Slides that convinced Boris Johnson about global warming (2022)

[Tomte]

https://www.carbonbrief.org/revealed-the-11-slides-that-finally-convinced-boris-johnson-about-global-warming/

[abridgett]

It's a sad indictment that it took all this effort, in 2019, to convince a world "leader" that climate change was real.

[ChocolateGod → abridgett]

What's weird is that people who don't think climate change is real / man made are against off shore wind.

Even if it isn't real, off shore wind in the UK is a gold mine.

[natmaka → ChocolateGod]

Indeed, and it is better at continental scale: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...

France, albeit enjoying even better offshore wind potential than the UK, is even worse as it only starts to deploy turbine fleets.

[ChocolateGod → natmaka]

Renewable are boosted by interconnected grids, it's probably always going to be sonny or windy somewhere.

But with Brexit, UK has lost out on potentially being a large exporter of power to Europe, the same way the French do with their excess nuclear power.

[natmaka → ChocolateGod]

Numerous non UE members sell electricity to members (Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Ukraine...), including the United Kingdom.