Max Aitken

@afneil China’s carbon emissions peaked last year…

This is typical of how Western Greens depict such a rosy picture of China’s energy policy. You wonder if Beijing bots are at work. Here’s a corrective: China is producing a massive oversupply of solar panels. Hence the dumping on every major market. Let’s not forget that very Chinese silicon smelter (silicon a key component of panels) has its own coal-fired power station. Chinese oversupply of EVs is gargantuan even though China buys more EVs than any where else and is dumping the rest abroad. EV battery packs are made using coal-generated electricity and charged on a coal-dominated grid. Yes China has added unprecedented solar and wind capacity last year. But its strategy is abundant energy of all types — which is why it also hit a 10-year high of new coal plant construction and remains the world’s top coal consumer, with fossil fuels supplying over 87% of its primary energy. End of

@ClaireCoutinho Ethylene’s main energy input is natural gas - which we hardly tax. Electricity (which we do tax) is far smaller input. The real issue is cheaper gas in the US. Far cheaper than anything we could ever do in the North Sea. So basically she’s taking nonsense.

Today we’ve had yet more job losses in British industry, this time at the Mossmorran ethylene plant in Fife with up to 450 jobs at risk. These jobs will still exist, just not here in Britain. At the budget next week, Rachel Reeves must do the right thing and back the North Sea.

3 degrees is on its way

This is what we wanted about

@wideawake_media This is all nonsense and proven to so. Just wrong. Every fact.

Matt Ridley, ex-science editor at The Economist, comprehensively dismantles the "climate crisis" narrative: "We know that in the medieval period, it was warmer than today... So we're not in a period of unprecedented warmth." "We're not in a period of unprecedentedly fast warmth. We're not in a period of increasing extreme weather, floods, droughts, storms." "The carbon dioxide we're putting in the air is having a very measurable effect that's beneficial... And that is global greening." "And yet, there are so many vested interests now in continuing to talk about it as a crisis... that I'll not get a hearing for what I just said." Credit: @mattwridley @triggerpod

@volcaholic1 Keep it up 👍

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Volatile is coming for us all.

Electric is just better in every important way

@Race2Extinct I’m beginning to think it may be our only hope.

Geoengineering is the climate equivalent of launching nukes to stop wildfires. Desperate, untested, and likely to backfire—especially when global cooperation is a fantasy. When one nation goes rogue, it won’t save the world. It may finish it. apple.news/AnpUesHFhTDmXu…

@SimonFoxWriter You’re an idiot who doesn’t even do basic research

Allegedly, "sea levels in the UK are rising faster than the global average according to a new report from the Met Office". Err ... that's literally IMPOSSIBLE. Sea level is the same over the entire Earth. That's basic, inescapable physics. Somebody should have a word with them.

Cheaper than wood.

@toadmeister No, that’s not true.

Spain's disastrous national blackout in April was triggered by solar farms switching off in response to plummeting power prices, an official investigation has found. dailysceptic.org/2025/06/18/sol…

@RupertLowe10 I’m not a reform supporter but this is true

Reeves, Starmer, Rayner, Reynolds - all creatures of the public sector. Never run a business, couldn’t run a business. I just get so frustrated. They do not understand the pressure of it - I wouldn’t trust any of them with a lemonade stand. So when they throw all of these extra taxes on small business owners, they simply do not understand what they are doing. Extra national insurance for employers? Oh, that’ll be fine. Reducing the threshold? Not a problem, employers can pay. Crack down on dividends? Who cares, that’s one for the owners. It’s so easy to say when you’ve got a comfortable salary, funded by the taxpayer. Politicians and their bureaucrats fear nothing. Civil servants never get sacked, they’re there for life. Running a business in 2025 Britain is bloody difficult. Really, really bloody difficult. I talk to people every day who are struggling. The stress of it is quite something. Constantly checking your emails, all weekend and on holiday. The spouse is annoyed because you can’t switch off. It is constant. The stress never ends. There’s no safety net, there’s no back up. Either you succeed, or fail. There is so much regulation and red tape - you can’t even sack anyone. So what do business owners do? They don’t hire anyone. Why take the risk? It’s just not worth it. So Government then cracks down with IR35, making it impossible for many to take on these contracts. It is brutal. It is relentless. Worst of all? It all comes from people who DO NOT understand what they are doing. I sit there in Westminster, listening to these gnomes drone on about the economy. You’d get more business sense out of a blindfolded toddler. At least they understand incentives. I find it all just so frustrating, I can’t even tell you. The answer is to radically slash tax - corporation, income, dividends. Take a Milei chainsaw to regulation. Be brutal. Tear it all down. A red tape bonfire visible from space. To the brave men and women who run their own business, you have my full respect. Keep going. It will get better. Please know that there is at least one MP on your side.

@TiceRichard Just total nonsense. Each point is demonstrably untrue

Solar farms are wrong at every level: destroy food security, destroy jobs & destroy property values for villages being surrounded by them. Battery Energy Storage Systems alongside them are huge fire risks with toxic fumes and contaminants.

@JamesMelville Um. What is carbon doing if not messing with Mother Nature?

“Geoengineering may not be perfect but it represents a new frontier in climate science that we ought to explore if we are serious about mitigating the effects of global warming.” ~ Jacob Rees-Mogg. Completely disagree with him. We mess with Mother Nature at our own peril.

@garyseconomics Grifter

If you ever want to own a home or any other assets, we need to tax the rich more.

Holy shit

@MartinW93129709 @lfg_uk OP wants more generation to lower price?

@maxaitken @lfg_uk Um...demand is determined by price. Moron.

The UK produces the least amount of electricity per capita out of all G7 countries, it's no surprise our energy is so expensive. If we don't want to end up in Spain's situation, we need to aggressively start building more grid connections and energy projects now.

The intentional stupidity in this tweet is so enormous that on its own it would block out the sun 1. Solar works in the UK. Do you think it doesn’t? 2. Geoengineering needs looking at because of continued increase in fossil fuels; I admit controversial - but it may become our last hope for a habitable planet, later this century