Blob How the Net Zero Amendment was sneaked into UK law – and Watt supports it?

From the Daily Skeptic

Chris Morrison

The Green Group’s dark financial tentacles help orchestrate mainstream media, brainwash young children, fund widespread climate pseudoscience, initiate and fund legal action, and fund countless “grassroots” advocacy efforts. But political influence is highly valued, making local government representatives and mayors top targets. Alas, these individuals come and go according to the whims of local voters. But this is not the case for the unelected members of Britain's House of Lords, who have considerable power to amend legislative proposals put forward by the elected House of Commons. Given the potential for net zero harm to be incorporated into almost all types of legislation, it is no surprise that noble Lords and Ladies are being targeted by the Blob. Peers for the Planet Forward (P4P) claims to have a “core group” of 160 members, but started out as an activist group funded by large donations from the usual billionaire foundations.

The operation appears to have been set up around 2020 by former Channel 4 chief of staff Lynette Huntley. In a recent podcast, she explained that she was drawn to using all the skills of members of the House of Lords to tackle the complexity and scale of climate change. Many net zero obsessives such as Baroness “Rosie” Boycott are listed as directors responsible for oversight, while the cross-party advisory group lists other hydrocarbon haters such as former Green Party leader Baroness “Na Tully” Bennett. The “core group” is said to have 160 members, but few names are mentioned, and the organization is run by many full-time employees with extensive expertise in promoting political causes.

None of this would happen without the help of significant funding, from many foundations familiar to regular readers of this book. daily skeptic. Laudes and the Climate Change Partnership are regular providers of green cash, but interestingly there are a number of smaller funds operating at the more colorful end of the market. The Pickwell Foundation's two main focuses are migration and climate. Provide support to immigrants displaced due to various reasons including “economic need”. It is said that this help will be extended to people seeking asylum “through irregular routes”. According to P4P, its funders “are not involved in the day-to-day work of the organization.” Pickwell seemed to take a different view. “In addition to providing financial support, we also hope to actively participate in the work and activities of our partners and provide as much publicity as we can,” the report states.

Another useful cash fund is the Gower Street Fund, which is undoubtedly run with good intentions. It has provided significant funding to a number of other activist campaigns in Westminster, including Labour's Climate and Environment Forum and the Conservative Environment Network. Meanwhile, Climate Emergency UK is being helped “to inspire and organize climate action in local councils”, while Fossil-Free Pride aims to “end the link between climate vandals and queer culture”. Funding for new Extinction Rebellion branch, run by XR veterans Gail Bradbrook and Stuart Basden, to help “realize Extinction Rebellion's full potential” .

P4P funding clearly helps fund considerable advocacy work and shows how campaigners are trying to change legislation scrutinized by the House of Lords. The still-unfamiliar Football Governance Bill seeks to introduce a new nationally mandated regulator to oversee England's private and highly successful football operations. A recent report from P4P complained that there was nothing in the bill about climate change or the need for adaptation and recovery planning. Legislation to attach “net zero measures” to club licensing conditions is proposed to be amended.

Supporting these invented, completely unnecessary, wealth-destroying regulations is common nonsense about severe weather. Climate model predictions from insurance company Zurich say 39 of the 92 stadiums in England's top flight will be at high risk of climate disasters such as flooding, extreme rainfall, drought and storms. Figures cited by Paul Homewood in his annual review of UK climate show that sea level rise has not accelerated on a multi-decade scale, rainfall has not become more extreme and storms have become less powerful in recent years . For insurance companies, floods are bad news for current profits but great marketing material to boost future premium income. In fact, given the amount of rainfall in England, the building on flood plains and the declining protection measures, it is surprising how few homes are actually flooded each year – around 5,000 by March 2024 Houses were flooded, and nothing out of the ordinary had occurred by the turn of the century, according to the Environment Agency's chart.

The worship of elders is held in high regard in many cultures, but there is a clear difference between listening to the advice of a wise councilor and being forced to endure an intellectually challenged old horse with nothing to do but cause trouble. Look at the damage these fools could do if they started interfering in the life and death topics that really matter.

A recent P4P brief said humans have disrupted the natural nitrogen cycle, diverting it from an inert state and changing its economic use in many areas, including agriculture. Of course, you could make similar statements about any natural element that humans exploit to survive on Earth. In the case of nitrogen, human ingenuity used it in the fertilizer process to increase the world's food supply to levels unimaginable a hundred years ago. However, some argue that “nitrogen pollution” is one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss in the world, along with climate change and habitat loss – an unverifiable claim that only lacks the usual “scientist-speak” qualifications. Of course, you don't need a particularly knowledgeable scientist to state an undeniable fact: if the new aristocracy in Britain and elsewhere began banning nitrogen fertilizers, half the world's population would be at risk of starvation.

Chris Morrison is daily skepticof Environment editor.

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