More UK Drilling Won't Lead to Lower Emissions

Case 99C996E9-9D16-46C2-8DC9-79B5AAE637CA

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  • Verdicts

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 75 %
    Supporting Text:
    Predicting energy needs and consumption decades into the future is highly problematic. Sunak is willing to risk more climate collapse by using this as a wedge issue to appease the anti-Green segment of the Brit populace and to try to avoid his party's almost certain defeat in the upcoming elections.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 50 %
    Supporting Text:
    I don't know who to believe. They clearly have a 'carbon scrubbing' technique. We don't have the facts.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 50 %
    Supporting Text:
    I don't know who to believe. They clearly have a 'carbon scrubbing' technique. We don't have the facts.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 60 %
    Supporting Text:
    Global predictions over decades cannot be true or false, only more or less plausible, given a myriad of assumptions. The International Energy Agency’s Rodemap to 2050 Net Zero, based on current technologies to 2030 and hoped-for technological innovations thereafter says “The use of fossil fuels fall from almost 4/5th of total energy supply to slightly over 1/5 by 2050”, a lower number than Sunak’s 1/4. It is less pessimistic than the Guardian’s dismissive assessment of carbon capture and storage as failures: it plans for 7,600 Mil tonnes of CO2 of total CCS by 2050.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 70 %
    Supporting Text:
    The statement avoid specifics regarding the efficacy of the UK's planned net zero program or the carbon capture solutions.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
    Supporting Text:
    It is 25 years in the future there is research that it can be both true and both untrue. It isn't that weird that oil and gas still has a place in the economy in 25 years

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    This anti-Green stance is a cynical attempt to bolster flagging Conservative poll numbers in advance of the next election. It's especially galling when we consider that the previous Tory government (Boris Johnson) went all in for emission reductions by stopping all new drilling projects.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    This article does not give us a way to determine the truth. It is typical media just stating things that could be lies from both sides.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    This article does not give us a way to determine the truth. It is typical media just stating things that could be lies from both sides.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 85 %
    Supporting Text:
    No prediction of this scope can be the whole truth.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    This anti-Green stance is a cynical attempt to bolster flagging Conservative poll numbers in advance of the next election. It's especially galling when we consider that the previous Tory government (Boris Johnson) went all in for emission reductions by stopping all new drilling projects.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
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    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 95 %
    Supporting Text:
    It will be hard enough to switch from a petro economy to a sustainable one. Diverting funding away from sustainables and toward oil drilling will most certainly not help the zero-emissions cause.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 95 %
    Supporting Text:
    Again all of this may be part true but we have no way to know what is true and what is lie.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 95 %
    Supporting Text:
    Again all of this may be part true but we have no way to know what is true and what is lie.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Every such prediction leaves out vast swathes of both known unknowns and unknown unknowns.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 80 %
    Supporting Text:
    The statement seems to much more politically oriented than energy policy oriented with all the caveats that implies.

    Answer: No
    Answer Confidence: 75 %
    Supporting Text:
    I don't believe the statement of pumping your own resources is rely a good argument here. I believe the choice is or buying the resources of the middle east or start extracting it yourself. Because of starting to pump it yourself they wont be using a lot more in my opinion

    Answer:
    The deceit is that Sunak and the Tories are looking out for the UK's future.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    In fact, Sunak is desperately trying to shore up political strength among certain constituencies.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is manipulating.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    This just seems to be manipulating division since we do not have the facts of the claim.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is manipulating.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    This just seems to be manipulating division since we do not have the facts of the claim.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that Sunak and the Tories are looking out for the UK's future.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    In fact, Sunak is desperately trying to shore up political strength among certain constituencies.

    Answer:
    The deceit is that the lie is misleading.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    The statement implies that the UK will meet its net zero goal while concurrently continuing to drill for fossil fuels. What could possibly go wrong?

    Answer:
    I don't know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
    Supporting Text:
    This is most shameless electioneering at its worst, especially in the face of an unprecedented and escalating climate disaster.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 65 %
    Supporting Text:
    The journalist is intentionally not giving us enough information to make a judgement on the claims ourselves.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 65 %
    Supporting Text:
    The journalist is intentionally not giving us enough information to make a judgement on the claims ourselves.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
    Supporting Text:
    This is most shameless electioneering at its worst, especially in the face of an unprecedented and escalating climate disaster.

    Answer: Yes
    Answer Confidence: 100 %
    Supporting Text:
    This is most shameless electioneering at its worst, especially in the face of an unprecedented and escalating climate disaster.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer:
    Sunak and the Tories are making this move to maintain their ever-slipping grip on power.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Yet another example of a Big Lie being spoon fed to the Brits. (The original Big Lie was, of course, Brexit.)

    Answer:
    The motivation may be to inform but it is not informative.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer:
    The motivation may be to inform but it is not informative.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer:
    Sunak and the Tories are making this move to maintain their ever-slipping grip on power.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Yet another example of a Big Lie being spoon fed to the Brits. (The original Big Lie was, of course, Brexit.)

    Answer:
    The motivation is political persuasion, hijacking a popular social cause for leverage.
    Answer Confidence: 95 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer:
    We don't know what is the reasoning behind this claim? Besides this i would argue the motivation is to get less reliant on regions like the middle east.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    This should be exposed for the Orwellian political doublespeak that it is. But, unfortunately, given the UK's current widespread political insanity, many will probably buy into it.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 20 %
    Supporting Text:
    This is a classic where the media is providing two sides but no evidence. It is almost impossible to determine the true evidence here unless they help.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 20 %
    Supporting Text:
    This is a classic where the media is providing two sides but no evidence. It is almost impossible to determine the true evidence here unless they help.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    This should be exposed for the Orwellian political doublespeak that it is. But, unfortunately, given the UK's current widespread political insanity, many will probably buy into it.

    Answer: Unacceptable
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    It is pandering to anti-climate change constituents.

    Answer: Don't Know
    Answer Confidence: 50 %
    Supporting Text:

    Answer:
    This is a questionable claim (designed only to win votes) that is purely motivated by the Conservatives's wish to remain in power
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    We are in a desperate climate emergency, yet some shameless Brits are resorting to this type of malarkey.

    Answer:
    It is not possible to determine the facts behind these competing claims. Either or both may not be true in whole or in part.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    We are in a desperate climate emergency, yet some shameless Brits are resorting to this type of malarkey.

    Answer:
    It is not possible to determine the facts behind these competing claims. Either or both may not be true in whole or in part.
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    We are in a desperate climate emergency, yet some shameless Brits are resorting to this type of malarkey.

    Answer:
    This is a questionable claim (designed only to win votes) that is purely motivated by the Conservatives's wish to remain in power
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    We are in a desperate climate emergency, yet some shameless Brits are resorting to this type of malarkey.

    Answer:
    This is a questionable claim (designed only to win votes) that is purely motivated by the Conservatives's wish to remain in power
    Answer Confidence: 90 %
    Supporting Text:
    Sunak is betting that the UK public that bought Brexit will likely also buy his "drill our way to net zero carbon emissions" argument.

    Answer:
    No label needed
    Answer Confidence: 50 %
    Supporting Text: