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Ben Pile
@clim8resistance
Independent researcher & writer. Net Zero critic & sceptic. Co-founder @ClimateDebateUK. Support @ https://t.co/23p0Ba1pCb
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Apr 7 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
To the extent that it is not mere nonsense, this is green mysticism: "the climate crisis is driving the foundations of economic shocks".

People internalise this irrational green ideology. We should take it seriously.

Inflation and interest rates have nothing to do with 'climate'. There is no climate change signal in cocoa production stats. Thee of the last four years saw record production. The last year's production was still higher than any year prior to seven years ago. Image
Feb 19 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Labour will further exclude the public from political decision-making by outsourcing policy to unelected panels of people, who will be tortured into submitting to the will of the fake experts that will bore them close to death, before providing them with rigged questions, and then writing up their deliberations to suit the conveners, not what the 'citizens assembly' actually determined... Read my analysis of the climate 'citizens assembly'.

netzerowatch.com/all-papers/cli…
Jan 23 • 38 tweets • 9 min read
Jim Dale is not a "qualified meteorologist".

He's not even called Jim. The UK only started naming storms in 2015.

The number of named storms is not a meteorological metric.

"Jim Dale" is not his name.

And no company called "British Weather Services" has traded in the UK this century.

Similarly, 'meteorologist' is just a name.
Jan 10 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
This is a somewhat shallow and hollow attempt to circumvent the major problem haunting global climate politics for four decades.

It was the 'free-rider' problem: why should we commit to self-harming policies when others won't?

Those other countries were 'developing' when the first global policies were being considered. Now they are well and truly developed, and their progress is accelerating, while much of the seemingly 'developed' world is stagnating, thanks in large part to rising energy costs, owed in turn directly and indirectly to the green policies she is arguing for.

Ritchie tries to counter what she claims is a 'weak argument' with a series of arguments that are even weaker. 1. Rich countries – that have emitted the most – have a moral responsibility

Why? The data provided by her own project show very clearly that there are no adverse signals in fundamental metrics of human welfare that can be attributed to climate change.
Jan 6 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Is your home in one of the local authorities shown in this map?

If so, then your local council/councils have pledged to put the green agenda before the voters wishes and the public' interest.

Our @ClimateDebateUK/@Togetherdec research featured in today's @Telegraph.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/0…Image This work is an add-on to our @ClimateDebateUK/@Togetherdec report on air pollution politics.

We show how green billionaires and their fake civil society organisations are corrupting UK democracy at all levels of government -- international, national, regional and local.

togetherdeclaration.org/report/
Dec 30, 2023 • 28 tweets • 7 min read
My 'debate' with Donnachadh McCarthy on @petercardwell's @TalkTV show this morning.

Starts at 1h.46m.44s into this Youtube clip.

A discussion thread follows...

Unfortunately debate with green zealots is not possible, because of what I call the 'Femi effect'. As with debates about Brexit with Remainer activists, you end facing a machine-gunned litany of unconnected factoids, precluding any focus on facts, let alone coherent argument.
Dec 1, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Charles should sit on his golden chair with his silly gold hat and STFU about things he has no business speaking about.

If he does not, then he forces the issue, and reversing the political establishment's preoccupation with climate will therefore require a new settlement... You may well yet be a monarchist. But the idiot king has forgotten that it is degenerate elites, whose hubris, intransigence and arrogance are suffered by millions, who then remove them.

"Love" of monarchs does not survive hunger.
Nov 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Green energy financiers have had all of Westminster over a barrel for decades.

Rishi Sunak put up the slightest possible fight in August, and the government called the wind sector's bluff on its 'cheaper than gas' claims (which lobbyists have been claiming since 2017).

Now we know.

Wind power is the most expensive, and there's nothing the 67 million of us can do about it. The government has returned the remainoid, husky-hugging, PM of the 'greenest government ever' to the cabinet. And the 'opposition' party's energy brief is held by the zealot who, also from 2008, still does not understand what was obvious to everyone with their eyes open even then.
@ClaireCoutinho, @GarethDavies_MP, and @grahamstuart are extremely stupid and dangerous people.

gov.uk/government/new…
Oct 25, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
🤪ReNEwAblE EnERgy iS Ch3@Per Th4n F055Il fU3LZ😜

Electricity prices ‘must rise by 70pc to pay for more wind farms’
Warning from UK's biggest energy generator comes after latest bidding round received no offers to build new farms

telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/…
These windfarm scamsters fund lobbying outfits like @CarbonBrief to claim that "wind power is nine times cheaper than gas".

carbonbrief.org/analysis-recor…
Sep 5, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
The Secretary of State seems not to understand the contradiction of an "energy system that creates jobs" and "lowers bills".

Jobs are a cost. Renewable energy generators are more resource-intensive than their hydrocarbon-fired counterparts. And they require vastly more land. So the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero forgets that RE generators:

* Cost more per unit of capacity by being resource-intensive
* Cost more by way of rent
* Cost more by way of wages
* cost more by requiring backup
Aug 31, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Me and @Iromg on @TalkTV talking about the latest ULEZ bad science shenanigans from @imperialcollege. @Iromg @TalkTV @imperialcollege Here is a thread about my attempt to obtain the 'data' that Gary Fuller of @imperialcollege is alleged to have 'peer reviewed'.

I have taken my complaint to the ICO, who have told the Mayor's office that they must provide the data.

Aug 29, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Leftoids throw their weight behind 'big oil' conspiracy theories because they have zero remaining intellectual substance, and have been drawn into regressive green ideology as the only extant critique of capitalism, despite environmentalism and the green movement in toto existing SOLELY by virtue of billionaires and financial institutions. she calls herself a 'socialist', but if she were to investigate her own ideas, she would discover that environmentalism is a project of the world's most wealthy people against the interests of the poorest and the working/middle classes.

And then nobody would buy her book.
Aug 26, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
My first @spikedonline article on Sadiq Khan's air pollution scare stories, from six years ago. Links to the pictures are gone, but I'll see if I can find them.

It has taken a long time for people to realise what the green agenda is about.

spiked-online.com/2017/01/17/lon… @spikedonline The two missing charts from the article...
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Aug 6, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
The Office of Budget Responsibility says that the Climate Change Committee's 2019 £1.4 trillion estimate of the costs of Net Zero are no biggie, because we've got 30 years to pay it. @OBR_UK

But the estimate is now >£1.7 trillion, thanks to inflation...
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Image And there's no good reason for believing the @theCCCuk's estimates. National Grid ESO estimates £3 trillion, just for the power sector. That's £3.6 trillion in today's money.

https://t.co/URjPzutb9Znationalgrideso.com/news/analysing…
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Jul 15, 2023 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Jonathan @freedland has a conspiracy theory.

"The fossil fuel industry has spent billions on winning over the public".

HE is completely and totally wrong.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/… @Freedland The $billions that have been spent by the green lobby vastly exceed anything that can be found flowing between oil companies and 'the public debate'.

benpile.substack.com/p/the-monolith…
Jun 23, 2023 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
What does it all mean? Do they even know? Is it about anything at all?

Massive style-over-substance quotient. Perhaps infinite. Infinitely deep and meaningless.
Jun 6, 2023 • 16 tweets • 17 min read
Q. Which UK legacy political party is going to bring reason, evidence, debate, democracy and the public's interests back to national and global energy/climate/environmental policymaking?

@Conservatives?

@UKLabour?

@LibDems?

A: None of them. They are all barking mad. Image @Conservatives @UKLabour @LibDems As explained yesterday. They really are *all* barking mad.

And they have no reverse gear.

Jun 5, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
This is the biggest outrage in British politics since Michael Gove had an hour-long sit down with Extinction Rebellion, agreed with everything they said, and then the government gave them everything they demanded... No, seriously. @michaelgove even brought along a pet wonk to try to tell the XR people just how much the government agreed with XR.

Jun 3, 2023 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
"science must and does question itself - constantly".

A mystical conception of science, which attributes selfhood to science.

Which, even more mysteriously, is used to exclude criticism of 'science'. Self correcting: the vertical axis of a pivoted wheel on a trolly.

Not self-correcting: policy-based evidence-making.
Jun 2, 2023 • 29 tweets • 11 min read
Green outrage is more related to the fact of political plurality in civil society organisations than anything any player in left-eco-woke collective demonology has actually done, or can be shown to have done. It's a delusion that causes conspiracy theorisation. These conspiracy theories leave no claim substantiated.

The link for example, claims, "the Koch brothers devote a considerable portion of their enormous income to funding a political campaign against every kind of environmental or other regulation...".

Jun 2, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I have yet to encounter in any way a climate activist of any kind who has any semblance of intellectual capacity. This is literally the full depth of the alarmists' argument when they encounter criticism.

I don't say it to be unkind, it really is a 'movement' of zombies. Image An entire political movement hiding behind 'science', which has only the intellectual depth possessed by the sub-average Youtube commenter.

And it really does not improve as one moves up the ranks from street protest to the top of institutional science.