Stan Jammy

Keen to get to the bottom of things.

[Nigel Bennett @top1percentile]

@PeterDClack Well said.
A changing climate is not the issue for humanity; we can adapt, as we have for 300,000 years.
The real danger facing mankind is the rapid destruction of the biosphere from oceanic plastic pollution; mega scale intensive farming; and industrialised deforestation.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Modest warming since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850 supports billions of people better than any previous cold era ever did.

Yet, a weird paradox dominates our modern climate discourse: we celebrate ancient warm eras as golden ages, but frame today's mild shifts as inherently catastrophic. History shows that warmth has always delivered prosperity. Look no further than Roman vineyards flourishing in Britain or Viking farms thriving in Greenland.

Conversely, cold spells almost always bring hardship - marked by the Thames freezing over, expanding Alpine glaciers and systemic crop failures during the Little Ice Age (roughly 1300–1850). When you compare the Holocene’s historical rollercoaster, the Roman Warm Period (250 BC–AD 400) and the Medieval Warm Period (900–1300 AD) stand out as eras of booming agriculture and expanding empires.

The Little Ice Age was a harsh, multi-century counterpoint that brought widespread famine and societal strain across Europe. Throughout these dramatic ups and downs, ice core data shows atmospheric CO₂ was remarkably flat, hovering steadily between 270 and 285 ppm.

These profound climate convulsions happened purely on the back of natural variability - solar output, volcanic aerosols and oceanic-atmospheric circulation flips - all without CO₂ needing to budge. On a broader scale, today's blips are superimposed over a gradual, long-term cooling trend that followed the Holocene Thermal Optimum thousands of years ago, when temperatures were frequently 0.5°C to 1°C warmer than today.

Earth’s climate has always been dynamic on multiple timescales, operating independently of any single variable, such as CO₂. Natural precedent proves that warmth isn't inherently destructive. Humans are marvelously adaptive and the biosphere is inherently resilient.

The real challenges ahead aren't dictated by a climate driven panic, but by our astonishing capacity for adaptation.

Image: A recreation of a Viking-age settlement, showcasing the turf-roof architecture that allowed Norse communities to thrive in northern latitudes.

[James Stevens 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @TheFrogDies]

@AllisonPearson underfloor heating is the recommended heating for a heat pump

this is the ultimate proof he has absolutely no idea what he's doing

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Absolutely

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

Two types we must never elect as PM again...

1. Godless Fabians.
2. Human Rights Lawyers.

In Starmer we got 2-in-1 and by God it's a sh*tshow.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

The economic shock of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sparked calls to abandon fossil fuels faster. But that's the wrong lesson, says Richard Lyon – and Net Zero obsessed Britain will learn this the hard way. https://t.co/oxS7uhaIth

[Benedict Spence @BenedictSpence]

Oh wonderful, internet restrictions for the public during unrest.

Like Iran.

[joe lincs @lincslincs]

Ed Miliband says high energy bills are caused by wars, global markets and events overseas.

So here's a simple question:

If we're all buying energy on the same global markets, why are British families paying double, and sometimes triple, what people in other countries pay?

You can only blame the rest of the world for so long. Eventually, you have to own your own policies.

[David Turver @7Kiwi]

First shots fired in Labour's civil war over Net Zero.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

The mad Emperor Caligula, declared war on the sea

Future historians will see this as just as bonkers.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Keir Starmer: “We are reforming welfare.”

Sorry?

5,000 new claimants for Disability benefit every day.

EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

Benefits bill is now higher than the entire income tax take.

[Net Zero Watch @NetZeroWatch]

“Thousands of new jobs have been created in the green blob – environmental consultants, charities, lawyers, finance, education and governmental. But the true number of new green jobs, i.e. those which actually add value, has been vanishingly small.” Paul Homewood

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Let’s rephrase this for the BBC…

“UK economy contracts as the Labour government’s economic policies have destroyed growth.”

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

There is no climate emergency. There are warming cycles roughly every 1,000 years, corresponding to the Eddy/ Halstatt Solar Cycle of 980-1,000 years.

[Andrew Montford @aDissentient]

When a major windfarm operator says "stop building windfarms" you know that things are changing. They will be worried that a Reform UK government will be forced to wipe them out.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

If you are of the view that millions of your fellow Britons are angry only because they have been “whipped up” by a few right-wing bogeymen, you truly do not understand your own country.

[Cut My Tax @CutMyTaxUK]

Welcome to the gangster state. The government has jacked up the Channel Tunnel rateable value from £40m a year to £118m a ​year without providing any clear justification.

In response the Channel Tunnel is taking legal action and is refusing to invest anymore in Britain

Its CEO says that between business rates and corporate taxation, the Tunnel will now pay 69p on every new pound of revenue generated in the UK.

Business rates are basically being used as an extortion tool.

[Alan D Miller @alanvibe]

The government has announced £4.5 Billion spend on…getting you to walk more & cycle

THAT is their ‘transport’ plan!

Congratulations to the Green Billionaires like Hohn funding Activists that have captured local areas & pushing hard with government

But they know the war on drivers & cars is hated by 37 million of us.

They say ‘it’s to combine travel’ - We don’t want or need your Nudge & Shove interventionist politics

Invest in infrastructure
Sort out public transport!
Stop taxing us all so much & facilitate economic growth - instead of encouraging entrepreneurs to leave due to tax and dire business environment

The single most effective way to facilitate wealth & health is to have dynamic growth. Wealth creation for all. Economic dynamism

Not forcing everyone to emulate China 50 years ago!!

Free Our Streets!

Take Back Democracy Together @mrmarkdolan

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

[Maurice Cousins @MDC12345678]

Carns is 100% right.

The next war will test the whole productive system. But none of it will work without cheap, reliable energy and a grid that can survive pressure.

Recent @CSIS research makes the exact same point. Defence production depends on reliable energy infrastructure. You cannot surge drones, munitions, ships or critical materials if industry cannot get the power it needs. For that, we need firm power.

That is why ending the statutory Net Zero target and Ed Miliband’s reckless wind energy experiment is now a national security issue. Expensive, intermittent power and a weaker industrial base leave Britain less able to defend itself. End of argument.