Andy Morris

Rats, pigeons and flies are all part of nature just as humans are too. The tide of plastic waste we see here was not caused by any element of nature though. It was caused by irresponsible capitalism.

@profgibbons @PanVanDams @somersetlevel Provide a citation for the research which shows 'Higher CO2 led to species diversification' please, Professor.

@PanVanDams @somersetlevel Speciation exploded at 1000 ppm human civilisation started at 270 ppm Pan. Higher CO2 led to species diversification Pan.

Does anyone really believe that an island representing just 0.05% of the Earth’s surface, covered in solar panels and wind turbines with all its citizens driving Chinese EVs and living in homes powered by heat pumps will make one iota of difference to Global weather patterns?

@profgibbons @davidhamiltons1 @somersetlevel Do what know climate feedback loops are? They're a big reason why relatively small temperature forcing from human generated CO2 emissions can have a much bigger impact on the climate.

@davidhamiltons1 @somersetlevel No. CO2 only makes a very small difference in T. As T increases, CO2 increases by Henry’s Law. CO2 lags T. So no, we cannot change our climate.

@CaryKelly11 But think of just how much grain that mill will turn into flour. Do you eat milled grains @CarryKelly11?

It can take over 1200 tons of concrete and 60 tons of steel rebar to form the foundation of a windmill. That windmill might live 20–30 years but its foundation will outlast our maps, our language and probably our species’ memory of why it was poured.

I seem to have upset the @Nigel_Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. RT if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.

@mkryst70 @latimeralder @mpharrisonHarry I totally agree, I had the panels before smart charging tarrifs became a thing. No regrets though.

@Atypical_Andy @latimeralder @mpharrisonHarry I would love that too. Our electricity cost is very reasonable, so not really worth investing in solar for now.

An Inconvenient Truth There are 1,600 million cars in the world About 15 million EVs are sold each year ==> It will take 1600/15 years = 106 years to move to a fully EV fleet And fossil fuels will still be needed to power them until 2132

@latimeralder It's ok for you to listen to people commenting and admit you're wrong.

@latimeralder @mpharrisonHarry @mkryst70 I fuel my EV using the sun that shines on the roof of my home. How is that not significantly better?

@mpharrisonHarry @mkryst70 'New tech' transitions usually happen because the new tech is significantly better than the old. But that's not true for EVs. Customers have to be hugely bribed for them to sell at all.

@Xort_TC @Guzzak @AlexEpstein Wind doesn't blow for a few days... don't charge your massive EV battery until it does. Or if you do need to charge it, do so at a premium. Simples.

@Guzzak @AlexEpstein Wind doesn't blow for a few days. Just go without power?

The UK is giving "guaranteed electricity prices" to offshore wind companies on the basis that this will "bring down bills." But if offshore wind was truly so cheap it wouldn't need guaranteed prices! Wind subsidies are a CAUSE of, not the solution to, rising electricity prices.

@ChrisMartzWX Hey Chris, how many human civilizations have existed on a glacier-free planet earth?

I never said that it wasn’t warming you mentally-challenged idiot. I said that it doesn’t matter. Glaciers are not permanent. They never have been. They never will be. Glaciers will always be growing or melting. They aren’t supposed to remain in a constant state. Present-day Chicago was once buried beneath a mile-thick ice sheet. It melted. And, it had nothing to do with us. Get a grip and put a tampon in your little mangina.

@latimeralder @climateguardian Quite simple really, apply the same methodology to historic data and see how well the output matches with what has actually happened.

@Atypical_Andy @climateguardian Super How do we test the predictions?

Official figures say that to achieve Net Zero by 2050 we will need to spend £180,000,000,000 each year for the next 25! That's as much as we spend on the NHS! 8 times Reeves 'black hole' £2,500 per year per person. A staggering amount To achieve NO benefit to us at all. This is not just nuts. Its Miliband nuts!

@latimeralder @climateguardian In the absence of knowledge of the future, better data = predictions from climate scientists. Which are not good.

@Atypical_Andy @climateguardian Its real data of what has really happened in a warming world. If you have better data, please show it. If not, its the best we're going to get

@latimeralder @climateguardian All the data you have shown here has been gathered during an interglacial period. You have nothing to indicate what might happen in a post glacial world. You claim overall things would be better but you have to concede, it could be worse too. Possibly much worse.

@Atypical_Andy @climateguardian Let's check the data Better for living longer. Better for growing more . Better for being greener. Better for dying less from cold. Overall : Better

@latimeralder The cost savings I have made since I bought an EV a decade ago have easily paid for my PV panels and my heat pump. My own experience suggests your figures might be an over estimate.

@latimeralder @climateguardian A warmer world is better for who? People who live in coastal cities or on low lying islands? People who rely on snow/ice melt for their water supply? People who live in countries which already suffer borderline fatal humid heatwaves or wildfires?

@climateguardian I don't want to 'combat climate change'. A warmer world is a better world.

@FredLambert That wasn't a very Christianly statement.

Evil stuff. No empathy. He is off the deep end.

@JordanEVGuy The cost savings of EVs are compelling. I've had a Leaf since 2016 in the summer, it runs on sunshine for free in the summer and Octopus power it the rest of the time for pennies. We shouldn't forget the big reason to switch though - unabated fossil fuels will destroy humanity.

Just wanted to send you this... Interesting, and might give you some extra content... We have two electric cars. My Tesla and my wife's Hyundai. I was in the Hyundai today. Stopped on the way home as I did quite a long journey. The range on the Hyndai is 165 miles ish (in the cold)…about 15 miles short of what I needed. I stopped, charged, every charger was available. Went to get a subway. A guy who filled up with petrol was behind me in the Subway queue. We arrived at the same time, queued for the same time, then left at the same time. The difference was he spent £70 on fuel. I spent £2.30. Enough to get me home. The difference between ICE and electric has effectivly been closed! And he spent £67.70 more! 😂 .

@ChrisMartzWX @texasembassy It's pretty obvious you have no idea of what you're talking about. What qualifies you as a meteorologist BTW?

Temperatures in the mid-latitudes vary by 20-30°C from winter to summer, and plants and animal species can adapt easily to that. The claim that they cannot adapt to a couple degrees more in the annual mean over a centennial period is superstitious, anti-science buIIshit. What’s more, the idea that the Earth’s ecosystem is delicate is not a scientific fact, but it is a worldview many scientists have adopted which has colored how they interpret scientific data.

@texasembassy @Bucky1965 @ChrisMartzWX You would think that Mr Martz would understand the difference since he claims to be a meteorologist in his bio. 🤔

@Bucky1965 @ChrisMartzWX Education system continues to fail in teaching the difference between weather and climate. Encourage you to check out this paper.. frontiersin.org/journals/veter…

@PeterDClack You assume that we continue with supply side electricity grid management. That obviously doesn't work with intermittent renewables. Demand side management does. Anyone with an EV, solar panels and a smart charger knows this.

There should never have been an ideological drive to overturn coal, oil and gas at all. Instead, there should have been a steady transition towards nuclear energy, with small modular reactors for regional areas and large industrial or urban zones. Modular reactors are the answer. The trouble is, the available money has been wasted. Wind solar failed to deliver the baseload power transition and never will. And we still don't have a replacement that is affordable or reliable. In a policy failure, the UN dived into the global warming agenda entirely for political reasons. It became an ideological stampede to demonize and dismantle coal/oil/gas without proven, affordable, dispatchable alternatives innplace. This was a costly mistake. China's ongoing coal boom—94 GW under construction in 2024 alone, more approvals continuing into 2025—underscores the competitiveness gap. They are pairing it with massive renewables, but coal provides the reliable backbone keeping their industrial costs low. Nuclear is the logical pivot. Small modular reactors are ideal for regional areas or larger clusters near load centers—they are factory-built, and have safer passive designs plus shorter build times. Progress is already ramping up: the US is funding it's first generation SMRs (GE Hitachi BWRX-300, Holtec SMR-300, NuScale). Canada has begun at Darlington and there are partnerships in the UK, Sweden and Poland. Commercial deployments are targeting the late 2020s and early 2030s, but delays are chronic. If the West had pushed nuclear harder instead of renewables we would likely have cheaper, cleaner, more reliable grids today. Momentum towards nuclear is building faster than it has in decades, driven by energy security needs, exploding electricity demand (especially from AI data centres) which renewable energy alone can't support. Global nuclear output is projected to hit a record high in 2025–2026, with 15 new reactors already coming online in 2026 alone, adding 12 GW of power. The IAEA has upped its projections for several years running: and the high-case scenario sees capacity more than doubling to 992 GW by 2050.