‘Net Zero’ Dropped by EU After Farmers’ Protests
Brussels removes order to reduce emissions linked to agriculture after mounting anger across Europe.
The European Union has caved in to angry protests from farmers and cut a target to slash agricultural emissions as part of the bloc’s ‘net zero’ drive.
A demand to reduce nitrogen, methane and other emissions linked to farming by almost a third has been removed from a wider Brussels plan to cut ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions by 90 per cent by 2040.
On Tuesday, Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, also proposed withdrawing the EU’s plan to halve the use of pesticides, calling it a “symbol of polarisation”.
“Our farmers deserve to be listened to,” she told the European Parliament.
“I know that they are worried about the future of agriculture and their future as farmers. But they also know that agriculture needs to move to a more sustainable model of production so that their farms remain profitable in the years to come.”
A recommendation urging EU citizens to eat less meat was also removed from the plan.
The concessions came amid mounting demonstrations by farmers in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy ahead of this year’s EU elections.
Blockades on supermarket distribution centres have left shelves empty in Brussels, while several people have been injured in traffic accidents caused by farmers’ protests in the Netherlands, as they dumped rubbish and set fires on highways.
Organisers have threatened to continue disruption in the lead-up to the elections for the European Parliament in June.
Resistance growing
The ballot is seen as increasingly problematic for Mrs von der Leyen, and other mainstream politicians seeking re-election on a ‘green’ agenda.
Resistance to the environmental overhaul has been steadily growing, including from the European People’s Party, the centre-Right political group to which commission president belongs.
The move to offer concessions to the farmers would be seen as a major step away from the bloc’s original green plans.
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It’s rather impressing to be aiming at reducing something that doesn’t even exist (in the real world)!
If the “Greenhouse Effect” was real the thermal equilibrium point between earth and space would be at the earth’s surface.
The reason it is not is because of the Troposphere’s density (Mass, Pressures and Gravity) resulting in the Adiabatic Lapse Rate.
The Adiabatic Lapse Rate, which is proven to exsist, both measured and observed and the “Greenhouse Effect” can not exist at the same time in the atmosphere from the earth’s surface.
We also know that the earth’s “Black Body Surface” is at around 8 km altitude, measured from satellites, a fact that also disprove the “Greenhouse Effect”!
The “Greenhouse Effect” would only have been possible if the “Black Body Surface” was earth’s actual surface, and the thermal equilibrium point between earth and space also was at the earth’s surface.
The reason is, for the “Greenhouse Effect” to exist the earth’s surface would necessarily have to be cooled by radiation, which it is not, it is cooled by convection (in the real world, of course!).
Zero Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is not possible due to Henry’s Law. Any gases that are removed will be compensated by outgassing from the oceans according to pressure, temperature: “At a constant temperature, the amount of a given gas that dissolves in a given type and volume of liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of that gas in equilibrium with that liquid.”
All this is confirmed by observations and have been known for decades.
U.S. National Academies Find Greenhouse Effect Doesn’t Exist
https://www.newscats.Org/u-s-national-academies-find-greenhouse-effect-doesnt-exist-2/
Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics
https://roaldjlarsen.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/falsi%ef%ac%81cation-of-the-atmospheric-co2-greenhouse-e%ef%ac%80ects-within-the-frame-of-physics/
Derivation of the entire 33°C greenhouse effect without radiative forcing from greenhouse gases
https://www.newscats.Org/derivation-of-the-entire-33c-greenhouse-effect-without-radiative-forcing-from-greenhouse-gases/
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Wisenox
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The WEF estimates the cost of all this scam-crap to be $4-$6 trillion. They already know that countries can’t afford it, so they want the private sector to chip in.
Good luck to the useful idiots who go along with it. EVs aren’t working out too well.
Beware empty promises; they’re used to use you.
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Antonio
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Secondo voi queste persone dell’UE sono affidabili? NO
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VOWG
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Nature always wins.
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David1c
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Watch: they will bring in other officials who will bring Net Zero back, while the farmers are in their fields.
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aaron
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Matters not who is in ‘power’ the system is the problem (should be obvious by now)
Governments/puppets of the elite must be de-legitimized
STOP voting, paying tribute to terrorist organizations
Why we pay taxes, the truth of the matter:
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S.C.
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The farmers of Europe have earned my immense gratitude and respect.
This is a huge win for humanity, and proves that fighting and defeating
tyranny can be relatively simple.
May the whole world take notice!
Now is the time to rid the planet of the diseased scum which call itself the WEF.
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VOWG
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It won’t last, the evil takes two steps forward and one step back. This is the one step back.
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