Stephen Burchell @BurchellStephen

As Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham wanted to slash hydrocarbon use by 90% in 10 years. Now the new Energy Minister is making similar noises. Chris Morrison wonders if destroying modern society is still the plan. buff.ly/NDTrYYC

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Stephen Burchell @BurchellStephen

5 months ago

@NotFarLeftAtAll Don't join things

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This is you @thisisyoudotco

5 months ago

@ClaireCoutinho Yes there's lots the governments didn't want us to see. Like this report that blows a hole in Net Zero tinyurl.com/59t2x6yh

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Sama Hoole @SamaHoole

5 months ago

"Livestock use 83% of the world's farmland and give back just 18% of our calories." There it is. The killer stat, lifted off the infographic, courtesy of Poore and Nemecek's enormous 2018 study in Science: nearly 38,700 farms across 119 countries. Damning. Wildly inefficient. Somebody fetch the cow a P45. One small question before sentencing. Where is that 83% of land? It's grass. Worldwide, around two-thirds of all farmland isn't cropland at all; it's pasture and rough grazing. Fell, moor, steppe, marsh, scrub. Marginal land, to use the term of art. Too steep, thin, wet, or cold to grow a single thing a human can chew. In Britain, about 65% of farmland is good for grass and little else. You are welcome to plant lentils on a Cumbrian hillside. You will then watch them sit there, baffled, and die. What that land does grow is cellulose, the most abundant biomass on Earth and a substance your gut regards as scaffolding. You cannot eat it. Nor can any pig, chicken, or vegan. A ruminant can. That is the entire trick. She walks across the inedible two-thirds of the world's farmland and turns it into milk and meat. So the cow isn't squatting on prime arable while the nation starves; she's working the land that grows precisely one crop, grass, which she eats, which is the whole point of her. Calling that inefficient is like calling a fishing boat inefficient for its poor performance on the motorway. Then there's the calorie sleight of hand, which is somehow the dafter half. Yes, beef is a modest share of calories. So is a glass of cooking oil. You can get calories from a spoon of sugar. Calories are the easy part. The hard part is everything else the steak is carrying. On DIAAS, the actual measure of protein quality, beef scores about 1.0 to 1.1, with milk and eggs a shade higher. Wheat limps in around 0.45. Almonds manage 0.40. The FAO won't let a protein scoring under 0.75 make a quality claim at all, which quietly disqualifies most of the plant kingdom. Then there's B12, of which plants contain essentially none, plus heme iron and zinc in a form your body can actually be bothered to absorb. Ranking food by raw calories and declaring the steak a failure is like ranking a library by how well the books burn. By that measure, petrol is the finest meal in Britain.

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James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville

5 months ago

“Under a Labour government we would freeze energy bills. We wouldn’t allow them to go up.” ~ Keir Starmer Yet another lie. A typical energy bill will rise by £221 a year from July.

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Jokerswild @JokersWildUK

5 months ago

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Chris Morrison @CMorrisonEsq

5 months ago

The Met Office must withdraw this stinker of a report immediately. Preferably with a fulsome apology. And then all Net Zero regs in the UK must be reviewed in the light of its "implausible" drivel. My latest article for the Daily Sceptic.

Toby Young @toadmeister

5 months ago

The Met Office is facing a fresh scandal over a Climate Projections report that sits at the heart of UK Net Zero policies after the modelling underlying it is ruled "implausible" by the IPCC, says Chris Morrison. dailysceptic.org/2026/05/19/met…

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Stephen Burchell @BurchellStephen

7 months ago

North Sea Mythbuster: Why the Seven Arguments Against Drilling Are All Wrong dailysceptic.org/2026/03/31/nor… via @LD_Sceptics

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Stephen Burchell @BurchellStephen

7 months ago

@CMorrisonEsq Wanker

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Stephen Burchell @BurchellStephen

8 months ago

Macron: Spain's Mega-Blackout Was Due to Reliance on Renewables dailysceptic.org/2026/02/11/mac… via @LD_Sceptics

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Stephen Burchell @BurchellStephen

8 months ago

Guardian: Floodplain Homes Next to River in Rainy Welsh Valley Abandoned "Due to Climate Change" dailysceptic.org/2026/02/11/gua… via @LD_Sceptics

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Net Zero Watch @NetZeroWatch

9 months ago

📈The Way Up | A Net Zero Watch Short Film Join @ColinBrazierTV on a journey through Britain’s energy transformation as he looks at how energy abundance spawned the modern world. Produced by @OutpostStudios 🎥

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Stephen Burchell @BurchellStephen

9 months ago

@williamnhutton BTW you southern prat,it's not raining in Scotland, we've had quite a decent spell. Also some snow, which as we all know 'is a thing of the past ' Bloody idiot.