The ocean carbon cycle [credit: IAEA]
COP26 is over, in case anyone hasn’t noticed. “Anyone aspiring to lead our country needs to demonstrate that they take this issue incredibly seriously,” Alok Sharma says. The real issue is that Britain’s tiny contribution to the 0.04% portion of the atmosphere that is carbon dioxide amounts to much ado about nothing. The majority of that 0.04% is naturally caused anyway, and most so-called greenhouse gas is water vapour. What is all the fuss supposed to be about?
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Alok Sharma, who led last year’s COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, has threatened to quit if the new prime minister ditches the current commitment to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, reports Sky News.
The cabinet minister said a failure to follow the policy backed by Boris Johnson would cause “incredible damage” to the UK’s international reputation.
Mr Sharma also accused some of the candidates in the Tory leadership contest of being “lukewarm” on net zero.
“Anyone aspiring to lead our country needs to demonstrate that they take this issue incredibly seriously, that they’re willing to continue to lead and take up the mantle that Boris Johnson started off,” Mr Sharma told The Observer.
“I want to see candidates very proactively set out their support for our net zero agenda for green growth.”
Asked whether he would resign his position in the Cabinet Office, he said: “I don’t rule anything out and I don’t rule anything in.”
Only Kemi Badenoch – one of the five remaining candidates – has said she does not support reaching net zero by 2050, describing it as “unilateral economic disarmament”.
Full report here.
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Great news another spiv bites the AGW lies dust
“our net zero agenda for green growth”
Where are all the countries revelling in ‘green growth’? Nowhere.
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Penny Mordaunt pledges to create ‘millions of green jobs’ if elected Tory leader
Exclusive: Conservative leadership candidate sets out her views on climate change and the environment
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/17/penny-mordaunt-pledges-to-create-millions-of-green-jobs-if-elected-tory-leader
One for every two lost to economic disaster caused by net zero climate mania then?
Guardian: On Monday, Sharma will grill the five remaining candidates on green matters, giving each 15 minutes to speak about what they would do for the environment if elected leader.
Unmissable 🥱😴
Suggested script: ‘Sack you for a start’.
[…] COP26 president Alok Sharma threatens to quit if new PM ditches net zero commitment […]
Any PM who doesn’t scrap Net Zero and start working on making the UK self-sufficient in energy, which inevitably means fracking, won’t last long, you can bet the farm on it.
your threat is accepted. Buh-bye!
“Great Britains Second Industrial Revolution and a New Prime Minister”
The coming of a New Prime Minister got me thinking so here are some thoughts from an Englishman in the USA.
The United Kingdom is a GREAT country but looking at it from the outside for the last 20 years I now fear for the word GREAT in “Great Britain”.
My focus is on something we all use, we all need every day and is required to keep the world moving ……. “ENERGY”
Like in many other parts of Europe and the World it looks to me like crazies have taken over in the UK. Green policies and Net Zero Emissions are leading England into the madness of so called renewable energy. This is not a fanciful observation, UK and European radicals think that Solar Panels and Wind Turbines will power the future saving us from a mild manageable temperature increase which is absolutely no threat to any British person let alone mankind.
They cannot save us from a non existent threat and now Germany is in the midst of that realisation. Germany is the European poster child and has spent vast sums of money over may years to get just about nowhere. What they have ended up with are outrageously high domestic and industrial electrical prices, no Nuclear, dependence on Russian Gas and now the fact that digging up coal is about the only choice they have of keeping the lights on. If they really had been worried about Co2 emissions in the first place they would have followed the French down the Nuclear path and saved them selves a great deal of pain.
Back to the United Kingdom and its prospective new leader. None of them have yet to my knowledge mentioned Green Polices or Net Zero. The British population sits atop a vast potential supply of energy which is in the form of Natural Gas. In a similar way to the USA we could be Energy independent. We already have an existing Gas infrastructure and if we moved forward with Fracking the existing gas under our feet just think how far ahead of Europe and the World we could be in the next few years.
Residential electric bills could come down to sensible affordable levels, domestic heating costs would plummet. Industry could become competitive again which could potentially lead to new jobs. Cheaper fertiliser could be sold to our farmers and then around the world. Our food, our manufacturing industry, our population could flourish. Our people could take advantage of an amazing cost effective natural resource that is the GREAT BRITISH ENERGY of Natural Gas.
All this can be achieved NOW with current technology and in a relatively short period of time. It needs courageous leadership to get the GREAT back in Great Britain and move us forward into THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
A small benefit would be potential reduction in the emission of British Co2 which currently only stands at about 1% so in reality not making a big difference to the world. If we did this and politicians saw the light it could be a transition to a cleaner Nuclear future, we already have the makings of small nuclear power with Rolls Royce. Has someone in our government the courage to pull the United Kingdom out of the “ Green Pit Of Doom “ and up into the Natural Gas Light of a Second revolution.
This energy revolution was achieved already during the last administration in the United States so it is a proven pathway to cheaper energy costs and energy independence. It is also plane to see that the current Green Progressive policies of the current American government have been an unmitigated disaster and do not work, sadly the USA is following the failed policy of Germany back into the pit of doom.
DO NOT let the UK follow like a lamb to the slaughter into the catastrophic madness of so called Green Technology.
WAKE UP and smell the GREAT BRITISH ROSE that is Natural Gas Energy and let it catapult us into a NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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I think most people would be happy to have a bit more money and freedom even if our “international reputation” suffered. Once again elitist concerns over the people he’s supposed to serve.
Let me see if I understand how this scheme works:
Net minus 100 would mean people earning above the median income fly as much or more and support giving themselves raises to outpace inflation …while everyone else is reduced to lockdown and ends up praying for medically assisted death (because they can’t afford food & housing and it’s -30˚C outside).
I get it clearly what they are doing.
[…] is Cabinet minister for that evil policy has already threatened to quit if yon policy is touched (link). Will these statements affect the MPs? We’re now in the ‘whittling-down’ phase, voting […]
Richard Bell says: July 18, 2022 at 3:26 am
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Correct, but we’re going in the opposite direction thanks to political stupidity, with the media backing net zero and all the other climate nonsense.
If temperatures trend slightly upwards so be it, we’ll have to deal with it like everybody else. Pretending the clock can be turned back to some imagined time in the past is a dead end.
Hmm, “throw money at him / them” NO NO NO – total waste of money and they’re not worth it. Do not carry the “Made in England” or “Made in GB” (if in Scotland) ANyuthing elseis just not good enough … woollies best, remember ?
… and … just reading … saw the farm animal …Climate and Citizen Realist @ClimateRealists
·This is how Media and Governments portray Climate.. …… what happens when politics promote pseudoscience.. …. they are putting the cart before the horse.. THat’s what happens when you lead animals with their favourite food – Cashots ? Barrow in front, any animal, even Pigs will keep on pushing for more. Time to stop filling the barrows. PM Candidate reading this ?
UK’s balancing costs tripled in winter
Monday 18 July 2022
On 24th November, National Grid ESO saw “exceptionally high” costs in the balancing market with more than £60 million spent
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Creeping madness. Kwasi Kwarteng is left muttering about ‘concerning behaviour’ i.e. overcharging by the ‘balancers’, but that’s not even the real problem.
can you say what ipcc calculations document the 0.02C heat increase value comes from?
We need more climate fanatics like Alok Sharma to resign and disappear from public eye. That will do humanity good…
He should quit, and continue without pay.
I agree with Ned and George, though I would make AS et al pay back the money they defrauded from us the UK tax paying public as this so called climate emergency was created by Jeremy Corbyn – which demonstrates the will of the Commons on the issue. But it does not legally compel the government to act, and was approved without a vote. Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled the motion, said it was “a huge step forward”. But for who?
Bye!
Don’t let the door hit you on the arse on your way out!
New Prime Minister will have to pause Net Zero or face the demise of UK’s steel industry
Friday 22nd July 2022
https://www.netzerowatch.com/new-prime-minister-will-have-to-pause-net-zero-or-face-the-demise-of-uks-steel-industry/
The reason may have changed, but the UK steel industry has been on the ropes for decades, or so it seems.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/economicoutputandproductivity/output/articles/updatedthebritishsteelindustrysincethe1970s/2016-01-18
What is Sharma worried about? The UK courts will enforce net zero for him, thanks to the Climate Change Act. Any backsliding is now illegal.
The Government’s unlawful Net Zero Strategy
United Kingdom 22.07.2022
On 18 July 2022, the High Court ruled that the Government’s Net Zero Strategy (“NZS”) – the cornerstone of its strategy to transition to a green and sustainable future – was unlawful. It decided that the obligations set out in sections 13 and 14 of the Climate Change Act 2008 (“CCA”) had not been satisfied and ordered the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to lay a new report before Parliament by the end of March 2023.
https://www.cms-lawnow.com/ealerts/2022/07/the-governments-unlawful-net-zero-strategy
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The lack of empirical evidence for CO2-based climate theory isn’t even mentioned. Governments have made a rod for their own backs and put citizens in their net zero straitjacket.
Maxwell, in his “Theory of Heat”, p232, has deduced since about 1865 that Radiant Heat passes straight through clear or diatherminous air without interacting to heat it. Like any other radiated form of light etc.. Brett Keane
Please think on that. Zero heating, unless opaque matter gets in the way. eg the c.20% energy transfer of downwelling sunlight. Recycled by water vapour etc.. Brett