This idiot has not contemplated the possibility that the problem experienced in Kenya is not climate change-related.

Which is likely to have the consequence of making life harder for Kenyans, as the following charts demonstrate...
These charts were used in a #FLOP26 episode the other night.

Clearly, there no climate change signal in agricultural production statistics from Kenya. ImageImageImage
(I chose fruit production, because it was highlighted by a Kenyan delegate at COP26.)
Where is the climate change signal, @Peston? Image
Where is the evidence of the climate crisis? ImageImage
There is clearly a problem of poverty.

But it is morally grotesque to claim that the real, tangible, measurable effects of the problems of poverty are the entirely abstract, speculative, intangible consequences of climate change. Image

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15 Nov
Greens are weird and mad.

They exist because society failed to confront the ideology festering in the recesses of its increasingly undemocratic institutions.
They are going to get madder and weirder and more and more dangerous until society choses to confront environmentalism, or green ideology causes a deep political, social, and economic crisis.
What do I mean by crisis?

Listen to the protesters. They're demanding not just Net Zero, but actual zero by 2030.

There is no rational perspective being brought to UNFCCC negotiations, and even less to green ideology. It is, so to speak, a positive-feedback mechanism.
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15 Nov
This isn't a critique of policy that either understands environmentalism, draws away from its excesses, understands its rise, or proposes a meaningful energy policy. He'd be quite happy with NetZero if it hadn't created an opportunity for him.

breitbart.com/europe/2021/11…
Since he calls it 'net stupid'... "Hydrogen" is a stupid idea. As stupid as anything in Net Zero, which indeed it is a part of. SMRs are all well and good, but hardly answer the problem for the next decade or so.
"We will invest in brilliant shiny new world-class super-duper fab technology".

Cool. Like what?
Read 10 tweets
14 Nov
James vewy vewy cwoss wiv China and India... You know, nearly half the world.
The green determination to spin the event as 'historic' is equal to their desire to call it a massive flop.

I love a good contradiction, me.
What was historic?

As far as I can tell, it is the inclusion of the word 'coal' in the text of the COP26 that has the greens so excited.

It is the substance they have fetishised most.
Read 4 tweets
13 Nov
If you think you can make a distinction between the green agenda and sleaze -- in any form -- you have not been watching.

Just ask the billionaire-funded @guardian, or the billionaire-funded green movement.

theguardian.com/society/2021/n…
There is no zero-sleaze green agenda.

The green movement is lubricated by and built on sleaze.
Even the party opposite the likes of Yeo, Gummer and Goldsmith is a party of red princes, blobbers and scandals. And between them, Huhne, and Davey, who got a nice job with the PR firm managing the account for "the most expensive power station in the world" that he commissioned.
Read 4 tweets
13 Nov
Madder and madder and madder and madder and madder...

I half hope he does it, so it will lay bare the absolute disjuncture between the UN & its auxiliaries -- including the little army of little green ideologues -- and reality.
"They hope that an emergency declaration would result in resources and technical expertise being rushed to countries most at risk from global heating...".

The UN has a poor track record in this regard.

People want futures for them & their children, not eco-warrior colonialists.
"Hello, we are from the UN, and we have brought solar panels."

"We don't want your solar panels. We wanted to build a proper power station."

"Well, you can't have one. It's bad for the planet."

"Ok, then get back on your helicopter and fuck off."
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13 Nov
Ed Miliband has always been LARPing at politics.

And that's what the climate thing is about. Its players live entirely virtual existences, remote and disconnected from the lives lived by billions of ordinary people.
Why does Ed want to be the climate champion so badly? Why does he think he has a handle on what the world needs?

Because he's a complete stranger to democracy. He's from a class of people who believe society is theirs to manage and engineer, no matter what people think.
He grew up in wealth, but with the belief that he was good for the world and could make it a better place without requiring the consent of those whose lives his ideas would affect. It's a left-wing version of Divine Right.
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