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By Paul Homewood
h/t Dennis Ambler
From Reuters:
BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Many of the world’s biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global warming come under pressure following U.S. President Donald Trump’s election.
The nearly 200 countries signed up to the Paris Agreement faced a Monday deadline to submit new national climate plans to the U.N., setting out how they plan to cut emissions by 2035.
As of Monday morning, many of the world’s biggest polluters – including China, India and the European Union – had not done so.
“The public is entitled to expect a strong reaction from their governments to the fact that global warming has now reached 1.5 degrees Celsius for an entire year, but we have seen virtually nothing of real substance,” said Bill Hare, CEO of science and policy institute Climate Analytics.
As we know, some countries who have submitted new plans, such as Brazil and Mexico have actually reduced their ambitions.
It is yet more evidence that most of the world does not see climate change as a threat.
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Very naughty stuff; not following Flywheel’s catastrophic example
Most countries miss UN deadline for new climate targets
Most countries do not have our lunatic Labour Party – nuff said.
Oops. Must have been an oversight.
Alert the Oversight Committee
So most went for the “dog ate my new pledge” or the tried and tested my “new pledge is in the mail”.
EDIT: Oh wait a few more got in late
Brazil, the UAE, the US and Switzerland are “not compatible” with a pathway for limiting global warming to 1.5C. US was the old Biden pledge.
UK you are good people yours is in line but your budget to do the pledge is completely missing and no-one believes you.
UK politicians are going to turn around one of these days and realize they are the only ones in the world bankrupting themselves trying to get to Net Zero. Well, them and German politicians.
All the other nations are going back to reliable energy generation (coal, natural gas, nuclear).
One definition of insanity is doing something that doesn’t work, and then doing the same thing over and over, thinking it will eventually work. Success is not going to happen with windmills and solar. Hang on to that concept and you are going down the tubes.
Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
The beatings will continue until moral improves.
The insanity will continue until sufficient damage is inflicted.
Seems those are starting to be replaced with more passive aggressive actions.
Few have really noticed, but Reform plans to eliminate Net Zero: they currently lead in the polls having eclipsed Labour. The Tories have actually abandoned net zero at all costs (at least the leadership and the shadow ministers have). Labour find this highly perplexing, and simply pour scorn on the new stance.
For now the 50 Tory MPs who signed up for the Conservative Environment Network, which explicitly supports Net Zero are keeping quiet. However when the year is close to up for Kemi Badenoch as the new leader they will be writing the letters for a fresh leader. It will probably split the party. Badenoch’s combative stance against Reform will leave her sidelined. There are some Tory MPs who actually already really prefer Reform’s political stance who would jump across, but probably not until the split happens
Thanks for the political details.
Although Reform lead in several (but not all) polls, due to our electoral system, if an election were held today and those figures were replicated in a General Election, what we would most likely end up with is a minority Labour government with Lib Dem support. The combined Reform/Tory numbers of MPs would be below the number necessary to form a government.
As to the Tory leadership abandoning Net Zero at all costs, I would be interested to know where you get that from. Kemi Badenoch has made it clear that there will be no Tory policies for some time. As for Labour pouring scorn on this new stance, again, I’ve not seen any examples of this but I might just have missed them.
Actually, we do have a reliable source of generation – just not enough of it. Wood (aka biomass) which we import and burn, releasing more CO2 than if we burnt gas,(but let that pass) and because of some insane accounting principle, doesn’t count as an emission (no, me neither)
What a waste of time and money setting targets no one had any realistic hope or intention of meeting. Reality has such a lovely sound when it belts you in the face.
What a waste of time and money setting targets
In common sense terms that’s bang on. But you have to ‘think like they do’ to get where they’re coming from. Consider the example of the social workers and the need to change a light bulb. Rather than actually change the light bulb they hold a case conference on coping with darkness.
Yeah, it’s not a waste of time for the climate alarmists, and they like governments wasting money on their pet project, which benefits the climate alarmists in the process.
They have no common sense
Their common sense is to direct money to their pockets.
That depends on how you define common sense.
They are getting quite rich running the insane asylum.
Plus all the bureaucratic mess and permit hoops they need to jump through just to be allowed to change the light bulb.
It’s not their money they are wasting. It is ours.
From the article: ““The public is entitled to expect a strong reaction from their governments to the fact that global warming has now reached 1.5 degrees Celsius for an entire year, but we have seen virtually nothing of real substance,” said Bill Hare, CEO of science and policy institute Climate Analytics.”
“For an entire year”? No, not even close.
The temperature barely reached this so-called dangerous 1.5C temperature for only a short period of time and since that time, the temperatures have cooled by about 0.5C, so if we were at 1.5C above average for a day in 2024, we are now at 1.0C above the average. In other words, it is cooling, not warming, at the present time.
It was certainly not 1.5C above average for a whole year. One day does not equal a year. We have not reached 1.5C and stayed there, as this author implies. Instead we barely hit this 1.5C temperature and immediately afterwards, the temperatures started cooling.
The author is living in a False Reality, and wants us to live there, too. No thanks. Keep your delusions to yourself.
This morning children here woke up to racist (white) precipitation, and a temperature about 26C below the mythical pre-industrial global temperature. It was cold then, when crops failed a lot more often, and it’s cold now.
You are going to hurt the feelings of the Climate Crusaders…
Can’t have feelings hurt.
/s
Somebody has to do it! 🙂
In the words of Rocky spoken to Trevor, “Go for it!
From 1971 (which certainly was warmer than “Pre Industrial”) until 2024 (53 years) global temps rose 1.65°C. But have risen much more since pre industrial 1800s
The decades from 1850 to 1880 were the coldest in the 19th century.
I don’t agree with that.
The temperatures may have warmed 1.5C after the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850, up through the 1880’s, but then the temperatures cooled an equal amount for the next few decades, ending in the 1910’s, when we are back pretty close to the cold of the 1850’s.
Then, the temperatures started warming again, and they warmed through the 1930’s, and the temperatures in the 1930’s, were very similar to the warm temperatures in the 1880’s, so there was no net increase in warmth, comparing the 1880’s to the 1930’s.
And then the temperatures cooled again down through the 1970’s, where climate scientists were raising alarms saying we might be entering into another Ice Age, because the temperatures were just as cool as in the 1910’s and getting close to the cool of the 1850’s.
And then in the 1980’s, the temperatures again started warming and they warmed from there to the present day, and the temperature high points of the 1880’s and the 1930’s and our present day are all on the same horizontal line on the temperature chart, being within a few tenths of a degree of each other.
What that boils down to is that since the Little Ice Age, the temperatures warmed by about 1.0C-1.5C, up through the 1880’s, and the temperatures have not gotten any warmer since that time.
What that means is that since it is no warmer today than in the recent past, CO2 has not shown any effect on the Earth’s temperatures. It’s not any warmer now, with more CO2 in the air, than it was in the recent past, with much less CO2 in the air.
CO2 is, at best, a minor player in determining the Earth’s temperature, having, to date, no discernible effect on temperatures.
The bogus, instrument-era Hockey Stick chart was created by Climate Alarmists to hide all the above facts.
But the written, original, historic, regional temperature data from all around the world are evidence that the bogus Hockey Stick chart is just that: Bogus as hell, and does not represent reality.
The only thing showing a correlation of temperatures and CO2 levels is the bogus Hockey Stick chart. It is Science Fiction generated in a computer to fool the masses and promote the Human-caused Climate Change narrative for money and power. Don’t believe it. We are being lied to.
“having, to date, no discernible effect on temperatures. !”
Did anyone notice the slight increase in temperature or sea level, this horrifically hot +1.5 year? Did anyone lose their livelihood, starve, or die because it was fractionally warmer? But apparently the wrath of the climate gods was unleashed, or so they tell us. Disasters of biblical proportions, tornadoes, hurricanes, rain and floods, wildfires, all the stuff that happens every year but it’s never happened before if you’re a climate catastrophist because you have the long-term memory of a guppy.
“Did anyone notice the slight increase in temperature or sea level, this horrifically hot +1.5 year?”
My area of the globe certainly didn’t experience unprecedented warming this year. It’s been a lot warmer in the past around here.
Do you know where the 1.5 came from? It was realised that the Paris 2.0 would take too long to reach and would not be frightening enough so the IPCC produced SR1.5 in time for the failed Katowice COP. Assessed unsuitable as a policy document by proper scientists. Meaningless. And the Keeling curve continues upward unvheckably. And COVID had no effect on the idiosyncratic sawtooth. So it’s all natural
Yes, the 2.0C and 1.5C numbers are just pulled out of thin air. They are pure speculation.
Climate Alarmist “science” is made up completely of pure speculation and assumptions. And a blizzard of Climate Crisis propaganda.
We may be reaching the point where the Climate Alarmists have “Cried Wolf!” too many times, and no wolf appears. Eventually, people will start ignoring them.
50+ years of crying wolf and still they persist.
All you have to do to realize what a colossal waste of time and money the last 30 years of CO2 abatement has been to control the weather is look at annual global CO2 emissions for that period. It steadily rose until 2015 when the rise slowed, extended by the pandemic but it rose again in 2024. Developing countries saw the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris agreement as an opportunity to take market share from high energy use basic material industries from the West and bring it to Asia. Western climate leaders patted themselves on the back while the developing nations built their economies using cheap fossil fuels and total emissions never changed. Like squeezing a ballon.
Western labor forces saw their blue-collar jobs evaporate while local bureaucrats regulated their livelihoods out of existence. The political backlash has taken a while to materialize but it now has a strong foot hold in Europe. Pielke’s iron laws is being validated again.
“When policies focused on economic growth confront policies focused on emissions reduction, it is economic growth that will win out every time.”
Not in the UK I fear…
The contest is not over.
Just deferred, right?
UK is an ongoing contest. No clear outcome.
They still have cash and haven’t yet become 3rd world nation but are trying hard 🙂
In the long run laws of nature and economics win, but short term can last too long on a human time scale.
“Western labor forces saw their blue-collar jobs evaporate” waaaay before 2015. Climate is an issue, but there are other issues.
Just ask the UN which climate plans will change the climate and how. Answer should be none because none of them address by far the major green house gases, water vapour and clouds. The rest are completely insignificant. It is a huge deceit.
Just calling it a greenhouse effect or greenhouse gas is also a deceit.
We need to stop giving them credibility by using their false language.
What Sparta said ! 🙂 ^ ^ ^
CO2 is a “radiatively active” gas that is used in greenhouses to enhance plant growth.
No-one can show any measured evidence that CO2 causes atmospheric warming.
Story tip. Not a priority
A senior Labour minister has sparked fury after it was claimed he told a rural conference that farmers are ‘not high on the pecking order’ of the government.
Daniel Zeichner, Minister of State for Food, Farming and Fisheries, was speaking at the Norfolk Farming Conference this morning when he was accused of making the insulting remarks.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2012931/Labour-minister-farming-priority
Straight from the, er, horse’s mouth.
Who needs food anyway?
Give him some chicken feed to peck on.
CO2 is NOT pollution.
CO2 is the first step in the Food Chain
Had a US Congressman, many years ago, proclaim that all we have to do is get all of the CO2 out of the atmosphere. I suppose he needed to go on a diet.
Since some time yesterday I have been unable to submit comments at NALOPKT despite using alternative browsers, devices and networks.
I see evidence that others have suffered problems in commenting. Can someone alert Paul that he needs to get WordPress and his plug in suppliers to sort things out?
Sustainability is doing well-
Billions of dollars of life-saving climate funds at risk of being stolen or misused, experts warn
If life-saving funds stolen, then how many lives lost?
Poor bloke must be missing out on his cut from the climate trough. !
Those funds are being stolen, all right… from tax-payers.
Wasting funds on “climate goals” is a form of corruption/fraud.
Not pollution, plant food.
Labeling CO2 as pollution is, was, and always will be disinformation. Coal plants scrub the sulfur as a commodity and collect the fly ash (for cement). The claims otherwise are simply being blind to the facts of energy production.
Coal plant ash can be quite radioactive, depending on source of coal.
Someone,
The question that follows is “Has the radioactivity in coal ash ever harmed a man or beast?”
Answer is “No”.
Bananas are more radioactive than most other fruit through Potassium-40, but it is not dangerous to eat them.
A flight in an aircraft at cruising altitude for commercial jets exposes passengers to higher radiation than usual.
Everything is radioactive, some items more than others.
Humans evolved in a soup of radioactivity and show little sign of being harmed by ambient levels or indeed any levels apart from those where nuclear physics concentrates radioactivity for the common good, such as in a power plant. Trivially tiny numbers of people have been harmed by nuclear electricity generation. It is safer than all large scale alternatives. Electricity itself is far, far more dangerous than radioactivity as we use it today.
Geoff S
“Not pollution, plant food.”
“Coal plant ash can be quite radioactive”
Do the plants mind?
“Coal plant ash can be quite radioactive”…
If you live in a house with plasterboard walls…
… that plasterboard uses quite a bit of coal ash in its manufacture. Be very scared 😉
There be lots of other uses for coal ash for personal products and construction.. do a search. 🙂
And for gods’ sake don’t ever even consider eating a banana, let alone a Brazil nut!
We live in a radioactive universe. I’m glad about that, because otherwise most elements would not be around.
How about the fact that “Global Warming has reached the 1.5°C threshold for an entire year and…
No tipping
No Thermogeddon
No Anthropocalypse
Heck even Guam is still upright and the Maldives are thriving
Oh well, there’s always next year.
Send in the clouds
There ought to be clouds
Just waiting for Lucy to pull the football.
Oh, wait. Trump…..
/h
“Many of the world’s biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global warming come under pressure following U.S. President Donald Trump’s election.”
What a weird first sentence. Do writers ever stop and ask themselves “would I have wrote the name of the last president in the opening line of my story about something else?”
Get real. Everyone/country is tired of putting in the effort to make a contributions statement when they know it’s a waste of time, energy, and money because it’s all virtue signaling. There are a few deluded countries that will continue however because …. well, virtue signaling.
“a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets”
Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah!
Do I really need to comment further on this?
Sure, as my punishment for such, I’ll write on the blackboard one hundred times:
“I must not make fun of the UN’s pronouncements about climate.”
And as penance you must do 10 “Re-Gretas”, 15 “Our Mikey’s” and the stations of the Hockey Stick
Is the world finally awaking to the GlowBULL Warming Junk Science in the same way the citizens finally woke up to the scam …….“The Emperor’s New Clothes” …. a literary folktale written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, about a vain emperor who gets exposed before his subjects?
The targets are mainly virtue signaling. No nation will meet their old targets so why not just revise them slightly and call them new targets?
Of the 195 nations, about 175 don’t care about CO2 besides the targets they set and completely ignore. It’s all just a green fantasy anyway. Voluntary targets with no enforcement mechanisms, such as monetary penalties, are just virtue signaling.
The only way to stop the increase of atmospheric CO2 is to stop ALL economic activity in the world. If there are any manmade CO2 emissions, the atmospheric CO2 level will increase. And the planet will get slightly warmer. So what?
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More good news. 1.5 C and we are all still here doing fine. We should put together a form letter for all those nations who haven’t submitted their strategy to save the planet. It would only be one sentence long.
No more proposals to cut CO2 until you prove without a doubt that added CO2 causes catastrophic global warming, only proper science accepted.
This is just another reminder that few countries are really serious about combating the climate change fairy tale in impeding their economies by renouncing fossil fuels. All these countries were supposed only to submit plans for the reduction, but they couldn’t even do that which signifies that they don’t intend to take any actual action anyway. The whole business reminds me much of the COP conferences. They know that no significant country is going to reach any emissions-reduction targets, but the hangers-on that attend the COPs aren’t going to pass up a free trip where they can justify their existence merely by talking about something that they aren’t obliged to achieve in the first place. .
global warming has now reached 1.5 degrees Celsius for an entire year, but we have seen virtually nothing of real substance,” said Bill Hare, CEO of science and policy institute Climate Analytics.
You see, we were right all along. Global warming has virtually no effect on the climate.
Yeah, that’s how seriously they take climate catastrophe. The most egregious nations are already socialist/communist, and they aren’t going to change a thing.