This is a stunning, but not surprising admission, the United Kingdom doubled the amount of money for their National Health Service ... and nothing good happened. The money went down the drain of the bureaucracy.  Keep this in mind when, for example, we are told raising taxes will fix the climate. 

I didn't realize Great Britain ate a lot of kebabs. Learn something new every day. 

He Calls It Wistful Thinking;  I Call It "Magical Thinking" We didn't have a "required reading" in October. This is required reading  for November.  There is simply no meteorological way that wind and solar will ever be primary energy sources -- and, they are hugely wasteful and expensive secondary sources.  By the way, I learned a new word, "dunkelflautes:"   In the renewable energy sector, a dunkelflaute is a period of time in which little or no energy can be generated with wind and solar power, 

This classic World War II story from the late, great George Gobel on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson  on this Veteran's Weekend is a humorous way of getting into a rather serious subject.  On a number of occasions (examples here and here ) we've written about the numerous issues with wind turbines interfering with weather radar. Below is a Kansas radar image with the wind turbines circled.  None  of the echoes below are storms. It is all wind turbines across northern Oklahoma and Kansas.  While we -- I hope -- don't have to worry about enemy aircraft being obscured by wind turbines in Oklahoma and Kansas, we may have to worry about them   off our coasts .  The Telegraph  of Great Britain brings us this story : It seems that British Royal Air Force pilots have learned to, during exercises, duck around the wind turbine installations to avoid detection. With all of the concerns about war with Russia -- which would involve aircraft and high-speed...

Propaganda...hype...propaganda. While I have stated, over and over, the global warming is a serious problem, the constant hype and nonsense shows that Big Climate is getting very nervous as to whether its gravy train will continue.  Hat tip:  Jo Nova

More information is here . The British "Met Office" is their equivalent to the USA's National Weather Service. They run the second most accurate meteorological forecasting model in the world.  It is unknown the effects of the strike, if it occurs. If they stop making airport weather observations, it could bring much of aviation to a halt in the United Kingdom. If they stop launching weather balloons and running the UKMET model, then the effects could be farther reaching.  Stay tuned.