Austria’s version of Just Stop Oil, desperately named “Last Generation”, has had to shut down, citing a lack of “success” as their excuse. For three years the climate crusaders created chaos across the country through the familiar eco-warrior tactics – blocking roads and hurling paint at artworks. They even thought to march through residential streets of Vienna at 4:30 a.m. with bells and bullhorns to disturb unwitting citizens. Now they’re facing their own wake-up call…

After mounting legal issues over their useless and disruptive actions, Last Generation have been forced to give up – their remaining assets to be used to finance the costs of “criminalisation and investigations”. Guido can only hope JSO will be next…

Reeves announced a 3% increase in the top rate of the energy profits levy — a.k.a. the North Sea windfall tax—bringing it to a staggering 78% and stretching its tenure to 2030. On top of that, she’s stripping away the investment allowances. This policy will carve out a £5-7 billion gap in the national accounts as the regime loses £2.2-6.2 billion in annual income, while still bearing the £2-3 billion yearly cost of decommissioning existing projects. Reeves, naturally, is happy to blame the Tories for the black hole in the books, yet conveniently sidesteps the fact that she’s busy digging a fresh one…

Labour’s sheer ignorance in this climate-crusader policy may be linked to their dubious choice of tax advisor, named by City A.M.: Heather Plumpton, a rainforest historian under the employ of the Green Alliance, a group bankrolled by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and renewable energy firms. Back in 2022, Plumpton pitched, on behalf of the ideological climate lobby group, a proposal to ramp up North Sea taxes to Norwegian levels (78%), sans the generous investment incentives that make Norway’s steep rates somewhat bearable. Now Labour have taken it on. Guido can’t help but wonder the lefty outcry over ‘Government being bought by corporate interests’ if it were oil companies lobbying to raise taxes on renewable energy sources instead…

George Monbiot has released a new video on Double Down News praising that ecological champion…China. After claiming that the West has always criticised it in order to peddle “the old yellow peril myth” and mocking world leaders for talking about the threat from China on a state level, Monbiot touts the country’s green credentials. Everything else is waved away with a “China is doing some bad stuff”…

“It’s massively investing in green infrastructure and green industries and if there’s one thing we should be concerned about it’s that we’re being completely left behind by China’s investments… We are being left behind in the fossil age.”

Monbiot finishes: “China, for all its faults, puts us to shame.” News to anyone who thinks lowering emissions is a good thing…

Last time Guido checked, China, while building some solar farms, added a record 47 Gigawatts of coal power in 2023, which is double the amount from the rest of the world combined. That’s the equivalent of two new coal plants every week, as the country accounted for a whopping 30.9% of carbon emissions in 2021 and is currently rated “highly insufficient” on climateactiontracker.org. Guido didn’t realise George was such a fan of carbon…

Monbiot goes on to say how brilliant it is that the “French government is training every single public servant in ecological principles. 5.6 million people everyone who works for the state in any capacity at all is going to have ecological training.” More powerpoints for bureaucrats, that’ll solve climate change…

Eco-warriors cheered on the Just Stop Oil activists – or “Whole Five Truth” as they’ve lovingly dubbed them – sentenced yesterday. Despite their wails and chants of “we love you”, the eco-terrorists were still landed with record sentences. Unsurprisingly, morally righteous Labour MP Clive Lewis was one of those attending the solidarity protest. As was bird-sniffing presenter Chris Packham…

Packham hasn’t shied away from parroting his concern of climate change in the past, so standing with his brothers from Just Stop Oil isn’t a total shock. Though his concern for the climate only goes so far. Last week, Packham posted on X an article pushing to stop carbon capture tree planting near Peebles in the Scottish Borders. An opposition group (SRAG Ltd) have been granted permission to take Scottish Forestry, which is behind the climate-change friendly project, to court. For Packham, it seems in a toss up between saving the climate and making sure investors don’t get more money than deemed appropriate, the climate gets it… 

Co-conspirators will be used to frequent wails from climate activists, charities and BBC weather that all scientists agree that the planet is entering a spiral a doom that we cannot come back from. Despite this, a declaration has been signed by 1,609 international scientists dismissing the existence of a climate crisis and insisting that carbon dioxide is beneficial to Earth. They say we aren’t heading towards the ninth circle of hell…

The Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) said in its World Climate Declaration that “There is no climate emergency”. Two of the scientists are Nobel laureates—physicists. One of which, John Francis Clauser said:

“The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people…It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis.”

Greta may be out of a job…

It is Chris Stark’s last day on the job as Chief Executive of the net zero crusading organisation the Climate Change Committee – a publicly funded body which spent £4,541,779 in taxpayer money in the year 2021-2022. It seems his mission to fight climate change has extended outside the realms of just being the chief climate adviser to the government. Last month, Stark was advocating for heat pumps made by the private company Kensa…

In his pitch on behalf of the private company, Stark says this:

“We need a form of heat pump that will work for the people living in those buildings…Kensa I think have some of the most exciting technology and innovative approaches to how we might approach this challenge of buildings decarbonisation.”

There’s no mention of the Kensa group on Stark’s registered interests. A Stark conflict?