Liam Durrant @SpacemanLMD

Nothing we weren't warned about then...

@ECOWARRIORSS Its increasingly obvious we need net negative but we ain't even getting to net zero.

@David__Osland Well it'd be about right. Public money pays for reservoirs. Private companies charge us to use them... thats what Reform want. More of our money in their mates pockets.

@NeillyC999 @htowen97 @PolitlcsUK You don't think there are train derailments in India?! 😂

More than 150 years ago, scientists discovered what they termed a “greenhouse effect”, demonstrating for the first time that water vapour and carbon dioxide trapped heat. Theoretical concerns were soon raised that we might, through the practice of burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon, have inadvertently been altering our climate since the start of the industrial revolution. In 1938 a British scientist published the first observational study suggesting that human carbon emissions were, indeed, heating the planet. By the late 1950s, the science about global warming was so well established that legendary Hollywood film maker Frank Capra was hired to make a documentary, The Unchained Goddess, intended to educate the public about what then seemed a relatively far-off threat. The film explained that the release by factories and vehicles of some six billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year – a paltry sum by today’s standards – was “unwittingly changing the world’s climate”. In the 1970s scientists working for the oil companies privately confirmed to their employers that their research showed continued fossil fuel burning would dangerously raise global temperatures. The oil companies kept the information tightly under wraps for decades. By 1982 an Exxon team had produced a chart predicting – though again confidentially – the increases in CO2 levels in the atmosphere over time. When the chart came to light in 2019, scientists realised that the team had, in fact, correctly plotted contemporary CO2 levels – at 415 parts per million – in what was then 37 years into the future. The Exxon team had also correctly predicted what effect this would have on global temperatures: a disastrous rise of just below 1ºC. In 1988 Nasa scientist James Hansen testified to the US Senate that he was 99 per cent certain global warming was already under way. His sounding of the alarm sparked for the first time headlines in mainstream media. In response, the fossil fuel industry began aggressively funding “independent” think-tanks to spread disinformation, and create doubt about the established science. In 2026, after more than a century of evidence-based warnings, all those predictions have been fully and catastrophically borne out – with heat records being toppled almost daily across western Europe. Drought and wild fires are the result. And this isn’t even the worst of it. Things are going to get a whole lot hotter, and lot scarier, in the years and decades ahead. Yet here we are, a century on, still hearing variations of the same arguments of denial promoted in the mainstream from the terminally dim-witted and serially dishonest. This is an extract from my latest article Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Nor will her successors. Find a link to the full article in the reply post below ⬇️

@WilyTrout @JamesMelville About all that's manageable in this heat 😂

@WilyTrout @JamesMelville You been outside? I assume not.

@BpsmithUk @ZackPolanski It really isnt. And definitely not this bad. Its not just dry, its literally turning to dust . Even the trees are looking fried and that definitely doesn't happen.

@toadmeister Just go outside and touch some grass dude... You'll soon see its all basically dead, scorched to dust.

@steidacz @grok @Dr_TheHistories Its a leap to say population grew becuase early capitalism horrors were overstated. Population can grow for a number of reasons despite the conditions imposed by early capitalism. It may have helped maintain the population growth but still have been a significant cause of desths

@grok @steidacz @Dr_TheHistories So this is actually a hugely biased and misleading piece of writing jeez! Trying to attribute capitalism to every slight improvement in standards is a stretch in a lot of these cases! Mises himself loves in the free market capitalism idealism school so yeah hugely biased.

@grok @steidacz @Dr_TheHistories This is the idealistic view of capitalism. That capitalism doesn't exist anymore. It also hugely negates how much advancement has come about due to scientists and engineers monetised by capitalists. It also negates how trade unions and activists forced improvements in standards.

@grok @steidacz @Dr_TheHistories But I'll take some time in good faith to read this. I think it will be an ideal view and not what is existing today... and a quick read of the start seems to agree.

@steidacz @Dr_TheHistories @grok And it coercion or fraud voids it then we don't have capitalism and should look for a better system to replace it. Becuase coercion and fraud is a hall mark of pur current thing that is supposed to be capitalism.

@grok @steidacz @Dr_TheHistories In a democracy people get to vote for the government, its literally people's informed choice. Businesses aren't transparent about practices. There is no informed choice, just a price in most cases. When most businesses are owned by a handful of companies, choice gets removed.

@steidacz @Dr_TheHistories Capitalism has the ability to remove the good parts of human nature and promote the bad parts. It allows layers of reasoning and structure to distance decisions from consequences. I guess you see human nature as bad which is a shame. I see it as mixed, nuanced, but mostly good.

@Badger26348 @Dr_TheHistories Where did I mention communism? Regulation for business is very very far from communism. You people need to see there are many ways we can do capitalism that isn't our current system... and stop think anything other than what we have is communism cos otherwise nothing gets better.

@biggle1908 Becuase private companies want stupid amounts of profits rather than stopping the planet burning.

@KazzJenkins Are you suggesting Helen Whatley is the benefit claimant?! If it is fair play! The MPs do take the absolute piss and take far more benefits than pretty much anyone else!