Chris Hoar

Writer of stuff / Software Developer / Musician and lead singer Courting Ghosts / Lib Dem / History lover.

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Downing street lit up in Ukrainian colours whilst suspending visa's for Ukrainian nationals. If you want a real example of "virtue signaling" that is it!

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@virologyanon @hausfath This is clearly coming from your own personal experience

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@hausfath @virologyanon Incredible how so many on X know more about a subject than someone with a PhD in that subject.

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

The world has warmed by around 1.4C since 1850.

It took 148 years for the first half of that warming to occur, and just 27 years for the second half!

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If i earned $1 million per year and didn't spend a cent, I'd need to work 1 million years to be a trillionaire.

Utterly obscene.

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@jackjam11884 @I_amMukhtar Oh look, the "respector" and "protector" of women has spoken

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@jackjam11884 @I_amMukhtar The difference in integrity, understanding, humanity and intelligence between you and this young lady is so vast I don't have the words. And just in case you aren't capable of understanding what I'm saying, you aren't the one coming out on top mate 👍

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@charlotteukcity @Keir_Starmer @reformparty_uk @RestoreBritain This young woman is an absolutely hero.

[𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓮 @charlotteukcity]

EVERYONE:
This young woman, who lives in Belfast, really wants her truth to be heard. Please take the time to listen to her very wise & powerful speech about what is ‘really’ going on, despite what some parties & people are portraying. Please share after so her message gets out.

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@JuliaHB1 @Lumen_Expose SOE in France carried out some of the most dangerous operations there were. I'm ashamed you would use semantics to belittle their achievements rather than using your platform to educate those who don't know about them. Shameful.

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

This is indeed a superb letter from The Astronomer Royal of Scotland. “Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why.” I agree - my colleagues in particle physics have also tried, without success, to discover who owns the decision to damage physics research in the UK, perhaps irreparably, at a time when our economy desperately needs the skills and knowledge we develop and teach. @UKRI_News need to get a grip urgently and fix the problem someone, somewhere, has created.

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@Kbreezy665 @JonJonmarkb @AaronBastani No. But im wondering about your ability to understand sensationalist headlines, contrarianism and made up "predictions', vs peer reviewed, scientific consensus, because i see no evidence you have any. Where is the evidence for scientific consensus re. the statements you mention?

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@OfficialNierto @omgsidewalks Ahhh won't you please think of the poor, penniless, nonglobalist innocent oil companies.

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Honestly, I’m sick and tired of grown adults calling the climate crisis a hoax. It’s not even a debate, the science has been settled for decades. Your ignorance is not just embarrassing, it is actively destroying the planet and every living thing on it.

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@jimthepleb @JonJonmarkb @AaronBastani No, really

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@Kbreezy665 @JonJonmarkb @AaronBastani So you can't find any then

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@jimthepleb @JonJonmarkb @AaronBastani So it's complete bollocks as i suspected then

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

This article says climate change is “believed to have played a role” in the UK's extreme heat this week.

As a climate scientist, let me fact-check that.

First, climate change is not a religion. No belief is required. It is about evidence.

And the evidence has been crystal clear for more than two decades: climate change is making heat waves hotter, longer, more frequent and more dangerous.

In fact, science has advanced far beyond saying climate change merely “played a role.” Today, we can quantify how much more likely and how much hotter climate change made a specific event.

Here's the bottom line:

Climate is changing. Humans are responsible. And we are experiencing the impacts now. That’s the bad news.

The good news is that solutions already exist, and the majority of people care - 89%, around the world!

But meaningful action depends on helping people understand not just what is happening: we need to know how it affects our lives (this heat wave being example A today) and what we can do about it.

That’s the opportunity this reporting missed.

https://t.co/vYfPDKcWWf

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@GrumpyLofty @AaronBastani Where are the links to the research behind each of these "predictions" that led to a scientific consensus in support of them? Or are you just posting complete bollocks as a way to let people believe they don't need to think?

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@JonJonmarkb @AaronBastani You said "According 20 to 30 year ago predictions, the glaciers should have melted by now and coast lines should have disappeared."... where are these historical predictions you're referring to?

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@cillianblack @DAaronovitch The irony of this tweet is off the scale