Britain Must Regress 100 Years To Achieve ‘Net Zero’
‘Climate change is the challenge of our lifetimes,” we in the energy-hungry West often hear when lectured by leftist government officials and their allies pushing the “Net-Zero” religion
But what happens if much of the vital data behind the ‘climate-change’ threat is made up?
Turns out, quite a lot of it is.
The Daily Sceptic recently detailed the allegations made by an independent journalist showing that 103 of the 302 weather stations that provide data for both the UK government’s and academic scientists’ climate forecasts don’t exist or produce actual data.
That’s right. Instead of data, the government manufactures “estimates,” as journalist Ray Sanders found.
If so, all the science based on the falsified data is null and void.
That includes the British government’s frequent dire predictions of massive global heating that will soon make life on planet Earth unbearable.
Still, that’s just the UK, right? Wrong.
If you live in the U.S., you’ve been hectored by big-government leftists for years to “trust the science.” However, the U.S. government has its own problems with temperature data.
The United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) was set up to provide accurate temperature numbers to policymakers, meteorologists, and scientists.
Unfortunately, as in Britain, the U.S. is shutting down many of its weather stations, making apples-to-apples data comparisons statistically impossible. The data goes back 100 years.
“They (weather stations) are physically gone — but still report data — like magic,” according to Lt. Col. John Shewchuk, a certified consulting meteorologist. “NOAA fabricates temperature data for more than 30 percent of the 1,218 USHCN reporting stations that no longer exist.”
But it’s not only about data.
This revelation comes as COP29, the awkward acronym for the UN’s 29th annual climate conference, gets underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, with literally dozens of CO2-spewing government and private jets flying an anticipated 50,000 people thousands of miles for the occasion.
“Carbon for me, but not for thee,” could be the motto of the Climato-crats in attendance.
According to U.N. Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, on Tuesday of this week, Britain agreed to “a new target of cutting emissions 81 percent by 2035, for its new NDC.” That’s up from an already unreachable 78 percent before.
In case you’re wondering, “NDC” is United Nation-ese for “Nationally Developed Contribution”. But it just as well could be called NBB, for “National Bankruptcy for Britain.”
Because what the government has planned is nothing short of taking Britain’s development back decades.
This is how the British Independent news site describes what must happen due to Britain’s pledge at the U.N. meeting:
The CCC (Climate Change Committee) said electricity will need to be zero carbon by 2035, with a phaseout of gas power that does not have technology to capture and store its carbon emissions, and renewables – in particular offshore wind – generating 70 percent of power.
It also said sales of natural gas boilers need to be phased out by 2033 with the majority of homes switching to heat pumps that run on electricity.
Sales of new petrol and diesel cars, motorbikes and vans, including plug-in hybrids, must be phased out by 2032, with most new sales ended by 2030.
People should also be encouraged to reduce their meat and dairy consumption by 20 percent by 2030, which will free up land for restoring peatland so it absorbs carbon and to plant trees.
And cuts to demand for other carbon intensive activities will also be needed, including slower growth in flights, reductions in car travel, and cutting waste and boosting recycling, the advisers said.
Sound like the kind of place where you want to live? Eat less? Stop traveling? Buy only electric vehicles?
It’s basically a climate police state, which is precisely what Britain’s far-left government intends.
And no, it doesn’t end there. The sacrifices go on and on, with no offsetting gains for the economy, and it’s happening across Europe with shockingly predictable results.
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VOWG
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The entire planet could return to the stone age and there still will be no such thing as net zero. Has everybody lost their tiny minds?
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Tom
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How ridiculous as no one country could ever achieve net-zero on its own without all the other countries in the world making the attempt. Then again, the closer you get to net zero, the fewer people will live to see it. It is quite the depopulation scheme as are so many of these utterly silly Marxist agendas.
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