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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 9d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · 13d

That was from seven years ago - an archived tweet that I transferred over to this abode of relative sanity.

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · 28d

It’s is clear another effort to distract from what we all know Trump was doing with Epstein.

On vaccines - in the 1940s my father saw three school friends die from diseases now unheard of in the UK. I shudder to think about the same thing happening again, to unvaccinated kids.

Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Sep 20

Given that the fellow is 73, I would have my doubts.

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · Sep 6

What's Nigel Farage's problem with solar panels?

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Thomas Pogge @tpogge.bsky.social · Aug 19

Conversation with Bill McKibben, whose new book *Here Comes the Sun* is just coming out.
www.douglewin.com/p/here-comes...
One take-away: solar panels produce 28x as much electricity per acre than biofuel (ethanol).

Here Comes the Sun: Bill McKibben on Solar’s Breakout Moment

Why getting most of our power from solar and storage is no longer a distant hope but the fastest, cheapest, most common-sense way to power our world.

www.douglewin.com

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jul 26

A guy who doesn’t like immigrants becomes an immigrant without appreciating the several hundred tons of weapons-grade irony, in other words.

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jul 23

I forgot that I put this together:

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jul 23

I did that.⤵️ The Telegraph’s figures for how many #solar #solarsky panels needed by 2035 were an order of magnitude out, due to some frankly silly maths that assumed solar farms are a flat sea of glass. Breaking news: they aren’t.

Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · Jun 2

"We are happy to correct the record."

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Prof Richard Betts @richardabetts.bsky.social · Jul 20

Yes climate change is already killing people

www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Bar chart showing heat-related deaths in several European cities from 23 June to 2 July 2025, distinguishing between numbers due to human-caused climate change and those due to natural variability
Milan: 317 from human caused climate change, 182 natural
Barcelona: 286, 54
Paris: 235, 138
London: 171, 92
Rome: 164, 118
Madrid: 108, (then some relatively small number not given)
Athens: 96, 79
Budapest: 47, 24
Zagreb: 31, 25
Lisbon: 21, 71
Frankfurt: 21 (then some relatively small number not given)

Added text says two-thirds of heat deaths in London were attributable to climate change

Guardian graphic, source: World Weather Attribution, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jul 6

Ah, close enough. There will always be the odd circumstance where PV doesn’t make sense (like a house in permanent shade) and the rules will accommodate that.

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jul 6

Fortunately, the existing Building Regs are making more and more newbuild homes go solar. It was ~42% at the end of last year and likely rather more now, even before the Future Homes Standard kicks in. solarenergyuk.org/news/more-th...

More than four in ten new homes in England built with solar power

More stringent rules on energy efficiency has driven a surge in residential solar panel installations

solarenergyuk.org

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jun 30

Delighted to say that the UK's government-industry Solar Roadmap was published this morning, describing dozens of practical measures to boost the supply of cheaper, greener power, deliver new industries and create skilled jobs. #solarsky #solarenergy solarenergyuk.org/news/roadmap... #solarenergy

Roadmap seizes ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity of the solar revolution

A new era of clean energy independence dawned today, with the publication of the long-anticipated Solar Roadmap

solarenergyuk.org

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jun 30

Delighted to say that the UK's government-industry Solar Roadmap was published this morning, describing dozens of practical measures to boost the supply of cheaper, greener power, deliver new industries and create skilled jobs. #solarsky #solarenergy solarenergyuk.org/news/roadmap... #solarenergy

Roadmap seizes ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity of the solar revolution

A new era of clean energy independence dawned today, with the publication of the long-anticipated Solar Roadmap

solarenergyuk.org

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jun 30

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jun 30

Delighted to say that the UK's government-industry Solar Roadmap was published this morning, describing dozens of practical measures to boost the supply of cheaper, greener power, deliver new industries and create skilled jobs. #solarsky #solarenergy solarenergyuk.org/news/roadmap... #solarenergy

Roadmap seizes ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity of the solar revolution

A new era of clean energy independence dawned today, with the publication of the long-anticipated Solar Roadmap

solarenergyuk.org

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jun 30

Delighted to say that the UK's government-industry Solar Roadmap was published this morning, describing dozens of practical measures to boost the supply of cheaper, greener power, deliver new industries and create skilled jobs. #solarsky #solarenergy solarenergyuk.org/news/roadmap... #solarenergy

Roadmap seizes ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity of the solar revolution

A new era of clean energy independence dawned today, with the publication of the long-anticipated Solar Roadmap

solarenergyuk.org

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jun 17

Now this is what I like to see. Ed Miliband said: “We’re going to win this fight... The forces that oppose #netzero will have to reckon not just with the government. They will have to reckon with all these companies that are creating jobs.” 💪☀️🔋⚡ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ed Miliband says Labour will ‘win fight’ against UK net zero critics

Energy secretary speaks at launch of £1bn investment scheme to bolster jobs in offshore wind supply chain

www.theguardian.com

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jun 5

I was working on selling quantum cryptography systems 20 years ago, intended to protect against the ability of quantum computers to crack conventional codes in an instant. I thought then I might have been a bit too early. Turns out that I wasn’t half right.

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · Jun 5

I vote Mothra.

a statue of a monster is standing in a forest

ALT: a statue of a monster is standing in a forest

media.tenor.com

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · May 25

I wrote a massive thread on this subject last summer, in response to a question from Rugby Union referee Nigel Owens strangely enough, before I left Twitter in disgust. It all boils down to grid access, both this side (UK) and the other side of the Atlantic. x.com/GarethSimkin...

Gareth Simkins on X: "@Nigelrefowens Dear Nigel, I run media relations for the trade assoc @SolarEnergyUK_. I’m also a half-Welsh rugby union fan & ex-player. I would be really happy to discuss solar farms, food security and why they are built where they are. I can understand your concerns - but they are misplaced." / X

@Nigelrefowens Dear Nigel, I run media relations for the trade assoc @SolarEnergyUK_. I’m also a half-Welsh rugby union fan & ex-player. I would be really happy to discuss solar farms, food security and why they are built where they are. I can understand your concerns - but they are misplaced.

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[email protected] @netzerointel.bsky.social · May 22

⚡Offshore just leveled up 🌊☀️
World’s first offshore wind-solar hybrid kicks off in the Dutch North Sea .

🔗Wind + solar = 5x output
⚓Anchors deployed
🏗️Shell & Eneco joint project

We track the #EnergyTransition — end to end. See how at enkiai.com
#Energy #CleanTech

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · May 19

Yes, it boils down to informed guesswork and a lot of maths. But they should all be saying the same thing.

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · May 19

Well, I certainly had a few grazes from falling over. It wasn’t here though - I was on holiday somewhere, either in France or perhaps Switzerland in the summer, around 1990. I would have been about ten years old.

A few years later, I think I saw a scarab on hols in France. It was huge.

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Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · May 19

But there are only so many hours in the day.

Gareth Simkins @garethsimkins.bsky.social · May 19

As a kid, I was once knocked over on my bike by a flying stag beetle. I thought I had got on the wrong end of a stray tennis ball until I saw it on the ground - it was quite a wallop.

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