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@clim8resistance
Sep 25, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Note these words: "We cannot let climate action become another victim of coronavirus."

Everything else CAN become a victim of coronavirus.

Jobs.
People's health & lives.
Education.
Homes, businesses.
The economy.

But NOT the green agenda.

thesun.co.uk/news/12753179/…
Why does the Green Agenda -- #NetZero -- get protection that NOTHING, and nobody else has enjoyed?

Can you explain, @Number10press, @BorisJohnson, @Conservatives?
What are the priorities of the government, if they will let people with treatable illness rot, deny children's education, let businesses & jobs evaporate...

But will pull out all the stops to continue with the climate policies and posturing that they KNOW has no public support?
There can be no clearer demonstration of the government's priorities than its actions and its statements.

Bookmark his words. Mark the moment. EVERY time ANY politician or commentator makes an argument for climate policies, remind them of what they are arguing for.
If, during the most uncertain time, as people are losing their lives, homes, jobs, businesses, education, the Prime Minister is unwavering in his commitment to a policy that may well cost even more lives, homes, jobs, businesses, education...

THEN HE DOES NOT GIVE A STUFF.
That is environmentalism.

"I like animals and natural landscapes" is not environmentalism.

Environmentalism is the priorities Boris Johnson has demonstrated -- the political agenda he has put far ahead of the interests and wishes of the British public.

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Jan 14
"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.Image
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".

eciu.net/media/press-re…
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Jan 9
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. Image
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.

Emma Pinchbeck is a liar, and should be sacked. Image
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Nov 16, 2025
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…
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Sep 29, 2025
Good show, but far too generous - perhaps to the point of naivety - to the Conservatives.

It is currently fashionable on the right to identify Blair as the cause of all our woes, for his constitutional meddling. There is much truth to this, but it puts far too much credit at the feet of one man.

When the Climate Change Bill was being debated, the Tories' position on emissions-reduction targets was more radical than the then Labour government's.

And it was the Conservatives who went even further than the CCA, increasing it to Net Zero.

Those positions were not the result of being misinformed by civil servants, nor being unaware of criticisms of the agenda, as is claimed. Conservatives and their advisors knew full well what the objections to the CCA and NZ were. We can know this because we know that very senior Tories pointed it out to them -- including the consequences of antidemocratic constitutional meddling.

They chose to ignore those objections, to extend the climate/green agenda. Kemi herself, in office, wanted to repeat -- not repeal -- the climate agenda with the biodiversity agenda.

And now out of office, the Conservative Party is signalling that it has learned nothing by taking is initiatives from the green blob-funded think tanks formed by its former advisers, who got us into this mess.

The problems of the green agenda are not technical. They are ideological and political. And they are deeper than discussions about policy can address.
Here is a discussion on a BBC News show between Nigel Lawson and SoS @ DECC Ed Miliband, shortly after Lawson had set up the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

GWPF produced countless reports explaining the problems of climate/energy policy for MPs.

Lawson was not the only Parliamentarian raising the issue of Miliband's intransigence, ignorance and arrogance, characteristic of the green agenda's advocates.

Peter Lilley, in the Bill's debate, highlighted the problem, now identified as Blairite constitutional meddling: Image
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Sep 29, 2025
Ed Miliband here doing the accuse-others-of-what-we-are-doing-ourselves trick.

He's literally talking at an LCEF event. The Labour Climate and Environment Forum is the ECF-funded opposite of the ECF-funded Conservative Environment Network, but with the same grantors. Image
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Here's a list of ECF, and by implication LCEF, grantors.

It's billionaires, top to bottom.

Some tycoon's daughter way paying £20k a month for staff in @Ed_Miliband's office while in opposition.

You're a massive hypocrite, Ed. Image
@Ed_Miliband I would challenge @Ed_Miliband to produce any receipts whatsoever, to support his claim that there exists a "global network of the right".

He wouldn't be able to. The Guardian hasn't been able to. And even the ECF-funded blob hasn't been able, despite grants available for it.
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Sep 27, 2025
This month, George Monbiot discovered the green blob.

"The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10" he whinges.

Indeed, Net Zero is one of the Tories worst disasters. But that's not what he means.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
George is concerned that conversations @ number 10 about "growth" do not include his favoured organisations, such as No Foundation Economics and the Institute for Public Policy Making Stuff Up.

They instead include alumni of Tufton St, Tory-aligned think tanks! Image
"Who funds you" is the leitmotif of George's analysis of all Westminster politics. He believes that "dark money" explains everything he doesn't like. Image
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