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@omnisophos @NikBoyle @PeterTatchell In 2025, China commissioned more than 50 large coal-fired power units, bringing a staggering 78 gigawatts (GW) of new coal power capacity online.This surge represented the highest level of coal power capacity additions in China in a decade.

@NikBoyle @PeterTatchell China installed more RE last year than the ROTW combined. They're doing everything as fast as possible. They are in the transition. So must we, or be left choking on the fumes of ever more expensive and declining stocks of fossil fuels.

How are we supposed to stop it? Plastic straws makes no difference, paying .80p for groceries bag makes no difference. Renewable energy is a scam. China and India emit more CO₂ in a week than the UK emits in an entire year. Stop them first? No you’d rather punish the working class in the UK with insane energy prices and virtuous bollocks

@polemicpingu Because you are under 30 you won't remember the warnings about the coming ice age in the 70s. You won't remember snow on June 2nd 1975 or the suggestions from scientists to spread soot on the poles to increase melt and stave off said ice age.

I'm not even 30 and I can tell this is a different climate, a different world, to the one of my childhood. there's no excuse for the boomers/Gen Xers to blithely dismiss the fact

@DSHZY415 @Codey64168440 Do you remember the 1970s? We were warned about a coming ice age. On June 2nd 1975 cricket matches were cancelled due to snow. Several scientists wrote a letter to the US government imploring them to spread soot on the poles to increase melt. Deja vu.

@Codey64168440 How many years in a row can the “once every 50 years” argument work before you gain some intelligence or self awareness

But remember it was Just Stop Oil that were the bad guys

@DSHZY415 They were the worst kind of dangerous fanatics; prepared to inflict any amount of suffering on their fellow citizens because they were righteous and it was all for our own good.

@AlexTaylorNews The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken Substitute journalism for politics and it is even more accurate.

If you don't think we're burning up our planet, you're an idiot ... and that goes for US Presidents and other populists telling people to "drill baby, drill"

@darc87798 @AlexTaylorNews June 2nd 1975: cricket matches cancelled due to snow. Everyone in the UK obviously had their cars running non-stop on their driveways to produce the summer of 1976.

We have a couple of days of hot weather after a miserable start to the year, and the planet is burning. 1976 saw two months of extreme heat, which was just after scientists were predicting a new ice age. The United Nations top Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were wrong! All of the globalist fear-mongers have been referring to the RCP8.5 model for years to push their agenda.

@BrknMan Check out what happened on June 2nd 1975. You'd better have a change of underwear ready.

Dear Climate change deniers . Today UK broke it's May temperature record by 2C. The UK has temperature records going back 350 years and in all that time we have never come close to this May temp. Without climate change this temp in UK would be impossible

@NickJF75 If Britain was net zero tomorrow, could you guarantee these temperatures would never happen again? Is this caused by CO2 at 0.043%? If so, what is the ideal %?

Met Office showing 36C in London tomorrow, to put this in to context, in the summer of 1976 - which the climate change deniers like to wheel out to say was hotter, saw a maximum temperature of 35.9°C (96.6°F), at Cheltenham on July 3, 1976 - in high summer, not late May!

@NerdistExtreme @SirFlatpipe @Belleruin @metoffice It's also in direct sunlight.

@SirFlatpipe @Belleruin @metoffice You really do not understand how a heat island works... do you? Parks do NOT count as 'rural' weather stations.

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

@benhoobs If you're worried now, check out why cricket matches were cancelled on June 2nd 1975. You'll soil yourself.

Great day to remind people that Reform don't believe in climate change and are already scrapping climate targets in councils they control.

@charles_martyr @RealBlackIrish @TheRitualDiv The weather station appears to be in direct sunlight in close proximity to a stretch of tarmac. The sensors are in louvred enclosures, but placing one there is not ideal, well, maybe it is.

@RealBlackIrish @TheRitualDiv Weather station appears to be in the grassy bit.

> take one hot day on an airfield > let the sun bake the tarmac for 18 hours > produce temperature reading > OMG GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL

@AaronBastani Were you alive in June 1975? Cricket matches were cancelled because of snow. It's weather.

“It’s Summer!” No it’s not. Summer starts on June 21. It’s not the Summer by any measure. “It’s concrete, of course it’s hot!” It’s literally Kew Gardens. Let’s just hope rapid climate change means London gets a Roman climate rather than…the Gulf Stream disappearing.

@johnfrank454 @OctaneIsNot6ft What exactly should be done? What exactly will the effect be? How much will it cost exactly? CO2 is 0.043% of the atmosphere. What exactly is the desirable amount, and how do we achieve it? Show your working.

@OctaneIsNot6ft If you know it's coming and do nothing about it, who is said Stupid one?

It still blows my mind that the same argument about hot weather in the UK resurfaces every year. If you still can’t understand why very hot weather is a problem in this country compared to others then I’m sorry but you are a stupid individual.

@w3stHypocrisy @nala_yam @JohnCleese The bare minimum I could hope for is a "Not in my name" march after Manchester Arena, 7/7, Bataclan, Nice, Borough Market etc etc. The only times we see lots of Muslims on the streets the motivation is very different.

you think there’s some group of extremists sitting somewhere that we can find and protest? they’re random individuals that collude anonymously, we know as much as you guys. if you’ve ever been to a mosque on a friday, the speech always talks about how it’s wrong etc. trust me if we knew who they were they’d get reported. i think it was the CIA or FBI that tried to act like an extremist and went into a mosque to recruit people to see if they’d join, instantly got reported to the police

A huge thank-you to the Sikhs They are setting an excellent example for the Muslims to follow This is, for moderate Muslims to speak out against the radical Muslims We're all waiting...

@tompfoster @ChrisWillx @windgieindgie And we're forking out housing benefit for the new arrivals.

They will never accept that increasing demand by inviting millions from around the globe to come and live here is why they cannot build houses fast enough. It takes less than 1 day for someone to travel here and it takes at least 6 months to build them a house. Reality? It takes 5 hours to travel here and 1 year to build them a house. We'll never have enough housing. Ever. Not while we allow the world's "homeless" to come here.

The UK housing crisis is not going well. In order to alleviate its acute housing affordability crisis, London has been set a target of building 88,000 new homes per year over the next decade. Last year construction started on just 5,891 – 94% below target, a 75% year-on-year decline, the steepest drop in the country, the lowest tally since records began almost 40 years ago and the lowest figure for any major city in the developed world this century.

@w3stHypocrisy @nala_yam @JohnCleese Obviously, I meant protests in the western countries against those members of their faith who commit mass murder in those countries. But you knew that, didn't you?

@Tonybv91 @nala_yam @JohnCleese protest against ISIS? 😂 what the fuck is that gonna do. 90% of their victims are muslims, why would they listen to them?

@w3stHypocrisy @nala_yam @JohnCleese That explains all those protest marches after those atrocities.

oh shut up - After major attacks (9/11, London 7/7, Orlando, San Bernardino, ISIS atrocities, etc.), groups like CAIR, ISNA, MPAC, and international bodies have condemned them as "barbaric," un-Islamic, and against Sharia. - Fatwas from scholars (e.g., Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri's 600-page ruling against suicide bombings, Pakistani clerics, Indonesian leaders) declare such acts as kufr (unbelief) with no justification. - Polls and reports (e.g., Pew, academic studies) show the vast majority of Muslims reject terrorism. Condemnations are "ubiquitous" according to some researchers.

@linmeitalks Clown. What happened to the people who were living in the way of the Olympic Stadium in Beijing? They were forced out. If you want a government that steamrolls over any public concerns, go and live there.

Whoever is building the infrastructure in China, import those people/methods into the U.K. We clearly cannot build anything anymore. The amount of money and time to build HS2 is extremely embarrassing and pathetic.

@J1603Kevin @afneil Council housing costs councils a significant amount of money.

@afneil 'Right to buy' was indeed the greatest economic tragedy of the Thatcher era. Yes council tenants should have been incentivised to buy a house of their own, but not a single council house should have been sold off BEFORE an equivalent property was added to the council stock.

Nice to hear from you, Andy. Thanks for the by election. We live for such things. I’m in no doubt life is tough for lots of folk in Makerfield. But it’s hardly a poster child for urban squalor/deprivation. Thatcher left power in 1990. She was followed by seven years of unThatcher Major and 13 years of Labour government, of which you were a part. So it’s quite a stretch to blame her for any continuing woes. Unless we blame Labour for failing to put anything right. On the other hand the houses you were walking past were bought by the tenants under Thatcher’s right to buy scheme, which has given them some pride in place and some wealth they once could only have dreamt of accumulating. I assume your pledge to ‘renationalise housing’ does not include taking these homes back into public ownership ... even if that would constitute a proper, radical reversal of the Thatcherism you’re (some what bizarrely) campaigning against.

@TeeFromTheEnds @chris_npdesign @linmeitalks @DavidLammy Do we celebrate Jimmy Saville? How?

@chris_npdesign @linmeitalks @DavidLammy So since we were born into a culture that celebrates the likes of Jimmy Saville and co and since you want to generalise an entire people you must be another English nonce..Before you rewrite history remember Broadwater Farm riots started when the police killed Cynthia Jarrett.

Ok this argument of the British people not wanting the Windrush here is for the birds. Many African Asian and Middle Eastern people didn’t want Britain in their countries either, but here we are today with Britain being so historically successful because they didn’t care if people wanted them or not. So many of us don’t care if people initially wanted us - the government and businesses put out invitations and that was that. Most English people enjoy Caribbean culture and integration and now many parts of cultures - if not explain how the racial group “mixed race” in the uk is the fastest growing group, explain why most music played in bars and clubs are by ethnic minority groups, explain why you enjoy eating fruits like mangoes pineapples, eating curries, spices etc explain why Essex areas have Ska festivals ? Yes humans are scared of change or the unknown and of course you wish you could pick the good bits and leave the bad bits like crime, unsavoury parts of foreign culture and salary suppression but let’s not pretend many British people don’t love the foods music and much of the cultures today.