Jamie Crawley

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@SimonGThomas @AlbaCuler @afneil Precisely. Calling government spending "investing" doesn't magically make it profitable. If state "investment" actually generated positive economic returns above our borrowing costs, the debt would shrink relative to GDP. The opposite keeps happening.

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@AlbaCuler @afneil You were suggesting the government's plans to borrow even more were "investing to make money" and a means to "improve the quality of people's lives."

If that's not a defence of the government's borrowing policy, then what is it?

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@AlbaCuler @afneil "Investing" works if the returns exceed the cost of debt. When you pay top-tier G7 interest rates, endless borrowing doesn't improve lives - it means higher taxes and less money to spend down the line just to pay the interest. Or have you been asleep for the last six years?

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@woodasleep @jan_lukavs67397 @LoftusSteve In what is that increase in the number of hot days the UK experiences either “dramatic” or “ecosystem altering”? Seems entirely consistent with what one would expect amid in a long-term global warming trend.

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@pete_ar_fryn @LoftusSteve How's increased winter rain relevant to perceived increased fire risk in summer?

And the data didn't just show annual totals. It showed specifically summer rainfall and it suggests even with lengthening summer dry spells, they're still within historic bounds of variability.

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@WrestleFeatures What do they do with him until then? What’s the kayfabe reason for him not going for not demanding a title shot immediately having beaten and been declared the future by The Beast?

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@woodasleep @jan_lukavs67397 @LoftusSteve Cool stat, but what's your point? The relevant matter is relative wetness/dryness over a long-term period. Temperature in isolation is neither here nor there.

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@missilemendoza @LoftusSteve So you're referring to agricultural drought not meteorological. That's as much related to land use and poor water resource management as anything to do with warming.

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@missilemendoza @LoftusSteve But as the data show, our dry summers are within the range of historic variability.

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@missilemendoza @LoftusSteve That’s a lot of words to effectively agree with the broad point that summers are sometimes dry and sometimes wet.

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@jan_lukavs67397 @LoftusSteve That’s all well and good. But it being very dry this summer is weather, not climate.

Climate would be it was this dry the majority of summers. Which the graph should you tell you it isn’t.

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@JonathanWiltsh7 @NadiaWhittomeMP If you ever want to be sure if you’re right about something, just read @JonathanWiltsh7’s posts.

If you disagree with everything he says, you almost certainly are.

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@WrestlePurists Example: if @TripleH wants fans to blame @YaOnlyLivvOnce for going 100 days without defending her title, he should write that in and make it part of the storyline.

They haven't done that, so fans rightly assume it's just bad creative that she hasn't defended the belt.

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@LoftusSteve I think the final sentence is the most pertinent.

The world is a rather large place. At any time, it’s probable there will be a country or region that experiences some form of extreme weather.

No matter how extreme it is though, it’s just that: weather. Not climate.

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@WelshBrendan2 Despite the UK's best efforts, global carbon emissions have kept on increasing, The UK's decreases have been nullified and then some elsewhere. Therefore it's had zero effect on the climate.

And what's the point of the IMF link sorry?

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@WelshBrendan2 On charities, no you’re not.

I don’t see any point in persisting with policies that we’ve pursuing for decades which have had zero benefit to the climate but have made us comfortably worse off by trying.

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@willgoodbin @LoftusSteve So you said the narrative didn't exist. Now that you've been proven wrong, you hide behind a word salad about "anthropogenic climate breakdown" to pretend you were making a deeper point.

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@joseph_gellman The rest of the world isn’t doing their bit because they’re rightly prioritising prosperity through economic growth. The UK impoverishing itself to remove its 1% of carbon emissions isn’t going to encourage anyone - it’ll warn them exactly what not to do.

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@benbrownuk @LoftusSteve Given this is a thread that commenced with a @LoftusSteve post, I'll refer you to his posts for the last word on renewables costs against fossil fuels or nuclear.