Britain’s exit dashes the European Union’s leadership ambitions on efforts to slow climate change, leaving the bloc on the sidelines while others endorse the global pact it championed to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Britain’s vote to leave the union has disrupted everyday affairs and probably displaced climate concerns as a political priority. It also removes one of the EU’s strongest voices in favour of emissions-cutting policies. —Reuters, 1 July 2016
Six months after the U.N. Climate Change Conference – or COP21 – in Paris, the German government is becoming less and less ambitious about implementing the results. It is caving in, especially in the dispute over the future of coal. –-Handelsblatt, 30 June 2016
Germany has abandoned plans to set out a timetable to exit coal-fired power production and scrapped C02 emissions reduction goals for individual sectors, according to the latest draft of an environment ministry document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The new version, which was revised following consultation with the economy and energy ministry, has also deleted specific concrete C02 emissions savings targets for the energy, industry, transport and agriculture sectors. —Reuters, 29 June 2016
By reducing the role of renewables in its energy mix, Poland could go beyond 80% dependence on coal for electricity production. The new bill adopted on Tuesday overhauls a system of green certificates that polluters must buy, while moving to create regulatory barriers for wind farms. In the short run, the new bill is a boon for a struggling coal mining industry. Poland is one of the biggest producers and consumers of coal in the EU 28, generating 80% of its electricity from the black staff. Being the world’s eighth largest producer of coal, Warsaw also has to consider the 100,000 jobs at stake. Brussels and Warsaw are heading for an inevitable standoff on energy policy. —New Europe, 30 June 2016
The UK agreed on Thursday to set a legally binding goal committing the country to steep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions designed to help ward off climate change. But in a sign of the uncertainties triggered by Britain’s vote to leave the EU, the move was dismissed as potentially “unlawful” by the think-tank founded by Nigel Lawson, the former Tory Chancellor and a member of the Leave campaign’s strategy committee. Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy [Forum] said it was wrong for the government to set in law a fifth “carbon budget” committing the UK to cut emissions 57 per cent by 2032 from the levels of 1990. The goal was “based on the now incorrect assumption that the UK will still be in the EU by 2030”, the [Forum] said. –Pilita Clark, Financial Times, 1 July 2016
Climate scientists and advocates are worried that Britain’s exit from the Eurpean Union will complicate the process of ratifying the Paris Agreement and may install a government that will roll back crucial environmental policies and regulations. –Aidan Quigley, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 June 2016
Economics editor Daniel Wetzel at Germany’s center-right national daily Die Welt here writes that the Brexit may be the end of the Paris climate treaty and that it is a climate-political nightmare for the EU. –P Gosselin, No Tricks Zone, 30 June 2016
h/t to Dr. Benny Peiser, The GWPF
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Wow, Europe finally realised they have some REAL problems to take care of, like the lack of accountability and democratic deficit.
With the two major parties in a contest to out-do each other in terms of who is the most unready to govern and most unfit to run the country, this has been an exciting week.
With Cameron grabbing the headlines, giving the opposition a God-sent opportunity to bash the government and the ruling Conservative party, the opposition Labour party felt the need to grab defeat from the teeth of victory and descend into regicide and internal feuding as well.
Popcorn shares would be rocketing but the European commission banned the sales of ‘carcinogenic’ caramelised sugar used in its fabrication two years ago. [ OK, I made the last bit up 😉 ]
The real problem is marxism dressed up as answers to climate and environmental problems?
Except the day after the brexit vote Brookings’ Director of Metropolitanism globally, Bruce Katz, simply declared what has always been planned, that the cities would become the point of implementation, bypassing nationalism. The UN has even developed the term “glocal” to hype that the local is the best place for the UN agenda for economic and social justice to be invisibly implemented. CAGW is just a rationale, just like Equity and Inclusion mandates or the Skills Deficit hype.
Anyone unfamiliar with just how much of this agenda looks to the local instead of the nation-state or even regional superbodies should look at this. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/harnessing-the-willingness-of-the-populace-to-fill-its-role-in-these-plans-via-deceit-at-all-levels/
Robin, the local level includes the school system, the local city councils ( where nobody attends other than the “Greens” and so on. For a number of years I did some volunteering on an ” advisory” board that nobody listened to. It was frightening how the greens turned logical thinking people into puppets with the “sustainability” and “It’s for the future of our children” slogans. You are correct ( and a bit frightening) It is a rot that starts in the foundation not at the top.
Pay attention to your local government. This has been going on for several years.
http://www.cscaweb.org/EMS/sector_team/support_files/page_1/History_of_EMS.pdf
Mine has bought into it in spades.
Well, I just clicked on the link I just just posted and it said it couldn’t be found. Curious.
The gist of the pdf file was that it traced local EMS (Environmental Management System) efforts from the USEPA to the UN.
And not in a “tracking a conspiracy” vein. It was all for it.
asybot,
“You are correct ( and a bit frightening) It is a rot that starts in the foundation not at the top.”
I see no reason to think some “rotten” people at the top didn’t start it, with what the military guys call a “full spectrum dominance” approach. It seems to me grass roots sort “environmental” groups were infiltrated and eventually overrun by agents of the NWO/globalist/world government crowd. Much like I think “climate change” alarm didn’t spontaneously bubble up from the “common folk”, but was/is being instigated and shepherded among them . .
So sad the ‘it’s for the future of our children’ narrative doesn’t include concern for either the horrific costs piled up chasing this dream (borrowed money which will have to be paid back by the kids) or the substantial decline in living standards the kids will be consigned to.
Thank´s I haven´t been aware that United Nations are working directly with local governments.
“Figueres was alongside Energy Union Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič and business magnate Michael Bloomberg, who is also UN special envoy for cities and climate change, to launch the Global Covenant of Mayors.
The Covenant is the merger of the EU’s Global Covenant of Mayors and the US Compact of Mayors, two initiatives driving forward climate action at city level.
Bloomberg said, “From America’s point of view, the UK staying (in) the EU is a very positive thing for the world economy and world peace.”
No doubt that the activitsts in United Nations are making a coordinated effort to affect local government – a bit frightening.
Robin,
Yes, the Melbourne Australia Councils are well into it –
http://sustainability.mav.asn.au/
It has been on for more than a decade, started as ICLEI –
http://www.bing.com/search?q=iclei&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IENTTR&pc=EUPP_UE10&conversationid=
It is quite clean that it is masterminded by the UN in its Agenda 21 quest to form a One World Government.
The spooky thing is how much is being done with little or no publicity other than between councils.
Geoff
Gunga Din, it is at
https://web.archive.org/web/20140711135910/http://www.cscaweb.org/EMS/sector_team/support_files/page_1/History_of_EMS.pdf
It’s really marxism they have had enough of is it not?
It is Marxism but it is not economic theory. It is Uncle Karl’s, as I call him, theory of the mind, Man as a Maker of History, and his Human Development Society template, that the UN entities, the glocal initiative, Metropolitanism, the OECD’s Great Transition, and Obama’s Fundamental Transformation are all intent on implementing. I ought to know I spent this morning reading the final wioa regulations issued yesterday.
http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/political-primer-101-what-is-the-marxist-theory-of-the-mind-and-why-does-it-matter-in-2012/ is a good intro to the Marxism that matters now. Be careful though, as I explained in my book, because Marism just loves to avoid using the M word. Most people cannot recognize it simply by the function of the political or social theory.
‘Tis nothing in comparison. Despite the fallacy of UK Gov declaring the world’s first mandated reduction targets, Scottish Gov. had already enforced that all local authoritiy chief execs would sign up to the 2007 Scottish Climate Change Declaration. Despite already achieving so-called 2020 targets by early this year – amounting to some 0.3% of estimated man-made ghg emissions, the ‘decision’ has been taken to further increase the reduction required. Of the UK’s current 12GW wind capacity, two-thirds is Scottish based, at a tenth of the UK population with further expansion to come. For the best part of 80 years, Scotland via its progressive capable mix of generation types was a net exporter of valuable electricity; Last year, according to Neta, Scotland net imported over 43 days. FWIM, I voted out in the EU ref and Yes to independence. As recent press announces show, Scot’s fishermen and farmers want out. I’d be dumbfounded if, given the likely re-run independence vote, there was anything like the support given first time around. Take heed, Scottish Gov….
It truly is frightening how much taxpayers dosh is squandered on these eco/enviro groups. Just think of how much could be spent on worthwhile projects that really help people as opposed to hinder them!
We need to think in practical sense. As long as we put emphasis on theoritical sense we achieve less in protecting the environment. The best solution is reduction in power consumption in high tech activities; put a maratorium on urban growth that disproportionately increases the power consumption; change chemical input-GM agricultural technology in to organic-cooperative agriculture that not only reduces the wastage and associated waste of natural resources.
Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy
the UN is next in the movement against bureaucratic control of democratic rights
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2794991
It gets better …
Looks like the Greens tried to fix the vote in Austria where they won by 0.6% the courts have found discrepancies in the count and have ordered a new election.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/07/01/presidential-vote-annulled-anti-mass-migration-candidate-gets-second-chance-postal-vote-fraud/
That’s interesting, I hadn’t heard that mentioned elsewhere, mind you we Brits have been a bit preoccupied recently. The loser is keen to have a referendum on Europe so it will be interesting to see how this develops. The discrepancy in the result seems to have been due to postal votes which has also attracted a lot of criticism in the UK
Tonyb
Oh Noes! The Paris Climate BS is in jeopardy. My poor bleeding heart. Well actually it’s not bleeding but I’m bleeding well laughing my socks off. 😀
Sock it to them.
A Sock, Master has given Dobby a sock, Master has presented Dobby with clothes, Dobby is free.
Maybe at last UK scientists working in the climate field will start at last to heed the Royal Society’s motto: Nullius in verba (Take nobody’s word for it).
In the case of CRU maybe it should be “take nobody’s word for it, not even your own.” CRU funding is going to be hit heavily by this, so they may all be SOL anyway.
It truly is amazing how quickly the bloom has come off the Paris Agreement Titan Arum.
Poland should send Brussel an invoice for fertilizing rest of EU.
No more free riding on fossil fuel consumers cost.
Hi R.W., – Brussels has counter-offered every Pole a lifetime supply of fresh Chruschiki cruller pastries instead of your suggestion. The un-elected technocrats declared it is for the sake of the children who will need powdery sugar to remind them what fallen snow looks like. Offer void in UK.
My immediate response is; be careful with what is reported in the MSM. IMO, not all appears as it seems.
True, but as the MSM sides with the CAGW meme, anything that stands to harm it would be truthfully reported, or at least lied about as being a bad thing 😛
Perhaps Common Sense isn’t dead after all…
Do not believe all you read. As E.M.Smith points out the trade treaties TTP, TTIP and CETA are trojan horses to bring in ‘green’ AGW rules by the back door. https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/ceta-canada-e-u-trade-agreement/ . This was probably the reaason for the fuss about BREXIT as unless the UK signs up individually to TTP or CETA, it will be outside the imposition of Paris rAGW legislation by the back door. One wondeers why the GOP establishment is so keen on these treaties and may try to push them through in the ‘lame duck’ session.
Brexit is looking better and better! — Eugene WR Gallun
Hillary and the demorats are looking worse and worse
is that possible?
Germany Shuns Climate Gods
It looks like undoing forty years of green policy will be slow, but if you’re in a hole, stop digging.
really, Reuters? C02?
So, it was never really about saving the earth after all?? I am shocked, shocked!!
Reblogged this on TheFlippinTruth.
Brexit was just the first domino in the setup called the Paris Agreement. This is the next. As each one falls, the remaining ones realize that they financial burden on them will increase proportionately. It won’t be long until there are not enough left standing to support the ‘accord’.
Yes, Tad – the way this unfolds will illustrate how the scheme was designed from the beginning.
Check out how this plan would work even if CO2 poses no harm:
first, the more dependent nations get money from the productive nations – no-brainer;
second: the producing nations have the ever-growing specter of retirement entitlements, and so desire secure investments for pension funds;
a stable, steady, secure, guaranteed industry is a safe bet;
three: it is well-known that if you get in on the “ground floor” of a new industry, you can reap wonderful returns;
Four: Combine second and three: if you perceive that an emerging industry is going to be a mainstay, then you get a two-fer;
Five: the scheme is this: as nations adopt green-investing commitments, one-by-one, they build the market, and build the pressure, and opportunity, for other nations to get in on the ground floor – sign up earlier rather than later to promote “green” activity and goals in your nation, and build the market, AND simultaneously throw your pension funds into “green”-managed funds NOW, at the ground floor, rather than later;
Six: Enter the sales pitch from a BIG MONEY green investment management fund: Generation Investment Management, LLC – expressedly devoted only to large investors, headed by – get this – Al Gore.
Seven: hit the “EASY” button: the commitment to go green may hurt your economy, but the return on your pension fund investment exceeds the loss.
It works whether CO2 causes global warming or not.
–For the economists, especially those of the Milton Friedman strain, you can see this: this is very similar to the “guild” model of the professions. It is also similar to credential/licensure/certification/accreditation schemes (professional licensure, facility accreditation such as Joint Commission, ISO 9000 certification, etc.): once a credentialing scheme hits a critical mass, it must be respected, whether it has any effect upon performance/quality or not.
Already the Germans are getting pissed off at their EU East Germany ruler.
I think everyone’s getting pissed off at Green demands.
Let’s hope this is a harbinger of the collapse of the CAGW conglomerate, but keep in mind there are still considerable financial interests in selling carbon catastrophe. They will not give in easily. Things will get nasty before they get better.
The question really is whether or not they can pin the blame on the UK. It might be that a lot of people were fed up with the whole green scam and the green party too, but they couldn’t find a viable excuse to cite when implementing anything based on common sense and actual science. The Brexit whipping boy has already served several purposes, one being the relief that there seems to be a viable target of blame for any and everything corrective that must now be implemented before the whole economy is destroyed by silly green and carbon emission policies.
I suspect much effort will be devoted to punishing the UK, attempting to set an example for the others. Τελευταία άνθρωπος έξω παρακαλώ γυρίστε τα φώτα
(Teleftaía ánthropos éxo parakaló gyríste ta fóta)
Very dangerous, the UK is economically strong, a nuclear power, with very good conventional capability and a has a large negative trade imbalance with the EU corpse. They will hurt more than us!
Minor typo – “Poland is one of the biggest producers and consumers of coal in the EU 28, generating 80% of its electricity from the black staff. ” (stuff).
Coal may be the black “staff of life”–cheap and reliable in contrast to the economy-killing alternatives which are being promoted to deal with an overhyped threat.
It may have to do more with business economics than anything. Once Germany got the “tipping point” (great phrase), I think they realized if they don’t get their energy costs under control, they just won’t be competitive in the global market. They already have higher than normal labor costs and they aren’t going down. They had to do something.
Not a good day for Al Gore
All should remember that Enron Corporation was formed to trade “environmental credits”. Largely by allies of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. It has ALWAYS been about leftists stealing legally.
Most here will remember UN officials admitting AWG was about transferring wealth from the industrious to the collectivists.
Could be voters are catching on that things just don’t add up. In many countries.
Or his daighter who was arrested for trespassing trying to stop a ng pipeline in boston
Ausfarhting has been banned due to methane emissions
Pull the Plug–Live Better
The meltdown in Marrakesh in November should be fun to watch. Which reminds me, need more popcorn.
I will send a truck load of saw dust to complete the circus
Chicken counting not in order yet. These people are nothing if not tenacious.
I heard on the radio that Morocco banned plastic bags (or they want to ban, not sure, I was listening to it while having lunch with my family) for the upcoming meeting, which produced an angry demostration of 50000 workers who make their lives in the plastic bag industry.
And then I heard that over 100 (real) nobel laureates signed a press release or something against Greenpeace for its position agaist GMO. According to the radio, they argue that Greenpeace´s position is causing famine and death in some parts of the globe.
Then I checked whether it was the radio station I use to listen to. It was. I was amazed, not one but two antigreen pieces of news reported on the radio the same day. Must be the Brexit, or the local Spanish elections (Spaniard here) The polls failed wretchedly in both cases.
Speaking of famine caused by stupid people and global climate models, did everyone hear there is a famine in Zimbabwe this year?
Climate forecasters said that this past maize season (ended April) was going to be ruined by drought caused by the El Nino phenomenon. It is not that farmers were not willing to plant food and take the risk, but that the banks, warned by the climate prognosticators, refused to make loans available in the usual way for financing crop production. This resulted in a very small planted area this season.
In fact the rainfall was adequate for growing (mostly maize) and it would have been fine, had the banks not cut off the financing. The inevitable result was a famine caused by the lack of finance.
Rain + no planting = no food.
Climate forecasters, add that to your ‘unprecedented record’ of accomplishments: artificial and unprecedented famines in the presence of willing farmers, unused land and adequate precipitation.
Maybe the hungry can satisfy their stomach pains by dining on a big bowl of Stupid.
I understand the bankers are plump…
“Crispin in Waterloo July 1, 2016 at 11:43 am”
There is rioting and fighting in Zimbabwe and towns at the border with South Africa have been burned to the ground. Lots of trouble there. Hardly surprising when bankers and politicians can spend $500 per day whereas most have to do with $1.
They followed france. France banned plastic bags from 1/7/16. Started by Leclerc some 20 yrs ago now formally sanctioned.
From the first article quoted: “The Paris Agreement will take effect once 55 nations responsible for 55 percent of man-made emissions ratify it. With India, China and the United States hastening to lock in their pledges this year, some experts predict that could even be by the next round of climate talks in November in Marrakesh.”
Exactly which meltdown are you referring to?