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by Will Jones
14 February 2023 12:42 AM

  • “Almost £1bn spent on anti-Covid drug that makes ‘no significant difference’” – Telegraph report that under 2% of 2.23 million courses of molnupiravir bought by the Department of Health have ever been prescribed.
  • “Revealed: Just a third of people in some parts of England have had first Covid jab as booster scheme ends for healthy under-50s” – The Mail looks at take-up across the country.
  • “Queen tests positive for Covid” – The Queen Consort gets a cold, and the Telegraph reports it.
  • “Do face masks work?” – The latest review of their use during the pandemic suggests they did little to help, says Dr. Robert Dingwall in the Spectator.
  • “Old people should embrace ‘mass suicide’, says Yale professor” – Old people in Japan should kill themselves to avoid burdening the state and the Government should consider making euthanasia compulsory, a professor at Yale University has said, according to the Telegraph.
  • “The tyranny of digital currencies” – Central banks are creating their own surveillance state, writes Thomas Fazi in UnHerd.
  • “TCW’s triumph through the Guardian’s looking glass” – Dr. Roger Watson in TCW helps the Guardian‘s Peter Walker out with his report on a Celebration of Dissent.
  • “A year in three psychological biases” – Behavioural scientist Patrick Fagan suggests slippery slopes, pro-innovation bias and norms help explain 2022.
  • “Net Zero is a threat to energy security” – The UK’s new energy ministry is grappling with two contradictory goals, says James Woudhuysen in Spiked.
  • “Support Clintel in their ‘Climate Case of the Century’” – WUWT reports on a major climate case now pending on appeal before the Hague Court of Appeals.
  • “Climate change activist goes rogue releasing ‘mini volcanoes’ to cool atmosphere” – Experts in geoengineering say that the sulphur particle launches set a dangerous precedent for private companies to interfere with the planet’s atmosphere, reports the Telegraph.
  • “Sadiq Khan accused of ‘using nonsense air pollution data’ to support Ulez” – Council leaders suggest the Mayor is cherry-picking mortality figures after analysis shows a “range of uncertainty” to the scheme’s health benefits, the Telegraph reports.
  • “For you, milord, an idiot’s guide to Net Zero” – Andrew Montford writes to Lord (Gavin) Barwell to set him straight in TCW Defending Freedom.
  • “Disinformation Inc: Meet the groups hauling in cash to secretly blacklist conservative news” – A Washington Examiner investigative series looks into self-styled ‘disinformation’ tracking organisations that are cracking down on conservative media and part of a lucrative operation that aims to defund disfavoured speech.
  • “Why it’s gone horribly wrong for Google” – Big Tech’s mad scramble to embrace AI technology will have disastrous consequences, argues Andrew Orlowski in the Telegraph.
  • “Teen Girls Experiencing Record Levels of Sadness and Suicide Risk, CDC Says” – U.S. teens reported increasing experiences of violence and suicidal thoughts, but girls fared worse than boys, reports the Wall Street Journal.
  • “How did the Tavistock gender scandal unfold?” – Another week, another blast of evidence as to why putting kids on hormone blockers is an abomination, says Julie Bindel in the Spectator.
  • “If an employee hears an upsetting conversation between customers they can then sue their employers for failing to protect them from that kind of harassment” – Watch Toby tell GB News‘s Andrew Doyle of the horrors lurking in the Worker Protection Bill.

'If an employee hears an upsetting conversation between customers they can then sue their employers for failing to protect them from that kind of harassment.'

Director of The Free Speech Union @ToadMeister joins @AndrewDoyle_Com to discuss the Worker Protection Bill. pic.twitter.com/3viXxOTnlT

— GB News (@GBNEWS) February 12, 2023

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    1 year ago

    Why not nuclear?

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    Marcus Aurelius knew
    Marcus Aurelius knew
    1 year ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    BILLIONS HAVE DIED FROM NUCLEAR, THAT’S WHY! RACIST!

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    For a fist full of roubles
    For a fist full of roubles
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

    Would you care to add any facts to that?

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    Marcus Aurelius knew
    Marcus Aurelius knew
    1 year ago
    Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

    HOW DARE YOU! LITERALLY HITLER!

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    soundofreason
    soundofreason
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

    You do realise that everybody who dies has nuclear material throughout their bodies? It ought to be banned.

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    Marcus Aurelius knew
    Marcus Aurelius knew
    1 year ago
    Reply to  soundofreason

    SCIENCE DENIER!

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    Because Nuclear is not suitable as a back up. gas is perfect because it can be fired up and down quickly. —— We do need Nuclear energy. But not a s a back up for renewables.

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    1 year ago
    Reply to  varmint

    Indeed. But if you need a backup that at given points needs to supply most of your generating needs, and you have no mass storage of significant volume (both of which are the case), then your backup might as well be always on and ditch the “renewables”.

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    JXB
    JXB
    1 year ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    You mean… go back to the way it was?

    Report for a flogging.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    Yes I agree——-I would never have renewables at all. I would use coal gas and Nuclear. They are all concentrated energy sources that do what it says on the tin. France gets about 70% of its electricity from Nuclear. But the problem is that we have forced ourselves in law to be rid of fossil fuels and I am certain there will be many more U turns as reality begins to hit home that you cannot run Industrial Society on wind and sun. ——-No matter what any so called environmentalist says.

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    EppingBlogger
    EppingBlogger
    1 year ago
    Reply to  varmint

    Excuse me but we were not forced. It was voluntary by the Uniparty.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  EppingBlogger

    No——–The Net Zero amendment was simply waved through with no debate and no vote. ——-I call that FORCED, by a political establishment determined no discussion was to had in their desire to pander to the UN and its Sustainable Development politics rather than to their own voters.

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    AethelredTheReadier
    AethelredTheReadier
    1 year ago
    Reply to  varmint

    Theresa May forced it upon us. Bad laws can be repealed but the trouble is you need MPs capable of critical thinking…

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    RTSC
    RTSC
    1 year ago
    Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

    And balls.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

    There is no “Critical Thinking”. There is only “Group Think”

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    JXB
    JXB
    1 year ago
    Reply to  varmint

    Why do we ‘need’ nuclear energy. We didn’t when we had 50% plus coming from coal

    What we need is some sanity.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  JXB

    Coal was providing a large chunk of the electricity before we decided to pretend to save the planet. Wind and sun cannot do what coal and gas does ie provide electricity 24 hours a day everyday. —–So if we are going to de-carbonise which ofcourse is absurd, then we need the only other reliable way to produce electricity and that is Nuclear. But gas is still required for back up to wind and sun when all the Nuclear is being used up.

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    For a fist full of roubles
    1 year ago
    Reply to  JXB

    There just might be a few more people and a lot more energy usage per capita since the great smogs.
    In my childfhood home we had one 5A socket per room and Mum plugged her iron into the light socket.

    Last edited 1 year ago by For a fist full of roubles
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    Jackthegripper
    Jackthegripper
    1 year ago
    Reply to  varmint

    I think SMRs will offer greater versatility. How do nuclear ships and subs operate if they cannot modulate output?

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Jackthegripper

    Great—–I am for all reliable cost effective energy sources.

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    JXB
    JXB
    1 year ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    Why not coal?

    Nuclear is vastly more expensive than gas, takes years to build, requires more land. When costing a nuclear power station, the cost of decommissioning must be factored in. That is a significant future liability, which affects decisions of investors and the rate of return required to justify the risk.

    That means, among other things, nuclear plant operators must be guaranteed a minimum price per GW irrespective of market conditions.

    And that means we the consumer pay over the odds for electricity forever.

    So… why not coal? The most efficient electricity production, that means lower consumer… clean too.

    Rather than finding the ‘best way’ to solve a non-problem, stop accepting there is a problem that needs solving.

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    1 year ago
    Reply to  JXB

    I have no objection to coal. I don’t know how much coal we have under UK ground. Some people might say it’s finite, some might say it’s not. If it’s finite or gets really expensive to extract then we need to buy from others. Energy independence appeals to me. Then again I don’t know where we get our uranium from and how much we need. Just thinking about the very long term.

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    Uk coal supplies in the ’60’s were estimated at 300 – 400 years and at that time consumption was enormous.

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    1 year ago
    Reply to  huxleypiggles

    Ah thanks for that. Coal, gas and nuclear should see us through until fusion is developed…

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    soundofreason
    soundofreason
    1 year ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    Whut? 30 years?

    (It’s always 30 years.)

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    1 year ago
    Reply to  soundofreason

    hp says we’ve got 300-400 years, hopefully the boffins can deliver 🙂

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  JXB

    Nuclear plants can last 60 years though so the expense is spread out over a longer time making the price acceptable. The only way governments are able to get away with saying renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels is because they have put huge environmental costs and carbon taxes on coal and gas. —-But on a level playing field without all the subsidies that wind gets then coal and gas is by far the cheapest way to produce electricity.

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    GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull
    1 year ago

    The UK and the rest of Europe supporting the neo-Nazis in Ukraine in the US proxy war against Russia is the main reason UK bills have gone up.

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago
    Reply to  GlassHalfFull

    Not true. Domestic fuel bills have increased in this country because we are being forced to provide money with which to subsidise the whole of the renewables industry.

    It is that simple.

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    GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull
    1 year ago
    Reply to  huxleypiggles

    Yes it is true.
    The “main” increase is due to the Ukraine war.
    It is also true that renewables subsidies have increased the price.

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    RTSC
    RTSC
    1 year ago
    Reply to  GlassHalfFull

    No, the main reason is the morons in Government blew up our coal-fired power stations. They spend a fortune importing LPG because they closed down our Rough gas storage facility. They spend a further fortune importing chipped trees from the USA. And they pay our continental “friends” for mega-expensive energy because they completely failed to consider energy security when they decided to virtue-signal to the world.

    The Fat Oaf said we’d become “the Saudi Arabia” of wind. Well I don’t recall the Saudi’s paying other countries for their energy supply. Instead they exploit their own supply and, as a result, are incredibly wealthy.

    We aren’t …. because the Eco Nutters in the Establishment have wrecked any chance of prosperity we had.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  huxleypiggles

    correct

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    Marcus Aurelius knew
    Marcus Aurelius knew
    1 year ago
    Reply to  GlassHalfFull

    UK gets very little energy from Russia; neither directly nor indirectly.

    Last edited 1 year ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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    GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

    The wholesale price increased dramatically because of the Ukraine war regardless of the UK using very little Russian gas.

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago
    Reply to  GlassHalfFull

    MSM propoganda.

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    Solentviews
    Solentviews
    1 year ago
    Reply to  GlassHalfFull

    Gas prices are at their lowest for around 10 years. It’s not Ukraine. It’s the huge subsidies paid to wind farms, Drax, takeovers of failed Energy companies like Bulb and also covering the bills of people who don’t pay.

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    GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Solentviews

    This chart shows that the Ukraine war had a HUGE impact on the price of gas.
    https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-data-and-research/data-portal/wholesale-market-indicators

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  GlassHalfFull

    But that is a temporary thing. The cost of energy was already rising and will continue to rise because of NET ZERO…….We are removing affordable reliable energy (coal and gas) and replacing it with unaffordable unreliable energy (wind and sun)

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    GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull
    1 year ago
    Reply to  varmint

    I agree with you BUT we can buy inexpensive gas from Russia if the political will was there.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  GlassHalfFull

    We can do a lot of things with Political Will. ——-But the political will is all towards the UN’s world view that we need to save the planet and decarbonise. ——-But there is another world view, and that is that climate change is a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency for political purpose and that there is really no empirical evidence of a “climate crisis”. So we are impoverishing our own citizens with astronomical energy bills under false pretences.

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Solentviews

    Indeed.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  GlassHalfFull

    Energy bills were rising way before the Ukraine situation. Because renewables are not cheap. The myth of the wind being free is just that —a myth. Our electricity prices had doubled since the Climate Change Act in 2008 long before Putin went into Ukraine. The Ukraine situation has camouflaged the energy absurdity that already existed and has given politicians and eco warriors the excuse to blame Putin rather than their own preposterous energy policies like Net Zero which is going to cost trillions and all paid for by you and I.

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago
    Reply to  varmint

    Spot on.

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    EppingBlogger
    EppingBlogger
    1 year ago
    Reply to  GlassHalfFull

    Seems to me the neo- or old fashioned Nazis are based in Moscow.

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    GlassHalfFull
    GlassHalfFull
    1 year ago
    Reply to  EppingBlogger

    Your government and their presstitutes in the main stream media will be pleased you have believed all their lies, propaganda and omissions of the truth.

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    AethelredTheReadier
    AethelredTheReadier
    1 year ago
    Reply to  GlassHalfFull

    Just the narrative we are sold. It makes it easy to hike up prices by blaming it all on Russia. A manufactured crisis.

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    AJPotts
    AJPotts
    1 year ago

    Gas is cheap and reliable and we have abundant reserves. The best energy generation mix, given current technology, is gas supplemented by nuclear. The capital cost of the latter is high but it is better not to be reliant on a single source of energy. Wind and solar are inherently inefficient and advocates for these sources of energy need to own the disastrous economic consequences of their energy preferences.

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago
    Reply to  AJPotts

    Hear, hear.

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    JXB
    JXB
    1 year ago
    Reply to  AJPotts

    Coal is cheaper and prices less volatile.

    The brainwashing is strong on the site today.

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    10navigator
    10navigator
    1 year ago

    Get fracking until SMRs come online. China are opening two new coal mines a week and won’t reach peak CO2 (claimed) until 2030. Meanwhile UK is hobbling itself as it limps towards the unachievable Net Zero, whist freezing folk and driving them into penury en-route. Shameful!

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    Douglas Brodie
    Douglas Brodie
    1 year ago

    The final paragraph on using gas and running down expensive intermittent renewables nails it. Alleged man-made global warming is a giant, horribly-entrenched scam. There is no need to reduced CO2 emissions at all. For proof, search for:

    Ed Hoskins, Negligible future warming from CO2

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    Marcus Aurelius knew
    Marcus Aurelius knew
    1 year ago

    A schoolfriend of mine is completely plugged in to all the dangerous nonsense. Sells electric car charging systems, now to UK councils for charging buses (this is the stage of the game where they’ve run out of private customers spending their own money so need to move on to asking other people to spend other people’s money).

    As I say, he’s completely swallowed the narrative. Climate change, electrification, the lot. Hook, line and sinker. But the thing is, he’s a lovely chap. Honest as the day is long. Strong sense of justice. Why else would the company employ him as a sales manager? He believes in what he is selling!

    How can I break it to him, Sceptics?

    He’ll be fine whatever he does, but I would like to try to warn him. So far, the logic approach isn’t working. He just regurgitates the narrative.

    How to do it?

    I suppose I could just not care, but I like him…

    And, hell – I might be wrong.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

    Ask him to check his electric bills since the Climate Change Act in 2008 and then ask him “Whatever happened to all the FREE WIND” ?

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    Marcus Aurelius knew
    Marcus Aurelius knew
    1 year ago
    Reply to  varmint

    Good one. I’ll let you know.

    Obviously we could all write REAMS AND REAMS to folks like this.

    But it’s about finding the key to their souls… for the greater good, y’know 😜

    Last edited 1 year ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

    During “covid” I think I exhausted my lifetime supply of patience trying to debate with people I “liked”. I have given up now. Not seeing people helps!

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    Marcus Aurelius knew
    Marcus Aurelius knew
    1 year ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    True true. Completely changed my friends. But I do like this guy. He stood up for me in at least two school fights. A really good guy.

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

    “He stood up for me in at least two school fights.”

    That counts for a lot in my book.

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    Marcus Aurelius knew
    Marcus Aurelius knew
    1 year ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    Exactly. He just needs his wake-up moment. But I don’t think it has happened yet, despite ThePandemic™ …

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

    It may never come. I am not optimistic.

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    Marcus Aurelius knew
    Marcus Aurelius knew
    1 year ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    I have considered my efforts so far as a complete waste of everyone’s time! Perhaps I should just accept him as he is. And talk about gardening.

    But even gardening is fraught with politics. Nitrogenous waste, anyone?

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    Solentviews
    Solentviews
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

    Ask him to watch this presentation from Prof William Happer (it completely debunks that CO2 is bad.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2nhssPW77I

    If he does watch it, ask him what he thought if it. If he doesn’t, then he is displaying his wilful ignorance and let the friendship whither. If people aren’t even going to listen to the other side then what’s the point?

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Solentviews

    If people aren’t even going to listen to the other side then what’s the point?

    That’s where i am at currently.

    99% of the people I know are state modified zombies. I do not push my views unless they offer the opening and when they do I make my case with simple facts and figures which usually ends the debate. Some associates are however at the wavering stage and try to argue back. With these I dump occasional WhatsApp messages of truth. A couple are now coming back for more information.

    Many are a permanently lost cause and because they know they have been had simply refuse to take their head from the sand.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  huxleypiggles

    If you question nothing then you deserve all the impoverishment coming your way, because make no mistake that is what Net Zero is all about. —–The climate is simply the plausible excuse that the gullible fall for.

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    Marcus Aurelius knew
    Marcus Aurelius knew
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Solentviews

    That is an excellent lecture. Thank you, Solentviews, for pointing it out to me.

    Prof Happer does it extremely well. What a mind, and what humility.

    I sent it to my friend, with some short introduction. Let’s see!

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    Solentviews
    Solentviews
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

    Glad you liked it. He appears genuine as they come and not looking for the next grant like most ‘academics’. He has nothing to prove and is just demonstrating the truth with evidence.

    I will keep an eye open to see how your friend reacts. Obviously if he agrees with the video then his whole outlook on life and job choice may have to change. Cognitive dissonance will also rear its head I’m sure.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Solentviews

    There is plenty of this kind of thing in books and on the Internet. Unfortunately most people busy with work and family life don’t have the time to investigate every issues and they get their information on the 6 O’clock News and assume that those news Channels have thoroughly investigated the issue and are giving them a balanced view. ——-Nothing is further from the truth with mainstream News simply being climate activists channels.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago

    But just as important if not more so is the fact that there are 21 million homes with gas central heating and we will need gas for that reason. There is no way on earth that all of those 21 million gas boilers can possibly be removed and heat pumps or hydrogen or whatever fanciful technology the eco socialists come away with will be able to be installed in the time frames that our daft politicians have imposed on us in law. It has taken about 10 years and we still don’t have little smart meters rolled out everywhere so the chances of new energy systems being in peoples homes with all that clutter and expense involved is NOT going to happen. As more and more of the real world comes and bites politicians (of all parties) the more of the NET ZERO nonsense will be kicked down the road. They will then be cursing their mothers for having given them birth that they were stupid enough to force the UK in law to move ahead with this absurdity and I believe OFGEM have up and questioned the cost of all of this. ——The time to question it was in Parliament where no debate was had and no questions were asked. It was simply waved through. ——-As someone once said “You couldn’t make it up”

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago

    It doesn’t matter what Fishy says or says he is going to do when the bottom line is that he is still mouthing off about being committed to Nut Zero.

    Anybody committed to Nut Zero falls in to one of two camps:

    1. the criminally stupid

    2. they are working for an authority that does not have the best interests of this country at its core.

    Now, allowing Fishy some latitude let’s assume his intelligence level is a little bit above stupid, that must mean that even if he relied on his own research he would quickly come to realise that a trace gas accounting for just 0.04% of our atmosphere, and without which life on earth would disappear cannot be causing climate issues.

    If he got excited at his new found knowledge and decided to dig a little deeper he would also find that earth’s climate is constantly in flux ergo there is no need to chase the unicorn of Nut Zero and what we really need to do is get back to normal.

    Normal is not what Fishy is about so the only conclusion is that he is a treasonous, lying, fraudulent coward pulling another gaslighting stunt on the British people.

    A despicable oxygen thief.

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    varmint
    varmint
    1 year ago
    Reply to  huxleypiggles

    You are correct, but this will not be the last U turn on energy policy….Starmer will have to back down from the pretend to save the planet stuff as well. ——It is called living in the real world.

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    JXB
    JXB
    1 year ago

    But…

    1) It will not increase generating capacity sufficient to meet the 2 to 3 times increase in demand from BEVs (stop laughing at the back), and switch from natural gas in domestic and industrial use.

    2) Even if (1) were to be met, the grid infrastructure – generator to point of use – does not exist to carry and distribute the increased load… nor is work under way or planned.

    And – since most of the World is joined in this madness – the materials particularly, copper and aluminium, cannot be produced (think raw materials mining as well as manufacture) on the fast, increasing scale to meet demand. Thus supply shortage will lean the cost of upgrading grids will sky-rocket and inevitably be impossible to complete.

    The vexing question, asked about the fake pandemic too, remains, are they just bumbling, incompetent ignoramuses or deliberate, malicious, evil gits?

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    For a fist full of roubles
    For a fist full of roubles
    1 year ago

    They are clearly anticipating a shortfall in the comparatively near future.
    The choice of gas means that they don’t see energy storage as a feasible solution, that they realise nuclear cannot be provided in anything like the required timescale and that someone sees a nice little earner from fracking.
    Fracking is the best way to get gas out of the ground quickly. I predict a sudden fracking epiphany.

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    For a fist full of roubles
    For a fist full of roubles
    1 year ago

    The Yanks must be rubbing theirhands together with the prospect of flogging us LNG now they have cornered the European market by blowing up Nordstream and tripled the prices into the bargain..

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    JohnK
    JohnK
    1 year ago

    I thought power stations were essentially private companies these days. Adding gas fired combined cycle gas turbine plant at a site that has an old coal plant can make economic sense. Didcot is a typical example, where once the old coal plant, along with it’s massive stack of coal was demolished, there was a bit of spare land to sell off as well. No need to do much to the national grid feed – it was already there.

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    Dinger64
    Dinger64
    1 year ago

    You lot don’t actually believe him do you? It’s a pityful exercise at nicking some right wing policy in a vain attempt to win a few votes, pathetic!

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago
    Reply to  Dinger64

    I made it adamantly clear I don’t believe one word of Fishy’s nonsense.

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    0
    Dinger64
    Dinger64
    1 year ago
    Reply to  huxleypiggles

    Understood👍
    Now they’ve wheel out Boris on a pallet truck! Whatever next, dig up Thatcher?

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    EppingBlogger
    EppingBlogger
    1 year ago

    It is never a good idea when the state builds such plant but it will have to do so. Private investors will run a mile: they cannot get beck the capital cost in the time available.

    we can predict these plants will take twice as long and cost twice as much as necessary. By the time they have checked the gender assignment of the site security officers and their dogs this decade will be over.

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    huxleypiggles
    huxleypiggles
    1 year ago
    Reply to  EppingBlogger

    A very reasonable view of the next 5.5 years.

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    RTSC
    RTSC
    1 year ago

    “It’s obviously good that the PM is investing in reliable sources of energy. But how exactly does building a whole supplementary power system to make up for the unreliability of renewables “keep bills down”?

    ———–

    It doesn’t. It increases them. We are paying once, for a system which provides intermittent, unreliable energy so the Uni-Party can virtue-signal to the world.

    And then for a system which provides reliable energy, on demand ….. which they proudly claim won’t be used much.

    The policy of a moron. But a virtue-signalling, Globalist moron.

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    Jackthegripper
    Jackthegripper
    1 year ago

    Build out gas and nuclear urgently and stop wasting taxpayers’ money on wind turbines and PV panels.
    When there is sufficient nuclear ‘renewables’ become obsolete.
    Scrapping, recycling and replacing renewables is a problem governments are storing up that will bite them in the near future as they have a limited effective lifespan.

    2
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