This is one of those moments when I think of the old "This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs" commercial.

It's basically the same story with the Climate Cult grifters and their lemming-like followers - their collective brains are fried by the volume of hooey and hysteria they've been inventing and subjecting themselves to over the course of the past...what, at least twenty years now?

In the course of those decades of howling and yowling while wrenching entire economies off-course and destroying standards of living it took centuries to achieve - all to satisfy the voracious appetite of believers intent on saving a world not yet proven on fire - not once have the Green Grifters done an honest assessment of their efforts. Never has there been a dispassionate assessment where climate advocates and hysterics have looked at results of what they have imposed already in the name of Gaia on both Mother Earth and the people who populate her.

The only answer to those who question their assertions of perpetually impending doom and the methods mandated to ward off the inevitable is more of having less and less: less freedom, lower standards of living, fewer choices, less people, period.

Confronted with the growing mountain of evidence that their promises made over the decades that cheaper, natural, and reliable sources of energy only had to be embraced and harnessed for the world to be saved aren't panning out. Dreams of a halcyon life in harmony with the earth being achieved have been exposed as so much horrendously expensive wish-casting and grift-laced bunkum. 

Their answer is a retrenchment in their pseudo-science.

That you are the problem because you have yet to sacrifice enough, and here you are now, unwilling to let them go as far as they need to.

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Hopefully, we've managed to fend off the worst of cultist impulses with the election on November 6th. But across the pond, the United Kingdom is turning into a case study of Net Zero implosion and hypocrisy. 

I can't blame everything on the still wet-behind-the-ears Labour government as much as it might tickle me. The Rishi Sunak Tories did the British Isles plenty of hurt sailing under their ludicrous Net Zero banner, and it wasn't until the very end of their time in power that the angry rumblings of the British public, coupled with the precarious state of their national energy security woke them up.

Frantically, they started to throw NetZero edicts in reverse or whatever ones they could immediately affect.

...Now, the people who have been imposing these Green schemes (as they call them) on their citizens are doing some furious tap-dancing, position shifting, and plain duckin' outta sight in the run-up to voters casting angry, retaliatory ballots.

For the Tories, who still control the government, it's been one rollback of draconian climate cult requirement after another. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had another change of heart this past weekend.

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By then, though, it was too little, too late. There was so much abuse that the even more radically inclined Labour Party seemed like a better choice at the ballot box.

Well, after falling flat on his face first step out of No. 10 Downing Street and never really recovering, that short-lived honeymoon was over in record time.

Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest post-election fall in approval ratings of any British prime minister in the modern era.

Just months after coming to office, the U.K. Labour leader is already languishing on an approval rating of -38, new polling of 1,012 adults by More in Common found.

It marks a precipitous 49-point drop from the +11 rating Starmer logged just after Labour won its landslide general election victory in July.

Labour's Edward Miliband, the absolutely foaming-at-the-mouth fanatic (get ready for this title) Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change of the United Kingdom (!), is riding NetZero and his country hard into the ground. Or he was right up to where someone pointed out two problems with his plans: 1) there wouldn't be enough electricity 2) no one could afford what little electricity there would be.

RATS

Mr Miliband has had to do a bit of a Gavin Newsom Diablo Canyon two-step. The Energy secretary has to act as if he's thrilled doing a sudden pirouette about keeping UK nuclear plants open. The very ones he was publicly salivating about shutting. And why?

All his green schemes can't keep the lights on and the costs affordable.

The shutdown of Britain’s ageing nuclear power stations has been delayed amid fears that Labour’s net zero drive threatens to increase the risk of electricity price shocks and shortages.

Four nuclear power stations owned by France’s EDF are to have their lives extended by up to two years, following safety assessments on the feasibility of keeping them open.

...The four nuclear stations being kept open were designed in the 1960s and generate about 15pc of the country’s power.

Their planned closures would have been a significant setback for Labour’s plans to decarbonise the UK power system by 2030. 

Mr Miliband’s pre-election pledge to cut household energy bills by £300 and make the UK’s electricity grid carbon neutral by 2030 would have been far harder to achieve if the nuclear stations had shut down as scheduled and the Energy Secretary welcomed plans to keep them operating.

He said last night: “These extensions are a major win for our energy independence. This will come alongside our backing for new nuclear, including supporting the completion of Hinkley Point C, confirming £2.7bn for Sizewell C, and pressing on with contract negotiations for our small modular reactor competition.”

A MAJOR WIN FOR OUR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

You know that had to hurt.

In fact. the UK is the poster child for 'energy dependence.' On their neighbors, on what nuclear they have left, and on the fossil fuel plants.

...The UK’s decision to increase its use of intermittent power sources like wind and solar has left the country more reliant on electricity imported from abroad via subsea interconnectors.

Tuesday’s low winds meant the UK had to import up to 14pc of its electricity from Europe. Fears about demand outstripping supply also prompted Neso to briefly activate its anti-blackout plan, telling power companies to bring gas fired stations out of hibernation in case they were needed. A “capacity alert” was issued for the second time this winter as generation from wind turbines fell, though it was later withdrawn.

Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica, which also owns a stake in the four nuclear plants alongside EDF, said: “In an energy system that is becoming ever more intermittent, baseload power generation that doesn’t depend on the sun shining and the wind blowing is essential to keeping the lights on.”

In the upside-down world of the Greens "intermittent" energy is the goal. No one ever thinks of the baseload that has to be sustained when the wind doesn't blow.

To go along with their fantasy island approach, Labour wants the military to be just as "intermittent," no doubt because none of them have a clue what the military does.

Ministers are forging ahead with plans to use electric vehicles (EVs) for combat on the battlefield despite warnings from military grandees that they could put the Armed Forces at risk.

The Telegraph has learnt that the Ministry of Defence will be ramping up testing of battlefield EVs next year at the Army’s Bovington Garrison in Dorset, home of the Tank Museum.

The testing, described by an insider as “putting these vehicles through their paces”, is at an experimental phase, but is an expansion of plans first mooted under the Conservative government on the development of combat EVs.

Since coming to office in July, the Government has handed more than £400,000 in contracts to Magtec, a defence firm that specialises in the electrification of vehicles.

Electric tanks aren't just for the kids in the front yard anymore, you know!

I'm not sure they'd handle the relief of Bastogne, either.

But I'm a cynic...AND a realist.