CO2 is not pollution
Somehow this is largely due to ‘top-down diktats from Davos’ and ‘Davos culture’ needs to be disrupted, according to this article. The central sticking points of course being that pulling out of fossil fuel use equates to giving up on being a modern and prosperous industrial society, and doing so wouldn’t alter the climate in any noticeable way anyway. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
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Carbon emissions are 60% higher than they were in 1990, when the first IPCC report was published. This is a symptom of a highly unsustainable political economy, asserts Climate Home News.
The UK Government approves new North Sea oil fields and presides over airport expansion. The EU ignores climate science, embraces ‘gas as a transition fuel’ and sees SUV sales soar to a record high.
Across the Atlantic, US president Joe Biden’s climate claims are undermined by $25 billion of federal funding for airport development and a rise of over 6% in US CO2 emissions in 2021.
Three months on from Cop26, with declarations of climate emergencies now de rigueur and with Exxon and Saudi Arabia joining the “net zero” choir, emissions in 2022 are again set to rise.
As we return to a thriving business as usual, it is surely time to reflect with humility on our long-standing failure to curb global greenhouse gas emissions.
After decades of scientific warnings of climate disruption, a constant round of international negotiations and myriad forms of “climate action”, how is it that carbon emissions today are 60% higher than they were in 1990, when the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was published?
This is the central question we address in an article for the latest Annual Review of Environment and Resources, co-written by an interdisciplinary team of twenty-three authors.
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Article: ‘With heads conveniently hidden in the sand, those of us with (or yearning for) high-carbon lifestyles are deeply reluctant and unable to imagine futures far removed from those we enjoy today.’
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No, we can imagine such futures all too well and don’t like the look of them at all.
Och I never really got to grips with chemistry, but as per the caption: 6 mols of the carbon with 6 of water. Now in S Africa, the beeb showed us how ppl were burning Fossil fuels to get up into the mountains to kill off odd pine trees growing there – to reduce Greening Plants demand for WATER. Now what I don’t get is how burning timber to save the planet , not only re-releases a lot of CO2, but also a real Warming grass of water. Condensing out the water releases a LOT of heat , doesn’t it ?
What part of this kiddies merry go round are we on ?
We revel in our fantasies until reality bites. That’s when civilization truly advances.
“A rise of over 6% in US CO2 emissions in 2021.” May the COVID19 always be with us 🙂
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Farage returns to the fray: net zero is the new Brexit
Will net zero become the cause that unites the divided Conservative Party, and revives the career of Nigel Farage?
March 6, 2022
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/is-net-zero-the-new-brexit/
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Have people fully wised up to net zero costs yet? Massive energy price increases now happening might make them think about it. The UK isn’t going to change the weather, however much greencrap it splurges its cash on.
oldbrew:
I read the article but I think he was more worried about Farage returning. He did make the point that most people don’t think too much about politics but can be galvanised by resentment and annoyance when their pockets are effected, which I would say is quite accurate.
Still, as the costs (and futility) of Net Zero become more apparent I hope that those who haven’t lost touch with reality can come out on top again.
It’s almost as if people don’t want to be poorer, less free, colder and hungrier.
EU…sees SUV sales soar to a record high.
Along with USA, China etc. For some obscure – to climate obsessives – reason the buyers don’t expect the weather to destroy them any time soon, or at least not because of their vehicle choices.
SUVs are a government created phenomena in the U.S.
The government interfered with the marketplace, and got their just reward.
As I was saying…
Your Honor, CO2 is Not a Pollutant
written by Gregory Wrightstone March 7, 2022
Is carbon dioxide — two pounds of which each of us exhales daily — a pollutant? And are catastrophes increasing as a result of higher concentrations of the gas? Physics — along with a few other branches of science — says no.
https://blog.heartland.org/2022/03/your-honor-co2-is-not-a-pollutant/