Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Even after personally recovering from Covid-19, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government considers climate action such a priority, they are jointly hosting a high level climate summit with Germany to try to divert recovery money into renewable energy.
Coronavirus recovery plan ‘must tackle climate change’
By Roger HarrabinBBC environment analyst
25 April 2020Environment ministers from 30 countries are meeting in a two-day online conference in a bid to make progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The gathering is called the “Petersberg Climate Dialogue”.
It will focus on how to organise a “green” economic recovery after the acute phase of the pandemic is over.
The other aim is to forge international agreement on ambitious carbon cuts despite the postponement of the key conference COP26 – previously scheduled for Glasgow in November (now without a date).
Alok Sharma, the UK Climate Secretary and president of COP26, said: “I am committed to increasing global climate ambition so that we deliver on the Paris Agreement (to stabilise temperature rise well below 2C).
“The world must work together, as it has to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, to support a green and resilient recovery, which leaves no one behind.
“At the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, we will come together to discuss how we can turn ambition into real action.”
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52418624
The Petersberg Climate Dialogue is an annual meeting of government ministers, normally held in person, but this year’s event will be an online meeting on the 27-28th April. Ministers from 30 governments are expected to attend this year’s online event.
What can I say? Not only did the Boris Johnson government totally mess up their initial UK Coronavirus response by callously embracing enhanced death rates as the price of “herd immunity”, before pulling back in panic when the scale of their blunder became obvious, his government now plans to squander money raised to help people who suffered economic hardship on useless green energy investments, and even worse intends to encourage other governments to do the same.
If even one person is ‘left behind’, whatever that means, then sue the pants off of them.
They have no intention of not leaving one person behind as most of the world is already behind them in energy availability and opportunities for enhancing their lives.
Empty, grandiose words from the ‘elites’ who will not be affected by the changes they are proposing to inflict on the rest of us.
Was it climate change or Covid 19 that made his hair stand up?
People like Boris Johnson who make large mistakes through lack of imagination are well-positioned like Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron to carry on after the Covid-19 panic to make even more big mistakes in the field of Climate Alarmism.
The Boris Johnson government messed up the UK Coronavirus initiative by embracing herd immunity as a death trade-off and then panicked when the scale of the result became obvious and was ably assisted in the disaster by the detrimental effects of the British NHS. Boris will now squander even more money which was supposed to assist people in economic hardship on useless ‘renewable’ unusable green energy boondoggles. Boris is even egging his former EU mates to do the same. This probably originates in Boris’ girlfriend’s nagging.
Make them watch the Michael Moore movie.
Stupid is, as Stupid does ….
more yellow vests to come ?
Have you seen Michael Moors movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
How about: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/green-energy-revolution-near-impossible
This whole Zero emission solar and wind has a long way to go to prove itself to really be Zero Emissions.
There are a lot of questions to be answered. America is blessed that we do have fossil fuels to supply our needs 24/7 and with a bit of new technology their CO2 emissions can be near Zero. Even coal has a Clean Coal Solution that will make it emit less CO2 than a natural gas power plant. And it’s affordable.
Having been almost taken out by a serious worldwide problem Boris will have added incentive to address what he sees is a big worldwide problem. This emotional response will be seen everywhere – humankind has survived Covid, just, so we must act on climate change even quicker than we were. Rational thought will go out the window and I suspect some really stupid illogical decisions will be made in next couple of years.
From the article: “The world must work together, as it has to deal with the coronavirus pandemic”
Wait a minute! The world is *not* working together on the coronavirus pandemic. There is a holdout, not cooperating, by the name of China.
never let a crisis go to waste
Just exactly when are we supposed to see the catastrophe coming from climate ”change”?
I’ve been waiting about 30 years now. Is coming in the future sometime?
Guess AirStrip One was sinkable after all.
two years
ago
I foresee a minor hitch in this agenda: it’s predicated on fulminant science-denihilism, like most ideas that pop into the skulls of our opponents.
You can fight global warming, or you can fight SARS-CoV-2 particles, but you can’t do both.
I tried to get this dead-simple grade-school fact through to Bob Ward, glabrous guard-poodle of the politics of misanthropy, with all the success you’d expect. The ‘belligerent ignorance’ is strong with the anti-science crowd.
https://twitter.com/BradPKeyes/status/1254034761321861120
I have read that having and surviving chicom flu can have mental repercussions. Are we seeing that in Boris? Maybe he is no longer fit to be prime minister? That would be sad seeing he lead Britain out of the EU.
These guys definitely need to wear masks — the sort of masks that train robbers wear in classic American wild-west motion pictures.
Now is excellent momentum to address climate change. People are already scared, oppressed and resigned. This mental atmosphere can be put in some good use.
We are looking three years of hardship to recover from Corona. It means more taxes. To raise taxes, we need very generic and vague reasons – like climate change. Saying “we need to raise taxes to pay our new dept for China” is not a good strategy and could result more letters from Peking.
No. What we need is more fear mongering and oppression than ever before. We need pathos of virtue signaling to inflict feelings of inadequacy to boost job performance, and to justify higher taxes.
Which is why they better keep closed coffee places and other “StammTisch” (traditional meeting-point pubs) where people meet and talk .
Because happens, Germany is already rumbling.
And those political beasts, surfing on a wave of performant healthcare and safe transportation come to precisely criticize and destroy what kept them alive.
That goes far beyond spiting in the soup. It’s an opportunistic qualified looting of a disaster.
We swiftly moved that many tons of relief cargo, went to ungodly places in ungodly circumstances to take our people back, ran medevacs, risked to be quarantined in the process and now that’s how they thank the entire industry, threatening to further shut us completely down?
Boris, what the hell could explain your total lack of gratitude ? One too many over your prescription drugs ?
No, we are not bad guys, however, in case you further loose your bearing, avoid wandering in hangars on any place where MagLights or torque wrenches are in use.
It won’t happen. We have all endured a free sample of communism, no freedom, no transport, total control.
Unless you have a thing for nurses an intubation, you’d better stay home Boris, our hospitals are not half-full, take my word.
After the Corona Virus PanPanic dies, we need another foil — something ‘scary’ that will keep the media from going back to capitalizing on CAGW craziness. Say, didn’t I hear that there was a big asteroid headed our way?
“Coronavirus recovery plan ‘must tackle climate change’ “.
In their terms there is no reason to do anything other than maintain the current lock-downs permanently and enforce them as and when necessary — ultimately by men with g-u-n-s.
Well signing your country over to Gang Green policies is one sure way to avoid economic recovery.
When their economies fail,these Dear Leaders can offer up”We were saving the world” as their excuses for crushing the few businesses that survived their Wuhan Flue remedy.
Makes one wonder if “recovery” is even part of this pandemic plan.?
What Alok Sharma says and what Boris does are not necessarily the same.
And what Roger Harrabin of the Boy Buggering Communists says Alok Sharma is going to do is another thing again.
It’s crunch time for global warming. Renewable energy is a bust and even Merkel is beginning to realise it. They have had their fun and made their profits, and the world hasn’t got any warmer really. And now we really cannot afford the luxury of slinging trillions into a solution that doesn’t actually work, to a problem that almost certainly doesn’t exist.
It’s desperation – what else would have forced them to use rampant idiots like Thunberg and Ocasio-Cortez?
It’s too bad Boris isn’t advocating for next gen nuclear and keep the UK dominant in atomic power for decades to come. The United Kingdom established the world’s first civil nuclear programme opening the nuclear power station Calder Hall at Windscale, England, in 1956. He should be also trying to convince France to keep their nuclear fleet operational long term. And further, convince Germany to not shutter the rest of their fleet by 2022, which is real soon in the scheme of things. That base load can never be replaced by renewables of any kind and is already near the technical limits of integration to the overall grid.
Following Fukushima, Germany has permanently shut down eight of its 17 reactors and pledged to close the rest by the end of 2022, which pledge should and will hopefully be rescinded. Globally, more nuclear power reactors have closed than opened in recent years but overall capacity has increased mostly due to China. With Europe slowing down nuclear, Russia must be salivating at winning that PR battle, and supplying gas/oil which other than coal, is their only real alternative. Wake up Boris, and provide some real leadership.
I have been warning people for a decade that we are losing the CO2/global warming battle. You have to defund the climate sciences to rid the US of the scourge of this science. All it will take is one new administration to permanently tip the balance to tyranny and that date is either next November or November + 4 years.
Trump could divert 100% of the gravy trains of global warming and green energy into pandemic preparation with little effort.
I wonder who is pulling the strings of these buffoons :
https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE