Climate Resistance launched their “stop polluting politics” campaign yesterday by waving an oil-pigment saturated banner from Westminster bridge, and polluting the air with flares. The irony.

The group, who may have as many as a dozen supporters, hope to ban oil and gas companies from meeting politicians, the aim is to make the energy companies that power industry and our lives political pariahs. Energy policy is critically important, it literally keeps the lights on.

The group has a host of other left-wing poses such as waving Palestinian flags. Nothing screams opposition to the malign influence of oil on politics like promoting an Iran-backed regime whose leadership live in luxury hotels in Qatar. The group tweets climate doom and on “the influence of dark money on politics”. Who are these slick new paragons of transparency in public life? We don’t know. Their website says neither who they are, nor who funds them.

Which may be wise given they have otherwise libellously and untruthfully stated that “Shell, BP, Equinor and others are donating to parties… to push their agenda”. A junk claim easily checked on the public electoral commission donations website. The net donations from all three to politicians or political parties is £0.

Net Zero crusaders at the Climate Change Committee have failed to renew their website domain before 26th September, with the site now no longer accessible. Fans will no longer be able to read its reports criticising additional airport runways or touting now-scrapped Net Zero policies. Guido is personally distraught…

The planet may never recover….

Tory peer Zac Goldsmith has told BBC HARDtalk he would be “very tempted” to back the Labour Party at the next election if they showed “a real commitment” to “protect[ing] the natural world” as part of their green agenda. While he still has “concerns” about Labour, Goldsmith laid out the conditions upon which he’d back Sir Keir anyway:

“The simple truth is there is no pathway to net zero and there’s no solution to climate change that does not involve nature, massive efforts to protect and restore the natural world.

“And at the moment, I’m not hearing any of that from the Labour Party if I do, if there’s a real commitment now the kind of commitment, frankly, that we saw when Boris Johnson was the leader, then I’d be very tempted to throw my weight behind that party and support them in any way I could.”

Goldsmith quit as Rishi’s climate Minister just two months ago, penning a scathing resignation letter which accused Rishi of being “simply uninterested” in green politics. Rishi claimed he’d actually demanded an apology out of Goldsmith for his attacks on the Kangaroo Court, and Goldsmith stood down when he refused. Either way, it looks like the rift between the pair hasn’t closed much since…

The SNP-Green coalition has, yet again, failed to meet their own punitive climate targets. For the eighth time in twelve years, the Scottish government has failed to cut emissions to a legally binding target. Their goal was to reduce emissions by 51.1% compared to 1990, and so far they’ve only achieved 49.9%. The climate-loving coalition is once again blowing hot and cold, as Greenhouse gas emissions even increased in 2o21.

Of course, the SNP and Greens were quick to self-flagellate over their failings. The SNP said it was “disappointing” and the greens added it was “not good enough”. It doesn’t take an eco expert to see the Scottish government’s climate policy is just hot air.

Following a tropical storm, it doesn’t take much time for the chattering classes to jump to climate change as the root cause. However, a new report, published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, has found that far from what the media might have you believe, hurricane activity has not increased in recent years. Far from it – 2021 and 2022 saw the lowest number of both hurricanes and major hurricanes for any two years since 1980.

What’s more, the paper’s review of historic evidence found little to support the observed trend that hurricane activity has worsened since the 19th century – this pattern has only emerged due to changing measurement methodology. The report also argues there are no trends in hurricane frequency since reliable satellite data was introduced in the 1970s and that new methodology may well be overestimating the wind speed of large hurricanes, relative to historic data. You can always trust the eco-loons to whip up a storm in a teacup.

Co-conspirators can read the paper in full here.

Austrian eco-loons, along the lines of Just Stop Oil or Insulate Britain, are gluing themselves to gantries only to then complain that the police aren’t rescuing them quickly enough. Letzte Generation Österreich, who recently threw oil over a Gustav Klimt painting in Vienna, glued themselves to a motorway gantry this morning. By 09.30 they were complaining the police had left them behind…