From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
More worthless posturing by the Net Zero zealots:
Minister for Climate Katie White confirmed the move in a letter to Transport Select Committee chair Ruth Cadbury.
The statutory instrument brings international aviation and shipping emissions into line with existing planning assumptions and ensures they are counted alongside other sectors in the UK’s net-zero framework through to 2050.
https://www.edie.net/uk-to-include-aviation-and-shipping-in-future-carbon-budgets
As we have no control over international and shipping, all this means that we will have to cut emissions even further domestically.
😂 At least the hapless Brits have someone to blame when the cricket is cancelled due to rain.
but we were promised
colder warmer longer shorter wetterdrier summers, weren’t we?What are fall, winter, and spring, chopped liver?
we don’t do fall. Except when we step off cliffs. Autumn here Old Boy. And as for chopped liver – that would be pate. French dontcha know.
Tootle Pip
I would like to see a Minister for Gravity so I have someone to blame when I fall down.
meanwhile, the rest of the world quietly backs away from their mad climate policies
Redge – we’d like to be able to back away from them ourselves but…
but….
We have a government in charge, actually successive governments, whose collective brain power wouldn’t challenge a single amoeba.
What does that say about the people who voted them in?
As a car rear-window sticker back in the 1970s said, “Don’t blame me, I voted Conservative”.
I liked the bumper sticker “If you can read this sticker, you are following too closely”. This was soon replaced by “If you can read this sticker, then I have lost my caravan”.
These bumper stickers were about as relevant to the progress of Life as this proposal to measure CO2 emissions and report them to a body as a plaything to keep its members employed, while ignoring the question of whether that employment is needed. I am not keen on people who line up to get paid for useless work like counting broken windows. Geoff S
I saw a shirt worm by a biker, on the back it said:
If you can read this shirt, the bitch fell off.
Not a UK politics expert, but from what I see all the parties there pursue the same stupid policies. They are all socialists for sure.
Mass depression now that the Anglo-Saxons can no longer think of themselves as a special breed with the burden to rule the world? Now turned suicidal.
Definitely could not power the Matrix.
A fruity response to a nutty Minister..?
Granola — nuts, fruits, and flakes.
thought that was Kalifornia?
Good for them. Most countries will do this and it will make US products far less competitive over time.
Apart from your usual stupid comments, how do you equate importing woodchips imported from USA to UK power stations using diesel powered boats,
making “sustainable” ECO FUEL from bio oil farmed with diesel powered tractors,
or sending your PRC made solar panels sent around the world using diesel powered ships, or even those wind mill spare parts using the same transport methods…….to be (!)
“Good for them”??
So, the fruitcake Millipede now doesn’t want any of this, or MORE of this??
MyUsernameReloaded, bless him, is a true believer. The daily flagellations at WUWT are his penance for living in a world that won’t convert.
You can’t discount the possibility that this is the only job he could land.
ROFL think you are in a very small minority that believes that but you keep the faith … good on you 🙂
Bless your little cotton socks.. that is so funny…
… but NO !!!
Any country that deliberately forces up the cost of importing goods or of transport of any sort, will suffer FAR more than a country that keeps its energy supplies cheap, reliable and available.
Pushing up fuel costs and lowering availability of fuel, affects the lowest income people first.
This is what Socialism always does.
No matter how many times his beliefs are shattered, looser name sticks to them religiously.
Massive cult indoctrination.. its really quite bizarre.
Reality is something that can never be allowed to enter its mind.
Only politicians and bureaucrats take any notice of these budgets.
They only ever exist on paper, in documents, in propaganda and canvassing for votes.
What government forecast or budget has ever been true, real and actually a result.
Tell the population that the Government is going to stop them flying wherever and whenever they wish to do so, and how many votes will that generate.
There is currently no way a heavier than air carriage can fly using electricity while carrying a profitable payload, passengers or freight.
Batteries that could achieve that would have so much energy packed into a small space that I for one wouldn’t travel on an electrically-powered flying machine!
Minister for Climate Katie White CV watch: MA Politics
Which tells us everything we need to know about her.
If the Earth is in trouble from CO2 emissions then why wait until 2033 to start dealing with it?
There doesn’t seem to be a sense of urgency about this supposed problem. It appears to be just more virtue signaling.
Poor UK, they are stuck with imbeciles for national leaders.
I sometimes watch Parliament on YouTube. Based on that, I agree 100%.
“As we have no control over international and shipping, all this means that we will have to cut emissions even further domestically.”
It’s gonna hurt your exports and vacations too. And about that Channel Tunnel …
The Ministry for Climate and the Ministry of Silly Walks have a lot in common.
It’s as if the UK was dropping nukes on itself.
Or as we say why shoot yourself in the foot when you can blow the whole leg off.
As we have no control over international and shipping, all this means that we will have to cut emissions even further domestically.
Anything Britain does will be offset by a single US state or a single metropolitan area in Mainland China. But it’s more than virtue signaling, it’s economic flagellation.
That’s how socialists swing, the more power they get, the more control they seek.
Solar powered ships and aircraft will be the way forward for the UK. /s
Don’t start booking reservations for trips on these types of planes or ships just yet. You’d be better off waiting until 2075 and beyond, providing there’s some major technological breakthrough.
A nation that relies heavily on imports for food, clothing, and manufactured items will suffer greatly if it deliberately raises costs for transporting imports. The UK has relied on ocean transport for hundreds of years, but current leaders are rushing headlong to destroy remaining manufacturing while simultaneously driving up costs of imported goods, including energy. What economic activity is planned to pay for the survival of the UK?
The mints are printing currency at record rates. /s
You just can’t get dumber than government.
Except they’re not going to come even close to reaching those targets unless the country is willing to return to a pre-20th Century economy; and if that comes even close to occurring, there would be such mass protests that governments, to save their skins, would withdraw their proposals posthaste. Maybe politicians think they can foist their stupid ideas on the public, but once the people get fed up with them, they’ll change their minds fast enough because career politicians hate getting off the gravy train.
Torches and pitchforks.
I recommend reading “The Pyschology of Military Incompetence” by Dixon.
The kinds of decisions and collective behavior he documents and analyzes are not specific to war or the military. They are characteristic of a certain approach to management and reality, they occur in all walks of life. One of them is occurring right now in the UK in this matter of climate and energy.
The stages are the same. First people are afraid to speak, and don’t. At this point the pending disaster is distant and looks pretty small both in scale and probability. Then it becomes clear to some, who start writing and talking about it. They are promptly banned and sidelined, expensive staff are employed to rewrite reality to show there is nothing to worry about and its all going swimmingly. And this carries on until the disaster really does hit. No, cavalry was not going to defeat tanks. Tanks really were going to work. ‘And come through the jungle, which was in fact rubber plantations, but no-one had bothered to look, Singapore has actually fallen. Tanks really did come through the Ardennes. They really were preparing to attack on Yom Kippur. It all becomes impossible to deny. And so on.
The architects and managers of the disasters are relieved and given luxurious sinecures and are well regarded in society, and if there is still a war going on, if there is still a company in business, if there is still a society to turn around, some competent people finally get into office and do some serious work at it.
The interesting question is why the denial and resistance to the obvious in the first place. This is the question Dixon tries to answer for military episodes, but you can just as well ask it about climate and energy and Net Zero in the UK. Or about gender in the UK, or the current wave of violent anti-semitism for that matter. It was basically their nature, they were appointed for being good chaps, and carried on being good, ignorant, closed minded chaps until they had done their damage and were relieved.
It was not, as he points out, stupidity. They were commonly intelligent enough, academically. It was character and an organization which did not see the signs early enough, and where juniors were powerless in face of the irrational obsessive need for avoidance of issues which the seniors in these cases almost always show.
On climate and energy, most people in politics and science know that Net Zero is a pending disaster. So why don’t they speak up? Answer, they do and are, in increasing numbers. Does it make any difference to the Energy and Climate Change Secretary? Of course not. And it therefore makes no difference to his department of advisors who, after all, work for a living and would like to keep on doing so. And it does not make any difference to his own leader, who could replace him tomorrow, were he not caught up in his own obsessive indecision and denial and avoidance of confrontation. Well, we shall see how on Thursday how this goes.
Get Dixon and read it, And shake your head every couple of pages because of what you are recognizing. Its not the retreat from Kabul or the Charge of the Light Brigade, but it does certainly rhyme!
One could shoehorn in to that model most scientists and academics working on government climate related grants.