'I think net zero is a madness. It's deranged if you really want my opinion.' | Ruth Lea 

The same lady that said financially it was madness to stay in the EU

Yep, A.C. I've been saying this from day one, of this Lunacy

Britain putting up a few windmills will have hardly any effect on climate change while big polluters like Russia, China and India are still burning fossil fuels without a care in the world.

@@ancietman Large areas of a local forest were hacked down to make way for windmills, which aren't recyclable when they get to the end of their working life. Not very green after all.

Just like most of the pandemic policies it isn't even logical let alone scientific so it begs the question who does Boris really work for because it surely isn't the British people who are already facing astronomical bills because of successive governments destroying our energy security. And she is quite right about China. Since carbon taxes they are exempt from, as the worlds biggest polluter (makes sense right?) they have built 10 cheap dirty coal plants to every clean burning coal plant we shut down and spent billions on engineering. Could the illogic and incredible one sided nature of this UN diktat have anything do with the fact their think tanks that came up with it are funded by the global elite? That carbon taxes line their pockets not ours? That they planned to move all their factories and funding to China to profit from this abundant cheap dirty energy and ubiquitous cheap labour? That they made trillions by creating an unlevel playing field that also led to the deindustrialisation of the West? Surely not! Meanwhile Co2 makes up just 0.04% of atmosphere as a trace gas. Only a tiny fraction of that is man made and stays in the atmosphere long enough to be considered a greenhouse gas, maybe 1%, That means man made Co2 makes up about 0.0004% of atmosphere but the UK produces less than 1% of that so 0.000004% of atmosphere. That means all the sacrifice in the world from Britons will only lead to Co2 being reduced by 4 parts per 100.000,000 (One hundred million) of atmosphere over decades and centuries and that is going to save the planet from runaway warming or whatever? Even if we believed that somehow we should ask why is it now with Co2 levels at historical low levels on the geological scale, they have been much higher for around 85%+ of Earth's life giving climate, that we are in such danger now when it has never happened before even with Co2 twenty times higher for tens of millions of years than now such as in the Cambrian period - no runaway warming! Has the laws of physics changed? We have had ice ages and glaciation with Co2 three times higher than now! But suddenly, just as a global elite attempt to centralise power by usurping national democracies the science changed and the Earth will die within 10 years unless we give up everything and let them micromanage every aspect of our lives while they still live in opulence? What a coincidence! A bit like the coincidence that most of the speakers at Cop26 were among the richest people in the world, including Bezos who returned to Earth to let us know we must eat plants and insects while he builds rockets and billion pound mansions (on Islands he says will be under water) The whole thing is prima facie ridiculous and I have no idea how they managed to brainwash so many people into believing the greatest conspiracy on Earth.

@@Muckylittleme I blame Greta, (and others!).

Precisely my sentiments too.

You have to be gay and live in Brighton!

Really. And zero covid?

@@lr6477 Yes that too, though it was a one-off event rather than a long term policy.

Don't comply.

Krankie is asking the public for car free Sundays?

@@Little_Sidhe Asking for now, but, with her insane parliament they'll soon make it law!

I'll tell you how mad this all is, and why the eco-nutters need putting back in their box. Drax Power Station in Yorkshire - once the biggest coal-burning power station in Europe - now burns biofuel. That biofuel is grown in Brazil, the mid-west of America and the prairies of Canada. It is converted locally from being a raw fibrous material into a usable 'woodchip' which requires energy-heavy processing plants operating around the clock. It is then transported to America's eastern seaports by diesel trains. It is then shipped to Ellesmere Port on diesel-powered ships (and those ships return across the Atlantic empty by the way). Once off-loaded at the dockside, it is transported across The Pennines to Drax by Class 66 diesel locomotives. Could we PLEASE encourage all delusional environmentalists to extract their heads from their oh-so-virtuous backsides. This isn't 'green'. This is demented. Ask yourself a basic question: where does that huge carbon footprint fall on the UK? At Ellesmere Port, or in the fields and jungles of the Americas? The real reason the UK's carbon footprint is so low is largely because you "exported" it: your manufacturing is done abroad! And don't forget the energy expended importing from the Far East. Net Zero is total b******s. 🖖🏻☘🇮🇪

You are right. Currently they add 25% to our electricity bills. 10 times more wind would require 250% subsidy to be added to our electricity bills.

I couldn't agree more. Always at the cost of the Taxpayer.

The one where the government (taxpayers) write renewables a blank cheque. It’s a scam in which those least able to afford it get continuously fleeced.

The one where the government (taxpayers) write renewables a blank cheque. It’s a scam in which those least able to afford it get continuously fleeced.

Precisely ....

It doesn't work like that, if you don't invest and build the markets for renewable energy then you will never get off fossil fuels. GB news keeps pushing this anti renewables agenda because it tickles the balls of its viewers despite it being rubbish. The dependency on fossil fuels is part of the current problem, all energy is extracted by private companies in the UK, so they won't give it away for nothing. Fracking is a horrible way to get natural gas and been proven time over time to affect the water table if it's done poorly and energy companies have a habit of putting profits above safety. The biggest mistake this country has made is the chronic under investment in nuclear alternatives.

@@johnboy14 Complete nonsense. The reason you have to “build a market” is because it can’t operate in a normal one because it doesn’t work. Now thanks to people like you we have Germany 40 % reliant on Putin for their energy.

Communism like the moaist era

@@jimspencer6677 WEF now.

Absolutely correct - the 'green' agenda is a woke, leftie, cult and makes no economic, social, or political sense whatsoever.

I'll tell you how mad this all is, and why the eco-nutters need putting back in their box. Drax Power Station in Yorkshire - once the biggest coal-burning power station in Europe - now burns biofuel. That biofuel is grown in Brazil, the mid-west of America and the prairies of Canada. It is converted locally from being a raw fibrous material into a usable 'woodchip' which requires energy-heavy processing plants operating around the clock. It is then transported to America's eastern seaports by diesel trains. It is then shipped to Ellesmere Port on diesel-powered ships (and those ships return across the Atlantic empty by the way). Once off-loaded at the dockside, it is transported across The Pennines to Drax by Class 66 diesel locomotives. Could we PLEASE encourage all delusional environmentalists to extract their heads from their oh-so-virtuous backsides. This isn't 'green'. This is demented. Ask yourself a basic question: where does that huge carbon footprint fall on the UK? At Ellesmere Port, or in the fields and jungles of the Americas? The real reason the UK's carbon footprint is so low is largely because you "exported" it: your manufacturing is done abroad! And don't forget the energy expended importing from the Far East. Net Zero is total b******s. 🖖🏻☘🇮🇪

Yes B.Y. ... Whether a Religion, or a Cult; They are, Delusional. Am so Glad, I'm Not a Sheepie!!

@@hittitecharioteer You are absolutely correct in this matter. I have been banging this drum since Drax was first converted but all that the eco-nutters see is the fact that no COAL is being burnt. They just don't want to admit how eco-unfriendly/polluting doing this is; nor will they admit that with the most up to date Carbon Scrubbing technology nowadays we could be burning the coal from underneath our feet (centuries worth btw!) and this would create an insignificant % of the pollution that Drax creates on a daily basis even if we ignore the destruction to the planet that is done by the methods you describe! Absolute sheer fcking lunacy.

My sentiments too, John

My Sentiments too

My sentiments too D.P.

Very true, plus there's no "Green" way of disposing of the old blades either.

PRECISELY 👏

PRECISELY

boys' club - of which Greta is figurehead and mostly teenage girls in the parades

I'll tell you how mad this all is, and why the eco-nutters need putting back in their box. Drax Power Station in Yorkshire - once the biggest coal-burning power station in Europe - now burns biofuel. That biofuel is grown in Brazil, the mid-west of America and the prairies of Canada. It is converted locally from being a raw fibrous material into a usable 'woodchip' which requires energy-heavy processing plants operating around the clock. It is then transported to America's eastern seaports by diesel trains. It is then shipped to Ellesmere Port on diesel-powered ships (and those ships return across the Atlantic empty by the way). Once off-loaded at the dockside, it is transported across The Pennines to Drax by Class 66 diesel locomotives. Could we PLEASE encourage all delusional environmentalists to extract their heads from their oh-so-virtuous backsides. This isn't 'green'. This is demented. Ask yourself a basic question: where does that huge carbon footprint fall on the UK? At Ellesmere Port, or in the fields and jungles of the Americas? The real reason the UK's carbon footprint is so low is largely because you "exported" it: your manufacturing is done abroad! And don't forget the energy expended importing from the Far East. Net Zero is total b******s. 🖖🏻☘🇮🇪

I'm sure it's a "girls" club

Here, here ... I've listened to this lady economist before. To which for the most part, has spoken, nothing but common sense. Once again, one praises her, for speaking out, on this whole NetZero LUNACY.

@@hittitecharioteer Yes, powerful to hear. Your comments on Biofuels. Another Madness, beyond belief much of the time.

Yes deranged to believe it, not necessarily to peddle it. Just like most of the pandemic policies and narratives, net zero isn't even logical let alone scientific. So it begs the question who does Boris really work for because it surely isn't the British people who are already facing astronomical bills because of successive governments destroying our energy security. And she is quite right about China. Since carbon taxes they are exempt from, as the worlds biggest polluter (makes sense right?) they have built 10 cheap dirty coal plants to every clean burning coal plant we shut down and spent billions on engineering. Could the illogic and incredible one sided nature of this UN diktat have anything do with the fact their think tanks that came up with it are funded by the global elite? That carbon taxes line their pockets not ours? That they planned to move all their factories and funding to China to profit from this abundant cheap dirty energy and ubiquitous cheap labour? That they made trillions by creating an unlevel playing field that also led to the deindustrialisation of the West? Surely not! Meanwhile Co2 makes up just 0.04% of atmosphere as a trace gas. Only a tiny fraction of that is man made and stays in the atmosphere long enough to be considered a greenhouse gas, maybe 1%, That means man made Co2 makes up about 0.0004% of atmosphere but the UK produces less than 1% of that so 0.000004% of atmosphere. That means all the sacrifice in the world from Britons will only lead to Co2 being reduced by 4 parts per 100.000,000 (One hundred million) of atmosphere over decades and centuries and that is going to save the planet from runaway warming or whatever? Even if we believed that somehow we should ask why is it now with Co2 levels at historical low levels on the geological scale, they have been much higher for around 85%+ of Earth's life giving climate, that we are in such danger now when it has never happened before even with Co2 twenty times higher for tens of millions of years than now such as in the Cambrian period - no runaway warming! Has the laws of physics changed? We have had ice ages and glaciation with Co2 three times higher than now! But suddenly, just as a global elite attempt to centralise power by usurping national democracies the science changed and the Earth will die within 10 years unless we give up everything and let them micromanage every aspect of our lives while they still live in opulence? What a coincidence! A bit like the coincidence that most of the speakers at Cop26 were among the richest people in the world, including Bezos who returned to Earth to let us know we must eat plants and insects while he builds rockets and billion pound mansions (on Islands he says will be under water) The whole thing is prima facie ridiculous and I have no idea how they managed to brainwash so many people into believing the greatest conspiracy on Earth.

PRECISELY, J.G.

And then they are worn out and need replacing.

Here, here F.B. couldn't agree more 👍

your welcome to your 2030 good luck your gonna need it

You would have to carpet the entire landmass in these blasted things.

Cause it’s not actually ecologically good. Windmills use tonnes of co2 to produce, some are gas powered to get the blades spinning, the fibreglass blades need replacing often from sonic speed flows at the tips and they get dumped in the floor when finished. They’re made by the lowest bidder so quality isn’t there, buy nice or buy twice. Not to mention all the birds and insects they kill. The technology just isn’t there nor will it ever be. It’s a futile endeavour, and there is nothing ‘Green’ about it.

​@@christinaedwards5084 _Windmills use tonnes of co2 to produce_ . Windmill produce grain. Anyway, power plants that burn natural gas are responsible for 437 to 758 grams of CO2-equivalent per kilowatt-hour, coal burning power plants 675 to 1,689 grams of CO2 per kilowatt-hour, whereas the United Kingdom onshore wind turbines produce 11.8 grams of CO2-eq per kWh. Which is higher?

@@sbor2020 which one is a reliable source of energy?

@@christinaedwards5084 The SUN!

If they're VERY small, they can be made extremely robust.

@@hunchanchoc8418 how small and one on every street?

You’re talking about a full scale war at that point , death and destruction become irrelevant.

@@englishjon8637 Maybe one like wherever we currently have an electricity substation.