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.
Be petty and cowardly on the way out of office because we said so. Be a part of the tokenism of our time.
Keep in mind that we would prefer you pulled the trick on the way out of office because we don’t want to show all of our cards with heavy handed EU and UN control efforts. Local effort looks better even when it’s wrong.
It would only further sink the conservative party to do such a thing, and it could be reversed immediately.
Myles Allen was illustrating how much Co2 was now in the atmosphere when the judge rebuked him for using a misleading illustration that made the atmosphere appear to have more than 400 parts per million of Co2. “It’s 400 parts per million but you make it look like it’s 10,000 part per million,” he said. Professor Allen was forced to admit his slide was misleading. “Your honor is quite right,” he agreed…
https://www.climatedepot.com/2018/03/22/climate-trial-a-bloody-nose-for-warmists-federal-judge-dismissed-claim-of-a-conspiracy-to-suppress-global-warming-science/
The biggest laugh on their whole pathetic letter is quoting Margaret Thatcher and her legacy.
She wished to be quoted on it in her memoirs, once the monster she unleashed got out of the box…
Margaret said the “climate change” and “global warming” was a giant scam (of the scale of the USSR she worked very hard to dismantle).
She rightly saw, but a little late (once out of the corridors of power), that the EU would ride this scam, because so many of its new and old members were unapologetic socialists cast loose on a moral morasse with no ideology to anchor to.
She rightly saw this new unchained green lobby would manage to destroy wealth on the back of a new form of socialism to a success & scale undreamed of by the politburos of Eastern Europe….. then they brainwashed her grandchildren, (like the 16th century jesuits did to keep catholicism going),& just to make sure self harm would become respectable.
There’s nothing new in the Self-harm rituals.
I thought the British left the catholic church because Henry V111 couldn’t have a male child.
Now they try to leave the EU but still want to be part of the cult that keeps people as willing victims of the next latest & greatest European idea.
History teaches us that history teaches us nothing.