As British Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to step down, Climate scientists are urging her to pass Zero Emissions laws before she leaves office.
Climate change: Zero emissions law should be PM’s legacy, scientists say
31 May 2019
Leading climate scientists have called for Theresa May to make her “legacy” a target to cut greenhouse gases to zero by 2050.
A group of experts have written to the prime minister calling for her to enshrine a target for “net zero” emissions in national law.
Experts claim the target is necessary to avoid dangerous climate change.
The government said the UK already leads the world in tackling global warming.In their letter, the scientists said the evidence was “unequivocal” that avoiding dangerous climate change means eliminating or offsetting all carbon emissions – not just reducing them.
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A government spokesman said: “We already lead the world in tackling climate change, being the first country to introduce long-term legally-binding carbon reduction targets and cutting emissions further than all other G20 countries.”
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48467462
The following is the full text of the letter (source)
This isn’t the first time climate scientists have urged political leaders leaving office to pass unpopular climate laws.
James Hansen expressed his fury that President Obama refused an “opportunity” to tie President Trump’s hands on climate policy – in the final days of his Presidency, President Obama placed respecting the wishes of the American people ahead of cementing his climate legacy.
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There is particular scorn for Barack Obama. Hansen says in a scathing upcoming book that the former president “failed miserably” on climate change and oversaw policies that were “late, ineffectual and partisan”.
Hansen even accuses Obama of passing up the opportunity to thwart Donald Trump’s destruction of US climate action, by declining to settle a lawsuit the scientist, his granddaughter and 20 other young people are waging against the government, accusing it of unconstitutionally causing peril to their living environment.“Near the end of his administration the US said it would reduce emissions 80% by 2050,” Hansen said.
“Our lawsuit demands a reduction of 6% a year so I thought, ‘That’s close enough, let’s settle the lawsuit.’ We got through to Obama’s office but he decided against it. It was a tremendous opportunity. This was after Trump’s election, so if we’d settled it quickly the US legally wouldn’t be able to do the absurd things Trump is doing now by opening up all sorts of fossil fuel sources.”
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Read More: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/19/james-hansen-nasa-scientist-climate-change-warning
Climate scientists are well aware that politicians who openly embrace their hideously damaging green ideas lose elections. This is why they target political leaders who are on the way out, leaders who no longer have to face the people who elected them.
This could be restated as “Climate fraudsters urge British PM to vindictively screw UK citizens before she leaves office.”
Yes, but at least we know that the signatories subscribe to the destruction of western economies and probably to the UN aim of an unelected global government .
It seems from their use of the word “unequivocal” that facts and contrary scienctific evidence are not very relevant to them – failed climate models are seemingly all they need to spout this nonsense.
“However, science is unequivocal that avoiding dangerous climate change means not just reducing carbon emissions but bringing them to net zero. ”
Lies and more lies. Anything to ensure the funding gravy train keeps rolling.
“unequivocal”-clear, unambiguous, leaving no doubt
WUWT is comprised of examples of equivocations on the meaning of climate data and physics. Not only do the articles and commenters question the conclusion that rising CO2 is now or will soon cause dangerous ‘climate change” many, including me, question any link between human emissions and atmospheric CO2 content and thus any potential to effect climate by eliminating our emissions.
Once again we see the problem created when “science” is evoked as an institution rather than a mode of inquiry as Lindzen warned.
If Mdm May does force through Climate Castration on her great country she’ll be Laming the Nation
The term “climate change” , the way in which it is used, is an equivocation. It has no real meaning, because the default condition of this planet’s atmosphere is change. It can be applied willy-nilly to any “climatic event”, mild or extreme, which takes place within their arbitrary definition of climate.
Miles Allen seems to be a key “communicator” recently. That’s several times he has popped in the last months.
Goading an unelected Prime Minister to do something against the people’s wishes just before being forced from office to be replaced by another unelected Prime Minister “because it doesn’t matter any more” , reveals his totally cynical contempt for those he perceives as his lessers.
I’m really getting to dislike this guy.
Someone should check all of their bank statements for unusually large unexplained deposits.
If caught they’d likely explain them as “advisory remunerations” from Green renewable energy interests.
isle of man/cayman islands accounts cant BE checked and you can bet thats where the moneys going
Well, she’s screwed everything else up, they obviously think she may as well screw us again before she goes. One of the reasons for leaving the EU is because they are planning to spend at least a quarter of the EU budget (taxpayers money) on ‘climate change’.
“Leading climate scientists”, if you read the names, it’s the usual suspects. The only thing they’re capable of is leading us to economic ruin.
The rest of the country, yes, but in the mean time loads of OPM for “research” and an early retirement before anyone realises the claims are bogus.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48467462
Pretty cool the way the lead photo on this articel shows the REAL cause of “global heating” [ new PC term for global warming: sounds more serious, right? ].
Thermometer, clouds, blinding sun light.
Yes, the energy comes from the sun and is controlled by WATER, in all its states.
Climate models can not model clouds so they just make up “parameters” for clouds instead.
The “enforcer” of the psychology of “runaway global warming” has been relative humidity. Warm ocean cycles have made the entire globe more humid, resulting in normally cold, dry polar regions becoming the predominant areas exhibiting warming anomalies. The late planting season in the US and Europe is completely opposite of what CO2 warming predicts.
In the private sector, this idea would be termed a “poison pill.”
Don’t look back, Union Jack!
Just get yourself Free!
I would have thought Theresa May’s legacy is bad enough already, without the need for her to endorse her bad judgement credentials still further via a pointless environmental policy mandate.
I would ask each and every one of these so called scientists if they n=have stopped using fossil fuel powered aircraft or vehicles in line with their demand everyone else should do that.
Lead by example chaps, show us all how to do it.
If you have to lie and cheat in order to get your way, then you know you’re wrong.
Yes, Hansen has been at the nexus of climate alarmism since its inception. It was his flawed application of linear feedback analysis that became the holy grail providing the IPCC/UNFCCC ‘theoretical’ cover to justify their formation. I don’t think the flaws were malicious and he was just in over his head about something he knew little about, although I doubt he appreciated being referred to as an alarmist lunatic by the Reagan administration as they cut back on GISS funding. Hansen connected with Gore shortly before that and it’s hard to say who had a worse influence on who, but together, they cemented the relationship between the political left and the pseudo-science of climate alarmism enabling lying and cheating to become their last remaining tool.
“then you know you’re wrong.”
No, you simply have total contempt for lesser mortals because you are an Oxford professor. The only form of life superior to an Oxford professor is a Cambridge professor ( but please don’t tell him ).
That means you can incite a failed PM to abuse her position
Despite being a useless PM, I suspect May has more scruples than Prof Allen.
Contempt or not, a lie is required because they know the truth isn’t what will work for them. AKA. a lie is a lie, for whatever reason, it’s still a lie. And they know it is a lie because they continue to do it after people point out their folly.
She might have more, but she is likely more “flexible”.
Unfortunately not.
The problem with a lot of Lefts is they know they are ‘correct’ and by extension you are clearly wrong.
Maybe not wrong in your base principles, but absolutely wrong in your conclusions. There is no, ‘you think differently, we should discuss this further for our mutual benefit’, there is simply ‘I am correct, ergo you are wrong’.
Once you have accepted the other party’s conclusions are wrong it is a simply step to then insist that action against this party is morally justified. Cheating and lying? No big deal, provided of course the morally correct end target is achieved.
Hence we get groups who do not even want to debate the base science (ie proof or not that Greenhouse Gas theory even actually works) because that is no longer the issue. The issue is the world will be ‘better’ if you do what they say. It no longer really matters IF Global Warming(tm) is real, it is instead important that the change is made for the Greater Good.
Not about the eggs. All about the omelette.
It is not that you are simply wrong, it is that you are evil in thinking what you do; you could never reach your conclusion, given the evidence, if you weren’t evil. We will never stoop to debating with evil people. Believe as us or be destroyed.
And why do you have to be the bad guy? Because they MUST be the goody good guys of goodness. Their egos won’t allow the idea that they may not be as good as they think to get a foot in the door.
Compared to China and India, Britain doesn’t emit very much CO2. If CO2 is such a problem (and I dispute that it is a problem*) why aren’t these “scientists” writing to the Premier of China and Prime Minister of India?
* CO2 is a beneficial trace gas on which all life depends. It is not a “pollutant” that needs to be regulated.
CO2 is indeed a precious, life-giving, beneficial trace gas upon which all life depends. My Suburban has contributed many thousand tons to the atmosphere and I hope to contribute many thousand tons more. It is my sincere wish to see atmospheric concentrations exceed 800 ppm in my lifetime. I suspect that we will not see that when colder oceans begin absorbing at a higher rate.
Oh James Beaver… please…
Don’t you know that China is a ‘developing country’? Really.. just ask the UN.
Good point. China matched US and EU emissions in 2005. China is now triple US emissions. Any action by the US or the EU is pointless.
These people avoid calculators like vampires avoid silver crosses.
Shut up, she argued.
Anybody notice that “climate control freaks” won’t wait for democratic processes? Sue and Settle is the Deep State’s go-to method for thwarting the will of the people; socialism/authoritarianism at its subversive best.
Dave, these folks see due process as a hindrance to their “just” cause. They’re trying to save Gaia from humanity (excluding themselves).
Pop, don’t you see? They are just so much smarter than you and me. (“Me” sounds better than “I” here. I’m not even sure what grammar call for anymore. After all these decades, I’ll just go with what I want; screw the scolds.)
No sweat, Dave, you got it right. I despair when I here people say: ‘between you and I’, when it should be ‘between you and me’.
It’s easy to test: remove the ‘you and’ from the sentence and see if it scans (you wouldn’t say ‘you are smarter than I’, would you?
….’when I hear’!! Arrgh.
She can try to pass whatever she wants, it will not stand after the new kid comes in. Much she has done won’t stand under a new admin.
Obama, anyone?
Yep, his damage is being rectified as we speak.
She could not pass any bill in the house if her life depended on it … the idiots can ask for whatever they want.
Doesn’t this remind you of the kid you witnessed who, when they lost a game or was out played by others to a point where their incompetence became blatant, would steal the ball, toss the game board up in the air and stomp off, accuse others of cheating and/or throw a fit of name calling, projection and ridicule?
These people must never be allowed be have positions of power. They are far too dangerous and destructive.
Too bad they run the Democrat Party and MSM.
Those types are ALL we have in government as elected officials, and pedantic bureaucrats who thrive on telling others how to live. Their knowledge is hollow and misguided.
Idiots of the world unite !
They have: The Democrat Party.
Is that the abridged version of Das Kapital Dennis?
My fear is she is stupid enough to actually attempt to do it. The scientivists realize that once Brexit happens their noses will get pushed out of the EU trough.
France will take them in, along with the American scientists.
And it is the EU who fund green activists to formulate climate “policy”, whilst in the UK the Climate Change Committee is chaired by an individual whose family company generates its income from “advising” the renewable energy industry.
Zero chance she could get a bill passed, she is effectively a caretaker prime minister.
That’s called sue and settle. It’s evil and, I’m guessing, unconstitutional. link
They are showing an ignorance about how the system works. May has no powers to do anything like that
She had the power to write the worst deal in the history of bad deals. Thank goodness she is going and her deal was given a big raspberry.
Yes, we now learn that even on the EU side (Selmayr in particular, Juncker’s personal high executioner) there were concerns that she was accepting every condition put to her to the extent that the treaty would be unacceptable to cabinet and/or parliament. I think May has done enough harm without miring us in even deeper greencrap.
As the saying goes, “Your work on earth is done, return now to your own planet”.
Yes. For someone, a professor no less, in Oxford not to know that is ridiculous. Or perhaps he was just grandstanding, which is a more likely explanation.
Myles Allen?? Surely not….
There’s a Meh…..
should go away quietly .
Not that she will …
I am sorry to say that these people are not scientists. They have no clue how to objectively analyze data and reach a sound technically based conclusion. So what do we call them other than Frauds? A am not sure.
Unfortunately they do seem to meet the required standards of what passes for “scientist” in today’s world. I see it every day in my own academic environment. Science for many presently is not about the true scientific process, skepticism, and the honest reporting of objective observation, it is about grants, publications, prestige, a high profile in the media, and alignment with ill-conceived political crusades. It has become a religious cult rather than a process of fact-finding. We might as well ask the Spanish Inquisition what’s policies to peruse. Then, at least, there would be no confusion about what we were getting.
When “scientist” became a career unto itself around a century ago, the inherent conflict of interest between pursue-proper-science and pursue-job-security gradually and inexorably infected the institutions of scholarship.
Science was in a better way when it was a hobby of the independently wealthy and a side project of military officers.
“So what do we call them other than Frauds? A am not sure.”
Sue dough scientists?
Very nice.
This is why May should have been marched out of Number 10 the instant she announced her resignation.
Thats odd, the text says leading climate scientists, but the letter has been signed by Myles Allen and Julia Slingo.
This👍🏻
” President Obama placed respecting the wishes of the American people ahead of cementing his climate legacy.”
Incorrect statement. Obama did not respect the wishes of the American people he just knew he couldn’t do it on his own. Kyoto = “the wishes of the American people” and didn’t get a single vote in Congress. Not one. And that’s why he joined the Paris Discord unilaterally, without a vote. There wasn’t anything more Obama could have done or he would have.
Do Miles and Julia REALLY think that if May does what the’ve asked, China and India will say:
“OMG! – See what Terry has just done! She is extreme woke. That’s so, like, fire; we better ape, or we won’t, like, get invited to the GR8 parties!”
they Totes do. LOL
Mr. Worrall, if I’m correct, you as an Australian may have more influence over British parliament than the unfortunate Mrs. May.
I repeat an earlier comment “These people must never be allowed be have positions of power. They are far too dangerous and destructive.” So true!!
Climate science would have been much advanced by now if those wrong people did not take the lead.
zero human emission laws from humans
““We already lead the world in tackling climate change, being the first country to introduce long-term legally-binding carbon reduction targets and cutting emissions further than all other G20 countries.””
Translation:
We already lead in meaningless Virtue Signalling as we continue on a path towards economic suicide for our country.
+100
This proposal does not go far enough. I demand that we respond to the climate emergency by reducing our population numbers by 97%. It will be called the lemming law.
As the UK Govt is so keen on being lemmings they will be first in line to hurl themselves off the white cliffs of Dover, then every politician in the UK can follow suit, holding hands with their EU counterparts.
Problem solved in a humane fashion that won’t affect real people as the lemming law will then be immediately repealed
Somebody should round up these so called scientists and take them to firing squad and get rid of them.
Rob June 2, 2019 at 12:21 pm
Somebody should round up these so called scientists and take them to firing squad and get rid of them
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Such hatred. And people here have the temerity to decry the Monty Pythonesque humorous film blowing up people.
Concern troll is concerned.
No more hate that shooting varmints around the home. It’s called pest control.
That said, advocating violence, whatever the motive, is bad form Rob.
Similar to asking the government to pass laws that will result in a goal of say a “zero crime rate” by some future date. Not really requested by someone who understands the highly idealistic scope of what he is asking for.
The UK today: a thriving cultural and economic power and a lovely place to visit. After embracing environazi policies: a third-world, subsistence-level economy, with warring tribes foraging for food. Full-reverse, captain, and make a course for the 3rd Century!