(((Richard Drake)))

object, agile and wiki pioneer. founder, open climate initiative. ruby guy. pronouns: if you're talking to me, use 'you'; if you're talking about me, don't care

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

One word - "Mary" - and the most important news in history has been communicated in its totality

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

CO₂ - most ludicrous demonisation in the history of pseudoscience

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

With atmospheric CO₂ hovering around 426 ppm, nature is thriving in arid regions once considered inhospitable.

The vegetation is marching back into the some of the world’s harshest desert environments. Earth's biosphere is quietly demonstrating a profound, measurable benefit from higher CO₂. These fringe areas are more resilient and greener, in a world that is also more water-efficient. Fresh green cover is actively reclaiming the fringes of the Sahel (the Sahara’s southern edge), the Middle East and the Australian Outback.

An 8% reduction in the Sahel (the Sahara’s southern edge) since the 1980s means 700,000 square kilometres of formerly barren sand wastes have turned green. This is an exciting real-world reincarnation of James Algar's 1963 epic documentary, 'The Living Desert', filmed in the Sonoran Desert near Tuscon, Arizona.

This is the natural world fighting back. Since 1960, global food production has increased by over 250% to 390% (depending on the index). Most of this is from the Green Revolution—the arrival of fertilisers, tractors and genetics. But atmospheric CO₂ - rising from 315 ppm to 426 ppm - is a silent yet profound tailwind behind every new hectare being harvested.

It's the ultimate irony: that a climate change agenda treated CO₂ as an agent of starvation. Instead, the fundamental biology shows it is still the primary engine of agricultural abundance and drought resilience.
When you break down the plant science, the results are stunning:

* C3 plants (95% of all plant species): Rice, wheat, soybeans and potatoes have increased yields by 30% to over 50%. Their photosynthetic mechanisms are structurally starved at lower baseline levels; extra CO₂ accelerates their growth directly.
* C4 plants: Maize (corn), sorghum and sugarcane have increased yields by up to 10%, alongside massive efficiency gains during dry spells.
* Root and tuber crops: Potatoes and sweet potatoes show explosive underground growth, as their large sinks efficiently store the excess carbohydrates produced by accelerated photosynthesis.

Studies compiled by organisations like the USDA Agricultural Research Service show potato yields increasing by 50% to over 100% under elevated CO₂ when water is abundant. Crucially, this atmospheric enrichment also triggers a 10% to 40% reduction in plant water loss because leaf stomata don't need to open as wide to take in carbon.

CO₂ isn't the code red disaster they warned about - but it is a massive insurance policy for the future of global food security.

Image: Global greening trends captured by satellite observations - NASA science.

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

Looks on the mark.

[David Zweig @davidzweig]

TRAILER:
New documentary from @WSJ on Great Barrington Declaration, Twitter Files, and Covid dissent!

Full doc dropping next week.

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

As a Spurs fan I approve this message 😊

[Thomas Evans @Renewal2030 🇬🇧 @ThomasEvansAdur]

Punishing today’s Conservatives for the mistakes of the past isn't just counterproductive—it’s completely self-defeating.

​Think about it: it is exactly like a football fanbase refusing to support their club because of a terrible previous season under a completely different manager. It makes zero sense.

​For years, the core complaint was clear: "We don't have an ideologically true Conservative leader, and we don't have real Conservative policies." Well, now we do. Under Kemi Badenoch, the landscape has completely shifted:

​The Principles: She is delivering the authentic, common-sense conservatism the grassroots have been begging for.

​The Vision: She is actively dismantling a decade of misrule and rebuilding the party from the ground up.

​The Momentum: Her message is resonating, and her leadership is popular.

​But Kemi cannot do this alone. She needs our support to make this renaissance a success.

​Right now, the political landscape is fractured by a protest vote that achieves nothing. Splitting the vote for Reform—a party that operates as a volatile one-man band and routinely borrows policies from across the aisle just to patch a manifesto together—doesn't help a single soul in this country.

​Worse still, let’s look at what Reform actually represents. The Tories are true blue. True Conservatism is blue.
Voting turquoise—a diluted, compromised blue—gets you a diluted form of conservatism that actively drifts leftward in Northern regions just to chase Red Wall populism. It lacks core stability.

​The Conservative Party offers tested, experienced, "old school" representatives who understand how to govern and how to fight for traditional values.

​It’s time to stop looking backward at past grievances and start looking forward at the real alternative. If you want genuine, un-diluted Conservatism, back the leader who is actually building it. 🇬🇧
​Back Kemi. Back the Blues. 🌳

#KemiBadenoch #Conservatives #UKPolitics #Tories

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

@Dominic2306 Aaaand…

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

Davey supported all the mad bullshit over BLM, convicted criminal George Floyd, ‘structural racism’ and all the maddest bullshit from the maddest parts of California’s communist loony bin.
He supported all the changes to police and every other institution which have made us an international joke.
He supported the Boriswave and the importing of thousands of sex criminals.
He supported the continued coverup of the grooming Gangs which is why he wants to ban X and impose censorship.
Davey Starmer etc need censorship so they can continue importing millions from Africa and the worst parts of South Asia.
Until we retire them they will continue wrecking the country

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

Homework done. Those that defected should be reminded of that.

[Tom @tomwhx]

In 2020, Kemi Badenoch pulled apart the "racist slave trading Britain" tropes being taught to children through Black History Month 👇

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

And this, minus some of the conspiracism. Kemi is far and away our best bet, as shown by her responses this week.

[Notintheirimage @notintheirimage]

@CrewkerneMan @Polly778899 Gove was also excellent on education. Reform are the establishment, Tory funders and ex Tory ministers, it’s so bloody obvious.

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

This has triggered some debate! But I think he (and Michael) are right.

[Crewkerne Man @CrewkerneMan]

People really need to listen to @michaelgove here. He is absolutely right: Reform is not Conservative, and it is not even right-wing.

Reform exists to split and destroy the British Right, deliver nothing, and hand Britain over to radical left governments throughout the 2030s.

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

The photo with Greta and Miliband was ill-judged. But this is also right.

[Crewkerne Man @CrewkerneMan]

@Polly778899 I don’t know and largely I don’t care, Gove was excellent for Prisons during his time in office.

I’ll also point to the fact that people can change, 12 years ago I was a rancid antisemite. I’m not anymore.

Lord Gove is a top bloke.

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

Engagement farming at its worst.

[Heretic Sal👩‍❤️‍👩 @blake_sara64710]

Stop engaging with this account. They are not Henry Nowak's family or godmother.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Absolutely brutal day for AI fantasies:

Nvidia $NVDA: down 6.2%
Broadcom $AVGO: down 7.92%
Coreweave $CRWV: down 7.07%
Nebius $NBIS: down 12.27%
Oracle $ORCL: down 9.59%

Worst of all?

OpenAI is rumored to be looking for government to invest, a huge sign of weakness.

Less than 24 hours after the S&P said no to fast-tracking, things are looking very different.

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

Well said JD

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

That should have said that *detransitioners* will bring an end to this scandal.

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

I have now watched all of this and am in tears. Thank you Andrew Gold for your openness to learn (I sure did) and Michael Kerr @Michaelwk20 for your devastating honesty about transitioning. Conversations like this with densitometers will indeed put an end to this scandal. The section "The NHS Ignored My Safeguarding Needs" needs double underlining. https://t.co/rIBbLtHUTd

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

I have now watched all of this and am in tears. Thank you Andrew Gold for your openness to learn (I sure did) and Michael Kerr @Michaelwk20 for your devastating honesty about transitioning. Conversations like this with densitometers will indeed put an end to this scandal. The section "The NHS Ignored My Safeguarding Needs" needs double underlining. https://t.co/rIBbLtHUTd

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

"Affirmative care" = exploitative butchery, for a tidy profit, wrecking another person's life. That's the bit they don't tell you until it's too late. Thanks to Andrew Gold for giving Michael a voice.

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

Watch this, about @Michaelwk20, on Andrew Gold's podcast. Helen Webberley's reckoning is round the corner: https://t.co/mIta45sSk3

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

@James525765 @KemiBadenoch @simonmontefiore Do please let Tory HQ know about my good work. Their first paycheck for me is 67 years late.

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

@James525765 @KemiBadenoch @simonmontefiore Do please let Tory HQ know about my good work. Their first paycheck for me is 67 years late.

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

Was it on anyone's bingo card that, over 35 years after the demise of Margaret Thatcher, the British Tory Party would be saved by a fiercely intelligent black woman who was brought up in Nigeria?

[(((Richard Drake))) @rdrake98]

What's a bit of environmental devastation when we're er, failing to save the world anyway, because of China's massive use of coal?

[Net Zero Watch @NetZeroWatch]

One of the world’s biggest planned offshore wind farms is on a site in Scottish waters that the Scottish Government’s own agency has said, in a 2023 document, would classify as a specially protected area 'in its own right'. RSPB Scotland, which has claimed that the windfarm will be “the deadliest windfarm for birds”, said that the revelation backed the case that the site should not have been given consent.

#CostOfNetZero

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

UK tax has gone up significantly over the last 25 years

But the tax paid by the average UK worker has not

This apparent miracle was achieved by taxing “other people”: higher earners, capital, property, banks, etc

The strategy has run out of road

A 🧵 on what happens next.