Trump puts climate change denier in charge of America's energy | LBC analysis

[@Sam88-l4k]

The fact most brexit voters are trump supporters is so funny. Brexit was about being independent and powerful, but since Trump got in, all i keep hearing is how we must pander to the US. Pathetic

[@PaulStargasm]

I don't think this is true. Think you'll find it's the other way round. Trump voters are also brexit voters. Not all or even majority of brexit voters are trump coters. He's really not popular in the uk.

[@HarryNottings]

Brexit was entirely about isolating us so the wealthy can exploit us more.

[@Zayna-z4s]

@@Sam88-l4k You have been pandering to us since long before trump. You followed us into Iraq without question and even as other counties turned against us for supporting bibi you stood by us because you want our approval.

[@akanmiracles]

NO IT WAS NOT......BREXIT was a " GOVERNMENT STEALTH TAXING INITIATIVE" Think of all the tax income from importing goods, or people traveling Between EU boarders.... BEFORE there was no taxes to import goods or for professionals crossing EU boarders to work within the EU........ BREXIT HAS MADE AND IS STILL MAKING PEOPLE WEALTHY

[@jeffros6739]

Goodluck.without usa then

[@User122-ty]

I wondered why Kanye West wasn't picked for Education and Culture. Now it's clear. He's too sane and decent to be there

[@FRU.No.1]

Maybe he would be best to teach European history 1917-45 I think he has some pretty out there opinions from what I gather.

[@kenflike99]

I could say the same thing about Jeremy Corbyn.

[@User122-ty]

@@FRU.No.1 he knows everything

[@izzytrue8630]

The planet will survive ... but we as a species WILL NOT!

[@ollyfoister2153]

That’s musk advice

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Perhaps if the planet were sentient it would be breathing a sigh of relief to get rid of this human virus it has been infected by.

[@ibexdnb2879]

​@@petyrkowalski9887 Wow. Just wow.

[@munteanumarius-gabriel9330]

​@@petyrkowalski9887 These are the majority of humans. You present them with facts and they still deny it and act on feelings. I remember how winters and summers were when I was a child and it was nothing like this extreme weather. Let them deny it. Mass extinctions have happened before and very soon we'll experience another one. When your president is an uneducated and illiterate pile of trash, what can you expect from the rest

[@AreJayCee]

Maybe we shouldn't

[@sanchez501]

Mankind has decided that saving the planet is too expensive.

[@GamingBear_Q_E_D]

Learn some facts kiddo, the malinkovitch cycle shows that the climate will change anyway, your low information ilk are destroying economies for no reason.. do some research and you will realise.

[@Apjooz]

On the contrary. It's now too cheap.

[@simondavies2262]

Speak for yourwelf. I haven't decided that.

[@colinpeck8257]

So explain carbon capture again? wasting £22 billion on nothing tangible & give the money to a Norwegian company, scandalous

[@stuartannetts300]

Or cheaper to let China do it you mean?

[@trevormannsfield]

If the human race does survive this is going to be a wild time for the history books.

[@chesterfinecat7588]

Boook? What dat?

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Yea… something Trump voters would never read

[@ibexdnb2879]

​@@petyrkowalski9887 Come on man. Pathetic.

[@trevormannsfield]

@@ibexdnb2879 Not wrong though, the majority of Trump voters literally can't read

[@trevormannsfield]

@@Norman-j7m You're right every doctor, nurse, care worker, morgue worker, coroner,etc etc are all in the illuminati and theyre lying to you!

[@davidbeck4929]

Again US citizen trying to talk to my neighbors to point out craziness that could happen with trump, no headway and sorry to rest of the world

[@miff227]

because they think you are the crazy one David. Not only do you have 4 years of Trump not doing anything like you are warning, you just have no basis for any of your claims. P.S. Re: climate change and CO2. The ENTIRE argument is about forcings. And when the models fail, what happens is that the model makes say there were unknown forcings they hadn't discovered yet, but the new model absolutely has all the forcings that could ever exists and none are now unknown and all are in the new model. So, do you think all the forcings are known and understood? All the evidence with CO2 and climate change says CO2 follows temperature. Models are not evidence. There is literally no EVIDENCE that atmospheric CO2 concentration causes the global temperature to rise....but yes it may be true. However, maybe we can both agree that small modular gen4/5 nuclear is the best way to power the world?

[@g.d2450]

keep drinking the cool aid

[@specialized500]

Plenty of Brits would have voted for these people

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Yes.. reform UK and brexitards

[@joeduffy3309]

yep, head over to the daily mail and watch them fawn over nigel farage at the same time the government is raising taxes and cutting benefits to pay for brexit, you couldn't make it up

[@Globaldave1970]

I would. Breath of fresh air compared to UK cabinet.

[@specialized500]

@Globaldave1970 Russian?

[@kevinvan6970]

American first what is wrong with it American Oil for American

[@JohnCatto]

Why wouldn't Trump put people in charge of stuff they are willing to shake up rather than simply follow like sheep. Trump will get stuff changed and then we will see who is on the right track.

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

How many coal powered stations are China and India building? You really think they are going to cut back on that for climate change? Then you are going to hamper your country economically for the sake of it?

[@asdfkgkspr284]

China literally has been doing this, read an article that’s not from the turn of the millennium. China is embracing green energy in a way that will make the West look as backwards and ignorant as they always have been

[@petewright4640]

They are also rolling out massive amounts of renewables.

[@itsme-gm9oi]

Well done Donald.

[@brianferguson7840]

And Farage loves ❤️ him😢 This is universally known as the "Farage Paradox"! If you want to know the truth on any given subject, simply find what Farage says about it and the opposite will invariably be the truth.

[@MajorCharlesCarringtonV.C]

A reverse barometer much like the gb news or its comment section

[@kevin-Reform]

Lefties tears are the best 😂

[@weswheel4834]

@@kevin-Reform "Lefty" = "Anyone who doesn't like Don"?

[@jwilko7998]

Brilliant selection !

[@davidrees7059]

@@kevin-Reform Oh Kevin what a sad little person you are if you think climate change has anything to do with your political persuasion. The sad thing is that you think that not tackling it is really an option if we are to avoid massive disruption and loss of life. The generations yet to come will not look kindly on the blinkered fools who put their lot in with the ultimate con-man.

[@Jacko84]

Music to my ears, end tyrannical legislation from the state!

[@cindyengel5670]

Meanwhile we Brits imprison 'just stop oil' protestors...

[@Zayna-z4s]

@@cindyengel5670 for longer than you imprison violent rioters.

[@declanwalsh3216]

They should be in prison.

[@davelloyd8454]

The thing is they were not beneficial... If they'd come up with a single positive thing to do then I would have way more sympathy for them. What they did was block traffic, increase pollution from queueing traffic, prevent emergency vehicles get where they're going and cast the entire cause in a bad light.

[@thomasmcd81]

⁠@@davelloyd8454they’ve done what they set out to, got you talking about the issue.

[@martynblackburn9632]

We are unable to imprison the Brexit demagogues.

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

I aways wondred what it would take to end the world.

[@keirmitchell5560]

Voting Harris, thats why they never voted for her.

[@weswheel4834]

@@keirmitchell5560 Such a bubble. Do you even think about what you write? At least try and make it make sense.

[@danielbones2256]

​@@weswheel4834I'm sure you are so much more balanced Mr Bubble.

[@simondavies2262]

It'll take much more than this.

[@weswheel4834]

@@danielbones2256 Did you just do "No, that's you that is?" :D

[@LBCOfficial]

As fun as it would be, Donald Trump has NOT appointed Coldplay frontman Chris Martin as his energy secretary, despite the brief mix-up in Lewis' opening.

[@50sense50]

Why is he wearing gloves ? Does he think he is fagan

[@smorris12]

This is on a par with the damage Thomas Midgely Jr did to the world when he put lead in petrol and invented CFCs.

[@rogerphelps9939]

Muich, much worse.

[@PhilipBurton-dn3ce]

It was 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer than today when the pyramids were built and we are in an atmospheric CO2 drought at the moment....Cloward/Pevin (Marxists) were discussing ways to use the climate as a political tool since the 1950s......you've been swindled...

[@cyberdemon6517]

i saw the veritasium video on that

[@SlowhandGreg]

It won't happen as you think. Currently US oil is at around $70 a barrel the break even point is $65 it's pointless extracting more they will sit on the leases + Every year renewable energy gets cheaper in comparison as capital costs fall while Oil and gas are subject to rising costs + inflation

[@jamesborn-s6w]

My fellow citizens voted for this, I didn't. . . . . I don't have kids but am concerned about their future. Trump voters aren't.

[@jholmes009]

Let me guess, you have cats

[@trevormannsfield]

Right wingers tend to vote specifically to spite younger generations. I can only assume it's on purpose

[@weswheel4834]

@@trevormannsfield They just get easily confused.

[@trevormannsfield]

@@weswheel4834 I don't buy it, saying they're confused or got conned is giving them too much credit. They know exactly what they're voting for, they're just profoundly unpleasant people

[@simondavies2262]

America has been honest withnthe world. Now the world will respond accordingly.

[@stevejames8652]

Go Trump

[@johnrussell3961]

Life. Enjoy it whilst it lasts.

[@NickAskew]

The blame needs to be put where it belongs, with the American electorate. They voted him into power and now have to take responsibility for the consequences.

[@Zayna-z4s]

@@NickAskew We are America, we dont do consequences. I mean seriously who is going to hold us accountable, the UK? The entire EU? We are more powerful economically and military than both combined.

[@davelloyd8454]

​@@Zayna-z4s your economy might bring you down in the next 4 years... I just hope at the next election the public remember how bad it's been and the next administration can repair the damage

[@srp01983]

@@Zayna-z4sUltimately you will be holding yourselves accountable. You may not care what you do to the rest of the civilised world, but when things start to go south for the average US Joe you might just sit up and listen to what the rest of the civilised world are telling you now. All the signs are that your education, healthcare, environment and women’s rights are about to go straight done the toilet.

[@Zayna-z4s]

@@srp01983 We will always be the best, even when the Great Depression hit we were still the best. People from around the world flock to our shores because they know we are the best.

[@Zayna-z4s]

@@davelloyd8454 The great depression didn’t knock us down. We will always be on top.

[@The_Bean_Head_Men]

LBC gets rid of hosts that don't tow the line... Hypocrits left, right and centre.

[@user-Terry314]

Well done America You buys your ticket. You takea your ride.

[@russ254]

can’t wait!

[@pauldurkee4764]

There's a lot they don't tell us, the availability of oil for one. It's all about economics , you tell people something like resources are finite and the value goes up. Look up material on the old east texas oil fields which were supposed to be worked out.

[@Elitematt74]

​@@pauldurkee4764 do you think oil is a renewable resource?

[@robwalker3417]

The quicker we scrap the one sided so called special relationship the better.

[@haydnrees8628]

Common sense at last.

[@asdfkgkspr284]

Why are the years getting hotter but the winters even colder? Why are the natural disasters happening at an increasing rate? When people were burned alive in Australia; was that just a happy coincidence?

[@abhirao8582]

Here is the problem Even if there weren't a climate crisis, we don't have an infinite supply of fossil fuels. We're going to run out soon. We have to transition away from it

[@PaulStargasm]

But that's someone else's bill to pick up. That's their mentality. These people don't care about their own kids.

[@abhirao8582]

@PaulStargasm sadly the story of humanity is one of short term thinking and our inability to perceive the bigger picture

[@Zayna-z4s]

@@abhirao8582 people have been saying oil would run out for ages now but fact is we got over a hundred more years of oil.

[@SlowhandGreg]

@@PaulStargasm Renewable energy is cheaper by a long way we just haven't invested in upgrading the grid to take advantage of it

[@DanSk451]

Big ask. The world economy is driven by fuel. The “transition” is how we keep employment equal. We are still using 1900 combustion technology for a reason.

[@geeksworkshop]

Yes, it was never going to work. Because the rich won't allow it. Funny thing is all those rich people have to live on the same planet.

[@trevormannsfield]

The rich will be fine, they're happy to sacrifice the rest of us

[@rugbygirlsdadg]

But they think that their money will shield them from hurricanes, floods, drought etc....

[@simondavies2262]

The rich won't 'allow'?...

[@trevormannsfield]

@@geeksworkshop The wealthy won't be affected by it, they just want the rest of us gone

[@SlowhandGreg]

@@simondavies2262 They've been pumping billions into right wing politics to try derail net zero including in this country It breaks their business model if a country has control of it's own energy ex 40% of world shipping is dedicated to moving fossil around

[@richardmcrandal6696]

Excellent news. Trump the GOAT

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

Donald Trump is like Meryl Streep's character in Don't Look Up.

[@PaulStargasm]

I'd be interested to know how trump would square the circle of being a climate change denier pro fossil fuels with a right hand man who builds electric cars.

[@percymacdonald6657]

Pure doublethink. Like how Elon Musk both bangs on about free speech all the time while owning a brainchip company.

[@MyKharli]

the private luxury jet frequent user climate concerned dude you mean ....

[@ronmastrio2798]

Elon was in it for the money he wouldn't be a space exploration advocate if he were a climate cultist.

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Its simple: Trump is a grifter and aligns with anyone who can make him money.

[@petyrkowalski9887]

@@MyKharliand burner of tens of millions of litres of rocket fuel.

[@T0NYD1CK]

If replacing a coal-fired power station requires a solar farm of 100 square miles in area, has anyone thought where such an installation could be situated? Shouldn't we do that first? Too late, the coal-fired power stations have gone. Talking of space in our crowded island, where will the new city the size of Birmingham, required each year by the rise in immigration, actually be placed? Perhaps that is why the government is trying to close down the farms? Mind you, we might have a food shortage then.

[@glowwurm9365]

Thing is he has a point, oil has bought about prosperity, but that’s not an argument for not using renewable energy sources (it’s kind of in the name, sustainable) or even superior energy sources such as Uranium. Sad times TBH, we’re wasting precious time….

[@SlowhandGreg]

Renewable energy is the cheapest on the grid both here and in the US has been since 2020 It's about rolling out next gen infrastructure to support it, even the Neanderthals in the GOP can't stop it

[@Handletaken4]

420 people from Labor fly to Climate Conference? Is that Green?

[@mash83]

In the long term yes..

[@clairewright332]

@@mash83Let's get this right, hundreds of people from here are flying thousands of miles to meet up with others who've flown hundreds of miles and lecture the rest of us on how we need to reduce our carbon footprint? Oh the irony and rank hypocrisy!

[@mash83]

@@clairewright332 classic shorterm attitude 🤷‍♂️ hence trump's victory.

[@Aubury]

The triumph of the will. If you deny it strongly enough it will not be a issue

[@joeduffy3309]

If he denies climate change, we shouldn't need all those electric cars then.

[@philiptaylor7902]

Miliband and Starmer must hold course. There can be no compromise or accommodation with climate wreckers.

[@JJamJ]

Drill baby drill!

[@quadq6598]

Both are delusional, Trump will force aa sensible approach.

[@Globaldave1970]

LOL. They have been saying all this since I was a kid. Now I'm a pensioner. Getouttatown.

[@farallimacha]

You just outsourced carbon emissions to a different part of the planet. That's will only collapse your economy in a long run,and you'll achieve nothing.

[@howdan1985]

Great news for Americans - Hopefully lower energy prices are on their way. Superb choice Mr President.

[@nigelclifford8405]

I will eat as much meat as I like, no one is going to tell me what to eat!!

[@vincentblack7467]

Someone with a brain.. At last..

[@RonnieRedd]

The AMOC is about to stop. The US is about to split E/W

[@edwardbuss8689]

Please can someone explain to me how this climate change crisis was proved and how they proved it

[@petewright4640]

We in the UK, as will everyone in the world, will be harmed by the US if they don't do their bit to reduce emissions. There needs to be political and economic consequences for the US if they do not reduce fossil fuel use.

[@johnkeane1419]

As if the UK and US were equivalent entities. Free comedy to think Britain can change anything. Starmer is nobody 😂

[@mrdenson3101]

American ps overall have never been serious about climate change and its mitigation

[@ecka1014]

The US will still meet are climate goals despite trump. We didn't in his first term we will do it again.

[@sonyponymark]

American hubris always wins out

[@TheBlack106]

America is $36 trillion in debt. They have to do something.

[@st200ol]

Seems to me he is making a joke of the job of president. Hopefully we’ll get the last laugh.

[@T0NYD1CK]

At least Trump's pick, Chris Wright, does seem to have had some experience in the energy industry. Remind me, what energy qualifications does Ed Miliband have?

[@DanHawkins1]

All of Trumps picks will be people with the most outrageous conflicts of interests with the positions they have been assigned. Buckle up

[@jedjones9047]

Trump's going to put a end to the climate change racket reform will do the same in the uk' labour ain't going to last the distance they're a laughing stock 😅😅

[@jonathanspradlin3083]

Drill baby drill!

[@SlowhandGreg]

They will not they will sit on the leases reason US oil is $70 a barrel and the break even point currently is $65 a barrel

[@jonathanspradlin3083]

@ day one

[@mash83]

The king of shortermism, the bovine masses love a bit of it..

[@alanjewell9550]

The question of climate change is about choice. If we carry on in the same direction, we'll end up where we're heading. We're not the first species to radically change the climate, neither is radical climate change unknown. It often drives evolution. We're also doing what nature does, use all the resources it can find to grow. The big difference is we have awareness to see ahead & we have choices about if we run things into a crash or take preemptive action. The latter seems the most sensible course of action, but Trump isn't sensible or looking beyond the end of his nose. It seems a lot of US voters decided based on a belief petrol & eggs are over priced...

[@SlowhandGreg]

They can't escape economics Every year fossil gets more expensive as it's subject to higher and higher extraction costs, processing costs and transportation costs The capital cost of renewables is still falling in real terms and the input energy as in wind and the sun are free and not subject to inflation Just had a solar and battery system installed it will pay back capital costs in 6 years, reason the battery and it's cost has plummeted in the last few years

[@MinkieWinkle]

Prices going up is exactly in line with the closer or reduction of their exteaction. So it's artificially higher.

[@MinkieWinkle]

Furthermore, No you did not just have a system installed that will pay back in 6 years, not in the UK that is, mathematical it's impossible, since the UK is not exposed to enough UV, it's in fact on of the worst places in the world for solar.

[@looseycanon]

Most of which are artificial, such as carbon taxes. Green BS will destroy humanity. Not oil and consumption. We'll die of starvation long before the planet will not be able to sustain us, if we go green. Just look at Sri Lanka, when they tried to go "natural"

[@SlowhandGreg]

@@MinkieWinkle It's got nothing to do with the solar and everything to do with the batteries and the diverter for hot water I can timeshift and open up special tariffs with my supplier including ultra low overnight tariff. All the flexible tariffs are below what I was paying + I'm saving on GAS for heating water. Hence 6 years without them it's 15+

[@SlowhandGreg]

@@MinkieWinkle Let me elaborate further In 2023/24 the cost of domestic batteries fell by 20%. The Government this year Zero Vat rated battery packs as part of a domestic install. I was just as surprised as you were at the estimates a few months in and even with minimal sun it looks like the estimates from the solar company were reasonably accurate

[@ricardosmythe2548]

Cult eviction stratergy

[@amigang]

it is a real shame. I just hope the science is wrong now. Because I think the Uk is unlikly to reach it goal and US will go it way. Based on what most are saying now, we have maybe 10 years max to stop the big changes, where we enter the tipping point and it just get worst no matter what.

[@ricardosmythe2548]

Do you really think we have the ability to change or stop the climate changing on the suggested scale? 😂

[@Jason-gd4qr]

Good at last some real action on the lies and nonsense.

[@craig3420]

Says everything about the lunatic trump

[@michaelsalmon9381]

Let’s see what happens. I bet American economy will be better than ours

[@SlowhandGreg]

The US is a federal system of 50 states each has it's own economy The most deprived states in the US are run by Republicans so no there in for a bit of a crash

[@sheehan92]

Hoax must be called out as hoax.

[@hash062]

Lewis Goodall who completely called it wrong on election, still having a meltdown.

[@weswheel4834]

He seems to be getting paid to talk on LBC about it. What you don't seem to get is that although choosing Don makes no sense for ordinary people, in the immediate aftermath, it makes the jobs of radio presenters easier.

[@CoreyStudios2000]

I pray that neither him nor RFK Jr., nor Matt Gaetz, nor Tulsi Gabbard, not Hogsweth are ever confirmed by the Senate. It’s time that the Democrats, Independents, Republicans should unite, grow a spine, and stand up against Trump and his Maga movement! We must stand for democracy and the Constitution!

[@EuphemiaGrubb]

Who is this?

[@leefairhurst9058]

GO GO TRUMP

[@SurzhenkoAndrii]

Is'nt this the best candidate for motto 'drill, bay drill'?

[@catherinekrzan6605]

"Drill, baby, drill." "Frack, frack, frack." What could possibly go wrong, Right? 🙃

[@AmerBoyo]

What a scumbag.

[@phil3572]

Not weighing costs and benefits in the use of fossil fuels, nuclear or even hydro shows how anti-human the climate catastrophe argument seems to me. By the way, climate change is not another definition of disaster just because "the UN" decides that it is. Be careful in defining your terms when accusing people of being deniers. Co2 has effect on temperature, but I see it as minimal and generally beneficial. When I see epistemological evidence to the contrary, having weighed up costs & benefits, then I might change my mind. When alternatives come along which are widely available, affordable & scaleable all over the planet if required, without bankrupting people or costing individual freedom, then I'll be in the queue. Until then, you live your life and keep out of mine.

[@asdfkgkspr284]

What you see and what the truth is are two different things

[@Englishman4412]

Climate change denier. 😂

[@Jacko84]

The way LBC frame the conversation, trumps extreme, but never mention anything about labour extreme abuse of power

[@martynblackburn9632]

Whataboutery.

[@davidrobertson9271]

Essential we get full control of our nuclear weapons systems and recommission air launched stand-off nuclear weapons like blue steel

[@winterlinde5395]

Who would have thought

[@dral9971]

Crime against humanity. Stop him.

[@PhilipBurton-dn3ce]

It was 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer than today when the pyramids were built and we are in an atmospheric CO2 drought at the moment....Cloward-Pevin were discussing ways to use climate as a political tool of coercion in the 1950s.....you've been swindled

[@robertthompson6012]

Hahaha the end of woke nonsense

[@rigzrigz]

And we love trump for it. Make the world great again

[@50sense50]

👌

[@danmayberry1185]

The world has neckties older than the US. Get over yourselves.

[@davidjacobs828]

Trump will stop the climate change hoax...😂

[@davelloyd8454]

You're not seeing the extra hurricanes and more dynamic dramatic weather? It's not a hoax.

[@ibexdnb2879]

Humanity is being lulled into metaphorical chains...

[@AllanHinde-mb2pr]

LBC AND ITS VIEW IQ 50 😂

[@martynblackburn9632]

I can't imagine how low the IQ of those who watch GBfakeNews.

[@bradley7021]

Common sense prevails at last 👏👏

[@gordonstrong5232]

Doing the bidding of fossil fuel billionaires and Wall Street is common sense?

[@danage1936]

I suggest if you live in Bangladesh you invest in an umbrella and a pair waders because the USA isn't coming to your rescue America first!

[@VictorVictory-ht2cp]

America only ‘helps’ other countries to gain leverage over them and their resource. If you honestly think they do it from an altruistic standpoint, you really don’t know much about the world

[@SlowhandGreg]

Make America Garbage Again - how quaint You can't escape the economic reality that renewable energy is cheaper those states embracing it will have a huge competitive advantage of cheap energy Will the sh1th0le red states just keep sponging forevermore?

[@neiljones9005]

He’s going to spoil the world agenda - hahaha

[@Steveuploads]

😂😂. 👍👍

[@hithere9377]

Climate Change TM, formally Global Warming TM.

[@asdfkgkspr284]

They changed it because of idiots like you holding up a snowball and pretending people didn’t freeze to death this winter because of an even more extreme and unstable global climate

[@zoolhert3535]

Go Don

[@weswheel4834]

He did. But then he came back.

[@floatingpeaks4584]

​@@weswheel4834😂 good one

[@JosephNZUK]

​@@floatingpeaks4584.... You pair should get a room.

[@50sense50]

the king is back baby yeh 🎉❤

[@yantomanuel6919]

who else loves broken hearted, deluded liberals whining, as they will be for the next 4 years?

[@HarryNottings]

What did you win?

[@PaulStargasm]

They won Thanksgiving on their own from the sounds of it.

[@SlowhandGreg]

@@HarryNottings This deluded liberal has already invested in insulation upgrades + solar and a battery, fk em let them freeze and leave this mortal coil from heatstroke

[@merlindxb4333]

Great!

[@weswheel4834]

Johnson put his mates (or fellow bubble occupiers) in the top positions. Not only didn't that go well, but they have no one left to clean up the mess in their party. We're 10 years ahead of the US on that.

[@gordonstrong5232]

We get it, you're old, you don't have to care about climate change. Kind of a selfish attitude though.

[@spritbong5285]

enuf said

[@50sense50]

Did you attend school?

[@MCDONALD6969]

See Trump actually has offeings

[@rogerphelps9939]

Burnt offerings.

[@MCDONALD6969]

@rogerphelps9939 communist

[@boxing.clever]

Not a climate change denier. He’s a climate crisis denier. Which is fair enough.

[@weswheel4834]

Because his part of the world hasn't flood yet therefore there's no crisis?

[@boxing.clever]

@@weswheel4834 No. it’s because most of the ‘climate’ tragedies that have occurred so far are actually not out of the ordinary. For example, massive wildfires in Tenerife last summer were billed as climate. However, I was there at the time, and the local tv was stating police said it was arson that started it. Also spoke to a taxi driver, and he said it happens every few years. So not climate. Look at Valencia recently. Also not climate, as the media would have people believe. Real cause was lack of flood guarding, as part of an eco project to widen rivers. Climate change is obviously a thing. But I’m afraid that has been a thing for billions of years. And anywhere that is truly having major issues, needs local fixes. Fracking in America will not impact flooding in Bangladesh.

[@weswheel4834]

@@boxing.clever Keep telling yourself that if it helps. Taking your Tenerife example, if everything hadn't been so dry then it wouldn't have spread so quickly. Did you really need that explaining to you?

[@SuperRipper1888]

​@weswheel4834 so you think it was damp in Tenerife in summer 40 years ago? 😂😂

[@boxing.clever]

@@weswheel4834 🤦🏻‍♂️ it’s funny that you go straight to an attempted insult (typical liberal nowadays), rather than debate like an adult. However, the irony in your comment is amazing. As you clearly need explaining to that it is almost ALWAYS dry in Tenerife 😂 bless ya. Try harder.

[@Dawnsmith-r8m]

Well done trump

[@shax3364]

Drill Baby Drill....😂

[@stephenford5839]

What will be the total cost of achieving net zero in the uk? Also how and by whom will this cost be paid? As far as I’m aware no one from our government has ever published this with supporting calculations.

[@rugbygirlsdadg]

Compared to not doing anything about it? In fact, so far for me it's been a net benefit. Buying an EV when my old car had to be scrapped, had saved me a load of money. After the roughly nine year payback from the cost of installing solar panels and a battery from my pension payout, I'll be quids in. A 12% return on investment, tax free.🙂

[@bobbygabriel9574]

So many more jobs from energy transition.

[@glowwurm9365]

What’s the cost of doing nothing? Why wouldn’t you want to be energy independent? Right now the cost of offshore wind is significantly cheaper than all other forms of energy (yah yah what about when it doesn’t blow, snore). Once our ecosystem breaks you can’t put it back together again, once insects populations collapse (happening now) our current way of life is gone, forever. Personally don’t see why you wouldn’t support cheaper energy (off shore wind) backed by a base load in the form of nuclear/hydrogen/batteries. We just endured a cost of living crisis precisely because we aren’t energy independent.

[@PaulStargasm]

When the cost of not doing it is the survival of the human race does it matter?

[@glowwurm9365]

@@rugbygirlsdadgJust bought an EV, when we renew are the house solar and heat pump will be installed with a battery. I don’t honestly see an argument as to why you wouldn’t adopt this approach, being energy independent within your house is logical. By the time I retire they’ll have paid themselves off and I’ll be bill free, who wouldn’t want that?

[@nickj3287]

Why is the uk obsessed with what Americans are doing. Shouldn't we be obsessed with the road ahead of us and things the uk is able to achieve ... These are very confusing times and I'm really starting to think we live in the matrix , and dont know how to plant trees ,build houses and grow our own food... Amazing or amazingly a lost cause...

[@Dylanesque]

The UK has always been the US's obedient little puppy-dog.

[@mandolinmandolin]

Why is the UK interested in what our largest and most important ally is doing? Why is the UK interested in what the largest world economy, and the UK's single largest trading partner is doing? Hmm I wonder why... 😂 Come on mate, it's not that difficult... no country exists in a vacuum and if we are to look at "the road ahead" then we naturally need to consider what is going on globally too... whether we like it or not, events in the USA will affect us and the rest of the world.

[@nickj3287]

@mandolinmandolin look around the world, in 30 years many countries are passing the uk in productivity and development... The reason why America is our biggest trading partner is because we put all our eggs in there basket.. No wonder our greatest minds are leaving the uk... Events in usa affect the rest of the words because they are the reserve currency, And they are the biggest consumers, which affects trade everywhere, Its actually a lot more complicated than that as they have some the biggest outward investments everywhere... But that doesn't mean we dont know how to pull our own socks up....

[@mandolinmandolin]

@nickj3287 I agree, and I don't like it either. But that's unfortunately the reality - you asked why we are so interested in what happens in the USA, and sadly this is the truth.

[@stevegraham3041]

Net zero 💩

[@garymellor5100]

Please stop saying "climate change deniers". No one denies the climate changes. Its "man made climate change denier"that is the correct terminology. Its perfectly correct to debate the effect man has on climate change, the science isnt settled despite the consensus peoole cling on to. Milliband has just put out a prediction that peoples energy bills could reduce by 300 pounds by 2030. He used a model for his prediction that didnt estimate how much bills will increse by 2030 before the possible reduction he claims may happen. I would rather listen to scientists and economists with opposing views on man made climate change have a debate rather than listen to two people pontificate about a subject they believe is settled. Its perfectly acceptable to ask why we are putting all our eggs into the net zero basket without being labelled as some sort of danger to the planet. There is other options than taking this over zealous approach to net zero.

[@SlowhandGreg]

Your energy bills will reduce in real terms the more renewables we have on the grid simply because wind and the sun aren't affected by inflation, extraction processing and transport costs + The cost of the infrastructure is still falling in real terms + Energy providers are embracing new tech to enable consumers to time shift demand onto cheaper off peak tariffs

[@youngsalmon5188]

For a start you should be listening to climatologists, many scientists are not qualified in the field. And amongst climatologists it is settled, there will always be a minority who disagree with any theory however that is how science works. Only the ignorant or selfish would still deny man made climate change just like the fools that said the hole in the ozone wasn’t man made😢

[@JosephNZUK]

I love that Trump is triggering all these lefty climate clowns 🙂. And, he hasn't even started yet.

[@Dylanesque]

How much are you being paid to post such delinquency? Is it in $ or ₽?

[@weswheel4834]

I mean, yeah. Winding up people that you don't like is the most important job of a leader. Actually being able to run the country is a minor afterthought (/s).

[@gordonstrong5232]

​@@weswheel4834 "owning the libs" is literally all these 60 IQ right-wing trolls care about. They're entirely motivated by hate and rage.

[@spacehopper77]

I am still waiting for ANY of the catastrophic predictions made years ago by Al Gore to become true

[@SlowhandGreg]

Each year the US disaster relief budget goes up way more than inflation

[@spacehopper77]

@ Fact check, US disaster relief SPEND in 2023, 2024 has significantly gone down in comparison to 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The IPCC, in their latest report, say there is no evidence that catastrophic weather events are becoming more severe or are more frequent due to the currently global temperature increase. The USA is not global.

[@rhaedas9085]

You could always look past Gore's attempt to bring awareness to the real scientists who have made projections and see how well they match up. Spoiler, it's worst than they originally guessed. But keep touting Gore as a representation of science failure...

[@asdfkgkspr284]

You don’t think we’ve been seeing worse natural disasters in the last ten years, then I don’t know what to tell you

[@spacehopper77]

@@rhaedas9085 or you could point us to actual measured data, not predicted data through computer simulation modelling, such as satellite or weather ballon measured temperatures etc Actual measurement data from satellites, radiosonde weather balloons, and surface temperature measurements show a warming rate of less than half that predicted by climate models.

[@kaybeehymumf1355]

Climate change? How about a discussion about the Met office admitting to constant geoengineering and cloudseeding in order to prevent so called global warming?

[@HarryNottings]

Go ahead and provide your sources

[@PaulStargasm]

Oops looks like you forgot to take your meds!

[@kaybeehymumf1355]

@@PaulStargasm there we go, when all else fails resort to insults

[@vincentblack7467]

Do China & India know something we don't no.. 😂😅

[@asdfkgkspr284]

China is literally building more renewable energy in 2024 than the rest of the world combined

[@paddyproperty]

MAGA 🇺🇸