October 26, 2024
Climate
Discussion Group 2024, CDG2024
Discussion – Policy P3
October - November 2024
P3 Net Zero - move to wind and solar
Oct. 21, 2024
Paul Homewood UK
The Case Against Net Zero
By
Paul Homewood on October 21, 2024
Net Zero is unachievable, potentially disastrous and in any case pointless. writes Robin Guenier in CliScep:
October 26, 2024
In October 2008, Parliament passed the Climate Change Act requiring the UK Government to ensure that by 2050 ‘the net UK carbon account’ was reduced to a level at least 80% lower than that of 1990; ‘carbon account’ refers to CO2 and ‘other targeted greenhouse gas emissions’. Only five MPs voted against it. Then in 2019, by secondary legislation and without serious debate, Parliament increased the 80% reduction requirement to 100% – thereby creating the Net Zero policy.i
Unfortunately, it’s a policy that’s unachievable, potentially disastrous and in any case pointless. And that’s true whether or not humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions are contributing to increased global temperatures.
Read the full article here.
Oct. 19, 2024 Ronald Stein USA
It is appalling that Biden continues to support unethical, immoral, and hypocritical actions to obtain the exotic minerals and metals from poorer developing countries.
By shelling out billions for clean ELECTRICITY, he is financially encouraging China and Africa to exploit “their” poor with yellow, brown, and black skin, and financially supporting environmental degradation to “their” landscapes just to reinforce mandated EV’s, wind turbines, and solar panels in “our backyards”!
October 26, 2024
Ronald Stein, P.E.
Author | Columnist | Energy Literacy Consultant
Co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy
Exploitations”,
Columnists of Op Ed articles on Energy Literacy at America Out Loud
NEWS (this link has access to many of my articles on Energy Literacy)