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@ret_ward Do climate sceptics demand observance, obedience?

Do climate sceptics divide people into believers and deniers?

Do climate sceptics hunt down, harass and censor disbelievers?

Do climate sceptics deny their ideas can be debated?

You're a very odd man, Bob Ward.
@ret_ward Do climate change sceptics ask for their critics to be locked up?

Do climate sceptics demand that democratic control of politics be suspended?

Do climate change sceptics warn that if their demands are not met, it will summon up Gaia's revenge, and end civilisation?
@ret_ward Do climate sceptics have billionaire ideological benefactors, who establish vanity project 'research' units at universities, that produce fraudulent claims for public funding?

Do climate sceptics hire sad little bald men to protect their ideologues from criticism in the media?
@ret_ward The answer to all the above, Bob, is no.

Can you say the same about climate change alarmism?

No.
@ret_ward So be very, very careful with that word 'cult', Bob.

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Dec 18
Many interesting comments from @DaleVince in this Telegraph piece. But this one struck me...

"There’s always been a funding gap between the two main parties and I wanted to level the playing field… I felt it essential to do all that I could to help Labour win the last election."

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/1…
@DaleVince As with many of Dale Vince's claims that involve numbers, an inspection of the data reveals the opposite case. Between 2013-22 inclusive, the "funding gap" was in Labour's favour in all but one year. Image
@DaleVince The article says, "listen to any of his interviews and Vince – who was diagnosed with autism at the age of 50 – is clearly highly intelligent."

"He claims his IQ is above 150".

I find both of those claims rather difficult to believe.
Read 8 tweets
Dec 6
This was very well known and understood in the decade before last, when exactly this phenomenon occurred with solar PV dumping undermined US and European manufacturers.

There is no need to prance around in front of infographics to explain European deindustrialisation. The fact is that UK/EU policies created a market for these products while undermining domestic manufacturers.

"Oh wow!", said the green lobby. "Look how cheap solar power is getting! Isn't China amazing!" They said we needed stronger climate targets to be imposed sooner.

And the fact is that Sky News took it upon itself to abandon proper criticism of that policy agenda, to become an advocate for green policies. It even had a daily climate news show. It committed itself to becoming a political campaigning organisation, to lead its audience towards supporting climate policies.

This PowerPoint-contemporary dance performance tells the story that critics were pointing out two decades ago.
No. It's not a perfect storm, Ed.

Perfect storms are unpredictable. Nobody knows quite how and when the meteorological forces will align and multiply.

Many people were warning of this outcome. Why did Sky news prefer instead to produce propaganda?

Sky News: "Yay - electric cars!!!"

Read 5 tweets
Nov 18
All these Tories coming out against Miliband...

ENOUGH!

Explain how YOUR PARTY got to the same point before you criticise the party whose policies are effectively continuity Boris Johnson.

Or, STFU and fade into the background of history, as you deserve.
Where were you when Boris Johnson banned petrol & diesel cars?

Where were you when Boris Johnson banned the domestic gas central heating boiler?
Where were you when Boris Johnson declared a "ten point plan for a green industrial revolution" that would make Britain the "Saudi Arabia of wind"?

Clapping like seals.
Read 5 tweets
Nov 12
Why did Britain turn its back on nuclear power?

Because its governments caved into the green lobby's propaganda.

Who funds Sam Dumitriu's research?

The green lobby.

It is not about nuclear power.

It's about making it easier for rent seekers.
Who funds Britain Remade?

1. The Quadrature Foundation, which gave a £4 million donation to the Labour Party, and from where the government's new Climate Envoy, Rachel Kyte emerged.
2. The European Climate Foundation, which turns dark money from green billionaires into grants for climate campaigning organisations, including XR. It does not declare who its grantors or grantees are, but is largely controlled by hedge fund billionaire Christopher Hohn.
Read 10 tweets
Sep 25
This is daft, @MichaelLCrick.

Quadrature Climate Foundation's (QCF) grants to pro-Net Zero lobbying organisations VASTLY exceeds even Quadrature's alleged holdings in companies that have hydrocarbon energy interests.

It would make no sense whatsoever to fund climate lobbying organisations with more than a $billlion, as QCF has, for the sake of an alleged interest in hydrocarbon companies worth $170 million.

The question you should be asking is about the $billion of pro-Net Zero lobbying and its influence over UK energy policy.

There is a lot more to say on QCF's grantees, including how they create conspiracy theories about the funding of lobbying organisations and donations to political parties.
Here is one example showing how fake philanthropic foundations like Quadrature spend VAST amounts of money on pro-Net Zero lobbying, and how there is ZERO evidence of the contrary -- fossil fuel interests funding anti Net Zero lobbying.

In fact, QCF grantees, InfluenceMap were so bereft of evidence linking fossil fuel interests to anti-climate lobbying that they had to count PRO climate lobbying as ANTI climate lobbying.

benpile.substack.com/p/the-monolith…
Here are QCF's grants to the European Climate Foundation (ECF).

ECF is an opaque pass-through grant-making organisation that does not publish a list of its grantors and grantees.

That's more than $46 million to fund pro-Net Zero climate and energy policy lobbying, lawfare, campaigning, and communications and diplomatic support.Image
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Aug 31
"Possible" needed the money because they destroyed their own image when they were called 10:10, and their adverts depicting the executions of children and other climate apostates led to their backers pulling out.

But they were outsourced PR for govt. Always were.
These are the adverts from 2009...

In this video of Cameron and Huhne declaring the greenest government ever, you can see a wonk (who I believe may be a PR for a major wind company) carrying the 10:10 logo, for some bizarre reason.

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