Thread by @mac_puck

@peterjukes have you or @GeorgeMonbiot or @carolecadwalla written anything yet on lessons from Brexit in regard to decarbonisation?

The Tufton St gang changed the EU question from the economy, NI peace, UK power/influence into one of sobwintee, Turks, and health tourism.

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They knew what the answers to the first set of questions would be.

Now, in the decarbonisation debate they do not want the question to be: "Heat-pumps vs boilers" or "EV's vs gas-guzzlers" or "Offshore aerogenerators vs gas-fired power stations".

In all 3 cases the...

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...green option is far better for air quality and UK jobs (not to mention CO2 emissions) and the UK economy.

EV's are already cheaper in TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) than gas-guzzlers

Renewables have become cheaper per KWh than gas power stations.

HPs *will* be...

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...cheaper than boilers if the government creates a 1.8M per year HP market instead of the current 25-30K units.

So the answer to these 3 questions is a no-brainer.
And heat, transport and power make up 5/6ths of UK emissions.

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Instead, the Tufton St gang and their agents, Steve Baker, John Redwood etc, want the question to be:

"Energy bills for the poorest" (When did they EVER care about the poor?)

"unreliable wind power" (Bullshit, *known* to be bullshit since at least '09 claverton-energy.com/wind-energy-va…
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The "pace" of the changes. (We replace 1.8M boilers and 2.4M cars each year anyway - just as a matter of course - in both cases the switchover would be complete by 2036 without any acceleration or before end of life scrappage)

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" resistance " by "ordinary" people. (The fckn will of the fckn people again. Polls show massive support for an even faster pace of decarbonisation: shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2…
I guess the Tufton St gang are counting on the press to move the dial on this one. Like brexit. )

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" the vegans want us to stop eating meat"
(Heat + Transport + Power = 380Mt of CO2 from the UK each year.

Meat = 15Mt

But Tufton St wants the question to be about meat. Because 87% of people in the UK eat meat.

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"decarbonisation is something the metropolitan elite want to impose on the ordinary people" (Coz who doesn't hate the metropolitan elite|? And Charles Koch, worth $62Bn, is a man of the people, right?)

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"Extinction Rebellion are communist, anarchist, antichrist, revolutionaries." ( Yes, Tufton Street, David Attenborough too: he is a total maniac with a Molotov cocktail. I would not be surprised if Tufton St funds some false flag ops, masquerading as Extinction Rebellion.)

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Interestingly, I notice the fossil fuel foot soldiers are *not* questioning the science anymore - maybe "too much of experts" was a one shot device - but they desperately want to divert away from "1,2,3: Heat, Transport, Power" with every cunning trick at their disposal.

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My one hope is they revealed their hand with Brexit, showed their techniques. And, yes, they succeeded in setting the UK on the path to destruction, but maybe they will fail in their attempt do the same to planet Earth. Because this time around we are wiser to them.

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My hope is there is more of a community - born in response to Brexit here and Trump in the US - capable of responding to their disinformation and diversion and trolling and astroturfing and psyops and reframing. That is my hope.

...Hope's a bastard, isn't it?

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