In the Daily Sceptic on 5th June 2025, researcher Charlotte Gill asked ‘What do Miatta Fahnbulleh (she’s Labour’s Minister for, or should that be ‘against’, Energy Consumers), the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel commentator Grace Blakeley and pro-migrant lobbyist Zoe Gardner have in common?
Well, it turns out they have all received media training from the New Economy Organisers Network (or ‘NEON’), which you might never have heard of.
So let’s take a look at this right-on NEON, see what it does, who funds it, and ask how well its anti-growth, antichristian, anti-market vision of state control sits with the anti-life, anti-family death-wish of the United Kingdom’s godless elites. We’ll speak of biblical economics and find wisdom in both the Bible and some lyrics of Johnny Cash.
Not just the three women I’ve mentioned, but thousands of young aspiring statist organisers and campaigners are supported by NEON across the UK.
They’ve been through NEON’s Networking, Media, Global Messaging or Press Officer Training programmes or Workshops on Transformative Organising. NEON is actively building networks of its latest recruits to the UK’s sprawling elite blob.
Miatta Fahnbulleh MP – Member of the elite and and New Economics Foundation and NEON insider.
This NEON has apparently been ‘given birth’, their expression, by the New Economics Foundation. And would you believe it, Miatta Fahnbulleh MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary at Ed Miliband’s Department of Energy Insecurity and Net Zero Fanaticism, was previously Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation.
She’s a member of SERA – Labour’s Environment Campaign, and on a Government page she tells us ‘a family member works for Renewables UK.’ Are you surprised? She supports the World Economic Forum and its Green New Deal.
Miatta might well have come with her family as a refugee from Liberia, but without a shadow of a doubt, she is now an insiders’ insider.
The Bible tells: Psalm 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed,
NEON has a string of right-on philanthropic foundations behind it. Many, if not all, of them are also supporting the climate change lobby. But many of the funders of NEON are already known to us as funders of abortion, homosexual and trans lobby groups, actively working against God’s institution of the family, even against his creation of us as male and female or against human life itself.
For example, its leading funder Lankelly Chase has also backed Greater Manchester Trans Organisers Fund and the LGBT Foundation.
NEON patron George Soros’s Open Society Foundation also lavishly funds the pro-gay KELIN NGO and UHAI East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative lurking in Kenya. See our video below:
The Oak Foundation, started by British billionaire Alan Parker, funds NEON as well as the pro-gay pro-trans Astraea Lesbian Foundation in the US, Human Dignity Trust and above all, OutRight Action. Oak supports countless initiatives to legalise sodomy and transgenderism across the developing world.
NEON patron The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation has also given $1.5 million to International Planned Parenthood, the world’s leading abortionist, as well as grants for ‘Queer Studies’.
In 2023, NEON patron the Paul Hamlyn Foundation was actually ahead of Oak Foundation, but behind the UK Government, the Scottish Government, Children in Need, the Arts Council and the National Lottery in a list of UK organisations who splashed money to LGBT groups. Paul Hamlyn gave NEON £50,000, but £775,000 to LGBT causes.
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust gave NEON £85,000 and LGBT groups £400,000 in the same year.
Well, they can run on for a long time, as Johnny Cash sang, but sooner or later: Psa 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Psa 2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
New Economics
Both NEF and NEON campaign for ‘A new social settlement’, which ‘will ensure people are paid well, have more time off to spend with their families, and have access to the things we all need for a decent life’.
A Marxist utopian dream like that would cost you and every other taxpayer a lot of money. It’s a counterfeit of the Biblical millennial vision: Micah 4:4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
You need to be very afraid of the WEF’s ‘Green New Deal’, which NEF and NEON say will ‘reduce the carbon we emit and massively boost nature, while creating a new generation of jobs’.
Do they know they are lying? They must do. The Bible says: Psa 101:7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
net Zero is destroying the environment
Here is the truth: The Net Zero fantasy is currently destroying the environment. Look at the prime forests being cut down to provide wood chip for the Drax power station, or the devastation which mining for cobalt and lithium for batteries is causing.
Meanwhile, Green New Deal is destroying British jobs and whole industries together with our food and energy security and our defence capabilities. So, of course, is the current unfettered illegal immigration by young Muslim men of fighting age so loved by the likes of NEON’s Zoe Gardner.
NEON also want a ‘democratic economy’ to devolve state power and transform ownership of the economy to give us all an equal stake in the places where we live and work’.
I don’t know what they think ‘the economy’ is. But the economy is not a mystery. It is inherently democratic, if governments would only keep their state-controlling fingers out of it. The landowner in the Lord’s parable articulated a biblical principle which strikes down mandates for electric cars and heat pumps: Matt 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
The truth about ‘the market’
The market is, or should be, people freely buying and selling goods and services.
That’s the Biblical understanding existing from the dawn of time, even in Sodom during the days of Lot, so the Lord Jesus taught: Luke 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
The Lord uses so many metaphors about buying and selling, and he famously overturned the tables of the corrupt cartels fleecing the people in the temple in Jerusalem.
NEON claim the economy has been ‘redesigned over the past 40 years in favour of the market rather than people and planet.’ It’s nonsense. Even if it were true, our Lord is in favour of honest open markets where people are free to do what they wish with their money.
They idea that the economy should be subservient to ‘the planet’ and that a transparent market place does not favour the people and must be ‘redesigned’ is sounding like state control to me.
State Control and Fascism
And the Bible tells us that is the elite’s plan: Rev 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
That’s fascism and it comes with NEON’s added ingredients of ‘climate justice’, that’ll be Net Zero, ‘anti-racism’, which means Black Livcs Matter and ‘critical race theory’ and unfettered immigration, both despising and attacking our Christian heritage at the same time.
Prayer for our leaders
Please pray into this, pray for a change of heart for Miatta, and pray the Lord will raise up a leader, an able, God-fearing, honest man of truth, to root out these antichristian elites and proclaim the Kingship of Jesus Christ and our Christian Constitution.
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The mother of a 22-year-old Just Stop Oil activist who was sentenced to four years in prison has lamented that her daughter will miss her brother’s wedding while incarcerated, The Telegraph reports.
Cressida Gethin, 22, received the sentence alongside Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, and three other activists following a disruptive Just Stop Oil campaign on the M25 in November 2022.
Hallam, 58, was found guilty of conspiring to block traffic and received a record five-year prison sentence. The judge ruled that he had ‘crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic.’
Last week, Gethin and the other activists—Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, 34, Daniel Shaw, 38, and Louise Lancaster, 58—were each sentenced to four years in prison after being found guilty of conspiring to block traffic on the M25.
Cathy Gethin, the mother of Cressida Gethin, defended her daughter’s actions, stating, ‘Cressida just had to do it because people weren’t listening to her call to stop travel, plastics, fertilisers, and reliable electric power.’
However, we argue that the public was perfectly aware of their views but simply disagreed both with bringing poverty by Net Zero and with what they rightly see as extreme measures.
There were significant disruptions caused by Cressida and her fellow activists when they scaled gantries along the M25 in 2022.
Their actions led to delayed ambulances and caused thousands to miss flights, medical appointments, exams, funerals, and possibly even weddings.
The Bible’s book of Proverbs says,
Prov 29:7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
What is Just Stop Oil?
Just Stop Oil (JSO) advocates for the UK to halt the approval of new fossil fuel projects, citing their significant contribution to climate change.
Despite this, in July 2023, former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the granting of 100 new North Sea licences, with additional licences to be awarded annually starting in November.
JSO employs ‘non-violent civil resistance’ and has pledged to cease protests if the government commits to ending fossil fuel production. The group is associated with other environmental organisations, such as Extinction Rebellion , and Insulate Britain.
‘Campaigning to keep the environment safe’?
There are growing concerns from concerned campaigners that Just Stop Oil activists prioritise their environmental agenda over the well-being of people.
The group’s disruptive actions, prioritisation of their cause over people’s immediate needs and livelihoods highlights a lack of empathy and awareness among the activists.
While the idea of environmental conservation is crucial, it should not come at the expense of the everyday lives and prosperity of fellow human beings.
Extinction Rebellion founder Roger Hallam, speaking to the BBC in a recorded message said: ‘The strategic moral imperative is resistance to the greatest ‘crisis’ in the history of humanity’.
Direct action remains ‘the right strategy, he added, confident that while in the short run some people may be deterred, others will only grow more determined.
It begs the question of what Just Stop Oil is planning next?
READ:Genesis 9.7;1Sam 2:20; 1Kings 15:12; Job 28:5; Matt 9:12; Rom 3:13.
PRAY:Pray for our environment. Pray for our leaders.
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Batteries thrown in household rubbish bins have led to over 1,200 fires in the waste system in the last 12 months, compared to 700 in 2022, a new research shows.
A survey of local authorities across the UK has also found that 94% of them said that fires caused by lithium-ion batteries in the waste stream were an increasing challenge.
This discovery follows an awareness campaign; ‘Stop Battery Fires campaign’ from Recycle Your Electricals and the National Fire Chiefs Council.
However, battery fire incidents during recycling are also on the rise, raising concerns about the safety and sustainability of electric technologies. As the push for all-electric solutions intensifies, there are even more concerns that the financial burden on consumers and the costs associated with lithium battery instability will be significant.
The Bible says, 2Chron 12:12 And when he (Rehoboham) humbled himself, the wrath of the LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
Those who lead us, on the other hand, are so blinded by their ideology, by their faith, if you will, in absurdities like going all-electric, and in state control and direction, that things for us are going less well.
No-one will admit the crippling financial burden falling on the people while the damage caused by reliance on inherently unstable lithium batteries is costing millions.
So let’s take a look at the recent catalogue of destruction.
Catalogue of destruction
At the end of June 2024, A massive fire broke out at a battery recycling plant in Glasgow, with footage showing flames erupting and toxic smoke filling the sky. This incident followed another fire in April, where Scottish firefighters spent days extinguishing a blaze at a battery recycling plant in Kilwinning, Ayrshire.
Professor Sudipta Roy, a Scots academic, is advocating for better regulations for recycling batteries. However, she acknowledges the inherent dangers, noting that more powerful batteries and the reactive nature of lithium, which combusts when exposed to air, pose significant risks.
Battery fires are not confined to recycling plants. Last month, a fully-functioning electric stairs vehicle caught fire at Heathrow Airport , causing damage to a British Airways plane.
Electric buses and E-Scooters
Electric bus fires have also been an issue. In January 2024, London experienced three electric bus fires within fourteen days. On January 25th, an electric bus caught fire at Putney Garage, forcing twenty workers to flee for their lives. On January 11th, a double-decker bus burst into flames on Wimbledon Hill Road, followed by another electric bus fire in North Woolwich the next day.
Fire damage from E-Scooter in Gosport
Additionally, in March, fire crews were called to Sutton Station , in south London after an e-bike exploded on a platform. The ‘ferocious’ blaze had the potential for ‘tragic consequences,’ according to fire officials, and footage showed people running for their lives. The e-bike, purchased from an online marketplace four months earlier, had shown no apparent issues prior to the incident, which is hardly reassuring.
Only last month, June 2024, a battery explosion on an E-Scooter caused a fire which burnt down no fewer than seven homes in Gosport, Hampshire.
Private buyers are increasingly turning away from electric cars, while the motor industry pleads for more government subsidies to encourage their purchase.
Vauxhall is on the verge of ceasing car production in Britain due to impending fines for exceeding the government’s stringent quotas on petrol and diesel car sales.
The Lord Jesus said: Matt 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
Not here it isn’t. The Western world has new commandments. Thou shalt heat thy home with an electric heat pump and drive an electric car. And thou shalt believe a lipsticked man in a dress is a woman.
As the Bible records, Lev 19:18 but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
This commandment has been forgotten in the extraction of the minerals and metals need for these batteries. In South America and Zimbabwe, communities have been displaced and landscapes trashed while in the Congo, extraction of cobalt relies on slave labour.
Nor are local people allowed to process the ore. It is all shipped to China. Environmentalists have turned a blind eye and human rights are suspended in the pursuit of Net Zero and carbon reduction, driven by an intense fear of climate change. Christians, however, should see things differently.
2Tim 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
READ: Exod 18:21; Lev 19:18; Deut 1:13; Josh 24:15-25; 1Sam 8:3; 2Chron 12:12; Psa 5:5, 144:12-15; Prov 29:2; Isa 42:1; Jer 23:1; Matt 20:15, 22:37-40; Luke 22:26; John 8:3-32; Gal 6:9; 1Tim 4:12; 2Tim 1:7; Heb 1:3.
PRAY: Pray for the new government. Pray for them to seek wisdom from the Lord on high. Pray for our cultural environment. Pray that God’s will be done.
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The UK general election has sprung a surprise. Nigel Farage has announced he will stand as a candidate for the Reform UK Party in Clacton. He has also taken over the leadership of Reform UK. So let’s look at Mr Farage.
Stand and Fight!
In a press conference yesterday afternoon, he observed being elected would be difficult, but that: ‘If something is difficult, it doesn’t stop you doing it.’ He would rather ‘stand and fight’ than ‘stand aside’. I am reminded of what David’s army general Joab said to his brother Abishai:
2Sam 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Nigel Farage is certainly a larger-than-life character, and he is a human being, so he is flawed and subject to our human condition. Is he arrogant or merely self-confident? Brashness and directness are not sins, but any of us who want to succeed need humility before the Almighty.
We are going to pray into this, but let’s first remind ourselves of the biblical criteria for leadership. Jethro told Moses:
Exod 18:21a Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people (1) able men, (2) such as fear God, (3) men of truth, (4) hating covetousness;
Well, I suggest to you that Nigel Farage may fulfil the third of Jethro’s criteria. He is straightforward. He answers questions. He seems to be a man of truth.
That’s different from so many of our current politicians. You may regard Kemi Badenoch as a breath of fresh air. But even she could not tell the truth about putting the Port Talbot steelmen out of work.
Covetousness vs ability
Mr Farage appears not to be covetous or out to enrich his pals. So that’s would be a contrast with what happened under the Tories with NHS Personal Protection contracts.
Is he an able man, the first criterion? He’s certainly very good at politics. He’s a gifted orator. He has been, as he says, ‘In this game for thirty years’.
If elected, he may find himself in his customary prophetic and activist role rather than in national leadership. That still needs ability from on high.
But what about the second one, men ‘Such as fear God’? Well, earlier this year he said he had stopped attending church, blaming the Church of England’s ‘surrender’, as he put it, to the ‘woke agenda’. You may be in the same boat. That may even be a God-fearing position.
Some thirteen years ago, he said: ‘you can be Christian and fun or you can be Christian and be puritanical and want to control everybody.’
Of course, Christians don’t have fun, we don’t enjoy things, we are blessed by them. I’ve been really blessed by standing up in public for the Lord Jesus over the years. OK, it’s fun especially when you see the Lord move in power.
But look closely. When this Nigel talked about ‘puritanical’ and wanting ‘to control everybody’ perhaps he was talking prophetically not about Christians but about today’s World Economic Forum influenced political and media establishment.
They were controlling everyone during Covid, and now with Net Zero, and they are nudging you to think as they want you to over transgenderism, racism, geopolitics and climate change, to take just a few obvious examples.
Mr Farage says he is standing up for little people against the elite. Credit where it is due, if he is, and it is hard to discern anyone else doing that, that is a godly position. The psalmist says: Psa 41:1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Stand for Righteousness with the Holy Spirit
And from the Proverbs: Prov 29:7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.
Where do Reform UK stand on abortion, on sex education, on the UK promoting evil abroad? I am not sure we yet know. And where is a whole-hearted proclamation of our Christian constitution?
When you stand, even imperfectly or in part, for righteousness against the godless elite, you are fighting a spiritual battle. You cannot do that with one arm tied behind your back. You need the spiritual dimension. You need the Holy Spirit.
Prayer
So let’s pray: ‘Almighty God, you reign on high. Scripture says you put down rulers and set them up. You both remove and set up kings. You give wisdom to the wise and to the humble. We pray you do not deal with us after our sins, but instead, Lord, revive your work and in wrath remember mercy.
‘Raise up men after your own heart, my Lord, humble men who will seek your face for wisdom and proclaim Jesus as King of kings. Especially lift up and sustain God-fearing Christian candidates.
‘May your kingdom come and may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, in our land. For we pray all this from your word in Jesus’s mighty name. Amen.’
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Scriptures informing the prayer
Psa 75:7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Dan 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Psa 103:10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
Hab 3:2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
1Sam 13:14a But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart,
Matt 6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
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The push for net zero threatens jobs and endangers pedestrian safety, according to reports.
Labour and Unite are at loggerheads over North sea oil policy. Battles between unions and Labour governments are nothing new, but could a Starmer administration face a surprising union rebellion?
In a largely under-reported move in England, the union Unite has launched the ‘No Ban Without a Plan’ campaign against Labour’s policy of refusing new oil and gas extraction licenses in the North Sea.
The campaign demands that Labour suspend this policy. If successful, it would mean a future Labour government, like the Conservatives, would continue granting new licenses until it creates at least 35,000 new ‘energy transition jobs’ in Scotland, matching the current number of oil industry roles.
According to Unite, the goal is to persuade a future Labour government to abandon its planned ban on new oil and gas exploration licenses in the North Sea until a genuine program for a just transition of work is in place.
The General Secretary of Unite, Sharon Graham has accused Keir Starmer of following a policy which would allow Britain to ‘be held to ransom by Saudi Arabia or other nations’ and adds:
‘Labour needs to pull back from this irresponsible policy. There is clearly no viable plan for the replacement of North Sea jobs or energy security… Unite will not stand by and let workers be thrown on the scrapheap. North Sea workers cannot be sacrificed on the altar of net zero’.
The union believes that Labour’s current plan to ban all future licences in the North Sea is premature and irresponsible, as there is currently no viable strategy for alternative commensurate green jobs for North Sea workers.
Opposition to Labour’s environmental policy is often assumed to come primarily from the right, including the Conservative right and Reform. Labour typically dismisses critics of net zero measures as outdated. However, the Unite campaign shatters this assumption, revealing growing unrest among workers in the oil and gas sector. These workers are increasingly concerned about job losses and sceptical of the unfulfilled promise of ‘green jobs’ to replace those in fossil fuels.
The Bible says, Deuteronomy 28:12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
The North Sea Transition Deal is an agreement between industry and government to deliver an orderly energy transition.
Through the deal, the oil and gas sector, largely based in Scotland and the North East, government and trade unions will work together over the next decade and beyond to deliver the skills, innovation and new infrastructure required to decarbonise North Sea production.
The government claims that ‘Not only will the deal support existing companies to decarbonise in preparation for a net zero future by 2050, but it will also create the right business environment to attract new industrial sectors to base themselves in the UK, develop new export opportunities for British business, and secure new high-value jobs for the long-term’.
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Job losses
According to Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), the number of jobs in the oil and gas sector has declined significantly over the past decade, dropping from 117,900 to 74,100. During the same period, employment in Scotland’s low carbon and renewables sector has seen only modest growth, increasing from 23,200 to 25,700 jobs.
OEUK Chief Executive David Whitehouse said: ‘Labour either can’t do the maths or haven’t considered the alarming jobs impact that will be felt up and down the country. With no new investment, 42,000 jobs will go, and we could start to see the effects as early as this year. These are not faceless numbers but decent, hardworking people working across the UK to provide the energy we will need today and in the future.
‘The impact of no new investment will be felt across the whole economy – today we estimate the UK will lose £26 billion of economic value. It will undermine the very industry which can and must play a critical role in delivering a homegrown energy transition.
Meanwhile,Unite’s campaign is particularly pertinent in Scotland, where the Labour Party aims to capitalise on the SNP’s vulnerabilities.
The Bible says,
Proverbs 12:11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
‘Electric cars more likely to hit pedestrians than petrol vehicles’
Electric Cars Being Charged 18/2/2022
Electric and Hybrid cars are more likely to hit pedestrians than petrol or diesel vehicles, especially in urban areas, according to an analysis of British road traffic accidents.
Data covering 32 billion miles of battery-powered car travel and 3 trillion miles of petrol and diesel car trips showed that, mile-for-mile, electric and hybrid cars were twice as likely to strike pedestrians as fossil fuel-powered cars, and three times more likely to do so in cities.
The reasons for the increased hazard posed by eco-friendly cars are unclear, but researchers suspect several factors.
The researchers suggested the vehicles’ quieter engines were a significant factor in higher fatality rates and called on the Government to mitigate the risks as it phases out petrol and diesel cars in pursuit of net zero.
Pedestrian casualties
The study examined road collision casualties in Britain from 2013 to 2017 using Road Safety Data. It analysed the number of pedestrians hit by various types of vehicles.
During this period, 96,285 pedestrians were hit by a car or taxi. While three-quarters of these incidents involved cars with combustion engines, this was because they covered considerably more miles.
On average, the study found that 5.16 people were hit by an electric or hybrid car for every 100 million miles driven by that type of vehicle, compared to 2.4 people for petrol and diesel cars.
The road accident data were cross-referenced with annual mileage figures from the National Travel Survey, with 32 billion miles of electric and hybrid vehicle travel and three trillion miles of petrol and diesel vehicle travel included in the analysis.
Two per cent of the pedestrian casualties were caused by an electric vehicle, while 24 per cent of the accidents did not have a record of the engine type. The researchers said that even in an “extreme case” scenario where all of these were accidents involving traditional combustion engine cars, the casualty rate would have been 3.16 per 100 million miles, still 63 per cent lower than seen with electric cars.
‘Less audible’
There was also a threefold greater risk of being hit by an electric car in cities than in rural areas. Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young people, and one in four road traffic deaths are of pedestrians, the researchers said.
Dr Phil J Edwards, lead author from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, suggested the results were because electric cars are ‘less audible to pedestrians in urban areas’ where there is more background noise.
He said the risk posed to pedestrians by electric and hybrid cars ‘needs to be mitigated as governments proceed to phase out petrol and diesel cars’.
Since 2021, electric vehicles have been required to have sound generators installed, but the minimum requirement of 56 decibels is still significantly quieter than that of a petrol or diesel engine.
While 56 decibels is akin to a refrigerator or an office computer, combustion engines make a noise of around 70 decibels which is the equivalent of a busy office, washing machine or vacuum cleaner. The findings were published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
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Dr. Hillary Cass, British honorary physician in paediatrics.
Dr. Hillary Cass
Dr. Hilary Cass has published her final gender review report after a four-year wait, following her interim report in 2022.
The Cass review found that critical thinking and open debate are fundamental elements in scientific and medical research. However, the Guardian reports she found professionals in the industry ‘are increasingly scared to openly discuss their views on the treatment of children questioning their gender identity’.
An overview of the key findings said, ‘There is no simple explanation for the increase in the numbers of predominantly young people and young adults who have a “trans” or gender diverse identity, but there is broad agreement that it is a result of a complex interplay between biological, psychological and social factors.’
In her review, Dr. Cass stated: ‘There are conflicting views about the clinical approach, with expectations of care at times being far from usual clinical practice.’
This, according to the report, has made some clinicians fearful of working with gender-questioning young people, despite their presentation being similar to many children and young people presenting to other NHS services.
‘An appraisal of international guidelines for care and treatment of children and young people with gender incongruence found that that no single guideline could be applied in its entirety to the NHS in England’, it added.
The gender review further states that while a considerable amount of research has been published in this field, systematic evidence reviews demonstrated the poor quality of the published studies, meaning there is not a reliable evidence base upon which to make clinical decisions, or for children and their families to make informed choices.
‘The strengths and weaknesses of the evidence base on the care of children and young people are often misrepresented and overstated, both in scientific publications and social debate.
‘The controversy surrounding the use of medical treatments has taken focus away from what the individualised care and treatment is intended to achieve for individuals seeking support from NHS gender services.’
Christian Voice has always maintained that there is no justification for the use of puberty blockers, regardless of who it is being administered to.
The Bible says, Luke 5:31-32 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
‘The rationale for early puberty suppression remains unclear, with weak evidence regarding the impact on gender dysphoria, mental or psycho-social health. The effect on cognitive and psycho-sexual development remains unknown,’ according to Dr. Cass’ findings.
‘The use of masculinising / feminising hormones in those under the age of 18 also presents many unknowns, despite their longstanding use in the adult transgender population. The lack of long-term follow-up data on those commencing treatment at an earlier age means we have inadequate information about the range of outcomes for this group.
‘Clinicians are unable to determine with any certainty which children and young people will go on to have an enduring trans identity.’
NHS gender services refused to participate
It has been disclosed that the NHS gender services astonishingly chose not to take part in the research process of the Cass Review.
In an email to John Stewart, the National Director of Specialised Commissioning at NHS England and NHS Improvement, Dr. Hilary wrote: ‘It is therefore hugely disappointing that the NHS gender services have decided not to participate with this research. I am frustrated on behalf of the young people and their families that the opportunity to reduce some of the uncertainties around care options has not been taken.
‘Ultimately, the NHS is an evidence-based service with a responsibility to maintain the safety of those in its care. Understanding more about what support people who attended the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) received, and whether this helped them, will provide vital evidence to assist young people, their families, and the clinicians working with them to make informed decisions about the right pathway for them.’
She requested that NHS England consider how the objectives of this study could be achieved even after the completion of the Review.
Exercise extreme caution
Rishi Sunak, responding to the final review, said: ‘The findings have “shone a spotlight” on the need to “exercise extreme caution”,
The prime minister told LBC : ‘We care above all about the well-being of children and it’s clear that these things are not neutral acts, whether that’s social transitioning, any kind of medical intervention, we simply do not know the long-term effects of these things.
‘And that’s why anyone involved in considering these issues, of course, has to treat people with sensitivity and compassion, but also have to be extremely cautious when it comes to taking any action.’
READ: Gen 1:27-28; Lev 18:22; Ezekiel 16:49; Psalms 127:3-5; Romans 1:25-27; 1 Cor 11:3; Gal 5:19; Col 3:5; 1 John 4:19
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Transcript of Nanosermon ‘Fossil fuels are the gift of God’ below:
In this Nanosermon, I’m going to prove, from the Bible, that fossil fuels are a gift from God, and discuss how they are a step up from burning wood or charcoal. Fasten your safety belt, here we go.
There’s a song in the musical My Fair Lady (28 – 34 seconds), sung by Stanley Holloway. It’s called ‘A little bit of luck.’ Here’s an extract:
‘The Lord above gave liquor for temptation, to see if man could turn away from sin.’
No, that’s not totally Biblical, it’s just a song. Yes, the Lord above gave wine (Psa 104:15), but to gladden the heart of man, not for temptation.
Turn away from Climate Sin
However, for climate fanatics, the Lord above, if they believe in the Lord above, has placed fossil fuels in the earth for the same reason, not to use in moderation, but to see if man can turn away from climate sin. So what does the Bible say about minerals in the earth?
This is Deuteronomy chapter eight, where God is talking about the promised land. It is: Deu 8:9b … a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Or copper, in the Hebrew. And here’s Job, chapter twenty-eight: Job 28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
All of them are there by the grace of God for man to use. So is the bitumen which ancient people dug from the ground and used as mortar in building. (Gen 11:3) So is the clay they used to make pottery. It’s technology, right there in the Bible, from our Creator God who upholds the world and all things by the word of his power (Heb 1:3). Sign our Petition:
According to offshore-technology.com, the oil and gas industry started as recently as 1847, when Scottish chemist James Young observed natural petroleum seepage in the Riddings coal mine. He distilled from it a thin oil suitable for lamps and a thicker oil for lubrication.
Dyball consultants say that by 200BC the Chinese were using coal for heat and as a trading commodity.
Coal, oil and gas may not have been known as such to the Bible writers, although Job goes on to say: Job 28:5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it, is turned up as it were fire.
Discovery of coal stopped deforestation
In any event, the same principle employs. God has put fossil fuels there for our use. Dybal go on to say coal was also vital to China’s metallurgy industry. Smelting was known to Job, but it flourished in China around 120BC. Dybal say:
Logging prime forest in Canada
‘Due to the huge demand for fuel for forges and furnaces, China faced issues from deforestation as forests were felled to provide fuel. As the crisis deepened, an alternative fuel source was found in coal’. Here’s Jordan Peterson at the Cambridge Union in October 2019 (5:37-6.00):
‘There’s more trees in the northern hemisphere than there were a hundred years ago. Nobody knows that, but it’s true and by a substantial margin. You know why, in part? Because people burn coal instead of wood. Everyone says we shouldn’t burn coal. OK, what are you going to do? Burn trees instead? Because that’s what poor people would have done. Coal isn’t good? Well, it’s better than burning wood.’
UK burns wood in the Drax Power Station
Drax Power Station in Yorkshire: £2.5bn subsidies in just three years.
The UK is actually doing what the Canadian academic scorned: shipping wood chip made from primal forests in Canada over here to burn in the Drax power station instead of coal. They’ve fooled themselves into thinking it’s ‘greener’ than coal. But the emissions are far worse and the subsidies are ridiculous. It’s the politics of absurdity..
Renewables are intermittent and need cover for when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine, or shines too hot for solar to work properly.
If you spurn the Lord’s gift of coal, oil and gas and keep them in the ground, as the Gretas want, and you refuse to plug the gap with nuclear, using another God-given mineral, by the way, then you’ll have to burn wood, as we do here on the farm, or use charcoal made from it, like the Chinese were doing and like poor people do for cooking all over the world today. And you will have massive deforestation.
The Heat pump at Wernlwyd now costs too much to run
We have an electric heat-pump heating the water for our farmhouse. We could use it to drive the under-floor heating, but it’s now too expensive to run, so we use a wood-burning stove indoors as well as this one here in our chapel.
Wood, biomass, as they call it, is not free, you have to spend valuable time cutting down the trees, or cutting up fallen ones, logging, chopping, stacking, seasoning, chipping the brush, bringing it all in and keeping the fire going.
Maybe we should install a gas boiler before our government ban them. Fossil fuels have so much more energy in them compared with wood. Gas would be cleaner, more efficient and probably cheaper, all things considered.
Not ‘a sin’ to burn gas and coal
For generating electricity, nuclear is the most sensible way. Bjorn Lomborg says nuclear plants are currently too expensive, but they cost peanuts compared with all the net zero money now being squandered. Until they come on line, we’ll have to burn those God-given fossil fuels and recognise it isn’t ‘a sin’ to do so.
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(Video Transcript:) I was going to spare you any comment on the Scarlet Blake / Fangze Wang affair, which is on our website anyway, but it’s still drawing comment, with the BBC’s Samira Ahmed agonising about it on Newswatch last Saturday morning (2nd March 2024).
But an earlier piece on Saturday’s BBC news, where presenter Naga Munchetty interviewed MP Tobias Ellwood about threats to MPs without either of them once telling viewers where the threats were actually coming from, tipped the balance.
Questioning Reality
The media / political complex are manipulating us into doubting our own sanity, into questioning reality, into believing their absurdities. Well, you’ll only get the truth here, so let me show you how it works with half-a-dozen examples. Then we’ll see what to do about it.
We’ll start with Covid, where they pretended we were all equally at risk, that bacterial handwash and crude masks could stop an air-borne virus, that experimental gene-therapies were safe, fully-tested good honest vaccines. The Bible tells us there can be such people as ‘physicians of no value’. (Find all our Bible references below.) See: ‘Lockdown a failed experiment’
They do it on abortion. Not even pro-life MPs want to rock the boat by asking their pro-abortion colleagues what exactly is that in the womb? Is that a human being? Was the psalmist right to say ‘thou hast covered ME in my mother’s womb’ or not?
They are doing it over Russia / Ukraine, repeating that the Russians and ‘Putin’ are totally evil while Ukraine, Mr Zelensky, NATO, the US and the EU are as pure as the driven snow, so Mr Sunak can quietly send billions of pounds of your money to fight his proxy war and enrich his pals in the arms firms. People trot out lines they have learnt from the BBC forgetting the psalmist said: ‘I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.’
They are doing it, as I saw on Saturday morning (2nd March 2024), over Islam, much preferring to talk about Lee Anderson’s supposed ‘Islamophobia’ than admit the threats to MPs are coming from pro-Hamas Muslims and their leftist friends, from Islamists, in other words.
They pretend there is nothing wrong with mass Muslim migration and that they can replace our Christian constitution with multiculturalism.
You have Rishi Sunak claiming the UK is ‘the world’s most successful … multi-faith democracy’. Well did the prophet say: ‘truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.’
They let the education establishment get away with doing it over RSE, pretending they can show what amounts to pornography to children, lying that it is ‘age-appropriate’.
They’re also gaslighting YOUR children into believing it’s just fine to be promiscuous or homosexual and perfectly normal for a girl to decide she is actually a boy and be given life-changing drugs and mutilatory surgery, despite the Lord Jesus saying ‘They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.’
Which leads us finally to Fangze Wang, a deranged man who prefers to be called Scarlet Blake and pretend he is a woman, with Police, CPS, the judge and journalists colluding in his self-deception, hoping YOU won’t notice the one THEY are calling a woman is really a man. The Lord Jesus himself said God created us male and female, not ourselves.
It’s gaslighting built on absurdity. So what to do about it? Firstly, make sure YOU are rooted in the truth of both his word and current events. We’ll help you by looking behind the scenes and telling it as it is both here (our Youtube channel) and on our website so you can pray informed prayers.
Pray the Lord will raise up God-fearing men, change the hearts of the king’s ministers or replace them with men after his own heart. Pray for them to be what the Bible calls ‘able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness.’ Let’s be fully aware a general election is coming, and of what the opinion polls say, but let us never forget God does miracles. We’ll be saying, ‘this is the Lord’s doing and it is marvellous in our eyes.’
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Photo by: Baseball-sized hail hit this Scottsbluff solar farm
A devastating hailstorm wreaked havoc on a 5.2-megawatt solar farm in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, at the end of June 2023, according to the Institute for Energy Research. It destroyed most of its panels with baseball-sized hail moving at speeds of 100 to 150 miles per hour.
Despite being designed to withstand hail, the large hailstones exceeded the panels’ resistance limits, possibly exacerbated by high winds accompanying the storm.
The hailstorm, part of a massive super-cell thunderhead, swept through eastern Wyoming and into Nebraska, inflicting severe damage on the multimillion-dollar solar farm, which boasted over 14,000 panels operational since 2019. The system’s expected 25-year lifespan was drastically shortened to less than 4 years, leaving authorities grappling with the cleanup of the resultant toxic mess.
The incident raises concern about the reliability of weather-vulnerable power plants and the duration required to remediate the environmental aftermath.
In a recent report titled “Hail No! Defending Solar from nature’s cold assault,” GCube Insurance highlights the challenge posed by hailstorms in the solar industry.
Data collected over five years reveals hail-related claims averaging $58.4 million per claim, constituting 54.21% of the total solar loss claim costs. Factors such as inadequate risk models and fragile glass panels exacerbate vulnerability.
According to the report, this alarming trend is creating a significant gap between insurance requirements for solar projects and available market coverage, leading to project delays and cancellations.
The report highlights that solar manufacturers’ initiatives to lower the levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) have resulted in the adoption of larger, thinner, and more delicate glass panels. Additionally, selecting sites with higher hail risk increases financial vulnerabilities for future projects.
Climate change fanatics have been quick to attribute record-breaking hail incidents to the effects of climate change.
But even if a warmer climate will make more hail in some places, so what? Don’t build solar panels there. Protecting them with tilting motors and shields makes them more expensive and is more stuff to go wrong. And some scientists also admit the frailty of their knowledge. Who knew that?
According to an article by Scientific American, Italy witnessed a remarkable meteorological phenomenon as a colossal 7.6-inch hailstone, more than double the size of a softball, descended from stormy skies, breaking the European record just five days after a 6.2-inch hailstone set a new benchmark. According to the National Weather Service, this latest hailstone also approached the world record set in South Dakota in 2010 by a hailstone eight inches in diameter—almost as large as a bowling ball.
Contrary to expectations, experts (!) suggest that warming temperatures may increase the likelihood of hailstorms in certain areas, with more potentially damaging hail, anticipated even as the global surface warms.
Dr. Katja Friedrich, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder, highlights the complexities of climate change effects on hail production, attributing them to factors like strong updrafts, atmospheric instability, and abundant moisture.
The Bible says, Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth forever.
Hailstorms are nothing new. In 1888, Moradabad, India, was struck by a deadly hailstorm, claiming the lives of approximately 246 people.
Reports described hailstones as large as ‘goose eggs and oranges’ and even cricket balls.
The event, one of the deadliest in history, caused widespread devastation and loss of lives. Historical accounts from the London Times and Nature, as well as A.W. Greely’s book “American Weather,” provide detailed narratives of the calamity.
John Eliot, a key figure in India’s Meteorological department, documented the severity of the storm. Although Eliot’s official weather records did not include specific death tolls, subsequent accounts by meteorologists supported the recorded deaths.
Mankind’s attempts to model the weather, let alone control it, are futile and arrogant. It will be far better to put the energies of mankind into measures to increase prosperity and mitigate the effects of adverse weather.
The Bible says, Job 36:29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
Job 38:33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? 34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
How does hail form?
Wiki commons- Hailstones
According to the National Severe Storms Laboratory, hailstones form when raindrops are lifted into cold regions of the atmosphere by thunderstorm updrafts, where they freeze and grow by colliding with liquid water drops. The freezing speed determines if the ice is cloudy or clear.
Hail falls when the updraft can’t support its weight. Hailstones may have layers of clear and cloudy ice due to temperature and water content changes in the storm.
Winds inside the storm contribute to these variations. Hailstones don’t grow from cycling up and down; they need liquid water to grow, absent at high altitudes where temperatures drop below -40°F.
‘Although Florida has the most thunderstorms, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming usually have the most hailstorms. The area where these three states meet–“hail alley”–averages seven to nine hail days per year. Other parts of the world that have damaging hailstorms include China, Russia, India and northern Italy.’
Hail formed one of the plagues of Egypt: Exo 9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Signs of the Times
The ancients saw things like hail as the judgment of God: Psalm 18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
In the book of Revelation, hail is described as a plague of judgment: Rev 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
The Lord Jesus knows all about weather forecasting, but he challenges us to see the signs of the times: The Bible says, Matthew 16:3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
When we do that, we see that climate hysteria is part of a command-and-control agenda driven by a God-hating rebellious elite.
READ: Exo 9:24-25; Deut 6:6-7; Job 38:4,22,33, Psa 18:13, 78:47; Isa 28:17; Matt 16:3; Rev 16:21. PRAY: for the repeal of the Climate Change Act and an end to Net Zero oppression and stupidity.
Pray for there to be God-fearing leaders in our country.
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Steel workers travelled by rail yesterday to lobby their Members of Parliament in advance of a debate on ‘Protecting Steel in the UK’.
Tata Steel own the steelworks at Port Talbot in South Wales, including its two blast furnaces, which make steel from iron ore. The Government has announced a plan to give Tata £500 million to close the blast furnaces, install electric arc furnaces instead and make 3,000 steel workers redundant. Watch our video:
’Decarbonise’ steel production?
The Port Talbot Blast Furnaces
The debate was moved (See Hansard HERE by the Labour opposition. Faced with an open goal of the absurdity of the Net Zero agenda, this is how their motion for debate began:
‘That this House recognises the need to decarbonise steel production…’ before complaining the government plan ‘will result in thousands of steelworkers losing their jobs and risk leaving the UK as the first developed country in the world without the capacity to produce primary steel … and is therefore concerned about the impact that the Government’s plans could have on national security’. It also worries about ‘irrevocably damaging working people’s trust in the opportunities the net zero transition could bring.’
The reality is that ‘carbon’, in the form of coking coal, is essential to the process of making primary steel. As it burns, the coke in the blast furnace ‘robs’ the oxygen from the iron oxide ore, releasing the iron in a molten form. See HERE. You can’t ‘decarbonise’ a blast furnace.
The electric arc furnace is for a different purpose, to melt down and recycle scrap ferrous material into lower grade steel. As the FT reports, each arc furnace uses colossal amounts of electric power, enough for a small town, which has to be generated using, in the absence of a thriving UK nuclear power industry, er, fossil fuels.
The Guardian (see below) describes electric arc furnace as ‘a greener and cheaper process.’ It is true, it is cheaper in that it uses fewer men to operate it, and it may be quicker, but it does not yet make new high-grade product. That being said, the UK only currently recycles 3 million tons of scrap steel. Sir Robert Goodwill observed in the debate and was supported by the minister Ms Ghani, that we export some 8 million tons to China, rather like Kenya, which exports all its iron ore to China and, like the UK, buys steel back. We should be recycling our scrap steel mountain here.
So blast furnaces and electric arc furnaces are not an ‘either/or’ but a ‘both/and’.
The COP28 conference in December agreed to contribute to ‘transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the science,’ according to the final global stocktake draft text.
It spoke about ‘accelerating efforts towards the phase-down of unabated coal power.’ Greta Thunberg was angry with the agreement not going far enough or fast enough for her. But then again, whenever isn’t poor Greta angry?
However, note that the ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels was specifically stated as being for ‘energy systems’. It did not and does not apply to plastics, transport or agriculture. Nor does it apply to the manufacture of new iron in blast furnaces.
So there is no reason for the UK to close the blast furnaces in Port Talbot, at the cost of thousands of jobs and the UK’s steel security, becoming the only G20 nation which cannot make virgin steel, all the while citing ‘climate change’.
A similar crazy deal at Scunthorpe will mean the UK ending up as the only G20 country that cannot make steel from raw materials, As the Guardian reports. Yet neither the Guardian, nor the senior Union and Labour politicians they quote, seem to have spotted their opportunity to criticise a plain stupid act of UK virtue-signalling and self-harm.
Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch even decided to portray the agreement with Tata Steel with a straight face as ‘a great deal. Not just for Port Talbot, but for the UK’, she said.
Thousands of jobs at risk
Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP
Mrs Badenoch ventured: ‘What I would say to people who are concerned about job losses is that we do understand and we have a transition plan in place that’s funded up to about £100 million to make sure that people have skills to retrain and move on to other things if they don’t want to stay in the steel industry.’ Move on to what ‘other things’? Picking strawberries? a ‘green job’ in lobbying?
Gary Smith, GMB general secretary, retorted: “The jobs of thousands of steelworkers are now at risk. The cost to local people and the wider Port Talbot community will be immense. “Once again, we have the spectacle of leaders talking up the fantasy land of a ‘just transition’ while the bitter reality for workers is them getting the sack.”
Did anyone ask the voters if we wanted to stop making primary steel and throw thousands of men out of work?
The absurdity is that the raw steel will still be made, merely elsewhere in the world, in countries like China and India which do not have a spiritual death-wish.
Indeed, The Guardian reports Tata Steel is doing exactly that, and opening a huge new blast furnace in India. The Guardian accuse Tata Steel of ‘hypocrisy’ failing to notice it is the UK Government net zero policy which is doing the damage. In the Commons debate cited above, only Sir John Hayes spoke out against the net zero agenda. Trudy Harrison (Copeland) (Con) spoke up for the West Cumbria Woodhouse colliery and its coking coal for blast furnaces.
Prayer and Action
Ensuring the UK’s security in this uncertain age is the God-given responsibility of the state. To close industries and deliberately impoverish working people is not to love thy neighbour. It is stupidity and oppression. Israel in the Old Testament was a beacon of excellence for worshipping God and keeping his holy laws, not for national suicide or stopping men from working.
It is almost as if an evil spirit of national rebellion and destruction, a covenant with death, has wormed its way into the corridors of power. Or perhaps the stupidity is being sent by the Lord as judgment as it was on Rehoboam. Either way, our politicians need to repent, seek the Lord, stop doing WEF-approved evil, and start doing good.
The UK Government Use this link to the UK Parliament website to email your MP to ask him/her to ask His Majesty’s Government what international treaty compels the United Kingdom to close its blast furnaces, and ask them from which countries they intend manufacturers to buy primary steel in future.
READ: Gen10:5; Lev 19:18; Deut 4:7-8; 2Chron 10:13-15; Psalm 104:23; Isa 28:15; Ezek 33:11, 45:9; Dan 5:22,25-28; Micah 2:1-2; Mark 12:30-31; 1Tim 2:1-4.
PRAY For those who lead us as scripture commands. Pray His Majesty and his ministers will repent of their worship of man and ‘the planet’ and worship the King of kings, seeking the Lord in humility for wisdom. Or if not, that the Lord on high will replace them with men after his own heart.
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At this time of writing, in early December 2023, some 97,000 delegates and 300,000 hangers-on are meeting at the climate alarmist COP28 jamboree in Dubai. It’s the biggest ever, with, some are saying, the biggest ever ‘carbon footprint’.
Meanwhile, the Government have passed what the Daily Telegraph describes as an ‘anti-motorist’ net zero vote. The ‘Zero Emission Vehicle mandate’ will enact quotas for the sale of electric cars. The mandate will require 22 % of cars sold by manufacturers to be electric from next year. By 2030, the quota will gradually have risen to 80 per cent.
This is despite Mr Sunak pushing the all-electric date back from 2030 to 2035 in a speech in September. MPs say if electric cars are that good they will sell themselves with no need for government force. The measure passed by 381 votes to 37. See how your MP voted here. Telegraph’s report (£) is here.
King Charles gave the opening speech on Friday 1st, (or watch it on YouTube)(Comment on Daily Sceptic) telling the assorted sheiks, princes and politicians to gang up on the masses and deliver Net Zero: They must ‘bring together our public, private, philanthropic and N.G.O. sectors ever more effectively, so that they all play their part in delivering climate action.’ He said: ‘It is encouraging to see industry transition plans being developed, both nationally and globally, which will help each sector of our global economy onto practical pathways to a zero-carbon, Nature-positive future.’
When you read the transcript of his speech on the Palace website, you see that the King always deifies ‘nature’ by giving it a capital ‘N’. ‘We belong to the earth’, he concluded, ‘The Earth does not belong to us.’
That’s not what the Bible says, when God blessed mankind and told Adam and Eve to ‘be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:’ The earth, or nature, is a created thing, like us. Mankind are stewards of it. It does not ‘own’ us, as His Majesty believes. It is not a god.
To support his pitch, the King spoke of ‘seeing alarming tipping points being reached’. Like what? He failed to name any. He said: ‘I have spent a large proportion of my life trying to warn of the existential threats facing us over global warming, climate change and biodiversity loss.’ Threats to our very existence? The world was warm in Roman times and in the Middle Ages. We’re still here, Your Majesty. Some time back all the dinosaurs went extinct. That was Biodiversity loss on a grand scale. We’re still here, sir.
Writing in the Telegraph, Peter, Lord Lilley, says he has asked ministers to name a single peer-reviewed study accepted by the IPCC (the UN body established to assess the science of global warming) that forecasts the extinction of humanity if the world takes no action to phase out fossil fuels. He found out there isn’t one.
Incidentally, he also says when he was one of just five MPs to vote against the absurd Climate Change Act in 2008, he was the only MP who asked to see the ‘Impact Assessment – the cost-benefit analysis’ for the Bill. It showed the costs outweighed the benefits by a factor of two-to-one. He goes on: ‘But, then and since, our political class has put reason aside, preferring to use this issue for virtue signalling’. Once again, as our previous article showed, it was and still is the politics of absurdity.
Referring to his many calls for ‘climate action’ and ‘Harmony’ with ‘Nature’, the King said: ‘All these decades later, and despite all the attention, there is thirty per cent more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than there was back then, and almost forty per cent more methane.’
Yes, Statista reports there was 315 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere in 1959, and 419 parts per million in 2022. And we’re still here. Plants can’t photosynthesise much below 200 ppm, while the ideal for them, according to the Province of Manitoba in Canada, is around 1200 ppm. Some growers provide supplements of CO2 to make their plants more productive. Carbon Dioxide is not a poison, it means more food for ordinary people. Even the alarmist NASA admits the earth is becoming greener as a result of the extra CO2.
As for Methane, Statista says ‘Precise figures’ ‘are difficult to quantify’, but I sense the King is punching down on livestock farmers, other than him, of course, whose animals produce methane. Then again, humans produce methane, even kings, apparently.
Where are livelihoods ‘laid waste by climate change’?
His Majesty said: ‘The dangers are no longer distant risks. I have seen across the Commonwealth, and beyond, countless communities which are unable to withstand repeated shocks, whose lives and livelihoods are laid waste by climate change.’ Where in the world is this happening? He didn’t say. There is no support for his statement anywhere.
The King constantly confused weather with climate. He claimed, ‘East Africa is suffering a decades-long drought’. It isn’t. Even CNN eventually has to admit the horn of Africa is suffering a five-year drought brought about by La Nina weather patterns. But elsewhere, for example in the East African country of Rwanda,according to the World Bank, there is more rainfall than a century ago. The king blamed this year’s ‘severe’ wildfires on climate change. No, it was arsonists what set fire to forests in Greece and Canada.
Highly political
The elite, including the King’s Great Reset friends in the World Economic Forum, which is supporting COP28, of course, try to pretend Net Zero is not political. That’s how the King thinks he can get away with a speech which was highly-politicised.
He told the leaders, ‘we need – in the order of four-and-a-half to five trillion a year – to drive the transformation we need’. That’s the cost. Dollars presumably. And who pays for it? Not King Charles. Nor does it grow on those trees he wants speculators in the Shard to plant with taxpayers’ cash.
That money for Net Zero will come from taxes raised and profits from stuff sold to you and me. The population of the world is around 8 billion. Do the maths. The king’s Net Zero is going to cost every man, woman and child on Planet Earth at least $570 dollars a year each. Possibly over $600 each. Per year. The Archbishop of Canterbury told King Charles at his coronation in May to be a servant of the people. So has the King asked us if we want to pay that? Was it in any party manifesto?
96 months to save the world!
In July 2009, Prince Charles, as he was then, told an audience of industrialists and environmentalists that he calculated that we had just 96 months, a mere 8 years, left to save the world. Charles said we could no longer afford consumerism and the “age of convenience” was over. Not for him of course.
Fourteen years or 168 months later, the earth has not come to an end. We’re still here. The sky has not fallen in. He was wrong then. I suggest the royal alarmist and bon viveur is wrong again.
We read in Genesis chapter 8 and verse 22 that ‘seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will always be there while the earth remains. That’s the Lord’s promise. But News Agency Reuters tells us, along with Google, the BBC and the rest of the mainstream media, without any backing, as if it is holy writ, that the burning of fossil fuels ‘is the main cause of climate change’.
Fossil fuels, or the sun?
Historically, it is the activity of the sun which has always driven climate change. We believe the earth and its complicated and seemingly chaotic atmosphere, its physics and its chemistry, the moon and the sun were all put together by an all-powerful Creator. Man’s attempts to model it, let alone influence it, seem a bit pathetic, a bit vain-glorious.
It was left to chemical engineer, Sultan Dr Ahmed Al-Jaber, the COP28 president, to tell his guests there is ‘No science’ behind phasing out fossil fuels and it isn’t even necessary to achieve the Paris Agreement’s artificial target of 1.5 degrees C. The Telegraph reports he is even going to increase production of oil. The Gretas of this world will not be happy with that.
They won’t hesitate to litigate. One of them, environmentalist and evolutionist Chris Packham has already filed a High Court legal challenge to the UK Government for its decision to delay the electric car deadline by five years.
However, to support Dr Al-Jaber, it was only fossil-fuel power stations which kept the UK from freezing in the November/December 2023 freeze-up. According to the Telegraph, renewables failed completely with the lack of both wind and sun, and because successive governments have failed to build enough nuclear power stations, coal and gas had to fill the gap. The gas network too was at maximum capacity to heat the nation’s homes. Electric heat pumps turned out to cost a fortune as they struggled to extract enough heat from the cold air to keep people warm.
You’ve heard how they want to turn Port Talbot into an Electric Arc Furnace (which uses scrap steel) and close the blast furnaces (which make new iron) and put 2,000 guys out of work? And Kemi pretends it’s good news? Well, see this about how a Blast Furnace works (you never knew this). This one is more technical.
According to the Bible’s book of Hebrews, the Lord Jesus upholds all things, that’s all things, by the word of his power. Paul tells the Colossians that the Lord Jesus ‘is before all things, and by him all things consist’.
The Bible also tells us, in Psalm 2 about the ‘kings of the earth’ imagining ‘vain things’, coming together to plot and plan ‘against the LORD, and against his anointed.’
In our day, King Charles and the nobles, the presidents, prime ministers and politicians, their advisors and the climate lobbyists and financiers are fulfilling that prophecy. They will all wine and dine sumptuously in Dubai and clap each other on the back for their virtue signalling, before flying home in their private jets to tell you to eat less meat, go electric, travel less, turn the heating down and put on a jumper.
Thank God that he will have the last word. The Bible says he will laugh at them and have them in derision. Find all our Bible references just below:
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READ: Psalm 2:1-4; Gen 1:28, Gen 8:22; Psalm 2:1-4, 111:10; Prov 9:10; Ezek 45:9; Micah 6:8; Luke 12:27-31; Col 1:17; 2Pet 3:7; Heb 1:3.
PRAY That these leaders will repent of their delusions, their belief in lies and absurdity, their arrogance and their vanity, and seek the Lord in humility, because fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the holy is understanding.
WRITE: To: ‘His Majesty The King, Buckingham Palace, London, SW1A 1AA’. You can open with ‘Sir’ (although I write: ‘May it please Your Majesty’!) and close the letter with the form ‘I have the honour to be, Sir, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient servant’. That’s the formal way. (You can’t email His Majesty, BTW). The Palace website says the king ‘takes a keen interest in the letters he receives’. Use the points above, be brief, be courteous, be firm. Don’t be afraid to quote scripture; HIs Majesty prefers the King James Version!
ALSO WRITE To your MP at House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA or Use this link to the UK Parliament website to email your MP to ask him/her to agree with you that ordinary people refuse to be impoverished to satisfy the whims of climate fanatics. Ask your MP to agree with you that the Climate Act needs to be repealed and the Net Zero agenda scrapped. Remember, when we do the little things that only we can do, we can rely on the Lord to do what only he can do.
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Rishi Sunak filling up someone else's car in a publicity stunt. (Rishi does not drive a Kia.)
Rishi Sunak filling up someone else’s car in a publicity stunt. (Rishi does not drive a Kia.)
The papers and media (See ITV news HERE) are reporting that the 2030 ban on petrol and diesel cars may be delayed by five years as Rishi Sunak waters down his net zero pledges.
Some Tory MPs have welcomed the proposals, which will also involve pushing back the ban on gas and oil boilers. climate fanatics are furious. The BBC is talking of ‘a blizzard of criticism’. The motivation, says the Telegraph, is to ‘mark a clear line between the party and Labour at a time when it is struggling in the polls’. But the punitive quotas on how many EV’s manufacturers must sell between now and the cut-off date remain.
To be in accordance with scripture, it isn’t enough for bans on petrol and diesel cars and gas and oil boilers to be put back. There should be no bans at all. The law of God bans things which are evil, things which should not happen. That is things like murder, adultery, theft, false witness, even blasphemy and idolatry in a civilised country. Buying the sort of car the establishment think you should not buy can never be illegal in the eyes of God. Installing a boiler which happens to be the wrong sort in the eyes of the elite can never be ‘against the law’.
That’s because all laws are or should be in accordance with the laws of God.
The Prophet called out to God: Isa 26:9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
To go outside the laws of God into some sort of top-down command and control mentality is human arrogance. And that is whether or not there really is a climate emergency, as the media never tire of telling us.
Never forget, scientists are funding-driven and that means they are agenda-driven. They, like media folk, mix with politicians. It took the Covid debacle to reveal how science can follow policy, rather than the other way round. It also showed us how the media can swiftly become propaganda channels for government. Now we have seen all that, we cannot forget it.
Those who lead us are fallible, ambitious, self-serving human beings. They get things wrong. They focus on the short-term, on polls, on headlines.
The Lord Jesus asked: Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
The answer is, ‘British politicians and their civil servants’. They have not counted the cost of their net zero policies. They commanded that all new vehicles sold after 2030 should be electric. They may now be pushing that back five years. That decision alone makes my point. It is policy made up on the hoof. If 2030 can become 2035 overnight, the policy never had any rational basis. Did they ever think it through as the Lord Jesus assumed normal, rational human beings would do?
Mining for cobalt in the Congo (DRC). Time Africa Magazine.
Did they count the cost of all the charging points they would need for all the EV’s they demanded we buy, how people in flats would access them, how they would generate all the electricity they would need for them in time, and for all the electric heat-pumps they are instructing the public to install, how they would expand the electric grid by their self-imposed deadline to transport all the electricity they would have to generate, or even whether that electricity would remain affordable? The answer to that is ‘No’.
Did they run tests to check the life of the batteries or consider how people would pay for a new one once the old one expired? Did they assess the environmental and social impact of mining the materials for all the batteries the cars would need? Is there any installed capacity or environmental risk assessment for scrapping the old batteries? Did they ask where in the world the batteries would be made and the impact on domestic security if they and the cars and heat-pumps were made overseas? Did they even consider the impact of much heavier vehicles on roads and car parks? The answer to all these questions is ‘No’.
Renewables
This graph from the Climate Change Committee shows unrealistic aims never costed out or thought through. Black is fossil fuels, Light blue is renewables. Blue is Guaranteed power plant output, Pink is Electricity for hydrogen production, Red is Nuclear, hydro and tidal power. The graph starts at 2020 and ends at 2050, The left axis is TerawattHoiurs of electricity rising from 320 in 2020 to 790 in 2050.
They have commanded and skewed the electricity market with subsidies paid for by consumers through green taxes to drive through the installation of wind turbines and solar panels. The Climate Change Committee has a graphic showing renewables generating two-thirds of our electricity by 2050.
Have they put in place equivalent capacity from nuclear power or fossil fuels to cover those days when the sun doesn’t shine, or shines too much, or when the wind doesn’t blow, or when both of those happen together? Is such back-up capacity even being planned? Are the investing in clean coal technology or buying British nuclear plants?
For that matter, have they ruled out installing solar panels on farm-land and insisted they go on roofs? Have they told us the expected life of the turbines and the solar panels and planned for their disposal or recycling? The answer once again to all that is ‘No’.
Arrogance, stupidity and dishonesty
Not only are those who lead us so arrogant that they legalise things God says in his word are evil and promote them, not only are they so lacking in humility they distort the market by banning things God never banned, but they are so stupid they do not even cost it out and so lacking in wisdom they fail to think any of it through.
On top of that, they lack the honesty to admit it. The exact same cocktail of arrogance, stupidity and deceit meant that Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions and the imposition of mRNA vaccines were both carried out in opposition to the laws of God and were neither costed out nor thought through.
Covid corruption
Stephen Lighfoot, the Chairman of the MHRA through 2020-2023, had shares in vaccine producer Glaxo-Smith Kline. Director Amanda Calvert had shares in vaccine producer AstraZeneca.
Did they seek the Lord before ordering lockdown? Did they ask the public whether it was acceptable to classify some economic activity as ‘non-essential’ and ban it? Did they consider the effect on the national collective immune system and mental health of confining people to their homes or forbidding old folks from seeing their children and grand-children?
Did they conduct a dispassionate assessment of the effectiveness of face-masks and anti-bacterial hand-wash against an air-borne virus? Did they conduct the standard regime of even medium-term testing before they rolled out a vaccine employing innovative mRNA technology? Did they insist no-one with shares in pharmaceutical companies could sit on a regulatory board?
The answer, once again, is ‘No’. Instead, those in office and their advisors gave contracts for largely unnecessary protective equipment to their friends. To the previous mix of arrogance, stupidity and dishonesty they added corruption.
Bribery and corruption are specifically condemned in the word of God: Exod 23:8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Changing people’s diets?
The Telegraph reported: ‘(Mr Sunak) is expected to say that there will be no policies to change people’s diets or to encourage carpooling, and no new taxes to discourage flying. He is also likely to rule out burdensome recycling schemes, including a proposal for seven bins, with six separate recycling bins plus one for general waste.’
Even to say that carries the implication that civil servants and government advisors might be considering such policies.
It should not even be under discussion whether people should be free or not to eat whatever they want and travel how they wish. The Government should not even be considering skewing the market in these areas with ‘sin taxes’.
As the Prophet Ezekiel told the rulers of his day: Ezek 45:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
Finally, if, as we are told, the bans and impositions are mandated by the Climate Change Act 2008 and the 2050 Target Amendment Order 2019, then those acts of folly must be repealed.
Prayer
READ: Exod 18:21; 2Sam 23:2; Psalm 23:12; Jer 29:5-7; Mark 10:44; 1Tim 2:1-4.
PRAY: Thank God for this backtrack from Mr Sunak in answer to our prayer. Tell God it does not go far enough. Pray the Government will remove the ‘net zero’ targets, policies and impositions altogether. Pray for ministers to repent and have the fear of God and seek his face in humility for wisdom, honesty and to love their neighbour. May they understand that to be a ruler is to be the servant of all.
Use this link to the UK Parliament website to email your MP to ask him to ask the Government to remove all bans and artificial ‘net zero’ targets. Kindly Post your MP’s reply in the comments below.
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Anniversaire 1 an de la grève, Manifestation pour le climat
Greta Thunberg
Last week, the world was told that children should have the right to take national governments to court for failing to tackle climate change. But in fact, this is the United Nations using children for its own ends.
The recent report from the Committee on the Rights of the Child commends the efforts of children for being vocal on environmental crisis. It claims that it is children rather than adults who possess the kind of wisdom necessary to tackle the problems it says are ‘facing the planet’. It calls for legal affirmation and validation of the authority of children.
The Bible says wisdom is with elders, not children: Job 12:12 With the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
The Prophet Isaiah even describes the rule of children as a curse: Isaiah 3: 4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
But the new report praises ‘the efforts of children’ for drawing attention to ‘environmental crises’.
The new report says adults are unfit to make major world-changing decisions. It puts children in a place of authority.
Part of its statement reads; ‘The efforts of children to draw attention to these environmental crises created the motivation and were the momentum behind the present general comment. The Committee benefited immeasurably from the contributions of children at its 2016 day of general discussion on children’s rights and the environment.
‘A diverse and dedicated children’s advisory team, comprising 12 advisors of between 11 and 17 years of age, supported the consultation process undertaken for the general comment, with 16,331 contributions from children, from 121 countries, through online surveys, focus groups and in-person national and regional consultations.’
The publication even quoted the children’s comments: ‘The environment is our life. Adults should stop making decisions for the future they won’t experience. We are the key means of solving climate change, as it is our lives at stake.’ ‘I would like to tell [adults] that we are the future generations and, if you destroy the planet, where will we live?.’
The Bible tells us to respect what has been put in place by previous generations: Pro 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
In 2019, Greta Thunberg became famous as the prominent figure of the school strike for Climate movement when she was only 15 years old. In the subsequent year, she received a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Her acclaim has consistently been rooted in her criticism of adults, whom she accuses of shirking their responsibility for environmental issues.
Greta Thunberg speaks at the first anniversary of School Strike for Climate.
The 17-year-old activist wrote on the Friends of the Earth website, ‘Adults are letting us down when it comes to climate change, which is why I am striking.’
The use of Greta Thunberg by the elites follows a familiar pattern. The UN is sold out to climate fanaticism and thinks it can use the voices of children to achieve ends which the more sober-minded might be inclined to reject.
During a speech delivered at the United Nations climate-change summit in December 2018, Ms Thunberg declared, ‘Given that our leaders are acting irresponsibly, we must now shoulder the responsibilities they ought to have assumed long ago.’ But all that means is they do not agree with her, not that they are irresponsible.
A regressive trend
Children have readily embraced the call to doubt the intentions of their elders. They are willing to attend rallies and protests which often feature posters proclaiming messages such as ‘You’ll Die of Old Age, We’ll Die of Climate Change’ or ‘I Am Skipping School Because You Are Neglecting Our Future.’
A sign at an anti-Brexit rally.
Furthermore, during an anti-Brexit protest in London, a sign boldly declaring ‘Adults Ruin Everything. Stop Brexit’ encapsulated the broader sentiment of holding adults accountable, extending beyond environmental concerns. This can only be cultural decadence where children are used to fuel ideologies.
The UK has a ‘youth parliament‘. We read: ‘Once elected, Members of Youth Parliament meet with MPs and local councillors, organise events, run campaigns, make speeches, hold debates, and ensure the views of young people are listened to by decision makers.’
In reality, the ‘youth parliaments’ are run and insulated by adults. No child is able to lobby their youth ‘member of parliament’.
Leaders count the cost
Parents and leaders are put in the place of authority for a reason. Their age and experience of life imbues them with wisdom. Their role is to lead, provide counsel in times of chaos, make meaningful decisions, and provide for the family. God has not reversed these roles.
The UN committee is engaging in a dishonest attempt to promote its political agenda through the medium of children’s rights. But encouraging children to speak against the authority of their elders is disrespectful and a sin before God.
The Bible establishes a wider principle of respect for elders when it states: Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
In addition, it is adults, not children, who are given the job of planning for the future, making all the decisions to do with cost-benefit analysis: Luke 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
1 Chronicles 28:11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat.
1 Kings 12:8 , Prov 16:3, 16:9, 19:20-21, Luke 14:28, Phil 1:6, Heb 8:5.
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The Telegraph reports that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has annoyed the climate cultists by promising to allow new licences for North Sea oil and gas despite his own tough environmental targets.
However, there is, as yet, no backing away from the cult of Net Zero. Mr Sunak even claims he can ‘convince his daughters’ that increasing UK oil and gas production is ‘good for net zero’.
UK Energy Security and Net Zero (sic) Secretary, Grant Shapps MP, says not pressing ahead with North Sea drilling would be ‘irresponsible’ and ‘mad’ as failure to do so would force the UK to import more energy from abroad.
Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP
While Mr Sunak obsesses over what his daughters think, his Business Secretary has raised the alarm over a Government edict coming into force in January 2024.
In just five months’ time, warns Kemi Badenoch, the zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate will fine motor manufacturers £15,000 for every petrol or diesel car they sell if at least 22% of the new cars they sell are not electric vehicles.
Meanwhile, Joseph Mullane in HomeBuilding reports that Government plans to ban oil boilers and insist on heat pumps in rural areas from 2026 have led to a Tory revolt, with former minister George Eustace MP describing the idea as ‘a ‘ULEZ’ for rural households’.
Chris Stark, chief executive of the Climate Change Committee, has admitted he is still heating his flat with a gas boiler four years after saying he would install a heat pump. The capital cost is ‘too high’, it’s ‘very difficult’ to install and electricity is too expensive to make the switch, he told the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee last month. On top of that, his local gas fitter told him the heat pump will ‘never work’. HERE is the actual transcript. Look for Q420.
The Climate Change Committee is behind virtually all the lunacy being inflicted on ordinary people. It recommended the ban on the installation of gas boilers in new homes from 2025, on oil boilers from 2026 and the ban on the sale of new gas boilers altogether from 2035.
These diktats might please the elites ministers meet at climate conferences but their Biblical job description is not sucking up to the World Economic Forum, it is honouring God and safeguarding their own people. Motor manufacturers will shut up shop and ordinary people will lose their jobs and shiver in their homes unless the Government rescind the Net Zero absurdity.
But as Will Jones points out in Daily Sceptic, doing so will require repeal of most if not all of the Climate Act 2008. That would be politically inflammatory but if presented in humility as a proposal by a party it could prove electorally beneficial for them in a year’s time.
Security is a Biblical imperative
It is a Biblical imperative for the leaders of a nation to honour God, love their neighbour, and in wisdom and humility make sure their people are secure. In the book of Judges we read what happened when the Israelites had bronze-age technology while surrounding nations had embraced the iron age: Jdg 1:19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
After the fall of Jerusalem in 587BC, the Prophet Jeremiah complained in his Lamentations: Lam 5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
We see from these words how much people rely on technology and on utilities and energy security. It is prudent of leaders to ensure that and irresponsible of them to ignore it. If you prefer, it shows a lack of wisdom in them, but that traces back to a lack of humility, which itself comes from thinking they can do without the Almighty: Prov 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
But we should also bear in mind the Lord can and does send stupid decisions on leaders as judgment for disobedience to his laws and idolatry. He did exactly that to Solomon’s son and successor Rehoboam: 2Chron 10:15 So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word… (worth reading the whole passage.)
Repentance brings its reward
Nevertheless, if the leaders of a nation are taking the people in the wrong direction, the prophet says they should recognise that and have the humility to make a u-turn: Ezek 33:11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
The Net Zero agenda has been rushed in and the establishment appear to be ploughing on with no regard for the fast-emerging consequences. The Bible urges wisdom and realism in the face of haste and self-satisfaction: Prov 14:16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
Prov 21:5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.
The Prophet Hosea also urged humility, repentance and seeking the Lord, and gave a promise: Hos 10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
And Christians all know this word, which in its context applies to a nation which has dedicated itself to the Lord. Archbishop Welby and King Charles did that on behalf of the United Kingdom in the Coronation service just three months ago. We are a nation under God today, just as much as Israel was then: 2Chron 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Those for whom climate alarmism has become a religious cult immediately weighed in on the North Sea decision. According to the Guardian, Mike Childs, head of policy for Friends of the Earth, and clearly not one given to moderation or understatement, said: “Climate change is already battering the planet with unprecedented wildfires and heatwaves across the globe. Granting hundreds of new oil and gas licences will simply pour more fuel on the flames…’
Only two weeks ago the BBC was gleefully reporting on a heatwave in southern Europe. It was brought about by the atmospheric jet steam driving a high-pressure system over the Mediterranean Sea drawing up hot air from the Sahara. The same jet stream deluged the UK with rain. It’s called ‘weather’.
The Greek government blamed the wildfires not on global warming but on arsonists. With dry undergrowth to set fire to, it is not clear how a can of North Sea oil would have started their fires any better, despite Mr Child’s advice.
UN’s Apocalypse Now!
But even Mr Childs has been outdone in rhetoric by the Secretary-General of the UN. The UN’s own website reports António Guterres saying just last week: “Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning.” He went on, “the era of global warming has ended” and “the era of global boiling has arrived”.
‘Global boiling’? Just where on earth is water boiling out in the open air? The language is used to terrify the population. It will be ‘global apocalypse’ before we know it. One commentator suggests the climate fear-mongers could soon become a laughing stock. In the book of Job, we read of the sea monster Leviathan: Job 41:31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
But that’s his breath churning the sea. Leviathon is not being boiled alive. There is a strong thread of nature-worship going on here, and the Bible strongly warns against raising up created things, instead of God, to divine status: Deut 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Uxbridge has scared MPs
But if the BBC and UN are setting out to terrify the population, that is nothing to what the Uxbridge by-election has done to members of parliament. The Conservatives held it by opposing the Ultra-Low Emissions Zone being extended across Greater London by the Mayor Labour’s Sadiq Khan. Now they have suddenly realised that the Mayor’s war on less affluent car drivers and ‘white van man’ is deeply unpopular.
There have already been calls from Jacob Rees-Mogg and Iain Duncan Smith to delay the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars due in seven years time, in 2030. A website reports: ‘More than 40 Tory MPs and peers, including Jacob Rees-Mogg to and Iain Duncan Smith, have written to the Prime Minister asking for the ban be delayed to 2035, since it will do “grave harm to the economy”.’
Reaching Net Zero by 2050 is a legal commitment, stemming from Theresa May’s 2019 amendment to the Climate Act 2008. No MP voted against Mrs May’s big idea. But that was then, and now, the idea of a government spinning ‘love thy neighbour’ into impoverishing them now to save them from a nebulous climate catastrophe in fifty years time is beginning to look like an electoral liability. Iain Duncan Smith’s website even says his party ‘must stand against net zero’ altogether.
Rishi Sunak’s North Sea pledge is clearly a nod in Mr Duncan Smith’s direction, but he will be torn between the new climate sceptics and the climate fanatics in his party.
Electric fanaticism
Cardiff Council is reduced to charging its electric bin lorries with a diesel generator.
Pushing back the imposition of electric cars from 2030 to 2035 is only a delay of five years. There is no chance of the infrastructure, pylons and charging points, being ready by then. And how do the climate fanatics expect the electricity to be generated when the wind dies down and the sun shines too much, or fails to shine at all? They hate the obvious solution, nuclear power. They must expect the people to shiver.
As if to illustrate the lack of wisdom in our godless politicians, Nation Cymru reports that Cardiff Council, having bought some nice new electric bin lorries, found it did not have enough electric charging capacity. It is now using diesel generators to charge the muck-carts. The energy losses in the generator, coupled with those of the batteries and transmission, on top of the cost of the lorries and the environmental damage their components have caused around the globe, means the ‘environmental impact’, let alone the cost to local taxpayers, is far worse than if the Labour authority had stuck with diesel lorries.
Limitations of heat pumps
Air-Source Heat Pumps cost far too much to run when the weather is cold. Picture from Daily Sceptic.
The Scottish National Party wants to compel households north of the border to rip out their gas boilers and install heat pumps instead. Businessman William, Lord Haughey owns a company producing heat pumps. Daily Sceptic reports the entrepreneur and Labour peer telling the SNP it’s too cold in Caledonia for them to work efficiently or cost-effectively.
We have a air-source heat pump on our farmhouse in Wales. The house is a newbuild. It is well-insulated and has underfloor heating. Heating it with the heat pump was economical when the price of night-time electricity was 11p per unit. But now it is twice that, we cannot afford to heat the house with it anymore. By the grace of God we have a wood-burning stove which does the job.
Our heat pump still heats the water, but as Lord Haughey observes, only to a temperature which will not kill legionella bacteria. So an electric immersion heater comes on once a week to do that. To bear out his lordship’s other point, although the salesmen tell you a heat pump will still work when the outside temperature is below zero, what they never admit is that it has to work for much longer to extract what little heat there is. So that 2kw fan is spinning twice or three times as long and the efficiency plummets. In Braemar at -27C? Forget it.
King Charles promotes Net Zero
King Charles, President Biden. Getty Images
King Charles and the Prince of Wales are both signed up to the elitist climate agenda. When US president Joe Biden paid the UK a visit in July 2023, they agreed to drive up ‘climate donations’ from the private sector.
At Windsor Castle, the two heads of state joined participants from the Climate Finance Mobilisation Forum and charity sectors to work out how to ‘encourage’ private companies to abandon fossil fuels and support ‘clean energy’. One major focus of the meeting was how to advance their green agenda in ‘developing economies’.
One aim of the Climate Finance Mobilisation Forum is ‘to release private climate investment in emerging economies’. The King is said to be passionate about preventing developing economies reaching our standard of living by burning their readily-available fossil fuels.
The gathering was also convened by the above mentioned UK Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary (he really is called that oxymoron) Grant Shapps and US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (ditto) John Kerry.
According to guidance on the royal page, the Monarch has a ‘less formal’ role as ‘Head of Nation’. The Sovereign acts ‘as a focus for national identity, unity and pride; gives a sense of stability and continuity; officially recognises success and excellence; and supports the ideal of voluntary service.’
As sovereign, he is expected to remain impartial and not to share his personal views on political matters. The late Queen Elizabeth II never made her views public. She was dutifully performing a role. However, the climate cultists like Mr Kerry have attempted to lift climate fanaticism above politics, just as was done with Covid lockdowns and mRNA vaccines. That the earth is warming, that people are at fault, and that we must all travel less, eat less meat and shiver in homes we can’t heat they present as an article of faith. The King plainly agrees.
The debates over ULEZ and Uxbridge and the discussions at Windsor Castle could affect millions of lives. Abandoning fossil fuels and embracing unreliable renewable energy, as the World Economic Forum elites demand of the lower classes will have implications for economies, for national budgets, for industry and for living standards and household bills. Will ordinary people and the developing world stand for it? Or will they be with the Bible:
Ezek 45:9 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.
King called for population control in developing countries
In June, 2010, King Charles, as the then Prince of Wales, called for population control and praised the success of ‘family planning services’ in overseas countries.
According to the Telegraph, he delved into the sphere religion by calling for the traditional religious views of the sanctity of life, which oppose the use of artificial contraceptives (condoms, IUDs and hormonal drugs), to be ‘balanced with the imperative to live within the limits of Nature’.
The King, like those condemned in the Bible’s book of Deuteronomy, has edged into worship of ‘Nature’ with a capital ‘N’.
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The National Trust paid over the odds for Thorneythwaite Farm, separating it from its farmhouse, intending to send this good farmland 'wild'. It's destructive, it's irresponsible.
The National Trust paid over the odds for Thorneythwaite Farm, separating it from its farmhouse, intending to send this good farmland ‘wild’. It’s destructive, it’s irresponsible. We intend to move a Resolution at this year’s AGM condemning ‘re-wilding’ and ‘re-wetting’.
Resolution for National Trust Annual General Meeting 2022
Re-wilding of National Trust Land
‘Be it resolved that this AGM deplores re-wilding or re-wetting of National Trust farmland, or acquisition of farmland for that purpose, especially at this time of food insecurity, and calls on the Trust to re-dedicate its farmland to farming.’
Supporting Statement:
‘There have been too many reports of the Trust buying farmland and promptly re-wilding it, or separating a farmhouse from its land and ‘wilding’ the land. At the 2021 AGM a Trust officer boasted of a re-wetting project. Even then the United Kingdom was said to be importing around half our food. Yet food imported from abroad and processed here, such as tea, counts as ‘UK food’. When that is taken into account, the UK is only some 20-25% food secure. The Russo-Ukraine war on top of the pandemic shipping crisis must serve as a warning about food insecurity and drive us to grow and raise as much of our own food as we can. Re-wilding and re-wetting may be fashionable environmental fads, but they are surely irresponsible. The National Trust should again encourage farming on its farm land.’
Any and every member of the National Trust who has been a member since January 2021 can and should sign the resolution. Download the pdf here: ResolutionsNT22A . Then print it off, sign it, print your name, address and postcode and your National Trust membership number. Then send it to: Christian Voice, Wernlwyd, Pen-y-bont, CARMARTHEN, SA33 6QN, by 25th May 2022. Or scan it and email it to info@ukcv.org We have a NT deadline to meet! Thank you!
Parallel Resolution
The Resolution comes with a parallel Resolution calling for the National Trust to stop participating in Gay Pride events. You can sign both or either. (The PDF above has the Re-wilding Resolution at the top instead of the Gay Pride one, as on the ‘No more Gay Pride’ post .)
The Trust was criticised in the press in 2016 HERE, HERE and HERE for buying up Thorneythwaite sheep farm in the Lake District in order to ‘rewild’ it. Elsewhere, according to Farmers Weekly the Trust’s tenant farmers have complained the Trust is putting what it thinks is ‘the environment’ above food production. It was Mike Innerdale, the Trust’s regional director for the north, who gave the presentation to the 2021 AGM in which he spoke of ‘wetting-up our farmland’ and a ‘drive to net zero’.
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And they are not above spreading some lies to achieve their aim.
’56 BILLION animals are crammed into filthy, windowless cages and slaughtered every year to feed our meat addiction’, screams the latest email from one ‘Danny Auron’. He sent that to the 46 million people (like me) on the Avaaz email list.
What does Danny want you and me to do? Well it’s not ‘send them money’ this time. Nor is it signing an Avaaz petition. There is no ‘clicktivism’ involved at all. He wants us to ‘go meat-free just one day a week’.
Perfect design – for our benefit
Leave aside that there are many people in the world for whom a couple of meals of meat a week would provide much-needed protein. And with around two-and-a-half times as much protein in chicken as beans, that’s important. No, this is directed at the West, where you can easily make up in supplements what you aren’t getting in your trendy vegan diet.
Sheep spend most of their time grazing, converting poor-quality food (that’ll be grass) into protein for us to eat. No-one is eating Dawn or her lamb though. They are breeding ewes.
There is a lot of grass in the world and sheep and cattle are designed by our gracious maker to eat it. We cannot eat grass. However, they turn it into protein which we CAN eat.
There is a good reason why a sheep spends nearly all its waking hours either grazing or chewing the cud. And there is a good reason us (and the farm cats) spend around half an hour a day actually eating. The grass they eat has low nutritional value. What we eat in a balanced meat-inclusive diet has high nutritional value. Moreover, the Almighty has designed it like that, for our benefit:
Psalm 104:14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
Avaaz have lied about conditions
Now, if people want to go veggie or vegan, fair play. But Danny, don’t lie to persuade them to do so. Where does the ’56 billion’ figure come from? Avaaz have lifted it straight off the Animal Equality website. Not that Avaaz own up to that.
The Animal Equality crew themselves are not averse to a bit of smoke and mirrors. But at least they only say: ‘Over 56 billion farmed animals are killed every year by humans’. Which makes sense. Just under one billion are slaughtered in the UK alone, according to the Humane Slaughter Association. Most of those are chickens.
But for Avaaz, those animals, every single one of them, are ‘crammed into filthy, windowless cages’. Well, ours aren’t. Our cattle are in the yard right now, eating the silage we harvested for them in the summer. Our sheep are out in the field, happily grazing. On our farm, there is not a single windowless cage in sight. Even in the poultry sector, the momentum is all against battery cages and towards barn-rearing, free-range and organic.
Avaaz: ‘Fueling mass animal torture’
Danny Auron, Campaign Director, Avaaz.org and product of Harvard Law School
But Avaaz will never use one egg in a pudding when a couple of dozen will easily do. Accordingly, for Danny Auron, every ranch and every smallholding is a ‘disgusting factory farm’. Our meat consumption is ‘fueling mass animal torture’, he yells. And of course, wouldn’t you know it, ‘it’s killing our planet!’
Apparently, ‘Livestock contributes more to global warming than all cars, planes, and buses worldwide’. ‘It’s gotten out of hand!’ he shrieks.
Well, here’s a funny thing. For the World Wildlife Fund: ‘Global warming is caused by human activities like burning fossil fuels, deforestation and farming.’ LiveScience.com say: ‘Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, are increasing greenhouse gas levels, leading to an enhanced greenhouse effect. The result is global warming and unprecedented rates of climate change.’ So, yes, farming contributes, if you accept the global warming hypothesis, but it’s only one part of human activity.
Bible: Dominion over the cattle
Theologically where is this coming from? On their ‘About’ page, Animal Equality say: ‘Our vision is a world in which all animals are respected and protected.’ Therefore, we should not see them as the Bible portrays them, as ‘inferior beings whose reason for existence is to provide us with meat, milk and eggs’ The Bible reports:
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
That, apparently, is ‘speciesism. ‘We need to stop thinking of them as just resources, and to start viewing them for who they are: individual sentient beings whose lives deserve to be respected and valued,’ say the activists.
In that case, there will be none of them. Farmers like us raise meat animals for slaughter. No demand, no animals on the land, however sentient they are. And make no mistake, animals are smart. They evaluate situations and make decisions. But they have no purpose in farming apart from their value to mankind. Even in the wild, they are prey animals who will eventually, mostly, be killed.
Emotional blackmail, dishonesty and hyperbole
People can go vegetarian or vegan if they want. But why does it need emotional blackmail, dishonesty and hyperbole to make the anti-meat case? In addition, if speciesism is a terrible thing, what have the animal rights folk to say about malaria or flesh-eating parasites? Surely the mosquito and the worm have a right to life? Intellectually and theologically their case is unsustainable, and it may well be it is ecologically bereft as well.
