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Sky News science "expert" claims that burying carbon dioxide under the ocean is necessary to stop climate change. "You have to try and stop as much carbon as possible from reaching the atmosphere." "You could plant lots of trees to absorb it, or you bury it underground." "You would quickly cover a small island like the UK in trees if you were going to try and absorb all the carbon produced by aviation, cement factories, and so on." "Burying it under the North Sea... is the best way forward."

For more than 40 years we’ve been told the world faces catastrophic overheating driven by the 'greenhouse effect'; that CO₂ is the primary control knob. There is a growing realisation however that this is a mistaken narrative. Earth’s atmosphere is not a greenhouse. A real greenhouse works mainly by suppressing convection; the atmosphere does the opposite—it moves heat vigorously upward and around the planet. Nor does CO₂ act like a blanket. Yet the blanket metaphor has been embraced as an article of faith by influencers pushing central planning and degrowth ideologies. In the 19th century, scientists Fourier, Tyndall and Arrhenius correctly identified water vapour as the source of 75–85% of atmospheric warming. They did not regard CO₂ as a weather 'control knob' either. Arrhenius thought higher CO₂ might be beneficial but later lowered his warming estimate. Their cautious scientific musings have been hijacked to feed into a climate crisis agenda. Their findings have been recast as justification for urgent, economy-wide restructuring. The 'greenhouse' analogy is misleading and should have been abandoned decades ago. Even accepting the IPCC’s central 3 °C sensitivity estimate for doubled CO₂, the rational response is for only measured mitigation and adaptation over decades—not immediate, self-inflicted deindustrialisation. Even if positive water-vapour feedback was strong—and satellite and reanalysis data increasingly suggest it is not—the direct effects of CO₂ remain modest. And the good news is that reality is reasserting itself. Countries are quietly delaying or abandoning impossible net-zero targets, and engineers are returning to the only proven, workable baseload technology we actually have; nuclear energy.

The UN emphasises CO₂ (420 ppm) over water vapour (10,000-40,000 ppm) in its net-zero push, despite water vapour driving ~50–75% of the greenhouse effect. CO₂, a key human-driven gas (according to the UN), amplifies warming via water vapour feedback. While the UN’s climate agenda focuses on modern energy use it faces a backlash for cutting a road through 12km of Amazon rainforest for its COP30 event in Belém, Brazil, sparking outrage from environmentalists. Why prioritise CO₂ over water vapor’s role while clearing rainforests for climate talks?

Rachel Reeves has suggested Labour will soften its crackdown on North Sea oil in a blow to Ed Miliband’s net zero ambitions. Speaking at Labour’s annual conference, the Chancellor pledged to support “homegrown energy” and said this included oil and gas extracted from the North Sea. #CostOfNetZero

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT IS CAUSED BY WATER VAPOUR, NOT BY CO2? Water vapour makes up 95% of the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Of the sum total of the 3.6% CO2 released into the atmosphere, approximately 0.9% is caused by human activity. Human CO2 makes up less than 1% of the 3.6% of the total greenhouse gases influencing our climate. The real greenhouse gas influencing our climate is water vapour, NOT CO2! The establishment can't help but lie to the masses, including the scientific establishment.