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  Stonehenge, Carbon-Cultists, and Nostalgia for the Real LUKE DODSON As some of you probably know, I began blogging  back in 2020  to express my concerns over what appeared to be a technocratic coup within the environmental movement. The back-to-nature ethos of the 20 th  century green movement, as naïve as it could be, was being replaced with a pseudoscientific vision of lab-grown food, genetically-engineered ecosystems, and 'renewable' energy tech (and, of course,  unlimited migration because climate-change ). A number of commentators, such as  Neoliberal Feudalism , have referred to this process as 'skinsuiting'. Behold, environmentalism in 2024! The impetus for all this nonsense is, of course, the drive towards 'net-zero' carbon-emissions. Whether the elites actually believe that you can power an industrial civilization without fossil-fuels, or this impossible ambition is simply a cover-story for the controlled-demolition of the world's economy, is anyo

  O Death IRINA SLAV In February this year, Barclays  announced  it would stop direct financing for “energy clients, for upstream oil and gas expansion projects or related infrastructure.” The bank followed a massively popular trend in the industry of boosting support for transition-related businesses at the expense of traditional energy because traditional energy was the new plague, at least reputationally speaking. There must have also been plans to profit from the transition, no doubt, because forecasts and projections said it would be profitable. Fast forward five months and imagine my surprise when Barclays’ CEO, CS Venkatakrishnan  told  Bloomberg this week that banks couldn’t just quit oil and gas “cold turkey” and that the “reality is that for quite some time, fossil fuels will be with us.” In the same report, Bloomberg graciously informed us that Barclays is not the only one having sort of second thoughts about this whole move away from oil and gas business, especially in the

  A "massive cushion" of madness IRINA SLAV The Cambridge Dictionary  defines  madness as “stupid or dangerous behaviour”. It also lists a few dozen synonyms, featuring words such as “chaos”, “bedlam”, and “confusion”. All of these can and should be used to describe several recent updates from Camp Transition. In one of these, I’d go as far as to use the lovely set phrase “stark, raving mad” and it’s not the one you’re thinking of, namely the latest gift from the IEA. But let’s start with that gift. Earlier this week, the IEA made all the headlines in the world by  warning  of a looming oil supply excess— a horrible overhang (which the IEA called “a massive cushion”) of 8 million barrels daily that is to materialise before 2030 while demand growth slows down because the IEA said it would slow down, so there can be no question about it. The IEA itself, true to character, called the expected supply surplus, or rather the spare production  capacity  surplus, because that’s what

  The Insane World of Intersectional Climate Change BY   STEVEN TUCKER   Once upon a time, linking climate change directly back to homosexuality was almost enough to get you sectioned. Remember 10 years ago, during the floods of 2014, when UKIP local councillor  David Silvester  was widely mocked after writing a letter to then-PM David Cameron, warning that the bad weather of the day was due to Dismal Dave’s acting “arrogantly against the Gospel” by planning to legalise gay marriage, thereby angering God Almighty and causing Him to unleash “storms, disease, pestilence and war” upon us all? Today, the situation is kind of the reverse, and we are now exhorted to propitiate the angry climate-gods after all – otherwise they will punish those homosexuals who walk amongst us with terrible deluges and inundations of a new kind, as shown by the  Daily Sceptic   reporting  last week on a quite pathetic  story  in the  Independent , headlined ‘How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian