Ben Pile Profile picture
May 7, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read Read on X
My favourite quote from a green 'think tank' report.

They can't say they didn't know.

And the Tories shouldn't fool themselves that this will not happen to them.

Oh, it will.

#Hartlepool. Image
That report is what led to the Climate Assembly.

But what's more interesting is why the last-remaining object of the Blair-era consensus is still intact.
While Blair and then Brown, and then Cameron were trying to build their projects on the Westminster consensus, to make climate change the dominant issue, the loudest voice from the public was the demand for the referendum.
The Conservatives -- each member of which has a price -- were easily bought by the green blob.

They were going to continue the project that Blair, Brown, Mandelson, the Milibands and Hilary Benn, among others, had started.

But there remains no public appetite for it.
Any *sensible* Tory analyst would look at what consensus politics, divorced from the public, brings. It would realise that is has a narrow opportunity to turn Labour's disarray into permanent advantage and divorce itself from the blob...

Or to mirror Labour's mistakes.
It doesn't need the blob. It is far ahead in the polls. And it looks like Labour are on the floor, unable to mobilise its traditional constituency.

It could scrap Net Zero, and perhaps even the Climate Change Act tomorrow.

But it would *rather* do the blob's bidding.
The Tories are determined to follow Labour into the abyss.

So be it.

It is easier to watch people set fire to themselves than it is trying to convince them not to play with matches.

As long as the fire doesn't spread.
But we should try.

How to tell them that people don't want cosy Westminster consensuses? We don't want wet think tanks drafting wet policy ideas. We don't share their green ideology. We want them to fight it out, left, right and centre! That's why we put our 'x' in their box.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Ben Pile

Ben Pile Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @clim8resistance

Aug 24
By my calcs, and on these stats a battery that could power the UK for a two-week midwinter Dunkelflaute would cost £5.8 trillion, and occupy a site with a footprint of 536 square miles, or a square area 23 miles long on each side.
"But the costs of battery storage are coming down!"

Not if you're buying trillions of quids' worth, they ain't.
"But we're not going to buy them all in one go, Net Zero is 2050."

And if Britain really is "leading the world" in green policy, then everyone else is going to be buying them, too, at the same rate.

Xi says "thanks".
Read 11 tweets
Aug 4
This chap thinks that offshore wind farms grow like seaweed from the seafloor, and that their roots burrow massive trenches across the sea floor all the way to the coast, where they bud into substations to connect to the Grid. Wind is free, you see.

Bonkers. Utterly nuts.
There's a lot of it about. I get dozens of replies like this a day from people, some claiming academic expertise, who are strongly convinced that they know that wind is free, but have never looked at the very simple arithmetic.
Renewable energy is invariably more:

* capital intensive
* resource intensive
* labour intensive
* land intensive

... than conventional energy production. Yet people still believe it is 'free' or cheaper.

It's an article of faith, not a conclusion of a rational process.
Read 4 tweets
Jul 25
I don't think it is possible to overstate the profound unreality that dominates in SW1.

Even mainstream commentators are discussing the collapse of the established parties, the economic recession that has merely yet to be inaugurated, deindustrialisation, a deep crisis of values across the public realm, an immigration crisis that cannot be stemmed, prices out of control, even blandified high streets are disintegrating, and the risk of war...

Yet here is this plonker who believes that society and the entire economy can be reorganised, and the fact of policy failure can be washed away by glib, elongated gaslighting verbiage.

I went to extremely crappy schools. But I at least learned what the antecedents to the French and Russian revolutions were. Political correctness had already dissolved the English civil wars from the curriculum, but I'm pretty sure there are some lessons in that too. Perhaps Miliband and co went to even worse schools, but cannot think it possible that they are mistaken.

I'm not talking about £300 sparking revolutions here. I am talking about the catastrophic indifference to others epitomised by such idiot zealots that believe elections are mere formalities and a sideshow to coronations, whose agendas are set by higher courts.

I get called a "denier" and "big oil funded" -- neither of which is true. My fundamental question has always been: what kind of world do adherents to green ideology want to create and on what basis do they assume legitimacy for their projects?
For those who are preoccupied by "The Science"...

If you can't interrogate ideology, you don't know what science says. And that is because you don't know what you've told it or asked it.
Too many people believe that science is objectivity rather than the attempt towards objectivity. And too many believe that what science seemingly says is self-evident. But if the putative facts that science produces were self evident, then we would have no need of science.
Read 5 tweets
Jul 14
Far from demonstrating "extreme weather", this report shows that there are milder winters, fewer frosts and less snow. It unsafely attempts to link floods to climate change, but even the IPCC reminds us that floods are not a meteorological phenomenon, and it is difficult to find any trends for attribution. "Hotter days" in the MO's metric can mean merely mild winter days, not the "lethal heat" that Guardian headlines will scream about. And on which point, the actually hotter days are merely free holiday weather, despite attempts to link them to "excess summer deaths", which fail as a climate change metric in multiple ways: the summer months see a much lower death rate; heatwave mortality was vastly higher in the past; only extremely vulnerable people are affected (who deserve better care); the death rate has fallen dramatically.

There is no climate crisis, despite the MO's desire to find it.
This is an especially silly chart. It seems to show how many days per year the temperature anomaly exceeds various temperatures. But it doesn't discriminate between summer and winter. Image
Look at the stupid headline the MO's report has already generated!

There is nothing in the report to make the claim that "extreme weather" has become "normal".

242 days per year show ZERO temperature anomaly.

Read 12 tweets
Jul 8
Without the support of about half a dozen billionaire philanthropists, there would be no green movement, no climate change agenda.

These jokers admit it.

They plead poverty, but nearly all of UK, European and global "civil society" has been bought by their funders.
"Possible", as they are now styled, were PKA 10:10 -- and they were created to appear as a "grassroots" green organisation, to support the UK government's policy agenda.

But it all went wrong with some hideous -- and extremely expensive -- TV adverts.

"Splattergate" as it became known showed teachers, bosses, football managers trying to engage their charges with the climate message, and blowing up those who didn't cooperate.

They claimed it was self-satire, but it was too close to the bone.
Read 12 tweets
Jun 19
The Green Blob is recycling its "air pollution" proxy battle of the climate war today with this "new" report from the @RCPhysicians. It claims that air pollution kills 500 people a week and costs the economy £500 million a week.

It's bullshit.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
The fake scientists use exactly the same statistical sleight-of-hand as earlier reports to support a political agenda.

Read the three parts of my @ClimateDebateUK / @Togetherdec analysis of the fake science here.

climatedebate.co.uk/toxic-air/
And read my CDUK/@Togetherdec analysis of the politics of air pollution campaigns here.
togetherdeclaration.org/wp-content/upl…
Read 10 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(