Essay by Eric Worrall
The UK High Court has ruled the government is not providing enough detail on how they plan to cut CO2 emissions. But the plaintiffs, Friends of the Earth, for once might have done us all a favour.
Climate change: Campaigners hail ruling on ‘net zero’
Campaigners have hailed a High Court ruling that the government’s ‘net zero’ strategy breaches its obligations under the Climate Change Act.
The strategy commits the UK to slash emissions of the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet to reach ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050.
The court ruled there was not enough detail on how the target would be met.
The judgment during the UK’s first red alert for heat ordered the government to deliver a new report to Parliament.
The government said in response that its net zero strategy was still official policy and noted that the strategy itself had not been quashed by the court.
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The campaigners said that the judgement meant the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) would have to update its climate strategy to include a quantified account of how its policies will achieve climate targets.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62223551
This British high court ruling echoes the 2019 ruling, in which the Dutch High Court ruled the Netherlands government was in breach of its own climate laws.
I personally love these kinds of rulings, because they penalise political climate hypocrisy.
In my opinion the British government did not provide details of how they plan to achieve emissions cuts, because they have no idea how to achieve their own climate goals. I believe British politicians passed the climate change act as a smokescreen, to help fool voters into thinking they intend to do something about CO2 emissions.
By ripping away the smokescreen, Friends of the Earth has done us all a favour, by bringing forward the day when politicians will be forced to admit they have no real intention of doing anything to significantly reduce CO2 emissions.
It is past time the High Court recognises the truth that CO2 does not cause warming. Is it not also true that in the past 100 years CO2 has increased by nearly 50% while the 1930’s remain the warmest ?
Same deal in Oz as Federal Labor sticks a big Green and Teal target on its back-
Enshrining Labor’s climate target into law ‘a suicide note’ (msn.com)
It’s a suicide note alright without any real trajectory plan. I only hope the Lib/Nats have the nous to argue against it in Parliament with the proviso they’ll abstain from voting as the Govt has a mandate for it via the election campaign. Let Labor hang themselves with their unachievable virtue signaling as it’s easily rescinded when that becomes bleeding obvious. Never interfere with an opponent making a critical tactical blunder.
Clearly the highest courts are not taking magic into consideration. They seem to have very narrow views based on a religious belief in the rules of physics and economics.
I welcome this, because they will have to come up with an actual plan.
That plan can then be costed.
This is where the sceptics come in, and produce a cost estimate of the plan.
We all know the cost will be several times what they have admitted to so far.
So surely this is good news. A bit of truth coming out for a change.
The best news is that once the costs to ordinary people is exposed, together with the news that China, India, Malaysia, Iran, etc are not going to destroy their economies with madness, then all hell will break loose. An just imagine when the true hourly integrated world temps show a declining trend….. Journalists prefer simpler selling tools like it was 37.8 deg C ( delete for 2 minutes) , a catastrophic trend!
UK politicians passed a law on carbon targets, and now realise they cannot hit the carbon targets they themselves passed into law!