Discussion > Yorkshire Post's war on fracking
Yorkshire Post has a long letter from the "Socialist Labour Party"
Trying to close the mining industry is a form of control
- "Poland has a modernising coal industry"
- "inappropriate that Attenborough should harness the emotive power of children to deliver his one-sided message"
- "People are beginning to see through celebrity fronted non-evidenced arguments designed for middle-class"
- "communities are being left impoverished by ever growing restrictions"
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Tuesday : long letter about air pollution 'It's treated like the small print'
signed Edward Grainger
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Thursday long letter from John G Davies
\ the letter that said 'not evidenced arguments'
is WRONG /
"There is no debate" "The arguments come from vested interests like cial and oil industries, as well as conspiracy theorists"
... doh that is PROJECTION cos of course it's a conspiracy theory itself.
' here in the Penines hydroelectric could turn old millstreams
.. and "go towards a sustainable energy supply"
..doh..fantasyland maths.
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In the shorts letters
One letter says "All the abuse heaped at Brexiteers is conveniently ignored and the focus is on mouthy Anna Soubry"
it is followed by a letter insulting Wetherspoons for supporting Brexit.
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Wednesday letter in the online edition
FFS an anti-fracking letter with a video !
Changing energy landscape shows no need for UK fracking
AGAIN by Dr peter Williams
..screenshot
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The other day they had 9 letters all pro Brexit and against May and Corbyn
... the county is a Leave county.
Then again perhaps YP were just stir and generate more letters, cos today have 5 from Remainers
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Today they also have this dogmatic letter.
\\ From: Professor Piers Forster,
Director, Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds.
AS a physicist, climate scientist and Harrogate resident, I respond to recent correspondence by pointing out that the sun is most definitely not the cause of the changes in climate and extremes of weather the world is currently witnessing.
Myself and colleagues are continually monitoring many aspects of climate including the sun’s output in detail.
Our instruments do not lie, fossil fuel emissions are the dominant cause of global warming and directly implicated in the increase of flooding, heatwaves, species extinction, melting ice caps and sea-level rise.
Acting now to reduce emissions is a win-win situation. We can save our environment, create new jobs, benefit the economy and improve the quality of our lives.
Physics doesn’t care about politics. Hopefully the solutions can also cross political divides. //
As usual the arguments are total projection
He has taken a full colour complex situation and applied over simplication and misrepresentation to build a simple narrative of his opponents.
Seems like PR science.
If you read from the bottom up
He argues scepticscare motivated by politics
Nop we are motivated by science
He maybe is motivated by politics.
The next paragraph up reads like PR "oh look green measures magically create jobs and prosperity
Next paragraph
"directly implicated in the increase of flooding, heatwaves, species extinction, melting ice caps and sea-level rise. "
that is a who list of claims each of which is challengeable in themselves.
"the sun is most definitely not the cause of the changes in climate and extremes of weather the world is currently witnessing."
#1 claim that weather is more extreme than normal is challengeable
#2 The first part is a simplification , sceptics do not say that other things or CO2 dont contribute to climatic variation
..he is attempting to portray sceptics as saying 'everything is due to the sun'
#3 By flat out denying that sun variations cause climate variations he shows he is doing PR not science.
A science argument could be that sun variations have limited impact, ..but saying they have zero is ridiculous.
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Why do they use the name of a long passed enlightenment figure who briefly lived in Leeds ? - or does it deserve a lower case starting letter?
An IPCC nabob no less....
What a politicised parasitic tosspot - give me more money I'm important - I am.
Another geoengineering wanker to boot.
tomo
Wednesday Times : Two fracking letters both long, both North Yorkshire
Kennelm Storey - very anti
The local hotel owner - very pro .. "We need those local jobs"
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The Times this time
long letter from Scottish Uni and Imperial profs led by Nick Cowern
pushes 2 NPC memes
... " Fracking bad"
... " Green magic solutions is just around the corner"
It quotes the flawed IPPR report as gospel
I've lost the will to live. I guess GWPF will have a debunk
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Monday : YPs Liz Bates just cutNpastes IPPR greendream PR
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/make-the-north-a-clean-energy-hub-urges-leading-think-tank-1-9641506
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Prof @bedform department at Hull Uni is basically the Dept of Offshore Wind
..they have lots of grants to spend
Fully-funded 4-year PhD scholarships in offshore wind energy and the environment.
Led by @UniOfHull @AuraLowCarbon the CDT is funded by @EPSRC & @NERCscience, with @sheffielduni @durham_uni & @UniofNewcastle
as partners.
See (link: http://auracdt.hull.ac.uk to apply, closes 29/April
Read about the Offshore Wind Sector deal and our role
@UniOfHull in leading @AuraLowCarbon
that is delivering skilled people along with research and innovation in partnership across industry the wider sector: (link: https://www.hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/more/media-centre/news/2019/offshore-wind-sector-deal.aspx) hull.ac.uk/work-with-us/m…
Monday YP runs story quoting him
\\ Electric cars powered by offshore Wind 'may be a reality in 15 years'
Prof Dan Parsons, of the University of Hull,
said in future “cars would be more than just cars,” playing a key role as “mobile storage” for energy.
ELECTRIC CARS powered by offshore wind .//
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Times : scare story from Emily
" Public may face fracking clean-up bill, MPs warn"
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Those poor underfunded anti-fracking protesters have gone to court and got some of Ineos's anti-protest injunction pulled back
eg the open ended one banning road obstruction..
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SSE fined £700K for missing SmartMeter targets
... oh how will they ever recover the cost ?
... from putting up people's bill , I guess.
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Today YP frontpage celebrates the fracking czar saying the government has given in to activists by setting such a low tremor limit
Another Yorkshire Post story
\\ Become a #ClimateChangeTeacher!
We need one in Every School, accredited by #UNCCLearn.
Delivering 500+ lessons on the curriculum with Climate Literacy at the heart of each lesson.
#eduCCate #YPO. (I think those are the firms training the teachers) //
but the letters page has a long letter. saying the climate has always changed and is doing well.
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YP editorial praises green warriors , XR, Greta and Miliband and says they should get together
..but warns that the public are hostile to more green taxes
.. especially when China/US don't.
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Monday May 6th
One quarter page given over to Russell Scott anti-fracking campaigner
he praises Greta, Attenborough and Packham etc.
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Wow Wednesday letter page had a letter saying that Greta wants to get heri educated
and should read up on the scientists who say much of CC dogma is a con.
... They probably want to provoke 10 angry letters in reply
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OK there han't been much anti-fracking that recently but am still catching up with some notes I have
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April 29th there was an incredible propaganda article
from CBI Yorkshire's Beckie Hart
complete with dystopian polar bear graphic etc.
Greener future offers massive opportunities - Beckie Hart, CBI
\\ It’s time for the UK to take the lead in the Green Race and cut out carbon by 2050
Consuming vast quantities of airtime and column inches, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that Brexit is the only challenge we face. But with the room for sorely needed compromise extended until October, it’s important not to neglect other, m//
It has zero comments
and only one tweet with ...just 4 likes
She has no CBI twitter, instead the national CBI tweet her anti-Brexit quotes
Her personal account seems only family stuff https://twitter.com/lollipopladyuk
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Monday June 10th AGAIN letter by Dr peter Williams
"MP's fracking support at odds with Green pledge"
..long letter
claim - recent polling shows three quarters of all adults see CC as the biggest crisis .. (made up number surely)
claim - 68% support the move to a Green deal
"appears that MP Kevin Holdrake is on our side
... but his active support for fracking""
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ITV local news Rotherham 8 day public inquiry
into Ineos applications for test drilling (not actual fracking)
Vast anti-fracking zombie army outside court
including Natalie Bennett.
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Facebook group documents hassle protesters give the locals in West-Newton
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Yes, this was another case of the BBC providing me with a free extra burst of anger-stimulated adrenaline while I was exercising in the gym this evening.
I suspect it's just a case of the BBC pre-preparing a few end-of-the-year specials. Presumably this also has the merit of something to fill the pages/air-waves when staffing levels are low over the Christmas period.
Finding one of their NGO collaborators ready willing and able to supply a "report" for the end-of-the-year is probably just a matter of asking. Most of them are probably only too happy to be promised a piece of extended free publicity with no questions asked.