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did the guardian liveblog writer have a stroke writing this or are they just american

#irish politics #grauniad #uk politics #northern island

So a lot has been said about The Guardian and its transphobia but one thing that is overlooked is that its readers are fucking freaks.

You people hate trans women but you're fine with filling your homes with fucking bed bugs apparently!

#the guardian #grauniad #uk politics #transphobia

Germany was once an economic model to emulate but its reliance on industries past their sell-by date is costing it dear

We find it deeply difficult to believe that a lack of “AI start–ups” is a sign, much less a cause, of economic malaise. Very little of “start–up culture” is what its advocates would have you believe, the use of novel technology to create the products and services of tomorrow. The prominence of the “founder exit” as goal helps to indicate what it really is : a grand machine of financial pump–and–dump schemes, not so very different from the watered stock issues of the late 19th century.

Has Germany made a mis–step by its reluctance to reorient its heavy manufacturing sector away from gasoline cars? Probably, but we might suggest that battery–electric cars are more a delusion than a solution — a different wrong turn, but wrong either way.

Germany was particularly exposed to the higher cost of gas on global markets triggered by Russia’s invasion in 2022, not least because of its high concentration of energy–intensive industries.

Now this… this is a clear misrepresentation. Germany’s dependence on Russian gas was a deliberate policy choice, called the “Energiewende”, made under a Chancellor who went to work for Gazprom as soon as he left office. Before that policy was brought in, Germany had been on a path to divorce its energy–intensive industries from turmoil and disruptions in world energy markets, and decarbonize them, too.

The States of Baden–Württemberg and Bavaria, in particular, invested in nuclear power stations to provide the concentrated, reliable energy their heavy industries required. In 1980, fission provided 12·5% of the electricity in Bavaria, almost entirely from the 900 MW Isar unit 1 ; by 1984, with the start–up of Grafenrheinfeld and Gundremmingen units 2 and 3, each 1300 MW, it was 30%, and more was still to come with Isar 2. All of that has been scrapped, by politicians who could not be ignorant of what the outcome must be.

#grauniad #not a climate leader #heavy industry #atomic power to the people

Shuttering of New York facility raises awkward climate crisis questions as gas – not renewables – fills gap in power generation

The Grauniad is certainly laying it on thick here, referring to Indian Point as “deteriorating and unloved”.

Certainly, anti-nuclear campaigners (calling themselves “environmentalists”, or “peace activists”, or whatever else suited their purpose) spent decades cultivating public opinion that the plant was environmentally damaging to the Hudson River, and a danger to New York City. But, as should be well known by now, they themselves do not care whether their claims are true, and the press tends to repeat those claims uncritically far more often than it subjects them to critical examination.

An example of the shameless propaganda against Indian Point

As for how anyone could be surprised that fossil fuels took up the load when nuclear was taken out of the picture, we are at a loss. Renewables, thinly spread in space and time, are obviously a very poor match for the dense load of “the city that never sleeps” — but in any case, anti-nuclear has always meant pro-fossil, and pretty explicitly, too.

Since the plant’s closure, it has been gas, rather then clean energy such as solar and wind, that has filled the void, leaving New York City in the embarrassing situation of seeing its planet-heating emissions jump in recent years to the point its power grid is now dirtier than Texas’s, as well as the US average. “From a climate change point of view it’s been a real step backwards and made it harder for New York City to decarbonize its electricity supply than it could’ve been,” said Ben Furnas, a climate and energy policy expert at Cornell University. “This has been a cautionary tale that has left New York in a really challenging spot.”

Gee, who’d’a thunk it?

The article also quotes Bill McKibben, who made his career by spreading bogus claims of health problems caused by Three Mile Island, and has since positioned himself as a “leading climate activist”.

#atomic power to the people #save indian point #lies of the lying liars #decarbonization #grauniad #nuclear energy is clean energy

Leigh Brookfield, 40, sentenced to 14 weeks in jail after admitting assault against 72-year-old Peter Barton

'The district judge Mark Layton jailed Brookfield for 14 weeks and ordered him to pay Barton £500 compensation' i should charge more

#uk politics #grauniad #guardian #wholesome

Southeastern trains on same route also affected, while windy conditions expected to sweep UK

Among them were two newlyweds visiting from New York who said their plans to spend New Year’s Eve at Disneyland Paris were “ruined”.

eurostar london to disneyland paris was cancelled last summer because of operating costs following brexit. i don't know why the british and the americans went to war when it's clear as day all of them are as thick as dogshit.

#uk politics #eurostar #grauniad #oh no #not wealthy londoners #losing out at christmas #kill my feelings

Grauniad: “‘the end of coal’ in Asia”… Or just an illiterate Grauniad journalist? Guest slam dunk by David Middleton Energy analysts forecast ‘the end of coal’ in Asia as Japanese investors back renewables Australia’s largest export customer for thermal coal is scrapping plans to build power plants Ben Smee and Daniel Hurst in Tokyo Sun 17 Mar 2019 Major Japanese investors, including those most indebted to coal, are…

#Asia #Coal #Grauniad #illiterate #Journalist