I hope to arrive at my death late, in love and a little drunk. House builder. Optimist. Carbon positive realist. Winging it since โ73.
#Arsenal
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If Barry wants to wear a dress, sport pigtails with his stubble, and change his name to Bernadette, itโs not my business. I donโt really care.
If Barry wants to get his tackle out in female only spaces and compete against women in sport, itโs everyoneโs business.
Itโs not
Falmouth to London by car:
4hrs 45 minutes. ยฃ80 in diesel return journey.
4 people: ยฃ80
Falmouth to Paddington by train:
5 hrs 34 minutes. ยฃ136 return. 2 changes.
4 people: ยฃ544
Folk will go full Mad Max before they give up their cars.
FYI ๐
(Falmouth to London to
Maaaate. You just blew ยฃ1,000,000 on a statue no one asked for, Iโm subsiding heat pumps for Guardian readers, renewable subsidies went up ยฃ1.6bn, illegal immigrants are living better than old Mrs Dideverythingrightallherlife in number 23, and you borrowed ยฃ100bn to service our
You have to hand it to the Norwegians. They produce nearly 90% of their electricity from hydropower (with 70% backup) while selling us huge quantities of gas. Gas that we have an abundance of and could exploit for our own national benefit.
At the same time, Norwayโs built a
Ffs, itโs not complicated. If Trevor wants to wear a dress and call himself Theresa, who cares. What โTheresaโ shouldnโt be allowed to do is enter female sports categories or female only spaces. Children should be left out of the discussion completely.
#BBCLauraK
This BBC presentation is as bogus as Goreโs An Inconvenient Truth. CO2 does not track temperature, and the hockey stick in the last graph is a deliberate misrepresentation (a lie).
A bit of a long thread below.
Little bastard.
Heโs lucky Iโm not running the country. My first decree would be to have the fallen timber fashioned into a gallows and mounted on the very spot it stood, from which heโd be suspended for the crows.
#SycamoreGap
Wales has wiped 15% of its carbon emissions in one go. True, there will be 2800 job losses, and it wonโt reduce global emissions โ in fact, it will probably increase them. But who cares when you have a legally-binding target of net zero to reach by 2050?
There wonโt be many builders in the land not very sad to learn that Steve Wright has passed away. Thanks for the many entertaining afternoons, Steve. Your closing tune was always pack up time ๐
ยฃ22,000 New electric vehicle
ยฃ1,000 Installed EV charge point
ยฃ15,000 Heat pump + installation
Total ยฃ38,000
Half of Brits have ยฃ1000 or less in savings and live payday to payday. Good luck.
Why is the fifth largest economy in the world, a nuclear power, probably the worlds biggest soft power, masters of the English language, a country that invented pretty much everything, waiting to see what the EU says?
Wind and solar generating 4.93GW this morning. The total UK installed capacity of both is 41GW. Current demand is 32GW.
Assuming all UK cars were electric and charging at the same time at 7kW (the typical home charger rate), demand would be 230GW โ three times the UK grid
Try living and working in Cornwall without a car.
Falmouth to Camborne by car is 22min. By bus 1hr 12min.
The miserable experience of bus journeys is generally three times longer than a car wherever you go. Well done Kemi.
'I am declaring that there is a climate emergency and Scotland will live up to our responsibility to tackle it' - First Minister
@NicolaSturgeon
received a standing ovation for her announcement on climate change.
#SNP19
#ExtinctionRebellion
More here:
Burning wood pellets emits more CO2 than coal for every unit of electricity produced. Instead of embracing the shale gas bonanza beneath our feet, we import 7m tons of timber from primary forests, call it renewable, and add ยฃ6bn to energy bills. Madness.
Air source heat pumps will not keep the vast majority of UK homes warm in winter. How do we know this? Well, a typical gas boiler has flow rate to radiator temperature set somewhere between 60 and 80 degrees depending on a homeโs insulation, outdoor temperature, or how tight you
Carneyโs wife is a climate activist and works in the renewable energy sector. She says โhaving more stuff does not make us happy." They have a combined income of +ยฃ1,000,000pa.
Follow. The. Money.
Thereโs talk of letting the
#SycamoreGap
stump regrow. It would be awful. There are many healthy sycamores nearby that could be transplanted. Hereโs a team of Texans moving a 100 year old oak tree to widen a road.
It wouldnโt be the same, but this country need to think bigger.
I looked at a small plot for four new builds. Cornwall planning has outdone themselves on this one.
2 x 3-bedroom Affordable
2 x 3-bedroom Open Market
The two affordable must be sold at 55% of market value. They cost ~75% to build.
If the open market houses are worth ยฃ300k
@stephenpollard
Rest assured that millions of us are on the right side and ready to defend our Jewish friends. I said it in a previous post that we need huge counter demonstrations.
It will soon become clear that converting UK housing stock to low output heat pumps is really difficult.
Youโll need more than a plumber. Trust me on this.
I donโt usually play these silly games on Twitter, but the isolation is killing me. Fill in the blanks for a surprise!
Bank acc number:
Sort code:
Card number:
Name on card:
Expiry date:
CCV :
The name of your first pet and mothers maiden name
Go!
And the result?
1. No difference to global temperature.
2. Poor growth.
3. More expensive energy.
4. More expensive houses.
5. Poorer people.
6. More of it to come.
There must be thousands of go-getting educated people across the country whoโd love the opportunity to live and work in London, but canโt afford it.
How in the name of Zeus did third world migrants end up controlling the streets? Bizarre.
BREAKING NEWS; Serious disorder breaks out on a street in Camberwell; numerous MET Units on scene including a no of TSG carriers; police as is so often the case come under attack after a stand off from no of disorderly men; this is happening as I post๐๐คทโโ๏ธ
Climate alarmists are a funny lot. Their comments are either appeals to authority or ad hominem attacks. I donโt understand why theyโre so desperate for the end of the world to be true.
Time and again the real world squashes their predictions of doom, and they come back saying
Rishi Sunak is giving away ยฃ1.6 billion of your money for 'international climate finance'.
ยฃ1.6 billion would build 10,000 starter homes.
They couldnโt care less about you.
@richardpauptit
If they enter illegally theyโre illegal. Itโs not complicated.
Out of curiosity, are you a climate โscientistโ? It would explain a lot.
โThe moment anything racist or even close to racist is said, weโre arrestingโ.
Said with a straight face with his back turned to thousands of actual racists free to chant what they like under any flag they choose. Remarkable.
Iโll explain Great British Energy in less than 30 seconds.
Itโll be another state run disaster - paid for by you with no accountability - and itโll burn as much money as everything else the government gets its mitts on.
โIt's inevitable that I should seem a rather remote figure to many of you, a successor to the kings and queens of history.โ
"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice. But I can do something else. I can give you my heart and my devotionโ
The elites' pursuit of Net Zero is costing Britain dear. It is crippling the oil and gas sector and destroying our steel industry. There is nothing they wonโt sacrifice for green virtue-signalling, says James Woudhuysen
@Edlon69
Thatcher was too busy using NS revenues to repair the damage caused by the usual suspects.
The tax cuts she made drove Britain to a period of investment and growth. Keep up.
We havenโt slept walked into this. The writingโs been on the wall for decades. Instead of the government and political class reducing the risk to our country, they allowed millions more people in who care nothing for our culture, history, and way of life.
โWe have slept walked into this.โ
Julia Hartley-Brewer reacts to โoutrageous scenesโ taking place across the country influenced by โIslamist ideologyโ.
โA highly political, a highly violent ideology called โIslamismโ is sweeping on nation.โ
@JuliaHB1
Labourโs plan for a net zero grid by 2030 is unrealistic and will require a โhuge sacrificeโ by the country, a leading power station builder has warned.
Itโs bizarre that millions of people will vote for this self harm.
Lights out. Iโm going to dream about living in a crazy far right country where borders are controlled, taxes are low, young families can buy a home, women donโt have penises, energy is cheap, mobility is encouraged, the BBC is a subscription channel, and people can get a doctors
Obama holds the record for the largest single-day use of clemency power, granting 330 commutations on January 19, 2017, his last full day in office.
He issued more commutations than the past 13 presidents combined. Get a grip
@BBCNews
How to sum up last few days for
@BorisJohnson
? 5 days in Commons + 5 major defeats - 21 Tory MPs = 0 majority + 0 election + 0 plan for Brexit + 5 weeks of Parliament suspensed
โWithin as little as 10 years, the world will be faced with a choice: arable farming either continues to feed the world's animals or it continues to feed the world's people. It cannot do bothโ.
George Moonbat - 23 Dec 2002
@TK42138
Exactly this Andrew. I missed out buses and taxis.
Cars are the greatest invention for personal freedom, and thereโs an agenda to get us out of them. No way.
The UK has a total wind and solar capacity of ~42GW.
This morning theyโre delivering ~4GW combined (9% of installed capacity).
Even if youโre a bed wetting eco-loon, it must be obvious by now that very penny and pound confiscated from energy bills should have been invested
Natural gas has crashed to May 21 prices, far below Putinโs March 22 invasion. Youโre still paying through the nose for electricity generated from gas, heating, cooking, and wind energy suppliers are milking the โhigh cost of electricityโ.
Who will build the council housing you promise?
Will the state provide the tools and machines? Will the state fund and organise the land, planning, architects, engineers, groundworkers, builders, electricians, plumbers, decorators, insurance, etc?
Things that should be taught in school:
๐what to do with tough emotions
๐how to think about death & grief
๐ฆquality sex & consent ed
๐ธhow to do your taxes
๐cpr & first aid
๐ง unconscious bias basics
๐ณbasic cooking & hygiene skills
๐how to reduce carbon footprint
What else?
Thereโs so much wrong with this. Extreme weather events are not increasing. We have colder winters in/after El Niรฑo years, so when cold meet warm storms happen. Jim cites 2015 as a stormy year, but doesnโt โconnect the dotsโ to the 2014-16 El Niรฑo.
Windy weather was not less
๐จ ICYMI
Jim Dale says that people need to 'join the dots' when looking at weather events globally and analyse the frequency at which they happen to realise the impact of global warming.
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If youโre wondering why we need to replace aging gas plants, itโs because 30GW installed wind capacity is generating 4.8GW (16% of capacity, 15% of demand). Gas is reliably providing 48%.
This is the reconstruction of global temperature based on ice core analysis from Antarctica. The present interglacial period is seen on the right. The preceding four interglacials are seen at about 125,000, 280,000, 325,000 & 415,000 years before now, with long glacial periods in
Your Mum thought you were riding your bike around the houses.
You went 5 miles away, explored a derelict building, jumped roofs, attempted an ouija board, got that kiss, and made your own fire.
The Remain argument is the UK would be adrift post Brexit. Iโd argue the opposite.
On our own - with the right leadership - the UK would be a beacon to the world
@endlessfuntimes
Thatโs the problem. Huge subsidies for poor performance. The government rarely picks a winner.
If youโre not too far off a comfortable temperature, I know someone who switched to aluminium radiators and installed a woodburner. Total cost including ASHP ~ยฃ18,000.
New combi
โWind power is cheaper than gas they screamedโ. Yeah .. so cheap that it needs crippling subsidies.
This morning, wind is returning 1.75GW. Thatโs 6% of its own capacity. The wind industry would collapse under its own bloat if we werenโt made to pay for it.
This is very significant
There is not a single offshore wind farm in todayโs renewables auction announcement.
Ministers were warned the subsidies were too low at a time of rampant inflation, but thought industry bluffing.
They werenโt
Look at Economist graphic
You can guarantee that every single one is claiming your taxes in one way or another, and doesnโt have the slightest interest in British culture, history or tradition.
London retirement home wins top architecture award.
It looks like a half built 1980s doctorโs surgery. 21st century architects are truly the worst in human history.
@ret_ward
@mattwridley
It doesnโt matter how many bird slicers are installed, wind is a loser. You canโt even call them carbon neutral until the second phase of their lifecycle, and even thatโs a stretch. Now add batteries to the mix.
Today is a good day to remind you that you wouldnโt be reading this without fossil fuel developments. Youโd be picking turnips and burying your second child.
Today is a good day to remind you that new fossil fuel developments are "incompatible" with 1.5C, according to a comprehensive analysis of scientific research
Here's why it matters: Climate policies are hugely expensive and hit the poorest the hardest. But it's not just the economic costs. There's are huge environmental costs.
Forest destruction from burning wood, ethanol and biodiesel. Poor people are being denied reliable energy to
We want to go to work
We want to see our families
We want to see our friends
We want to watch and play sport
We want to go to the pub
We want to be free
#NoNewNormal
#EndTheLockdown
@afneil
When I was at school in Scotland, education was miles ahead of England.
Art was linked to history. Maths was bloody hard. In CDT we were taught to make things by real engineers.
When we moved to England I was astonished at how ahead I was. Where did it go so wrong?