Dale Vince claims that "environmental protesting is an act of conscience". But he does not believe in freedom of conscience. He argues that "climate denial should become a criminal offence".

Vince is also trying to use his £millions in libel action against his critics -- Richard Tice, Sean Bailey, and Paul Staines -- who reproduced his moral relativism about "terrorism" in his own words, and to force the Internet blocking of web sites.

He compares the average tariffs for various criminal offenses. But he does not compare the harms caused by those offences, either in economic terms, or deeper emotional and actual injuries caused to people by attempts to immobilise the road network. Those criminal actions were in very substantial part enabled by Vince himself, who admits that he gave the perpetrators "more than £340,000" to enable the expression of their "act of conscience". Who is to say that they are not motivated by money? On whose behalf, and in whose interests did they act? In many parts of the world, Vince would have been in the dock with the protesters for his part in their joint enterprise. Nobody is against expressions of conscience. But JSO manifestly intended to cause far more chaos than they in fact achieved.

https://x.com/aDissentient/status/1814552617273442760

Sarah Jones claims that

"If you look round the world right now, there are countries in a race for who is going to provide the jobs of the future. And we know, whether it's hydrogen, whether it's solar, whether it's wind, whether it's floating offshore wind, all these new green energies are going to provide jobs for the countries that get this right."

There is no such race. There is hands-down only one player in the market and its "green" industrial sector exists only because of policies created in the west, mainly in Europe, which have created a market for it, and which is supported by a conventional industrial sector, powered by coal, oil and gas, and cheap electricity from those sources.

Britain has no general capacity to engage in such a competition. The sole effect of EU and policies of Labour, coalition and Conservative governments, and now, has been to push prices up, hastening Britain's and Europe's deindustrialisation, and loss of competitiveness. Those governments believed that you could win a "race" by first cutting off you own legs.

@LabourSJ does not know what she is talking about and it is a pity she was not challenged. Here is the data.

The claims made by MPs owes nothing whatsoever to reality.

So either they do not understand the policies they are creating, or they are lying. Perhaps both.

Greens want the radical transformation of society & the total reorganisation of the economy, requiring the regulation of lifestyle, dismantling of democratic politics, deindustrialisation & degrowth...

But they think that people who disagree with them are driven by ideology.

https://twitter.com/James_BG/status/1813325720199848369

Greens think that people who disagree with them should not be allowed on campuses, should not be free to publish or broadcast, should not be able to take part in politics...

Because they believe people who disagree with greens are the ones driven by extreme ideology.

The Royal College of Physicians has abandoned science, and become a green ideological campaigning organisation.

https://twitter.com/RCPhysicians/status/1812751517331407156

The RCP's "green physician toolkit" is precisely the same patronising nonsense as the WHO's toolkit of the same name, discussed here a few months ago...

dailysceptic.org/2024/04/12/why…

The output Hinkley Point C, with a capacity of 3.2 GW is equivalent to the average output of a wind farm with a physical footprint of 1,467km^2.

There is not going to be enough room in the UK for nature reserves & conservation, sorry. The seals are not compatible with Net Zero.

https://twitter.com/leanahosea/status/1812076172445917478

Currently, Britain's average electricity demand, not including peak demand, is equivalent to the average output of a wind farm with a footprint of 20,538KM^2.

Misleading... "1.5GW of clean power" is only capacity. The capacity factor of solar PV in the UK is approximately 10%. So these installations that will occupy a vast area have a net capacity of 150MW. They will produce power at lunchtime, and mostly in the summer.

https://twitter.com/Sam_Dumitriu/status/1811799531517866025

So whereas, for example, the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station has a physical footprint of about 1 square km, to produce the same average output, a solar farm would need to have a footprint of 268 times larger.

And you'd still need backup for evening, night & winter.

Seven reasons to be cheerful, despite the inevitability of Thursday's results and the next government... A thread and an article. Link at end...

1. The Net Zero cat is out of the bag. Even the government and opposition are rolling back expensive and unworkable policies. 2. There are completely different public discussion about science and policy today, compared with the recent past. Terms like 'denier' now cut no ice, and politicians don't find it as easy to hid behind scientific authority, thanks to lockdowns.

Radical environmentalism is a way that narcissistic but entirely mediocre individuals can make themselves feel extremely important -- above society, its norms and laws.

It's time to make them the subject of discussion, not participants. They are specimens, not peers.

https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1803739794658279506

Notice that they cannot account for their actions.

It is always the half-baked understanding of what other agencies are alleged to have said that seemingly licences their behaviour.

They take no responsibility for their actions.

That's why they absolutely belong in prison.

Looks like @JusperMachogu has really upset this BBC Verify idiot.

Marco Silva does not seem to have understood many of Jusper's arguments.

Silva thinks the role of CO2 in dis/regulating global temperature is the crux and whole of the story.

And he makes apparently unfounded accusations about special interest funding.

BBC Verify and Trending are parts of the BBC which are funded by special interests through donations, and with links to dodgy fake 'civil society' outfits which are also funded by special interests with clearly stated ideological agendas. @JusperMachogu Silver is also affiliated to the "Oxford Climate Journalism Network 2024" @risj_oxford. It is a propaganda project, intended to use the influence of news agencies to promote green ideology and smear political critics against democratic public debate about policy.

The @Conservatives election manifesto opens with a big lie that tries to blame the failure of the cross-party consensus on climate change to deliver all parties promises on Russia.

The rest of the document therefore cannot be taken seriously. No MP standing on this manifesto deserves to win. And the party deserves catastrophic defeat. It is of no consequence to anyone's opinion on Russia and the war in Ukraine to observe that the price spikes were not caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but were caused by lockdowns, money printing, central bank's preoccupation with climate change and ESG rather than energy security as an economic risk factor.

"My conspiracy theories are real, your conspiracy theories are fake", says George Monbiot.

Interesting how this prolix account of his interactions with a counterpart are written up only from his perspective. His opposite doesn't get to speak for himself. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2… I can't say either chap's conspiracy theories resonate much with me.

The counterpart is useful to Monbiot as an 'Aunt Sally'. That's the point of only giving sufficient identity to counter-positions to enable the likes of Monbiot to make claims about the other.

You can see why a group like @Demos, which nobody has heard of, would be so pissed off with the likes of @Togetherdec.

They have been dominating UK politics for decades, using mountains of cash from the world's wealthiest people, with no oversight.

And then some upstarts turn up and say, "hang on a minute".

"Go away", says Demos, "this is our turf - we get to say what democracy is". @Demos @Togetherdec The @Guardian too, of course... Talks a good game about 'democracy' and the 'public'. But if it weren't for the funders of @Demos and its partners, the fake newspaper would cease to exist.

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.

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…

Jim Dale is not a "qualified meteorologist".

He's not even called Jim.

https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1749688415522562403

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.

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.

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… 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/

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.

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...

https://twitter.com/TalkTV/status/1730507108150386797

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.

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.

https://twitter.com/RupertDarwall/status/1725055059128369406

@ClaireCoutinho, @GarethDavies_MP, and @grahamstuart are extremely stupid and dangerous people.

gov.uk/government/new…

🤪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…