How is global warming going for you?
I was going to reply but I thought surely he's not saying, look there's snow in Florida therefore global warming isn't a thingAmazing. You are the exact reason we don’t call it global warming any more we call it climate change. A rise in average global temperatures doesn’t mean everywhere gets warmer.
Poor Florida never gets a break does it?I was going to reply but I thought surely he's not saying, look there's snow in Florida therefore global warming isn't a thing
Utterly daft but predictable, using such 'science' from MAGA loving neanderthals - her and supporter completely oblivious that she is directly undermining her own argument. Captain Dart.... climate change means windier, drier, wetter, sunnier, cloudier, colder and hotter at unusual times and distorted weather/climate patterns. Baffoons the lot of them - but thank god we dont have such dopey deniers in UK eh, CD?How is global warming going for you?
Today is Labour Day in the Daily Mail. Quite an interesting selection of articles.
Hard for me to argue with what Starmer and Reeves are saying (frame the post @shmmeee). I have no doubt Milliband and Khan will be unhappy.
PM vows crackdown on 'virtue-signalling' challenges to infrastructure
Keir Starmer vowed to end the 'challenge culture' of spurious judicial reviews that delay major projects such as nuclear power plants, wind farms and roads.www.dailymail.co.uk
Rachel Reeves insists boosting UK economy must trump dash for net zero
Boosting the economy must trump Labour's dash for net zero, Rachel Reeves said yesterday - as she and Keir Starmer launched a new push for growth.www.dailymail.co.uk
Rachel Reeves 'to ease Labour's non-dom crackdown'
Chancellor Rachel Reeves told a fringe event at the World Economic Forum in Davos that she was 'listening' to the concerns.www.dailymail.co.uk
Heathrow expansion: Sadiq Khan warns of `climate emergency´
The mayor of London won a third term in 2024 on a platform of opposing expansion of airports in the capital.www.dailymail.co.uk
Will there be trouble at t’mill?Haha I don’t agree with caving to non doms. Do agree on a third runway with or without the insistence of greener fuels. I think that’s a sop to environmental campaigners but I’m not a degrowth environmentalist I’m a techno environmentalist so whatever. Agree with the planning stuff as I’ve said but wish it would go further.
Will there be trouble at t’mill?
Are they caving to non doms? They are saying the aim is to raise as much revenue as originally intended. They need to keep the non doms here. I did say that they would fuck off elsewhere, looks like the scale of the fucking off has taken the government by surprise. The lack of competence in not realising what would happen is, however, no surprise whatsoever.
The planning stuff has to start with something, and what Starmer is saying does address the spurious challenges (bat huts, I ask you).Haha I don’t agree with caving to non doms. Do agree on a third runway with or without the insistence of greener fuels. I think that’s a sop to environmental campaigners but I’m not a degrowth environmentalist I’m a techno environmentalist so whatever. Agree with the planning stuff as I’ve said but wish it would go further.
The planning stuff has to start with something, and what Starmer is saying does address the spurious challenges (bat huts, I ask you).
Slightly amusing that the named culprit is Green Party, not a pensioners alliance which you have previously blamed.
Boswell has probably only just qualifies as a pensioner (subject to NI record), so most of his record of vexatious objection will have been as a working person.
Nope, it’s in the posted article so it’s even worse than the Telegraph, it’s in the Mail. Is there anything in the article written by Starmer for the Daily Mail that you don’t believe?What scale? You’re not believing Telegraph fairytales again are you?
Source?Greens are half nimby pensioners same as the Lib Dem’s.
Can you point me to the departmental 'net zero' budget?.Of course these projects could have be completed if there wasn't all this insane fantasy net zero bollocks with massive budget implications.
Host of hospital builds delayed by up to 14 years
Ministers say previous government promise for 40 new hospitals by 2030 was undeliverable.www.bbc.co.uk
Southport is in the county of Merseyside these daysThis is why I have no sympathy for winter fuel payments when these kind of clearly nonsense stories are the ones used to justify it. This woman is 66 and has had at most one winter fuel payment in her life yet apparently is so dependent on it she needs to take out a credit card overdraft and a “credit account” whatever that is. It’s just clear rubbish.
Winter fuel payment: 'I got a credit card after losing the £200'
Pensioners who lost winter fuel money after government changes tell the BBC the last few months have been a struggle.www.bbc.co.uk
I saw that earlier and thought the same, the answer from the Labour minister felt like one of somebody utterly petrified of giving the wrong answer. Would anybody really object to a customs union arrangement with the EU, easy to sell the benefits of it.Well this is stupid. Do we want growth or not?
UK politics: ‘It’s not a customs union’: No 10 leaves door open to joining pan-Europe scheme – as it happened
Downing Street says EU’s suggestion of UK joining agreement would not cross its ‘red lines’ for closer tieswww.theguardian.com
I saw that earlier and thought the same, the answer from the Labour minister felt like one of somebody utterly petrified of giving the wrong answer. Would anybody really object to a customs union arrangement with the EU, easy to sell the benefits of it.
Source?
Yep cxxt
I never mentioned Science you did, I doubt you have any idea yourself.Is there any science you believe?
What are your opinions on the laws of thermodynamics?
I never mentioned Science you did, I doubt you have any idea yourself.
I made an economic argument, here is another take.
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Ms Reeves and Mr Miliband will completely screw the GB economy.
No I don't. I'm saying their policies will make it even worse.You talk as if the UK economy functions properly or has been doing so? Real wages have still not recovered from a financial crash that was 16 years ago.
I never mentioned Science you did, I doubt you have any idea yourself.
I made an economic argument, here is another take.
Thread by @mattwridley on Thread Reader App
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Ms Reeves and Mr Miliband will completely screw the GB economy.
You posted “how is global warming going for you?” Then a news report of an extreme weather event. JFC.
What does this have to do with us or the economy? The UK needs to transition away from fossil fuels as far as possible for our own security as much as any other reason.1. Donald (Drill Baby Drill) Trump tore up electric-vehicle mandates and turned decisively against wind power. America, China and India are all going to increase their emissions by much more than we can possibly save.
Mining for shale gas is different in a landmass with a population density of 36 people per km2 compared with the UK at 279 people per km2. It's also unclear how this boom has benefited ordinary Americans? They've just booted a president over primarily the cost of living, how with all of this energy wealth is their cost of living rocketing?Chris Wright testified how the shale revolution has turned America into now the world’s biggest producer of both oil and gas, ahead of even Saudi Arabia and Russia. That could have been our boom too.
If you want to cherry pick statistics, what's the percentage this morning?On the calm morning of “Dunkelflaute” Wednesday this week just 1 per cent of our electricity came from wind power, even less from solar and a whopping 10 per cent had to be imported at exorbitant cost to prevent the lights going out. How’s that for “energy security”?
This is not a problem with wind power per se, just a perversity in the privatised energy system.The wind business is paid £85 a MWh, well above the price of getting it from gas – and then we add billions to our bills for expanding, backing up and balancing the increasingly stretched and unstable grid that comes with wind. Unreliables are NOT cheaper than reliables
I don't believe there is anything in the planning framework to ban the construction of data centres. Plenty exist here already. Where are all the data centres for the AI that doesn't exist!?Britain’s hitherto fabulous strength in AI is being strangled by net zero. Chris Stark of the CCC said he does not believe this and anyway data centres can move to where the wind farms are. He's in denial
See answer above. High energy prices are the result of the market. What's Matt's recommendation?Jim Ratcliffe, the boss of Ineos, said on 13 January: “We are witnessing the extinction of one of our major industries as chemical manufacture has the life squeezed out of it” by high energy prices. De-industrialising Britain, he added, achieves nothing for the environment and merely shifts emissions, business and jobs elsewhere.
What does this have to do with us or the economy? The UK needs to transition away from fossil fuels as far as possible for our own security as much as any other reason.
Mining for shale gas is different in a landmass with a population density of 36 people per km2 compared with the UK at 279 people per km2. It's also unclear how this boom has benefited ordinary Americans? They've just booted a president over primarily the cost of living, how with all of this energy wealth is their cost of living rocketing?
If you want to cherry pick statistics, what's the percentage this morning?
This is not a problem with wind power per se, just a perversity in the privatised energy system.
I don't believe there is anything in the planning framework to ban the construction of data centres. Plenty exist here already. Where are all the data centres for the AI that doesn't exist!?
See answer above. High energy prices are the result of the market. What's Matt's recommendation?
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This is why I have no sympathy for winter fuel payments when these kind of clearly nonsense stories are the ones used to justify it. This woman is 66 and has had at most one winter fuel payment in her life yet apparently is so dependent on it she needs to take out a credit card overdraft and a “credit account” whatever that is. It’s just clear rubbish.
Winter fuel payment: 'I got a credit card after losing the £200'
Pensioners who lost winter fuel money after government changes tell the BBC the last few months have been a struggle.www.bbc.co.uk
This has been community noted - to say that this would be the first year she would even receive the WFA.
Then conveniently the BBC edit the story to say actually she is 67, not 66...Hmm.
LOL, Truss was in office for no time & she is being blamed for everything.Mostly from what I understand because of this:
1) It's not necessary to do this at the pace intended for any reason, the pace is insane.The UK needs to transition away from fossil fuels as far as possible for our own security as much as any other reason.
LOL, Truss was in office for no time & she is being blamed for everything.
It's talking about Truss' ministerial roles prior to her stint as PMLOL, Truss was in office for no time & she is being blamed for everything.
As for transitioning from fossil fuels.
1) It's not necessary to do this at the pace intended for any reason, the pace is insane.
2) Nuclear power which is much more sustainable is being neglected, I think we used to generate ~25% of our load from Nuclear in the 1970's, now its more like 10 to 15% (I'm not sure how much of that is due to a decline in capacity or an increase in demand).
It is reliable base load. EDF/UK government are building Hinkley Point C (3.2GW) & Sizewell C (3.2GW). Hinkley Point is currently projected to finish in 2029-31, but I'd be willing to bet it won't make 2031.
Furthermore a number of older reactors are due to be decommissioned in the next few years.
This paper is useful for background. https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CDP-2024-0036/CDP-2024-0036.pdf
As far as I can see the new projects don't add enough to capacity in the long term, 6.4GW of less whatever is decommissioned to demand that peaks around 47GW on average in winter.
3) Solar and Wind are immature and unreliable technologies, solar isn't very appropriate for the UK climate, practically worthless in winter (I've got solar panels, I've seen it for myself).
4) Energy storage which would make wind and solar power sources far more useful is so far inadequate, either in the technology or facilities available. As it stands the capacity is about 1.2GW and clearly when it discharges into the grid there is a delay before it's available again though I guess they will recharge them overnight. There are however a lot of schemes in the pipeline.
5) The transmission infrastructure is inadequate, do you know the UK pays approx. £2 billion p.a. to wind power generators to disconnect from the grid when it gets overloaded, also much of the generation is too far away on the wrong side of transmission bottlenecks to be used.
6) Regarding security, if you had any idea you'd realise most days the UK imports 10% of its electricity from France, Norway etc and all the gas is imported. Wind and solar generally only contribute a fraction at the moment and gas takes up the load as it can switch in and out swiftly.
7) The idea a struggling grid can supply enough electric vehicles and other increases in demand while replacing petrol and diesel transport is impractical and dangerous. It is far too premature to start banning new internal combustion vehicle sales (if ever), I think Miliband is going for 2030 again, I'm fairly sure it will be set back before then.
8) It was folly to destroy all the coal fired power stations. Some should have at least been mothballed. Ed ordered the last one be decommissioned/demolished quite recently I think.
9) Most UK households are heated by gas fired central heating which for most of us constitute ~80% of our energy usage. I hear the politicians wish us to install heat pumps but that idea has many flaws, their expensive, they are inadequate for old houses and they're noisy. I certainly have no plan to move away from a reliable gas fired system, have you?
Gridwatch is useful to see the current and historical demand supply situation. GB Fuel type power generation production
It's not all doom and gloom but I think Miliband is taking too many risks for political not practical purposes and the bill payer will suffer, we might even get brown outs from time to time, I hope not but I wouldn't bet against it. Expensive energy does not help the UK economy.
Typical click bait headline.You didn’t read the article did you? This has nothing to do with her time as PM.
As for the rest of your copy and paste I’m a big supporter of nuclear, check this thread for my comments on it. I’m just not delusional enough to think everything would be fixed with fracking. We import gas and we set prices based on that. That’s why our energy is expensive. You can rant about net zero all you like but the data is there in black and white.
The last government banned onshore wind which is the cheapest form of energy there is and you were silent for 14 years. You’re not fooling anyone.
Typical click bait headline.
Copy and paste, was it bollocks, I wrote all that myself, I can construct a reasonably well written argument.
And there you go again, I never mentioned fracking or even oil or gas exploitation in the context of the UK. The article I posted earlier did because it has become part of US energy policy and that effects the UK. What would help the UK would be a peace settlement in the Ukraine which results in UK sanctions on Russian gas imports being lifted and gas falling in price. Did you miss the point I made that gas supplies 80% of the UK's domestic energy demand and no doubt has a fair amount of industrial and commercial applications, the electricity generation component is around 30%, see reference.
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