Anthony Meikle

Retired professional forester, photographer and mountaineer. Definitely apolitical and I avoid all contentious issues - sometimes.
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[Toby Young @toadmeister]

With the demise of the IPCC's extreme RCP8.5 climate scenario, any remaining reason to pursue Net Zero has vanished – and even Tony Blair has started to notice, says meteorologist Andrew Sibley. https://t.co/xh1CXKYT7z

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Listen when they tell you!

CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere, under 0.02% plant life DIES OFF.

You are being forced to believe CO2 is an existential threat to humanity, by people spending £TRILLIONS of our tax on a UN project.

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

🚨 Conservative MP Harriet Cross TORE into Labour’s energy policy in the House of Commons. 🔥

While Norway’s own Labour government is busy issuing new North Sea oil & gas licences and expanding drilling to secure its energy future, Britain’s Labour government has banned new licensing here at home.

The result? British workers fly to Norway for oil jobs, and we pay billions every year to import Norwegian gas from the very same North Sea basin we refuse to touch.

Harriet nailed it in the Commons:

We’re shutting down our own industry, exporting jobs and cash, and making ourselves more dependent on foreign energy, all in the name of “net zero” virtue signalling.

This isn’t environmental leadership. It’s national stupidity.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

As someone with a worm’s eye view of the legislative process, it really irritates me that Starmer’s spin for the poor local election results is that his Govt hasn’t been moving fast enough. There were 40 bills in the first parliamentary session and there are 37 in the second, as set out in yesterday’s King’s Speech. Starmer has created 96 peers – a higher rate per year than any previous Prime Minister. He could not be going any faster.

The fact that the legislation the Govt has rammed through has not delivered growth or reduced the tax burden on working people or lowered the cost of living – delivered the ‘change’ that Labour promised – is because they’re not designed to do that. They’re designed to placate the Party’s ‘stakeholders’ – backbench Labour MPs, trade unions, NGOs, think tanks, lobby groups, allies in the legal profession, cheerleaders in the media, etc.

It’s been bleedin’ obvious to everyone on the opposition benches – and probably some on the Govt benches too – that the legislation was introduced in the last parliamentary session – particularly the Employment Rights Act – will impede growth, not accelerate it.

We’ve told the Govt’s ministers this in the chamber again and again and everything we’ve predicted would happen has happened – rising unemployment, rising inflation, accelerating borrowing costs, an unmanageable welfare bill, exodus of high income-earners, thereby increasing the tax burden on the rest of us, etc.

The idea that if the Govt had been going *even faster* – which is just straightforwardly impossible – the country would be better off, is for the birds. Even as a piece of spin, it’s pathetic. The reason we’re in an economic doom spiral is because this Govt is only interested in pandering to its ‘stakeholders’ and their only motive is to line their own pockets and advance their own narrow sectional interests.

Changing the leader will make no difference. We need a Prime Minister and a Govt who are going to prioritise the national interest. I don’t see anyone in the pack of hyenas stalking Starmer who’s going to do that.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

CO₂ does not control the climate. It never has. It is not the master dial of the Earth’s temperature, nor is it the architect of our modern anxieties.

Carbon dioxide doesn't cause excessive rainfall, droughts, or the collapse of coastal cliffs. Nor is it responsible for the fractures in human society—terrorism, urban violence, obesity or the drug crisis. These are the products of a human civilization that has survived its own annihilation by the narrowest of margins, persisting for 300,000 years largely through a stroke of cosmic luck.

Yet, for four decades, a relentless climate war has force-fed the world a diet of crisis and warming hysteria. It insists that CO₂ is the root of all evil—that it is our fault and it is the gas's fault. But the truth is indifferent: CO₂ doesn't care. It is not demonic. It is not pollution. It is the foundation of life on Earth.

Without it, Earth would be a silent, sterile rock, inhabited only by bacteria. It was CO₂ that empowered cyanobacteria to unlock the miracle of photosynthesis, slowly flooding the world with the 'waste product' we call oxygen. Before this, the oceans were dark with iron, the skies were not blue, and the world was effectively lifeless. We should be thankful for this gas of life, rather than inventing doomsday scenarios to vilify it.

If we look at the true scale of our planet, the single greatest factor affecting Earth’s geology is tectonic continental flow. This slow, majestic dance of crustal plates shapes our continents and redirects the great ocean currents. This is nature at work.

Today, CO₂ is a mere trace gas at 427 ppm (0.04%). While it is a mighty driver for biology, it is at some of its lowest levels in planetary history. During the Cambrian Period, concentrations were upwards of 4,000 to 8,000 ppm. If those massive levels did not trigger an 'irreversible environmental collapse', it is illogical to assume today’s trace amounts will.

Furthermore, water vapor remains the dominant greenhouse gas, reaching concentrations of 40,000 ppm (4%) in the tropics. It is responsible for the vast majority of the greenhouse effect, yet it is sidelined in favor of the carbon narrative.

History matters. For hundreds of millions of years, CO₂ has not been the deciding factor in global temperature. Homo sapiens evolved during the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which began 34 million years ago when Antarctica became entombed in ice. Our entire history has unfolded within the Quaternary glaciation, surviving 100,000-year cycles of icehouse conditions.

Almost every meaningful invention, every empire, and every leap in human progress occurred within the brief, warm window of the Holocene. We have never not lived in an ice age. We have survived global upheavals before, but we may not survive a self-imposed collapse into a new medieval dark age driven by ideological fear.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

"Sugar-free" is code for "we replaced sugar with something even worse for you."

"Fat-free" is code for "we took the fat out and packed it with sugar to make up for the taste."

"Plant-based" is code for "ultra-processed in a factory you'd faint walking through."

"Heart-healthy" is code for "contains seed oils and a logo we paid the foundation to put on the box."

"Lite" is code for "watered-down, then sweetened, then sold at the same price."

"All-natural" is code for "technically traceable to a plant at some point in the chain."

"Cage-free" is code for "the cage is now the entire windowless barn."

"Whole grain" is code for "still flour, still spikes your blood sugar, just browner."

The label is the marketing. The ingredients list is the document. Read the second one.

[David Icke @davidicke]

David Bellamy was a great guy and a proper environmentalist who didn't follow establishment scripts. That's why the BBC sacked him.

[Bobbie @bo66ie29]

This beautiful remastered footage was captured by an off duty policeman on 8th May 1945 after Churchill officially declared Victory in Europe. Flags are strung between terraces during the street celebrations in Gateshead. 🇬🇧 #VEDay

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Food fraud is rampant in the modern food supply.

"Extra virgin" olive oil is routinely cut with cheaper oils. Italian investigations have found up to 80% of samples adulterated.

Honey is bulked out with rice syrup and sugar water.

Maple syrup is often partly cane or corn syrup.

Seafood mislabelling is endemic. 20-30% of fish in US supermarkets isn't what the label says.

Grated parmesan has been found cut with wood pulp.

Fruit juice is mostly flavoured sugar with a splash of the fruit on the label.

Vanilla extract is largely synthetic vanillin from petrochemicals.

"Kobe beef" outside Japan is, more often than not, anything but.

"Cage-free" chicken means thousands of birds packed into a windowless barn.

Cheap chocolate is made with palm and seed oils instead of cocoa butter.

Truffle oil almost never contains truffles.

Manuka honey sold worldwide vastly exceeds what New Zealand actually produces.

Turmeric and paprika have been found cut with chalk, brick dust, and lead chromate for colour.

And the food pyramid itself was drawn up with the heavy hand of grain lobbies and industrial food processors.

It would be a lot easier if you just got steak, eggs, butter, and milk from the farmer down the road.

The fraud rate at the farm gate is approximately zero.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

"The International Panel on Climate Change has essentially just admitted that all the climate scare stories of the past 20 years are junk. Turns out, the alarmist forecasts that led to mass climate psychosis are 'implausible'."

@cmorrisonesq on the Sceptic.

Full episode👇

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

In a major development, the IPCC has finally admitted its apocalyptic RCP8.5 climate scenarios are "implausible", meaning most media scare stories over the last 15 years are officially junk, says Chris Morrison. https://t.co/XJHxDdKdAY

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Can someone please explain, in very simple language, how growing almonds in a Californian desert, draining the local aquifer until the ground subsides, spraying the entire crop with fungicides because almonds can't survive without them, killing off the commercial bee population in the process, then refrigerating the harvest and shipping it six thousand miles to Britain is environmentally friendly,

but buying a piece of beef from a farmer twelve miles down the road, whose cattle eat the grass that grows in the rain that falls on the hills that have been there since before anyone had opinions about this,

is a planetary emergency?

Asking for the cow.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Chris Morrison uncovers yet another Met Office scandal: a Scottish weather station still providing "temperature data" a full six decades after it closed. When will the Met Office admit it is making it up as it goes along? https://t.co/k2NeIQGDTm

[Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_]

Moronic..

And you're paying for this.

Just simply moronic.

[Lucy Biggers @LLBiggers]

“A gallon of jet fuel contains 34 kilowatt-hours of energy in a package weighing six pounds. A lithium-ion battery storing the same energy weighs 250 pounds. That density gap is why every military on earth runs on liquid hydrocarbons, why every container ship crossing the Pacific burns bunker fuel, why every combine harvester in Iowa runs on diesel, and why every 747 landing at Heathrow runs on kerosene. The fact that nobody wages war over solar panels is evidence of their limitations not superiority.” —@Shellenberger https://t.co/D2NxnfwvqU

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Propaganda words work so well

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Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science...

The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks.

Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert.

However, it can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.

A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.

Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years.

It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.

This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass.

When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.

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A rabbi, a Hindu priest, and Keir Starmer went on a hike...

Night fell and they were exhausted.

The hotel on the map was nowhere to be seen.

They knocked on the door of a farm and asked if they could spend the night.

The farmer said, “Of course, but I only have a small room with two beds. One of you will have to sleep in the barn.”

The Hindu priest said, “I need no material comforts. I will gladly take the barn.”

The rabbi and Keir Starmer were settling in when they heard a knock on the door. They opened it to find the Hindu priest standing there.

“So sorry, my friends, but there is a cow in the barn, and I cannot sleep beside such a holy animal.”

The rabbi said, “No problem, my brother. I’ll take the barn.

The Hindu priest and Keir Starmer were settling in when they heard a knock on the door. They opened it to find the rabbi standing there.

“So sorry, my friends, but there’s a pig in the barn, and I can’t sleep beside such a filthy animal.”

Keir Starmer said, “OK, let it be remembered that I sacrificed my comfort for the greater good.”

The rabbi and the Hindu priest were settling in when they heard a knock on the door.

They opened it to find the pig and the cow standing there.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

A great typically British take on the state of our roads.
Very funny but sadly true. Where is all of the tax money going ? Not on repairing potholes that’s for sure. Please share

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

1. The price cap is not a response to the war in Iran. It existed anyway (based on incorrect analysis by the CMA)

2. If you cared about the cost of living you would...

(i) lift the drilling ban and cancel the EPL.
And create incentives for opening new fields ASAP

(ii) call for gas companies and suppliers to import on long term fixed price contracts rather than doing everything on a just in time basis

(iii) cancel the RO, AR7 and future renewables auctions until prices are under control

(iv) abolish carbon taxes... They serve no purpose and just make energy expensive and industry uncompetitive

(v) cut the fuel duty... Half the pump price of petrol is tax. It's greedy profiteering by the government

But you won't because you actually care more about your net zero ideology than the cost of living or anything else