Guest essay by Eric Worrall
All the harm Britain did to the world by creating the Industrial Revolution puts Britain under a special obligation to lead on climate change, according to British MP Michael Gove.
Michael Gove declares UK has a ‘moral responsibility’ to lead global Green Industrial Revolution
James S Murray @James_BG 11 February 2020
Cabinet Secretary sets out government’s priorities for COP26 Summit, but is reticent on whether he wants the job of Summit President
Michael Gove this morning declared that he was “very happy with the job I have”, while declining to be drawn on whether he wants the post of COP26 President in this week’s imminent Cabinet reshuffle.
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He also hinted that in the face of likely opposition from the US and Brazilian administrations the UK would look to work with cities and states to secure more ambitious climate pledges. And he highlighted the importance of China’s upcoming Biodiversity COP, which he argued represented “two halves of the same process” in conjunction with the Glasgow COP Summit and as such should provide a route to securing close co-operation with China and other major emerging economies.
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He added that “the reasons we think it is so important to demonstrate this leadership is not just because we are hosting COP, but also because we believe the UK has a moral responsibility to lead as the first country in the world to industrialise”.
“As we all know the Industrial Revolution relied – and still relies to a disproportionate extent – on the extraction and use of hydrocarbons,” Gove said. “And we have a moral responsibility on the first in, first out basis to ensure the country that pioneered the Industrial Revolution and played the biggest role in the change in our climate, [has] a responsibility to lead a Green Industrial Revolution.“
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Read more: https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4010465/michael-gove-declares-uk-moral-responsibility-lead-global-green-industrial-revolution
This isn’t the first time a British politician has casually talked up bypassing the US Federal Government, to undermine President Trump’s policies by striking deals with individual US cities and states. Its like some Britons still think they own the USA.
Updated (EW): “Its like Britain still thinks…” changed to “Its like some Britons still think…”. Sorry for any upset caused by my original poor wording, having lived in Britain I know there are plenty of sensible people including my friends in the skeptic movement who are just as horrified at the CAGW scam as I am.
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Has this clown renounced fossil fuels and all things derived from them? No? Just another hypocritical leftist idiot.
“in the face of likely opposition from the US and Brazilian administrations the UK would look to work with cities and states to secure more ambitious climate pledges.”
What a shocking statement. I thought we in Britain were looking for an improved trading relationship with the US. Yet here is this ridiculous man suggesting that we ignore President Trumps national policy and deal direct with States that do not agree with the President. Has it not escaped his knowledge that this will undermine the Prime Minister’ attempt to get the very best trading deal with our US friends, and has it not occurred to Mr Gove that currently the US are enjoying much improved economy in spite of a reduction in their CO2 levels. PM Johnson should dispose of Mr Gove’s services very quickly before he does more damage to the country’s progress which will take years to recover if Gove’s stupidity is not checked. God help us all if he is given the chair at the jamboree in Glasgow later this year.
An alleged global catastrophe based on flawed uncertain science was always going to be far beyond the intellectual grasp of most politicians regardless of their intelligence and political awareness.
Saving the planet is a must have credential for any politician with ambition. Failure is pretty ill defined too, so not much risk. What about destroying the economy, energy supply and industry? That is the cost of the mission and its futility will only emerge, if ever, when the whole scam is shown to be based on wrong science.
Sceptics (Skeptics) keep chipping away at the alarmism. Alarmists, meanwhile, control all the public communication. The main scientists, and by that, I mean the ones with influence, the decision makers, either remain genuine believers or they choose to present that position. There are a great many ordinary scientists who keep quiet in order to protect their jobs and possibly their safety.
Only that last category can challenge the current situation. I do not see signs of any change. Meanwhile, ignorant politicians like Gove will destroy everything, blissfully unaware of the mindless and pointless damage they are inflicting
I have a new member of parliament. I wrote to him before he started and provided official data on hurricanes, ( and cyclones and typhoons) , droughts, floods, sea level and wildfires) showing that extreme weather was declining rather than as described by the hysterical BBC and other media. My intention was to prove to him that the rhetoric did not match scientific reality. He replied, saying that he respected my views but scientists everywhere regarded climate change as an emergency. He did not mention the data I sent and I have no idea if he looked at it or misunderstood my point. He obviously thought I was a crank.
We have lost the argument. Let’s face it, we either need a great many climate scientists to speak up or a massive scientific breakthrough. There are new papers all the time, disproving the GHG effect but we completely ignore them, e.g. https://www.scirp.org/pdf/acs_2020011611163731.pdf
h/t No Tricks Zone. If we, the sceptics, ignore them then we cannot complain if the rest of the world does too.
Schroders Cat,
A good paper but a little above my science for a farmer ,
It is good to see that scientists around the world are pushing back on this global scam of CAGW.
Graham
“As we all know the Industrial Revolution relied – and still relies to a disproportionate extent – on the extraction and use of hydrocarbons,”
Actually the industrial revolution was powered by coal, which is not a hydrocarbons.
As far as COP26 is concerned the potential policing costs are enormous. It might be moved to London.
“Talks are continuing over the policing costs, said to be north of £200m, according to sources. Downing St stressed that what was at the forefront of the Prime Minister’s mind was value for taxpayers’ money and that the costs had to be “realistic”.”
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18231158.new-war-words-breaks-london-edinburgh-ridiculous-policing-costs-cop26-summit
The Cameron led Conservative LibDem coalition couldn’t even get the roll out of free loft insulation right, they made a complete utter mess out of it.
If this bunch of Muppets try to radically change the very thing that underpins our civilisation, relatively cheap reliable energy, and replace it expensive unreliable energy, they will do the same, make an utter mess out of it because it simply will not work.
They are dangerous fools.
If they carry on like this.
They won’t be in government again after this Parliament.
No one votes to be poorer.
That is what this will cause.
“As we all know the Industrial Revolution relied – and still relies to a disproportionate extent – on the extraction and use of hydrocarbons,” Gove said. “And we have a moral responsibility on the first in, first out basis to ensure the country that pioneered the Industrial Revolution and played the biggest role in the change in our climate, [has] a responsibility to lead a Green Industrial Revolution.“
Eric Worrall,
Streetwise kidz, childhood pranks – the Chinese will roll their eyes.