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Al Gonzalez's avatar

I forgot who posted it on Substack (a picture of a morgue)but while the British are basically denying people cooling, the vulnerable ones dying end up in cooled morgues. The ironic stupidity is incredible.

Alfred's avatar

To be fair, the equation of cooling the number in the morgues versus millions who are not should be obvious.

Al Gonzalez's avatar

This will become an issue when AI in the UK sucks up all the grid while still denying citizens of cooling. This is a freedom issue the freedom to be able to not suffer and cool oneself.

Sea Sentry's avatar

Watching the cultural and moral collapse of Britain is like watching an elderly relative you long admired degrade from dementia. It is sad to watch.

Mary Makary's avatar

That's what your children say about you.

Sea Sentry's avatar

I’m not sure what your point is.

Susan Daniels's avatar

Yearly heat-related deaths in Europe outnumber the deaths caused by gun violence in the U.S.

Alfalfa's avatar

This one fails from the first sentence or two;

"There is a simple test for whether a nation’s climate policy is serious. Ask what it does for the citizen standing in a 104°F apartment. .."

But how well did Texas's "climate policy" deal with those winter storms several years ago? How would you score Texas's handling of the conditions that got you catastrophic flooding last year - with dozens of deaths?

ThePossum  🇬🇧's avatar

Iirc, Texas learned the hard way that over reliance on "green" energy can be quickly catastrophic, and has resumed a more traditional blend of energy generation mix.

No I have no data at my paw tips, only a recollection from that storm analysis that there are now acknowledged limitations to wind and solar such as that winter brought to the fore.

Alfalfa's avatar
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It was due to poor planning and implementation. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas and state regulators historically planned for summer peak demand. Many facilities lacked sufficient winterization and Texas’s largely isolated grid limited the ability to import emergency power from neighboring regions.

The market structure emphasized low-cost electricity but provided limited incentives for maintaining extra reserve capacity and weather hardening.

The storm exposed weaknesses in the state’s preparation for prolonged cold:

Natural gas equipment (wells, pipelines, processing plants) froze, reducing fuel supplies to power plants.

Power plants, gas, coal, and one of four nuclear plants experienced outages due to frozen equipment and mechanical failures.

Wind turbines also lost some generation because some turbines iced up, and some solar generation was reduced during cloudy conditions, but renewables accounted for less than 10% of the overall shortfall. Wind actually performed close to expected winter levels.

ThePossum  🇬🇧's avatar

Thanks for the expanded comment, it's thoughtful and helpful.

Firewagon's avatar

"....92% of British homes may be susceptible to overheating." Say that in America and, at a minimum, there would be a second Civil War aimed at REMOVING any of the stupids that were stupid enough to bring on any such thing! "Warming is real?" Only to the point of INSIGNIFICANCE. The following is penned by someone much more intelligent than I am:

"We’ve been writing for years about how the climate crisis is a hoax and just a way to transfer trillions of dollars of wealth from the advanced economies to corrupt developing economies with the elites acting as toll collectors getting rich in the process. The climate hoax is supported by false science, which itself is the product of research grants and academic positions supported by the same people running the scam. The most amazing part of the scam is how long it took for legitimate scientists to catch up and turn the narrative around. But now we’re there. Climate change is real and always has been. The Roman Warm Period (around 200 BC), the Medieval Warm Period (around 1000 AD), and the Little Ice Age (1350-1850) are all well-documented. Now, we’re in a slight warming period after the Little Ice Age, which is completely normal. None of this has anything to do with CO2 emissions, coal-fired electricity plants, automobiles or the usual alleged culprits. The causes of climate change are sun cycles, volcanoes, ocean currents, cloud cover and other phenomena over which humans have no control. The Green New Scam really is a scam. People are waking up to the scam. But this does not mean there are no environmental problems. There are real problems in the environment and they threaten human life. It’s not about climate; it’s about toxins and trash. Third world countries are producing rivers of poison chemicals and black sludge. Mountains of untreated garbage are breeding grounds for invisible superbugs. The garbage and pollution are causing the spread of malaria and dengue fever. Marine plastic pollution (mostly from China) is choking fish and whales. Children are dying from drinking poisoned water. Advanced economies and academics have not paid enough attention to these problems because of their obsession with a phony climate crisis. If we don’t deal with these problems soon, they will become impossible to ignore. Disease and death will not be confined to the poorer countries. They will be coming for all of us." Jim Rickards

Shrinking Violet's avatar

Wonderful analysis! Thank you!

Doesn’t it seem like this is more than a policy blunder? Like population reduction hiding behind a fig lea of environmental stupidity? Britain is letting her young girls be raped en masse and arresting natives for mean tweets. If the ruling class wanted to genocide their own people, what would they be doing differently?

LEJ's avatar

Assuming there is any way to accurately determine 'global' temperature, there is NO evidence that mankind's emissions of CO2 and other 'greenhouse' gases make ANY measurable contribution to global warming, and much evidence that it does NOT. Cf. Lindzen and Happer, https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/08/21/mit-princeton-scientists-more-carbon-dioxide-cannot-cause-catastrophic-global-warming-or-more-extreme-weather-net-zero-policies-will-have-disastrous-effects-on-people-worldwide/

and many other sources.

c Anderson's avatar

This is British insanity as they are leading in developing technology to capture energy through wave and tidal forces. This is a purposeful attempt by political power in establishing cultural nihilism as in feudal politics. https://www.energyglobal.com/other-renewables/19032025/eic-report-uk-emerges-as-global-leader-in-wave-and-tidal-energy/

Ruth H's avatar

Current and past 20 years of leadership in Britain has suffocated their citizens with illegals, roaming rape gangs, climate mandates, censorship of free speech, and beyond stupid useless laws, while giving free rein to illegals and immigrants to refuse assimilation and whine about everything. Britain has chosen to ignore the harms and suffering of their citizens and let boatloads keep coming.

ThePossum  🇬🇧's avatar

This.

"Wealthy Californians will be fine, just as wealthy Londoners are fine. They have detached homes, backup generators, and planning consultants. Climate austerity never abolishes comfort. It rations comfort by income and bureaucratic access, which is why the politics of this issue belong to whichever party notices first that the renter, the pensioner, and the shop owner are the ones sweating."

Will's avatar

Britain leadership is so incompetent. To have so many people die because of the heat is unacceptable, along with their refusal to hold people accountable for committing crimes.

Tina Gillette's avatar

This is all B.S. dear lord. They need to go ahead already and release the free Energy technology that they have had for years now … shit life is short enough and dam they can’t spend all the dam money that they have in a life time anyways what the hell is it to them if them poor people want A.C. Units . I hate the non humans that love control over everything. Then make up lies about why they do certain things . All these lies are coming to the surface now and I am so dam glad ….. we ought to have public tribunals and try all them pomp’s ass people. It’s are time to control them … that is so sad to hear this shit . Wake ur ass up America to the agendas that they want to use against us . Shit if it’s not them killing us it’s the dam aliens now and the crazy ass indigenous people wanting to wipe out the Jews and whites and Christian’s now.. madness what this crap is …..