@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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People have absolutely no idea how much green energy is in the pipeline. They will all be getting subsidies -- fixed prices.
SMRs aren't going to make a blind bit of difference.
Yes -- that says 600 GW of capacity by 2040.
Yes, that is how mad the government is.
And much of that was in the pipeline before the election. The Tories are only recent acquaintances of sanity -- it's not clear that they're friends yet.
Green blob-funded lobbying organisation, Ember has produced a widely circulated report. It says that thanks to wind and solar, Britain saved around £7 million per day through March because we didn't need to burn gas.
This is a thread about why that claim is totally false.
Ember's misinformation starts as very good quality information. Ember reports gas market price data, and how this turns into a higher price for electricity from gas. It also correctly shows the effect of the Carbon Price - a policy cost, effectively tax - applied to the price.
But then it starts to get fuzzy. The report shows how rapidly green energy has been deployed over the last decade and a half.
I'm still waiting for an explanation of the Tories' part in all of this. I'm still waiting for the whip to be removed from those who were central to it.
It's no use saying "oh, we made a mistake, here are the right policies". There is nothing said in this piece that was not said 25 years ago. And it was as obvious then as it is now.
How and why was the party captured by green ideology? What agreements were made with whom? Why did the party agree to a consensus with the opposition parties? Why did the party decided to put the agenda before the public and country's needs? Why didn't it challenge a manifestly crazy ideological movement, and instead open all of its doors to it?
If you randomly threw a tennis ball in in SW1A between 2000 and 2023, the chances are it would have hit someone who would meet Claire Coutinho's description of a "dangerous fantasist". Ed Miliband is just continuity Boris Johnson.
So we need a deeper analysis.
Not so long ago... Milibandism was still the party's core offering in 2022.
"40% lower than new gas" is the new "wind power is nine times cheaper than gas".
It's DESNEZ's "on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet...".
It is government policy that makes "new gas" expensive.
Currently, gas is trading for 2.5p/kWh.
This new wind is 9.1p/kWh.
And that doesn't count the system costs of adding unreliables to the grid: the new wires to remote locations, the constraint payments, and the backup -- yep, gas.
These people are pathological liars and ideologues.
Gas-fired generators are extremely efficient and cheap.
The government makes them expensive by adding carbon tax to the gas, and then making the grid prefer power produced from wind than generated from gas.
The government is now leaning on green blob lobbying outfits fibs to do its dirty work.
Here's the source of one of DESNZ's dodgy claims -- that "renewables can drive down electricity prices, already having reduced wholesale electricity prices by up to a quarter".
Here is Chair of the Climate Change Committee @theCCCuk, Emma Pinchbeck, lying about why bills have gone up.
The CCC is supposed to inform Parliament. But it's literally a committee of liars.
Here's the price of gas over the last ten years. There was a spike after lockdowns, often falsely attributed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. There is no way that gas prices can account for energy bills going up as much as they have.
Here is the House of Commons Library's analysis of energy prices, and again from DESNZ.
You can see that the prices of electricity and gas diverge.
This is really quite something. The BBC basically chose a Dutch millennial Monbiot, who has all the derangement syndromes -- especially Trump -- to give its annual Reith Lecture series. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…