A Net Zero ‘nudge unit’ that used scare tactics during the Covid pandemic has received a £100,000 contract from the Government to encourage the public to take up heat pumps. The Telegraph has the story.
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has received a £100,000 contract from the Government as Ministers aim to deliver an extra 300,000 home upgrades this year.
Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, plans to scrap noise restrictions on heat pumps and lift the limit on their size in a push to expand their use.
The team was launched in 2010 under Lord Cameron’s administration in an effort to design policy interventions informed by human behaviour and has widely been viewed as a success in Whitehall.
However, Simon Ruda, a behavioural scientist who co-founded the unit, suggested in 2022 that scare tactics had been misused during Covid lockdowns to ensure the public complied with the rules.
While he defended behavioural science for driving improvements in policy, Mr. Ruda said he was concerned the “level of fear willingly conveyed on the public” was the “most egregious and far-reaching mistake” of the coronavirus response.
The BIT’s work during the pandemic included an online experiment conducted in March 2020, the month of the first lockdown, to test which public health messages the public would remember.
Now the unit is expected to conduct similar research on heat pumps after being tasked with combatting what the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) calls “misinformation”.
Toby Park, the Head of Climate, Energy and Sustainability at BIT, claimed too many “myths” exist around the technology and that negative perceptions were a “barrier” to expanding their use.
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You sold your birthright for a mess of pottage and now you regret it. The whole nuclear infrastructure has been privatised. What kind of a sick society privatises its prisons and then goes on to privatising its nukes. It is the same as the huge mass immigration. You bring these people in because they are cheap labour without any regard to the consequences. You need a kick up the arse. Probably too late but I would give you a good kick up the arse if I thought it would make any difference but you have already destroyed your country forever.
A kick up the arse? ——More like what ever you get for High Treason.
It is high treason because the damage is irreprable and has been conducted in such a casual way.
Is it paranoia, or could it be a useful insight as to how the other sides equipment works? Unless their kit has moved on and, in effect, sold some junk to our MoD.
But Kaspersky Internet Security will soon be banned. Probably the best security I have had on my devices ever. ——–Oh but wait I think I have just been hacked by the Kremlin.
People talk about tactical nuclear weapons as if they are no big deal. A tactical nuke is about 5 kilotons, five thoudand tons of high explosives. Even this could do serious damage, 5000 one thousand pound bombs. You are looking at complete devastation within 2 miles. There is no point being all defiant and macho about such situations. I have lived in countries where they have shelters for every member of the populaton including stored up food and ammo for 3 years of fighthing. We do not have this in our country. Nothing like it.It is assumed that the general population will be wiped out and an administrative class will remain, If you are all gung ho for nuclear war then you really have to look at civil defence in relative terms.
Was it Switzerland, I wonder? I read years ago about their admirable self-defence system for the whole Swiss population in case of attack, though by now it must have been ruined by the same mass Third World Invasion, as everywhere else in the West.
Same in Norway, They have substantial shelters. We are viewed as expendable as long as the administrative class is protected, The point is that we hae no civil defence whatsoever. You can hide in the cupboard under the stairs or cower under a table – this is still their advice. I saw a recent brooadcast which said shelter in place and wait for a message on your mobile phone, as if such a flimsy network would still be intact. They have no regard at all. We are waltzing towards Armageddon with some vague reassurance that we will be able to fight. Just the discrepancy in civil defence means that we won’t be able to fight at all.
“Shelter in place and wait for a message…”
Wasn’t that what Brits & Canadians were told during the Afghan Withdrawal Chaos, before one Brit ignored that advice and made his own dangerous way back to Blighty?
And Canadians were still sheltering while their Sikh Defence Minister secretly ordered Special Forces to focus on getting all the Sikhs out first…
Like the tenants of Grenfell Towers, ordered to “shelter in place”.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/predictive-programming-symbolism-ideological-subversion-olympic-games-opening-ceremonies/5864251
An interesting look at the vaguely hidden and debauched messaging behind the Olympic Games opening ceremony.
There’s a disconnect between the horrific power of nuclear weapons and how the term kilo-tons is used as a throwaway. Hiroshima, 15 kt, 90,000 folk dead or missing. Gen ‘Buck’ Turgidson offers some light relief by dint of absurdity in Dr Strangelove. When asked by the President the likely outcome of a nuclear strike on the US, Turgidson replies, “I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, but I do say, no more than ten to twenty million killed. Tops!”
Shelters for 65 million and stored up food for 65 million people fur three years… fantasy land
As for nuclear war, we are at greater risk from Net Zero.
Don’t ba acting all shocked and surprised and aghast when it happens. The plan from the eastern point of view is already there. You are making a very big mistake.
Unbelievable treason by that “firm” who surreptitiously outsourced it to the enemy. Why have they not been publicly exposed and arrested?
It has been happening for decades. Sell it off and hope no one notices.We have so little left.Do you remember in the 1980s the ‘tell Sid’ campaign. All of the infrastructure being sold off and we were told that we would live in a shareholder democracy. Share ownership is smaller than ever hardly any Brits have shares. In fact most Brits don’t even have £300 put away for a basic household emergency like buying a new washing machine.
Sackings, loss of generous pensions for the civil servants involved, and hanging drawing and quartering for the company involved.
Simples.
The military capablities of this country at the moment are seriously compromised. Just don’t do it because it will be a disaster. Literally the overunning of the British armed forces within a week. You need to learn when to keep your mouth shut They talk about war with the east but they don’t grasp it at all.
“What’s really going on?”
Where’s Monroe?
Joining the fsu is more problematic than I thought, but, my 29,99 euro has been taken! Help me! Thick Ding!
29,99?
What subscription is that?
Thanks hux, it’s sorted
Bit confused about the enrolment process to the fsu, but seems established now
Our two Air Craft carriers were built by Chinese spy cranes (the Goliath class) and with Chinese software, operable by Chinese personnel (from Grant Newshams “When China Attacks or Ian Easton‘s book The Final Struggle, Sorry, I can’t remember which). So Russian software on our submarines is probably a fraction of the problem our woke, gender neutral, dis-armed services have.
So our nuclear subs are a bit like smart meters (also made in China I dare guess?)
they can be switched off remotely when not required? Oh great!
Dont worry, chaps, Starmer is going to create Great British Computer Programming.
It’s been done before under the Wilson regime. They called it ICL, and it gave us, inter alia, the Post Office Horizon System. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited#Origins