Climate change is upon us....

[Nearly Sane]

It looks as though Risky has made a serious mis-step, even on the cynical, populist grounds which probably motivated his U-turn: it seems that the British public are broadly in favour of net-zero policies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/21/al-gore-rishi-sunak-climate-crisis

You have to remember that for the Tories to win an election they don't need a majority of votes, and that being 'broadly in favour of net zero' doesn't mean being in favour of specific policies.

[Aruntraveller]

In one interview this morning, Kemi Badenoch I think, said that delaying the ban on the sale of new petrol cars would help "hard-pressed families". Why the interviewer didn't point out that hard-pressed families can't afford new cars of any sort is beyond me.

[Nearly Sane]

The interesting thing now is how will Labour position itself on this. Starmer's reaction to Uxbridge would hint at the Tories being echoed.

[SteveH]

The front pages. Usual shite from the right wing rags, except for the Times, which is more nuanced.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/21/sunak-green-gamble-pm-net-zero-u-turn-divides-uk-front-pages

[jeremyp]

In one interview this morning, Kemi Badenoch I think, said that delaying the ban on the sale of new petrol cars would help "hard-pressed families". Why the interviewer didn't point out that hard-pressed families can't afford new cars of any sort is beyond me.

The ban on new petrol cars was just performative. It was always going to be postponed.

[Dicky Underpants]

That's appalling - but it seems to be standard these day that people think they are entitled to their own facts!

I saw one Tory dinosaur being interviewed by Chris Packham last night, who one might have expected this to come out with this sort of thing (I believe it was Peter Lilley, whom I thought and hoped had died). But one might have expected better things of Neil Oliver, who I believe is a trained archaeologist, and whom one might expect to be a little more concerned with facts. Perhaps he picked up some strange brain infection on his travels, given the bizarre nature of his comments over the last few years.

[SqueakyVoice]

I saw one Tory dinosaur being interviewed by Chris Packham last night, who one might have expected this to come out with this sort of thing (I believe it was Peter Lilley, whom I thought and hoped had died).

I watched it tonight it was Lord Lilley. He had no idea of how to use or read statistics  and thought every 'event' was completely separate  from every other event.

[Nearly Sane]

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[Nearly Sane]

6 months is a long time in politics


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66900999

[Nearly Sane]

A little bit of good news

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/26/staggering-green-growth-gives-hope-for-15c-says-global-energy-head

[Nearly Sane]

Can't think of a by election that's been as significant in influencing govt policies as Uxbridge


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66927242

[Nearly Sane]

A Rosebank by any other name...


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66933832

[Nearly Sane]

And govt doing really well with UK nature


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66923930

[Nearly Sane]

Those bad 20mph limits, free the motorist! I feel the need, the need for 30mph speed!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66957733

[Nearly Sane]

The fall of the Berlin Wall, 9/11, 7/7. Events seared on the brain where I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing. And now to add to that the great hope inspired by Rishi Sunak that at last the great and terrible scourge that is the war on the motorist is ending. The dreadful suffering of 20 mph limits, and low traffic zones, things almost too darkly frightening to think about, and the hero Sunak with his combustion engine of glorious righteousness sets us free!


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66965714

[torridon]

 

[Nearly Sane]

¡A las barricadas!

I think we should start making bets on what laughably beyond parody cunning stunt Just Stop Oil will do next.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67013671

[Aruntraveller]

¡A las barricadas!

I think we should start making bets on what laughably beyond parody cunning stunt Just Stop Oil will do next.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67013671

FFS.

Don't they realise they are just isolating themselves from people who would be sympathetic to their cause?

Why on earth didn't they try to disrupt the Tory conference?

That would make some sort of coherent sense given the appalling way the Conservative government is approaching environmental issues.

[Nearly Sane]

FFS.

Don't they realise they are just isolating themselves from people who would be sympathetic to their cause?

Why on earth didn't they try to disrupt the Tory conference?

That would make some sort of coherent sense given the appalling way the Conservative government is approaching environmental issues.

Were I to be an agent of the 'deep state' given a mission to infiltrate and undermine JSO, this is the sort of stuff I would suggest they do. Though I would have had everyone wearing Susan Boyle masks.

[Nearly Sane]

More records

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67017021

[SqueakyVoice]

I watched it tonight it was Lord Lilley. He had no idea of how to use or read statistics  and thought every 'event' was completely separate  from every other event.

World could be heading for hottest October ever - after hottest July, August and September2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record as an emerging El Niño adds to the impact of climate change[/font][/color][/size]

Lord Lilley won't worry about El Nino happening again. Just another coincidence.
Happening  again and again.
And more and more often.
But still just a coincidence.

[Nearly Sane]

Save the planet, destroy the Nipple! Or maybe not...


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67028209

[Nearly Sane]

Perhaps this will be the crucial.kick up the arse

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67078674

[Nearly Sane]

It's all going very well, or rather feel the quality nevermind the width.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/one-huge-contradiction-is-undoing-our-best-climate-efforts/ar-AA1jIWPg

[Nearly Sane]

'Pledge, you say, Sir Keir?'


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67528894