Slides that convinced Boris Johnson about global warming (2022)

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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