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Ben Pile
@clim8resistance
Independent researcher & writer. Net Zero sceptic. words: https://t.co/Kz7B0umNuU Co-founder @ClimateDebateUK.
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Dec 18 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Many interesting comments from @DaleVince in this Telegraph piece. But this one struck me...

"There’s always been a funding gap between the two main parties and I wanted to level the playing field… I felt it essential to do all that I could to help Labour win the last election."

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/1… @DaleVince As with many of Dale Vince's claims that involve numbers, an inspection of the data reveals the opposite case. Between 2013-22 inclusive, the "funding gap" was in Labour's favour in all but one year. Image
Dec 6 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This was very well known and understood in the decade before last, when exactly this phenomenon occurred with solar PV dumping undermined US and European manufacturers.

There is no need to prance around in front of infographics to explain European deindustrialisation. The fact is that UK/EU policies created a market for these products while undermining domestic manufacturers.

"Oh wow!", said the green lobby. "Look how cheap solar power is getting! Isn't China amazing!" They said we needed stronger climate targets to be imposed sooner.

And the fact is that Sky News took it upon itself to abandon proper criticism of that policy agenda, to become an advocate for green policies. It even had a daily climate news show. It committed itself to becoming a political campaigning organisation, to lead its audience towards supporting climate policies.

This PowerPoint-contemporary dance performance tells the story that critics were pointing out two decades ago. No. It's not a perfect storm, Ed.

Perfect storms are unpredictable. Nobody knows quite how and when the meteorological forces will align and multiply.

Many people were warning of this outcome. Why did Sky news prefer instead to produce propaganda?

Nov 18 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
All these Tories coming out against Miliband...

ENOUGH!

Explain how YOUR PARTY got to the same point before you criticise the party whose policies are effectively continuity Boris Johnson.

Or, STFU and fade into the background of history, as you deserve. Where were you when Boris Johnson banned petrol & diesel cars?

Where were you when Boris Johnson banned the domestic gas central heating boiler?
Nov 12 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Why did Britain turn its back on nuclear power?

Because its governments caved into the green lobby's propaganda.

Who funds Sam Dumitriu's research?

The green lobby.

It is not about nuclear power.

It's about making it easier for rent seekers. Who funds Britain Remade?

1. The Quadrature Foundation, which gave a £4 million donation to the Labour Party, and from where the government's new Climate Envoy, Rachel Kyte emerged.
Sep 25 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
This is daft, @MichaelLCrick.

Quadrature Climate Foundation's (QCF) grants to pro-Net Zero lobbying organisations VASTLY exceeds even Quadrature's alleged holdings in companies that have hydrocarbon energy interests.

It would make no sense whatsoever to fund climate lobbying organisations with more than a $billlion, as QCF has, for the sake of an alleged interest in hydrocarbon companies worth $170 million.

The question you should be asking is about the $billion of pro-Net Zero lobbying and its influence over UK energy policy.

There is a lot more to say on QCF's grantees, including how they create conspiracy theories about the funding of lobbying organisations and donations to political parties. Here is one example showing how fake philanthropic foundations like Quadrature spend VAST amounts of money on pro-Net Zero lobbying, and how there is ZERO evidence of the contrary -- fossil fuel interests funding anti Net Zero lobbying.

In fact, QCF grantees, InfluenceMap were so bereft of evidence linking fossil fuel interests to anti-climate lobbying that they had to count PRO climate lobbying as ANTI climate lobbying.

benpile.substack.com/p/the-monolith…
Aug 31 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
"Possible" needed the money because they destroyed their own image when they were called 10:10, and their adverts depicting the executions of children and other climate apostates led to their backers pulling out.

But they were outsourced PR for govt. Always were. These are the adverts from 2009...

Aug 8 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
We need a new Bill of Rights. The political establishment is out of control. Preparation for this has been going on for quite some time. By eliding fundamentally distinct categories and even opposing arguments, the disinfo lobby has created the notion of online harms, and thereby the basis for policing political commentary.

independent.co.uk/tech/director-…
Jul 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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.

Jul 18 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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.

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Jul 17 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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. 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.
Jul 16 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
The Royal College of Physicians has abandoned science, and become a green ideological campaigning organisation. 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…
Jul 14 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
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. 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. Image
Jul 13 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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. 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.
Jul 1 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Jun 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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. 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.
Jun 16 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
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.
Jun 13 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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.Image 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.Image
Jun 8 • 28 tweets • 8 min read
"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.
May 23 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
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.
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…