A flagship eco-village backed by King Charles’s charity now resembles an ‘apocalyptic film’ after being abandoned for more than a decade.
Almost 300 houses were built on a former oil refinery site in Llandarcy, near Neath, South Wales under plans to turn industrial land into a thriving new village.
The King visited the site in 2013 – when he was the Prince of Wales – after the first phase was completed but construction was abandoned soon after.
LOW Carbon Oxford (LCO) describes itself as ‘a network of organisations with a shared vision of Oxford as a low carbon city. Over 40 diverse organisations working together to achieve the city’s very ambitious target of reducing emissions in Oxford by 40 per cent by 2020’.
The LCO website has clearly not updated its calendar, but you get the picture. At the heart of this endeavour, Oxford city council has been one of the leading local authorities (LAs) in the UK’s green agenda for the best part of three decades.
Global warming has gone cold as an issue. Despite decades of panicked predictions of doom, it’s never been a high priority for voters, and Trump’s bold expressions of “climate denial” went unpunished by voters.
The media still sound allied with the Green New Deal pushers, but the thrill is gone. Last November, leftists blasted ABC, CBS, and NBC for barely touching the “COP30” global climate summit in Brazil. (PBS gave it nearly 16 minutes, and ten of it was a John Kerry softball interview.)
It’s been a cold winter so far in the Midwest and much of the Northeast, early-in-the-season snow even at Washington, D.C., and temperatures falling to freezing and below in much of the South. Come to think of it, North America’s 2024-25 winter was pretty cold too. It’s gotten to the point that “polar vortex” is a phrase on just about everyone’s lips.
Researchers have discovered trying to make AI reason like humans leads to between a 30x to 700x rise in energy consumption.
h/t handy n handsome
I guess the guy just ran out of stuff to climb.
At the age of five, little Steven Guilbeault was obstinate. He climbed a tree to prevent it from being felled and he refused to come down. Eventually, he returned to earth and the tree met its inevitable fate.
Whether Mark Carney’s sweetheart deal with Alberta will lead to the defeat of his minority government is, admittedly, an interesting question.
But arguably even more interesting (not to mention important) is this question: Will Carney’s deal move us — and the rest of the world — a little closer to climate Armageddon?
Sadly, the answer is, unequivocably, yes.
Last week, the United Kingdom did something all too rare: it chose leadership by backing science and prioritizing public safety. The Labour government announced it would ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea, strengthen a windfall tax and accelerate phasing out of fossil-fuel subsidies.
These are not symbolic gestures. They are an acknowledgment that the global energy system is shifting and that mature economies must shift with it.
Under the United Kingdom’s Communist-Islamist alliance energy impoverishment is a feature not a bug.
Besides Carney is at best playing a long game, he wants Canada desperately poor as well.
Is the American Left finally waking up from its decadeslong climate catastrophism stupor? For years, climate alarmism has reigned as political catechism: The planet is burning, and only drastic action — deindustrialization, draconian regulation, even ceasing childbearing — could forestall certain apocalypse. Now, at least some signs are emerging that both the broader public and leading liberal voices may be recoiling from the doom and gloom.
Steven Guilbeault’s claim the federal government’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta to build an oil pipeline to B.C. is fuelling Quebec separatism is nonsense.
In interviews with Bloomberg News and the CBC last week after he quit the federal cabinet, Guilbeault attempted to toss a grenade into Canadian unity by arguing that by signing the MOU with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Prime Minister Mark Carney is fuelling Quebec separatism.
The federal government is stoking Quebec separatism by walking back its climate commitments — including in its recent deal with Alberta — Liberal MP and former cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault says.
“There is a feeling right now that by abandoning our climate goals we are fuelling the separatist movement,” Guilbeault said in an interview airing Sunday on CBC’s Rosemary Barton Live.
He is a climate psycho and lies about the colour of the sky.
The Montreal riding of Laurier–Sainte-Marie is ground zero for Quebec’s media elites and the beating heart of the province’s cultural industries. Not surprisingly, it skews progressive and has reliably sent left-leaning MPs to Ottawa for more than three decades.
Last week’s resignation of local MP Steven Guilbeault from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet generated a minor earthquake in Laurier—Sainte-Marie whose aftershocks are being nervously monitored in federal Liberal circles in Quebec.
Growing up in the 1980s, I can still remember being taught in school about the dangers of global warming and the hole in the ozone layer. The narrative was that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), widely used in refrigeration, air conditioning, foam insulation, solvents, and aerosol propellants, were depleting the ozone layer, and that this depletion might be irreversible. We were told it would be unsafe to go outside without being covered up, even in the summer, if this came to pass. People were shamed into believing their modern lifestyles were killing the ozone layer.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is scrapping plans for a major national climate policy and immediately suspending another in Alberta alone, as part of a wide-ranging accord that softens federal measures for the oil-rich province and sees Ottawa throw its support behind a controversial new pipeline proposal.
It marks a significant shift in the federal government’s approach, placing peace with Alberta over imposing national regulations that were favoured under Carney’s predecessor as prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
No pipeline will be built.
Poll after poll shows the issue falling in status as a political priority, in America and abroad
The world’s treatment of global warming as a top-tier political priority may be subsiding, if recent polls are any indication.
A recent Swedish survey highlights how “environment/climate concerns” declined from a top issue for 51 percent of young women and 34 percent of young men in 2019 to just 15 and 13 percent, respectively, in 2025. Swedish kids’ interest in climate also cratered — once considered a top issue, it’s now only in the bottom half of the 23 concerns listed, well behind health, education, and safety. That’s a massive change for the famously progressive country — the same nation which spawned climate activist Greta Thunberg, who herself has since moved onto other issues.
