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They do not even believe their own fantasy. On the left - a flood map forecast by Climate Central for 2030 On the right a 2,700 acre solar farm being planned. If it’s going to be under water in 3.5 years the location seems somewhat unwise. Or they know the flooding fears are codswallop. 💩 (Arrow on flood map shows approx location of solar farm)

Today's update on the Daily Sceptic is here. Paul Homewood fact checks the Climate Change Committee's latest doom-mongering report; please God, spare me another Pride Month, begs Dave Summers; and Green MP Carla Denyer takes 'burn out' leave. dailysceptic.org/todays-update/

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Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Red Ed goes all-in on slave labour to save the planet, says Paul Homewood; Mark Littlewood says bet on Reform UK to win in Makerfield (but don't bet much); and five are arrested in Manchester over local election fraud. dailysceptic.org/todays-update

Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. The BBC's problem isn't bullying, it's ideology, says Ben Pile; Philip Patrick argues Celtic should lose the title if Scottish football has any integrity; and Patrick Frank on why climate models are all bunkum. dailysceptic.org/todays-update

There is no energy transition We simply use more and more of everything — fossil fuels, nuclear, renewables, solar and wind "Rather than replacing fossil fuels, renewables are adding to the overall energy mix" Energy Institute Statistical Review 2025 energyinst.org/exploring-ener… x.com/bjornlomborg/s… Threads&refs: x.com/BjornLomborg/s…

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Conventional thinking treats wind and solar as permanent infrastructure. They aren't. These are a form of short life-cycle, industrial gadgetry with roughly 15-to-25-year lifespans. They are all in various stages of permanent decay and replacement - hydrocarbon and nuclear plants last generations. We see this in the mounting graveyards of unsalvageable wreckage. Yes, much of it can be recycled in theory. But in reality, the economic and energy costs usually outweigh the benefits. They are now decomposing faster than we can replace them and this is the Treadmill Effect. If a nation installs 5 GW of wind power every year, by Year 20, they aren't expanding the grid anymore. They are being forced to build 5 GW just to replace the rusted, fatigued and degraded turbines built in Year 1. Growth flatlines, swallowed up in pure maintenance. Look at the scale of this dilemma: despite millions of massive turbines and solar arrays deployed over 40 years, hydrocarbon fuels still dominate at roughly 81% of global primary energy. Solar and wind deliver only a tiny fraction of total primary energy. We've reached the limit. Almost every turbine and panel built over the last two decades is now in the late stages of decomposition. We're struggling just to keep up; and soon we will fall behind. The mines will become hollowed-out and these 'green' rust collectors will fall apart where they stand. To feed this replacement treadmill will need an astronomical volume of minerals: like copper, nickel, cobalt and rare earths. But we have already devoured the high-grade ores. A century ago, copper ore was 5% metal. Today, major mines are crushing ore that is less than 0.5% copper. To get the same tonne of metal, you must blast, haul and crush ten times more rock. This requires more massive, diesel-guzzling mining fleets and heavy industrial smelting. We are cannibalising dense, reliable fossil energy just to chase low-density, short-lived weather collectors. Here is the Einsteinian paradox. In physics, the closer an object gets to the speed of light, the more massive it becomes, requiring exponentially more energy to move it a fraction further. The energy transition is its own relativistic wall. The closer a grid gets to 100% renewable penetration, the greater its structural costs will become. You don't just need more panels; you need a parallel universe of over-building, synchronous condensers, and continent-spanning transmission lines just to handle the asynchronous volatility. We are hitting that Inversion Point. The fossil fuel energy required to mine the rare earths, manufacture the turbines and endlessly replace the dying infrastructure will eventually outpace the net energy the system delivers. You cannot reach the limit of light. Albert Einstein - the ultimate observer of universal limits - would smile at the irony. Net Zero is being driven by an ideological bureaucracy that reads financial blueprints but ignores the periodic table and the laws of thermodynamics. Entropy is universal. Nothing can bypass it. Imagery of rust, mechanical exhaustion and the accumulation of unmanaged composite materials.

Today's Daily Sceptic update is here. Bettina Arndt explains why men have given up on dating; Chris Morrison says the IPCC's ditching of RCP8.5 is a Met Office nightmare; and Steven Tucker raves about Gad Saad's new book on the West's suicidal empathy. dailysceptic.org/todays-update/

Pensioners are increasingly pulling all of their retirement funds out in one go, facing the risk of high tax bills and running out of money in later life. We look at what to consider before taking the money. moneyweek.com/personal-finan…

The UK inflation rate rose by 3.3% in March as the fallout from the Middle East conflict hit the economy – what’s next for prices? moneyweek.com/economy/inflat…

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More than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, in a huge blow to climate targets. If Britain wants to be an AI superpower we need to ditch Net Zero and lift the ban on fracking.