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Europe is Busy Scrapping Net Zero, While Biden's Handlers Cling to it
Europe is Busy Scrapping Net Zero, Biden's Handlers Cling to it.
BY TYLER DURDEN
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
“Unaffordable climate commitments have two leftist British parties racing to exit stage left.”
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The Wall Street Journal reports Europeans Ditch Net Zero, While Biden Clings to It
You know you’ve fallen through the looking glass when European politicians start sounding saner on climate policy than the Americans do.
Well here we are, Alice: Europeans are admitting the folly of net zero quicker than their American peers.
The latest example—perhaps “victim” is more apt—is Humza Yousaf, who resigned this week as Scotland’s first minister.
That region within the U.K. enjoys substantial powers over its own affairs, including on climate policy.
An administration led by Mr. Yousaf’s left-leaning Scottish National Party had hoped to rush ahead of the national government in London in slashing carbon emissions.
Until, that is, someone noticed the costs.
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A recent report from the U.K.’s Climate Change Committee noted, Scotland had fallen far behind on its climate goals.
The government aimed to reduce by 20% the aggregate distance driven by Scottish motorists, compared with 2019 levels, but had no plan to accomplish the reduction in personal mobility by the 2030 deadline.
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To get back on track with the government’s goal of a transition to home electric heat pumps,
Scotland would have to replace natural-gas fired boilers at a rate of more than 80,000 households a year by the end of the decade.
That’s a big ask, considering, in 2023, it managed 6,000 boiler replacements.
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The government resisted imposing an aviation tax to discourage excess flying. And so on.
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Mr. Yousaf did the only thing he could under the circumstances:
He all but abandoned net zero.
His administration announced it is ditching firm annual emission-reduction targets in favor of fuzzier “carbon budgets.”
The Green Party, with which Mr. Yousaf’s SNP governed in a coalition, balked.
After a series of political machinations that were one part “Macbeth” and two parts “Comedy of Errors,” Mr. Yousaf’s administration collapsed and he was forced to resign.
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Observe two salient details. First, the specific list of targets the country was missing.
Scotland had reached the point where further net-zero progress would have made obvious and material demands of household budgets.
That was not counting the additional costs of renewable power hidden in utility bills.
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I have discussed the above ideas many times. There are farm protests in nearly every country of the EU, and Greens are likely to get clobbered hard in the European Parliament elections in June.
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What About the US?
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The Journal reports “The puzzlement is, the U.S. is headed in the opposite direction.
Biden 's cabal of handlers is pressing ahead with aggressive net-zero policies, such as EV mandates and pouring trillions of dollars of deficit spending, plus hard-earned household money into wind/solar/battery/heat pumps follies“
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However, there is no puzzle. Biden's cabal of handlers are calling100% of the shots.
They command/control federal and state governments, climate policy, regulations, student loans, abortion, open borders, Ukraine-blackhole giveaways, everything.
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Please note Biden Promotes Climate Change at the Expense of More Global Poverty
The mad rush to deal with climate change, even if it works (it won’t), has a nasty tradeoff (more global impoverishment).
We need a Tsunami of change in November 2024 to end all this nonsense as soon as possible
Willem Post
Al Gore was an avid reader, who fell in love with scientific and mathematical theories, but he did not do well in science classes and avoided taking math.
During his first two years, his grades placed him in the lower one-fifth of his class.
During his second year, he reportedly spent much of his time watching television, shooting pool and occasionally smoking marijuana.
In his junior and senior years, he became more involved with his studies, earning As and Bs.
In his senior year, he took a class with oceanographer and global warming theorist Roger Revelle, who sparked Gore’s interest in global warming and other environmental issues.
Gore earned an A on his thesis, “The Impact of Television on the Conduct of the Presidency, 1947–1969”, and graduated with with honors, in June 1969
After the Army, he was in Vanderbilt Law School, but when he found his father’s seat was available, he ran and won.
What in hell does he know about climate and calculations?
Global warming usually is equated with retained energy in the atmosphere, as explained below.
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Willem Post
The elites, and IPCC, and WEF, and $politicians, and entrenched bureaucrats, and compromised academia, and lapdog Media, have combined to perpetuate and/or enrich themselves and impoverish all others, using the unscientific hoax of "CO2 causes global warming".
The hoax is based on fossil fuels and CO2 being the villains
However, CO2 greens the earth, creates flora and fauna, including us, and increases crop yields per acre, and reduces desert areas.
We need more CO2, as proven by plant growth in greenhouses with 1000 to 1200 ppm CO2
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The West’s scam includes wind/solar/batteries/hydrogen/CO2 extraction/EVs/air-source heat pumps, etc., to enrich/reward world elites, who will continue to fly their planes and sail their yachts
No command/control, choking restrictions off any kind on them!!
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These elitists caused the impoverishment of the EU, especially the UK and Germany., which are overrun by millions of scruffy, poor, inexperienced, uneducated, culturally-different folks, from all over, crossing borders, or secretly flown in, unvetted, to get free work permits, free phones, and free debit cards, and free housing, and free sucking from various leftist/Democrat-run government programs.
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The elites want to impose their no-fossil-fuel misery on the rules-based world to the glory of the Golden Billion in The Garden of Eden.
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However, fast-growing BRISC, with 11 members and 20 applicants, including China, India, Russia, etc., are not playing along with the multi-$trillion per year hoax and scam, and the demonizing of fossil fuels.
In fact, they know it is a Western, rules-based, insanity, to impoverish them.
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Excerpt:
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-e...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-p...
Important Role of CO2 for Flora and Fauna Growth
Plants require require at least 1000 to 1200 ppm of CO2, as proven in greenhouses
Many plants have become extinct, along with the fauna they supported, due to a lack of CO2
As a result, many areas of the world became arid and deserts.
The current CO2 needs to at least double or triple
Earth temperature increased about 1.2 C since 1900, which is due to many causes, such as fossil CO2, flora CO2, and permafrost methane which converts to CO2.
CO2 emissions of fossil fuels are a blessing.
CO2 has increased from about 296 ppm in 1900 to 423 ppm at end 2023. It:
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1) Increased world greening by at least 10 to 15%, as measured by satellites since 1979.
2) Increased world fauna
3) Increased crop yields per acre.
4) Reduced desert areas
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https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/new-study-2001-2020-gl...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-a-life-gas-no-c...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/co2-is-not-pollution-i...
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Benefits of CO2
https://issuu.com/johna.shanahan/docs/co2_pitch_4-3-24_baeuerle_eng...
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Oceans Absorb CO2
CO2 molecules continuously move from the air into sea water, in accordance with Henry’s Law
The sea water contains 3% salt, NaCl, by weight.
The CO2 continuously combines with salt to form numerous Ca, Cl, O2 and H2 compounds that support ocean flora and fauna.
As a result, the oceans are the major sink of CO2 from human and natural sources in the TS.
At least 80% of new CO2 in the TS, human and natural, is added to the oceans
May 6