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@clim8resistance
Sep 20, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Why would anyone need to "flee their home immediately"?
Apparently, @30Days30WaysUK is some new UK-wide propaganda campaign.

This is another weird stunt, intended to unsettle people -- to use fear and anxiety as political instruments.

"#30Days30WaysUK, the national campaign of preparedness activities and games via social media:"

30days30waysuk.org.uk

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Ben Pile Profile picture
Jan 28
I don't think Dale Vince really understands how the green movement was conceived, founded, and pushed to the top of national and global political agendas.

Hint: it wasn't people power.
Here's another hint... Image
And since he's writing in the Guardian, this is another hint... Image
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Jan 17
No it isn't.

Nuclear research of all kinds has been side-lined, including by institutional science, since long before you were last in office.

Meanwhile, subsidies to wind and solar scams alone are now hitting £10bn per year, and environmental taxes are £50 bn/year.
The budget for fusion research just got amped in the UK, but by a mere £200 million/year.

There are windfarms that earn greater subsidies.

edie.net/uk-government-…
I don't argue that either form of energy, in R&D or in commercial operations *should* be subsidised.

I argue that the priorities are clear from the funding.

And that a deeper ideological impulse directs those priorities.
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Dec 18, 2024
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.
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Dec 6, 2024
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!!!"

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Nov 18, 2024
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.
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Nov 12, 2024
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.
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