The biggest reduction we ever enjoyed in our electricity costs was after the newly privatised electricity industry installed gas power stations across the UK. It halved our electricity costs. The biggest increase we’ve ever seen was after the Government imposed “green” ideology on the electricity industry. It has tripled our electricity costs so far.

Here’s the graph showing those changes.

There have been increasing numbers of “tells” that the Net Zero movement is in trouble, starting with none other than Tony Blair taking the current Labour government to task on the issue:

The current approach isn’t working… These are the inconvenient facts, which mean that any strategy based on either ‘phasing out’ fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail… The disdain for technology in favour of the purist solution of stopping fossil-fuel production is totally misguided… The COP process will not deliver change at the speed required… Political leaders by and large know that the debate has become irrational. But they’re terrified of saying so for fear of being accused of being ‘climate deniers’.

Tony Blair, AYFKM? That’s got to hurt, especially when he describes Labour’s Net Zero plans with language like “inadequate”, “unrealistic” and “unworkable”. As an aside most people probably didn’t read Blair’s report and so missed this wonderful piece of science fiction buried in it, putting giant mirrors in space to block the sunlight. Cool – literally.

Also batshit insane, but then multiple Net Zero failures are leading to ever-more dingbat solutions.

In the USA the wind power scam has just suffered another blow:

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Wednesday to order foreign energy developer Equinor to cease all construction activities on its Empire Wind project, according to a memorandum obtained by the Free Beacon. Burgum said the Biden administration green-lit permits for the project and ultimately approved it without conducting proper analysis.

The Norwegian company had locked in a juicy contract with New York State to deliver power at a strike price of $155 per megawatt-hour over the next 25 years – nearly double the national average – so were racing ahead with construction to try and beat the Trump clock, as well as the massive amount of local objections from fishermen, residents, wildlife activists, and others. Of course after 25 years the whole thing would have to be completely replaced. What a business, eh? What a fucking scam.

Then there’s this news about one of the chief climate change screamers losing his battle to bankrupt his critics, Court Rejects Michael Mann’s Request to Delay His Massive $530,000 Debt to National Review:

The Superior Court of the District of Columbia ruled in January that Mann owes National Review approximately $530,000 to cover the outlet’s legal fees after spending more than a decade locked in defamation litigation against the organization, and Mann subsequently requested a stay to postpone the payments. On Thursday, the court denied Mann’s request, meaning that he will likely have to pony up cash to an outlet he once described in emails as a “threat to our children.”
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In a filing opposing National Review’s request for compensation, Mann argued that the move was a “mean-spirited and unjustified request by a powerful organization” intending to intimidate and silence him.

My, how delicious, given that prick is nothing but mean-spiritedness in meat form. He dragged out this case for years against National Review and Mark Steyn deliberately to raise their costs, and already had his winning award against Steyn dramatically reduced to practically nothing.

At least in one case where people are still sticking to Net Zero the penny has at least dropped on what they need to back up such an unreliable system, if they’re going to eliminate fossil fuel use:

The Danish government plans to evaluate the prospect of beginning a nuclear power programme, this week lifting a ban imposed 40 years ago. 
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The Danes are concerned about possible blackouts similar to the one that struck Iberia recently. Like Spain and Portugal, Denmark is heavily dependent on weather-based renewable energy which is not very compatible with the way power grids operate.

No! Really? You may recall that one of the reasons for the Austrlian Labor Party’s crushing election win recently was the attack they made on the Opposition’s proposals for nuclear power in Australia to back up their Net Zero goals. I guess the Aussies are going to have to experience blackouts before the penny drops with them.

As to the horrors of nuclear power on the environment, check this out:

All of this is starting to add up, with this article listing 30 items alone as, Evidence that the climate scam is collapsing, of which these caught my eye because I hadn’t seen them before:

That last one is key – combined with their US counterparts like EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin saying bluntly “we are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion“ and U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright saying that “Net Zero by 2050 is just nonsense”.

When will National do the same here in New Zealand? Admittedly the trick may be to just keep pushing the target date out into the future until it dies from people refusing to pay the price, but as with so many other things about our “manage-it-better” government, it just leaves the machinery in place for a future Labour-Green government to kick into high gear.