Another Disappointing Day in The Obituaries

'If only we had more chair legs to burn...'

Also, the people who are banging on about this development are those who wish to eradicate all artificial weedkillers.
Seems like they're far happier finding problems in every solution than solutions to problems.

It has a pleasing symmetry all the same

Good.
But disagreeing about what's the most effective way to decarbonise does *not* make one uncaring about climate change. Which is what kicked off this whole vexed argument.

Well that's a good thing and I totally agree. But 29% is still far too much.
We're all on the same side here. Net Zero is a good thing. The only disagreement is about how to get there as quickly as possible.

77%.
That's a lot.
Now replace all these boilers with heat pumps. Ok, so these are more efficient, but you shift the carbon burden up to the supplier
Unless you decarbonise generation.

Stop doing what too many on the Left do: search for traitors to the cause.
Work on making a few more converts instead.

It makes MORE sense to decarbonise at source rather than way downstream. Gas counts for 40% of our electric generation.
A fence at the top of the cliff beats an ambulance at the bottom, hands down.
And this does not make me climate indifferent.

I would love to be able to fit a heat pump but I cannot afford the pump, the refitting of the heating system and I can't stomach more mess disruption and making good just after I've redecorated my bloody house!

They cost £15K. Even with a 50% grant, many people don't have that kind of cash lying around.
And our older housing stock needs substantial remedial work in order to make heat pumps viable.
Tick all the boxes before forking out the cash. Not afterwards.

I wonder if they're Jewish and based in space.

British electricity generation is massively reliant upon gas. Breaking that link is critical to providing energy security.
What's the point of fitting millions of heat pumps if it just leads to an even bigger gas bill?

You're talking bollocks. He's not asserting anything of the sort. If electricity generation is over reliant on gas, then it makes much more sense to decarbonise at source.
Otherwise it relies upon the consumer to bear the whole cost of refitting - unless you hand out grants.

Really really unsafe, actually. Nothing about Tim's post substantiates any of your sweeping misrepresentations.

That was an old joke of my grandfather's.
He also found the advert where the kid shouted 'catch it!' highly amusing.

Ian Dury - There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards YouTube video by OxBlood66

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Stock markets plunge after oil surges over $100 a barrel, wiping out hopes of UK interest rate cut – business live Shares slide and government bond yields jump, as oil price jump to four-year high threatens new inflationary spike

So now the rest of the world is Finding Out after Trump and Hegseth's Fucking Around....

It's long past the time to unshackle our economy from oil gas and coal.
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Oh you can bet that if there was some skulduggery going on at the highest level, he'd have been meddling in it somehow. Thoroughly nasty piece of work.

If it were Babylon 5, Alfred Bester would be a cert.

I now drive a 1.5 Skoda Octavia estate. It does 133 flat out, almost twice the legal speed limit. And it's not even the top spec model.
The next car I get will be electric.

I'd have quite happily settled for a Reliant Scimitar, another thrusting name. I also thought that the shooting brake body style looked incredibly futuristic.

When I was a teenager, Jensens were the coolest cars. They were the sort of thing you imagined Ed Straker from U.F.O. using to drop off his dry cleaning.
Something totally unreachable. To actually find one self able to buy one would be like being the dog that caught the car. Then, what?

The big WW2 connection is that the bombing run of the Death Star is a replay of the Dam Busters. Lucas shameless ripped off so many genres that it's almost criminal.

Like I said beforehand, anyone who is prepared to outsource the gatekeeping of their own social circle is too stupid to be worth knowing anyway.

I used to adore sci-fi as a teenager. It was pure escapism. Now I'm largely indifferent. TBF there is some grown-up stuff around worth watching, like Foundation, Pluribus or For All Mankind (notice a pattern?).
But most is insufferably juvenile.

Yup. I can't watch that film now for cringing

Kuryakin *was* a Ukrainian. 😊

That was brave of you. I never really figured out why they started filming the series in the middle of the story. But it was a wise move in retrospect as the first episodes l, chronologically speaking, were too weak to build the cult on their own.

And I would avoid the Phantom Menace like you would a band of roving Jehovah's Witnesses. God knows what the hell it was going on about most of the time. I turned off halfway through.

Oh I know. I gave the franchise a second chance by watching Andor on streaming,which was really quite impressive. But the rest of it is just so bloody tedious.