Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Making big climate pledges was a cheap political win when the goal was way off in the future. But now the first deadlines are approaching, long serving politicians in countries like Australia are in the increasingly embarrassing position of having to explain their total lack of achievement.
Australia accused of ‘shamefully’ holding back global action on climate change
United Nations calls on all countries to have ‘concrete plans to phase out fossil fuels as fast as possible’
Adam Morton and Daniel Hurst
Sat 27 Feb 2021 06.01 AEDTAustralia has been accused of “shamefully doing nothing” and weighing down global action after a UN analysis found national pledges to cut greenhouses gas emissions over the next decade have barely begun to do what is necessary to tackle the climate crisis.
The assessment of emissions reduction plans submitted to the UN by the end of last year found if all were fulfilled they would cut global CO2 by only 1% by 2030, compared with 2010 levels.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has advised a 45% cut is needed over this time to limit global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
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Patricia Espinosa, the executive secretary of UN Climate Change, called on all countries, including those that submitted their commitments last year, to reflect on the new assessment and lift their ambition. “We need concrete plans to phase out fossil fuels as fast as possible,” she said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/27/australia-accused-of-shamefully-holding-back-global-action-on-climate-change
There is no viable path to global net zero except nuclear power. The staggering extractive minerals cost and manufacturing effort required to go 100% renewable is well beyond our civilisation’s current engineering capabilities. Google tried and failed to find a path to 100% renewable energy. Green Left Film producer Michael Moore gets that renewables will not replace fossil fuel. Nature presenter David Attenborough has called for a green “Apollo Project”, to try to bridge the currently insurmountable technology gaps.
But with nuclear off the table in most countries, politicians, especially long serving politicians, are in the increasingly hilarious position of trying to explain why they have achieved nothing, but are still sincere about their commitment.
The renewable push will end in certain failure. The gross failure of renewables is becoming increasingly difficult to conceal. But at least we’ll get some entertainment value for our money, watching our politicians publicly denounce each other in an effort to shift the blame for all those broken green promises.
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From the article: “United Nations calls on all countries to have ‘concrete plans to phase out fossil fuels as fast as possible’”
A completely delusional goal that won’t happen in the lifetimes of those alive today, unless some technological breakthrough happens that provides an adequate substitute for fossil fuels. There is no adequate substitute for fossil fuels today.
There is, but the regulatory hurdles are too high for it to be practical.
From the article: “The assessment of emissions reduction plans submitted to the UN by the end of last year found if all were fulfilled they would cut global CO2 by only 1% by 2030, compared with 2010 levels.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has advised a 45% cut is needed over this time to limit global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.”
So, reductions of emmissions to date, which has cost the world Trillions of dollars, amounts to only a one percent cut by 2030, and the UN wants 45 times as much done as we are doing now.
To say it’s not realistic is an understatement. These people are living in La-la land.
From the article: “There is no viable path to global net zero except nuclear power.”
That’s right. When the alarmists get that through their heads, we will all be better off. They could actually focus on something that would do the job they want done and benefit all of us at the same time.
Nuclear is your only viable option, alarmists. Get used to it.
Another option is to determine that “net zero” is bad for mankind and earth plant and animal ecosystems. CO2 is not evil.
Nuclear is not the best, compared to coal and natural gas.
Andrew Hastie calls out these wet behind the ears climate changers with the Western Australia State election-
Zak Kirkup’s vow to close coal-fired power stations slammed by Andrew Hastie ahead of WA poll (msn.com)
Colin Hernandez, in The Daily Mail on 26 Feb 2021 wrote, quoting from Dr David Thornalley, UCL, ‘In the UK climate models suggest there would be more winter storms and more summer heatwaves’. (Article extract attached).
Please reassure me that CO2 is not so powerful.
The UN is controlled by dictators, despots and totalitarians who are only interested in developing policies and promoting faux science that are meant to negatively impact the free world.
It is time to end the funding of the UN.
Please contact our legislators and demand change because just chatting online will accomplish very little.
The developing nations led by China and India dominate global energy and emissions by controlling nearly 2/3rds of the world’s energy use and resulting emissions with these measures still climbing along with commitments for more coal and other fossil fuel use after increasing CO2 emissions over the last decade by over 7.5 billion metric tons.
Where is the U.N. acknowledgement of this controlling global energy and emissions reality.
The developed nations have reduced emissions over the last decade by more than 1.5 billion metric tons with zero acknowledgement of that reality. Where is the UN acknowledgement of that huge reduction outcome.
This UN criticism is idiotic climate alarmist politics.
Biden and his Democrats are equally guilty of this same incompetence and deception.
“But at least we’ll get some entertainment value for our money”
There are a whole bunch of people in Texas who are not laughing. And the rest of us shouldn’t be lauging either because the blackouts and soaring costs are coming to us soon.
being shamed by the UN is a badge of honour
As an aside here how’s this for media luvvy logic and their vacuous heads-
Biden’s Syria Airstrikes May Feel Like Trump Déjà Vu. Here’s What’s Different. (msn.com)
Biden air strikes are different to Trumps! Anymore up Biden’s ass than that and they’ll have his manure under their toenails. They couldn’t even spell shame.
Bob Katter from the bush has a way with words for the latte sipping city slickers. You wanna sit on it like a big fat toad….?
Abolishing coal is telling India ‘they can’t have electricity’ (msn.com)