10 responses to “Trouble at mill”

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   Bruce of Newcastle

   Oct 26, 2021 6:42 AM

   Amusing headline at WSJ just now:

   Energy-Stock Surge Leaves Climate-Focused Investors Behind (24 Oct)

   Literally dozens of electricity retailers in the UK have gone bankrupt this year already, because of of unreliable wind energy. When governments finally lose interest in renewable energy, and remove subsidies because they’ve run out of other people’s money, the crash is going to be epic.

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   Rafe Champion

   Oct 26, 2021 6:46 AM

   I like the bit at the end of the story

   Those close to Johnson insist that he is committed to the net-zero agenda and will force his more sceptical colleagues, including Sunak, behind him.

   One ally said: “The boss has made a big punt on this stuff. The science is clear and so is he. He is determined to see it through.”

   Yes the science is clear, but not the way they read it.

   The wind droughts are equally clear and all the other engineering constraints. The RE Titanic forges ahead!

   Thanks for the WSJ piece. Fossil stocks surge, go woke and go broke will have real meaning before this caper is done.

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   jupes

   Oct 26, 2021 6:57 AM

   Those around Sharma are frustrated at No 10 for hyping expectations around what the two weeks of negotiations will achieve.

   There is no doubt what the sanctimonious morons will “achieve”. The accelerated destruction of the West and rise of the Chicoms.

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   bemused

   Oct 26, 2021 7:49 AM

   Keeping in touch with what the enemy is saying, I saw this headline in the Age this morning:

   Why net zero by 2050 is good but not good enough

   https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/why-net-zero-by-2050-is-good-but-not-good-enough-20211025-p592v0.html – written by an associate perfesser

   You first perfesser; give up your emissions and show us the way.

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   Boambee John

   Oct 26, 2021 8:54 AM

   bemused

   You first perfesser; give up your emissions and show us the way.

   No more long sabbaticals overseas, no privately plated car in the remuneration package?

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   Kneel

   Oct 26, 2021 9:18 AM

   ” The science is clear…”

   So is the engineering, but that is never mentioned.

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   Rabz

   Oct 26, 2021 10:01 AM

   the “bookish” Sharma doesn’t grasp the politics of the meeting and how it could backfire domestically

   Neither does that fat useless mop headed imbecile.

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   Kneel

   Oct 26, 2021 11:31 AM

   “Neither does that fat useless mop headed imbecile.”

   Sorry, you’ll have to be more specific – which one, exactly?

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   Roger

   Oct 26, 2021 12:56 PM

   Those around Johnson suggest that the “bookish” Sharma doesn’t grasp the politics of the meeting and how it could backfire domestically. Those around Sharma are frustrated at No 10 for hyping expectations around what the two weeks of negotiations will achieve.

   This doesn’t add up – No. 10 is both hyping the conference but at the same time worried about the domestic backlash?

   No wonder Boris doesn’t seem to know whether he’s coming or going.

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    Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare

    Oct 26, 2021 6:52 PM

    No wonder Boris doesn’t seem to know whether he’s coming or going.

    He’s acting like someone with his mind elsewhere, there is a term for it, associated with the word ‘struck’, but I’m far too polite to elaborate on that. No-one but someone emotionally wrapped up with a very deep green partner could have so embarassingly have made that disastrous speech recently about Green is Good. He was almost pleading for the Greenie points with it.