Climate Change

[kaosmark2]

20 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

e.g.

 

maybe just grow up a bit...this isn't being driven by old white men fgs.

Maybe you need to get with the yoof because you're just a whiny old white man with no tolerance.

[steviewevie]

3 minutes ago, kaosmark2 said:

Maybe you need to get with the yoof because you're just a whiny old white man with no tolerance.

oh right. Good one. Have to be careful what I say of course...

[steviewevie]

Anyway, obviously the issue with EU relaxing carbon restrictions on its industries is old white men and the Germans and Chinese...despite everything actually written in the original article.

Edited July 18 by steviewevie

[kaosmark2]

36 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

oh right. Good one. Have to be careful what I say of course...

I was just responding with the same level of brainpower as your comment.

[steviewevie]

Western Europe appears to be on fire.

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[Skip997]

16 hours ago, steviewevie said:

Oh the irony of printing that article next to that picture 

 

 

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[Skip997]

No one can stop climate change and it isn’t going to bring some idilic Mediterranean lifestyle. It’s going to bring unmanageable heat and eventually unbearable cold winters.

 

What net zero can do is slow the process and keep pollution levels down. 
 

There’s a serious number of people who are either idiot’s or in the pay of oil companies 

[kaosmark2]

41 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

There’s a serious number of people who are either idiot’s or in the pay of oil companies 

Literally the same offices with the same funding that drove the Brexit campaign are driving the "No to Net Zero" lobby in the UK. And the same lot where the Taxpayers Alliance and transphobia lot are.

 

55-57 Tufton Street. Home of the worst companies and the worst people in the country.

[steviewevie]

[steviewevie]

up, up and away

[steviewevie]

Dangerous extreme heat across Europe and East Asia.

[steviewevie]

take off

[kaosmark2]

https://www.ft.com/content/6fe70fa1-1173-4f7b-9eb9-d8ad9b2f5694?shareType=nongift&syn-25a6b1a6=1

Green councillors are NIMBY-blocking solar infrastructure.

[steviewevie]

1 hour ago, kaosmark2 said:

https://www.ft.com/content/6fe70fa1-1173-4f7b-9eb9-d8ad9b2f5694?shareType=nongift&syn-25a6b1a6=1

Green councillors are NIMBY-blocking solar infrastructure.

these FT links are all paywalled

[kaosmark2]

18 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

these FT links are all paywalled

Odd, I could read them without a paywall.

[Skip997]

Like I say no one in any position of authority or influence gives a flying f**k about climate change. 

 

[steviewevie]

It does feel like there's a push back against net zero from both left and right, but especially the right. Probably since Trump I guess, but even before Trump you had the tea party and Sarah Palin thing, but over here the right were on board with the issue of climate change and the need to address it, from Thatcher through to Johnson. That has now changed, first it was the populist right, not it is mainstream, with Badenoch making the two prerequisites for standing for the Tories being against net zero, and for leaving the ECHR. You can be an ex neo-nazi as long as you are against net zero. At least many now seem to accept the climate change is happening and it is caused by us, but they now say well it will be a nice mediterranean climate so lets bin net zero anyway and just have fun f**k all that woke green sh*t.

But also the left, with various trade union leaders and blue labour types going on about net zero being bad for the economy and the need for reindustrialisation as we head back to the glory days of the 50s when we all worked down pit or something, ignoring the amount of industries and jobs created by net zero. The greens obviously are still firmly behind the net zero thing, but the party is also full of nimbys who are worried about hedgerows and hedgehogs and votes, and even the leadership have realised that there isn't votes in climate doomerism but there definitely is in bashing billionaires and Israel.

I guess the main driver of net zero policies in the country is still Miliband which is probably why everyone seems to be f**king terrified of him, the mad freak and his renewables. He is out of the energy department, but his replacement is hardly a petrolhead, and he isn't in the treasury doing terrifying things like spending money, but he is in the foreign office which is maybe a good place for him because climate change is a global issue and its going to take a global effort.

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It was always going to be the cost. stuff like this:

 

 

[kerplunk]

On 03/08/2026 at 06:48, steviewevie said:

up, up and away

 

Nino 3.4 anomaly already in 'very strong' (>2.0C) territory.  That's very impressive for July which is still early days for El Nino development.