Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to The Guardian, Boris Johnson has only pledged £4 billion per year of an estimated £33 billion per year which is required to fund Britain’s zero carbon conversion to renewable energy. But the Guardian are confident Joe Biden will take an interest in Boris Johnson’s apparently lacklustre commitment.
Global experts question UK’s commitment to tackle climate crisis
Boris Johnson pledged to put environment at centre of post-Covid strategy, but report says funding needed is so far badly lacking
Toby Helm and Robin McKie
Sun 8 Nov 2020 21.00 AEDTBoris Johnson’s government is investing only 12% of the funds needed to tackle the climate emergency and the growing threat to nature, according to a new report that will raise fresh international concerns about the UK’s commitment to the green agenda.
The study – released before an expected major speech on the environment by Johnson – says ministers need to commit £33bn each year of this parliament to green causes. So far only £4bn a year has been pledged.
The report by the IPPR thinktank comes as Johnson faces increasing global pressure to act, most notably from the next US president Joe Biden, who is committed to green causes. Donald Trump took the US out of the Paris agreement on climate change, but Biden has promised to rejoin it on 20 January, the day he takes power.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/08/global-experts-question-uks-commitment-to-tackle-climate-crisis
Britain plans to become “The Saudi Arabia of Wind Power”. But every other year Britain seems to experience a prolonged wind drought, at least in the last few years – 9 days in 2018, at least two weeks in July this year.
I guess if they build a really huge battery able to provide the UK’s daily energy consumption of six terawatt hour, and maintain that level of power for a couple of weeks, Britain will be able to make it through the wind droughts.
The big South Australian battery which cost AU$161 million holds 129MWh, so Britain needs about 6 trillion / 129 million = 46,500 South Australia size batteries for every day they plan to keep the grid supplied with electricity when the wind fails.
14 days x 46,500 batteries x AU $150 million = AU $97 trillion (about GBP £53 trillion / USD $70 trillion) should just about cover it. Get on with it Bojo.
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Joey Bideno is the Godfather of the Bideno Crime Family…..47 years of corruption.
Selling influence, operating rackets, yes. Didn’t the Italian mafia draw a line at socially progressive, sexual exploitation of children?
I think a lot of alarmist activists are projecting their own desires on Biden.
Yesterday he was going to browbeat Australia over Climate Change. Today Biden is going to browbeat the UK over Climate Change.
A lot of projection going on.
Tomorrow he would be browbeating somebody over something, except he’s already forgotten what it was. At ease chaps.
The Australian PM already answered that yesterday to the greentards he gave them the bird.
So lets see if Biden is anything but talk, he said a number of times during the election what will happen so lets see if the old fool has any stones left.
He just needs to pose with that mean face (for now).
Harris and AOC will do the browbeating.
That picture needs one one of those cartoon balloon captions saying, “What the hell are those things?”.
In honour of Joe’s win I’m proud to announce the observa home is now zero emissions just like EVs because it’s all electric unlike those recalcitrant Trumpites with the gas on. While the garage and drive contain 2 ICEs instead of EVs the boundaries of the suburban estates could be added to the home if I park them out on the street. May the ensuing climate change smile forever upon such homes and lands for those who truly care and dwell likewise. Green accounting is so easy once you get the feel of it.
“Green” investment plans will come up against the reality of economic depression, mass business failures and world war levels of debt. I doubt that will stop them though.
‘But every other year Britain seems to experience a prolonged wind drought, at least in the last few years – 9 days in 2018, at least two weeks in July this year.’
Though you should note that UK power demand drops from around 48GW on a winter evening to 35GW at peak in June/July -and the peak is around mid day. When of course the sun is shining…
It isn’t as if there’s no power at all.
Headline should be…
“Put More Money into…my bucket!”
No, don’t be silly. Honest Joe doesn’t have a bucket. But Hunter will be along any minute now as Chairman of the UK company Green For My Crack Inc., with two buckets. One for him, and one for… the Big Guy.
As usual articles and comments in WUWT are not disappointing being filled with information and humor. Information on power distribution was interesting but the Biden comments tell a lot with the Logan Act possibly coming into play.
In the election a candidate can only vote once for himself, not thousands of times. We will see how it shakes out but is not looking good for Joe.