A CLIMATE CHANGE RECAP THREAD, OR WHY IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CO2. 1: We are in the modern warming period, due to the Solar Cycles called Bray-Halstatt & Eddy. Temperatures are EXPECTED TO INCREASE in this period. Easily understood from this graph:

Harriet Walter is doing a BBC Radio 4 appeal for Refugee Action, a charity that received £16,765,000 in taxpayer funding between 2021-25.

EU students vanish from UK with £893million in loans trib.al/fmabg3R

NEW: The Assisted Dying Bill is returning to Parliament this week. Labour MP Lauren Edwards will reintroduce it on Wednesday after coming 2nd in the private members’ ballot. “The process has been frustrated by a small minority”, she argues.

The current state of diversity in Birmingham, England: Two asian police officers approach a black man and ask him what he's doing 🤔 He tells them to f*ck off... and they do 😂

Offshore wind farms along the storm-swept coasts of the UK are the premature graveyards of corroding steel and plastic skeletons—bowing to the inevitable. These are the volatile, often freezing seascapes of the windy North Sea, the Baltic Sea and Irish Sea, maritime zones that should provide ideal conditions for large-scale turbine farms - but don't. The wind industry and governments have long based their financial models on a projected 20- to 25-year turbine lifespan. But independent economic analysis reveals a more sobering reality. The soaring power of the elements is starkly shown in a landmark study by energy and environmental economist Professor Gordon Hughes (University of Edinburgh), first published in 2012 by the Renewable Energy Foundation: 'The Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark'. Hughes’ data reveals the performance of offshore turbines dropped sharply after just 10 to 15 years due to harsh marine wear and tear. As a consequence, their load factors - the volume of electricity generated as a percentage of capacity - decline much faster than the official narratives admit. Many of these massive marine structures - primarily owned by UK and Danish interests - are hitting the wall after just a decade of buffeting from exposure to relentless Atlantic weather. Soaring maintenance costs make them highly unprofitable. Specifically, the study showed that an offshore wind farm's ability to meet electricity demand plummeted by at least a third after 10 years. This led to the conclusion that many become fully uneconomic by year 12. Rather than keeping these assets spinning for the promised quarter-century, many operators are now forced to 'repower' - replacing old turbines with entirely new hardware long before the 25-year target. Turning the hardware over early is presented as an upgrade to maximise output, but it's really an admission that the original infrastructure simply cannot go the distance. More importantly, it exposes a large PR gap between marketing and engineering reality. Link to the study: epaw.org/documents.php?lang=…

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Andy Burnham could give vulnerable people a 'basic income' that's five times what they receive on benefits if he becomes PM trib.al/pjzM8EB

The Daily Mail blows the lid on what we already believe about Restore.

I’ve long fought for this as it’s the right thing to do. As Conservatives, we’ve always believed in safeguarding children. Adults should be free, but we must protect childhood.

Revealing that on @bbclaurak this morning none of the panel - Carns, Kidron and Madeley - could answer how they would find the extra money needed for Defence. It's very easy to criticise government but much more difficult to govern

Andy Burnham could give vulnerable people a 'basic income' that's five times what they receive on benefits if he becomes PM trib.al/pjzM8EB

🚨BREAKING: A government insider has told the Daily Mail that the government propaganda unit (Research, Information and Communications Unit) had threatened the family Henry Nowak after he was murdered by Vickrum Digwa to maintain pro-multiculturalism messaging. "RICU made sure that the liaison team dealing with the family were well briefed." This was obvious considering how every single Labour/Lib Dem MP and liberal media figure came out to parrot the line "why don't you care about the family's wishes, Mr Farage?" "They are working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland's C3 intelligence unit to identify those posting the online 'calls to protest' in Belfast and other areas, as well as giving strategic messages to the police to ensure that the protesters were portrayed as unsympathetic thugs, rather than activists, and effecting behavioural change."