Parliament. 

The acronym “CAN” could easily be a psychological trick, so the public views the Bill with a positive connotation, even though in reality it is sinister.

The justification for the CAN Bill is to address climate change, but the reality is it gives the government power to declare emergencies, and then implement policies and control people’s behaviour in response to that emergency without public input.

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