Nobody has checked the basic arithmetic of #NetZero. It's all "we can't afford not to do it", not "can we afford to do it".
Nobody is allowed to ask "how?".
"How?" is vulgar.
It's not that they cannot (in most cases) do the basic arithmetic, it's that to use it is to signal your vulgarity.
Detachment from reality -- the refusal to engage in basic arithmetic -- is a signifier of membership of an elite, which requires deference to its institutions.
They spent a lot of money on avoidance of basic arithmetic.
@metoffice You can't be a member of an elite and go around saying that a piece of paper and a pencil is better than a £1.2 billion supercomputer, and that it was a waste of money.
So they ignore basic arithmetic. They can't afford to pay attention to basic arithmetic.
@metoffice It doesn't matter what it will cost to the householder. It doesn't matter what "investment" is required to make the grid work. It doesn't matter what the costs to the economy are.
It will be cheaper than Armageddon. The supercomputer said so.
That's all the arithmetic we need.
@metoffice So shut your cakeholes, you vulgar plebs, and sign this blank cheque.
Maths lessons have been cancelled.
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I am not as concerned with the claims about nutrition/environment as I am with Monbiot's (and other greens') claims that animal farming is cruelty. I don't believe it is cruel. And no carnivore I know is against good animal husbandry.
Monbiot calls animal farming a "phenomenally cruel and destructive industry". But the uncomfortable seconds at the end of most farm animals' lives is nothing compared to what nature inflicts on mammals.
Here's a good example. This polar bear is experiencing a natural death. It is too old and weak after old age to hunt. It is forced to scavenge, but can barely lift its body.
As it shows, there are no offshore wind farms producing power either at below the historical average price of gas, or at the strike prices they claimed in 2016/7.
That is to say that @grantshapps's stupid scheme will only be of any consequence to 0.24% of the households in the country.
Another "warm homes" policy is dead before it has even started.
@grantshapps "...loft insulation alone can save £640 a year, paying back the £1,100 installation price in just two years."
It's just rather silly, isn't it, to highlight a manifestly outlying case as representative of the vast majority of homes, who are not going to save £640/year.
I had a pair of plastic shoes -- beach type things. I used them when I was a student to go to the shower so I didn't catch anything. I've had a synthetic material (i.e. plastic) coat for 15+ years for when it rains. Still works.