Ben Brown

Politics, Software, Renewables, Cricket, NFFC, not necessarily in that order. Confidence can exceed competence.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@MYirrell @DanielJHannan @K_Niemietz Because it's easy to read the literature on it where they describe the different techniques they use? Science isn't some big secret. You can just go read the papers if you want to.
Generally climate deniers don't though because then they wouldn't be climate deniers.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@andrew_lilico Sounded to me like you were saying the business rates cut will mean the tax will need to be raised another way, rather than some other unnamed spending choices. But I stand corrected.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@andrew_lilico So why do we need to raise taxes another way?

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@sanguibee It's a very clear yellow. This is why you don't shout your mouth off at the ref and get yourself a stupid yellow earlier in the game. The ref had no choice.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@MYirrell @DanielJHannan @K_Niemietz If multiple organisations using different techniques all over the world come up with the same answers then the chances are the random guy on the internet is wrong rather than the entire scientific community.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@pennynueron @afneil Nuclear is great. But very very slow and very very expensive. Hopefully SMRs will change that. But until it does renewables are the only game in town.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@pennynueron @afneil Yeah agree completely. Only way we're going to do that is via investing in renewables.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@MYirrell @DanielJHannan @K_Niemietz That's what you're trying to do. The science world is based on accurate data. Your world is based on your feelings.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@pennynueron @afneil True. But they provide cheap and reliable variable energy, not dependant on wars and dictators. Combined with sensible batteries and storage they are clearly the better option. Spain has very cheap energy now based on their solar boom. Italy went for gas and is v expensive.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@nik2181 @GBNEWS We're still laughing at it.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@MYirrell @DanielJHannan @K_Niemietz It's the fact I didn't understand something earlier that means I'm refusing to accept things now.
You are anti science, so will never understand the natural world. It will always be a mystery to you.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@LanceForman @SirSimonClarke @ZiaYusufUK Amazing that intelligent people can have this position. You don't believe humans have released a lot of CO2 by burning FFs? Or you don't believe CO2 is a greenhouse gas? The physics is fairly simple.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@peakoilcoming @Femi_sorry So you agree with Lammy we should restrict jury trials?
You can't blame the government for the actions of a jury.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@peakoilcoming @Femi_sorry Not the point. The authorities did their best to convict. The public in the form of a jury decided it wasn't a crime.
Neither of us attended the court case so we don't know if they made the right decision or not.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@frogslayer69 @HardTruthMaxi @MikeFellman Ok now you're just being boring and abusive. If you can't argue about stuff like this without getting upset then don't wade into other people's conversations.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@frogslayer69 @HardTruthMaxi @MikeFellman google what? The last free and fair referendum the Crimeans chose to be independent.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@frogslayer69 @HardTruthMaxi @MikeFellman Now you're just making shit up. Please point out where I've said anything like this or withdraw it.

[Ben Brown @benbrownuk]

@frogslayer69 @HardTruthMaxi @MikeFellman You're tap dancing around giving a number. It's been getting on for 100 years since the 1944 Tartar ethnic cleansing. Doesn't sound too far off your slightly vague 'sociological living memory' test.