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Britain is Leading the World on Net Zero, But No One is Following

by Will Jones
9 August 2024 1:00 PM

Britain is leading the world on Net Zero, but no one is following, leaving Britain alone in committing green suicide, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.

In China and much of the rest of the ‘developing world’, Net Zero targets appear to mean nothing at all beyond their usefulness in undermining the West. Economic growth is routinely prioritised over climate change goals.

Similarly in the U.S., which pays lip service to Net Zero while simultaneously celebrating its position as the world’s largest oil producer; big tax breaks for fracking go hand in hand with the hundreds of billions the Biden administration is pouring into the green energy transition.

Even holier-than-thou little Norway, which aims to be carbon neutral by 2030, seeks to extend the life of its North Sea oil and gas reserves long into the future with big ongoing incentives to invest.

In a bid to revive economic growth, Christopher Luxon’s new centre-Right government in New Zealand is meanwhile in wholesale retreat from the environmental commitments of his saintly predecessor, Jacinda Ardern. 

Only in the U.K. does the torch of Net Zero still burn strong, with the newly installed Labour Government determined to double down on emission targets whatever the costs. Even Brussels demonstrates at least a modicum of common sense on these matters.

Britain isn’t ‘world leading’ in much these days, but when it comes to climate change we aim to be well ahead of the pack, with some of the most demanding regulatory requirements on the planet. 

“Over the top, lads,” shouts the Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband with all the righteous self-belief of a cross-carrying crusader, only to look behind and find that nobody is following. There are few first-mover advantages in this game, only the certainty of being mown down in the charge.

Since entering office little more than a month ago, the new Government has further toughened up what was already an exceptionally challenging timetable for the transition to clean energy. In so doing, it has effectively signed the North Sea oil and gas sector’s death warrant, putting tens of thousands of jobs at risk, undermining a once lucrative source of tax revenue and potentially opening up another giant hole in the balance of payments.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: ChinaClimate AlarmismFossil fuelsGasNet ZeroOilUnited States

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kev
kev
11 months ago

Ed Miliband is an imbecile, Labour are deranged.

Even if we were to somehow miraculously reach the (Agenda) 2030 net Zero goals (absolutely no chance at all), we represent about 1% of the worlds population and therefore only 1% of global so-called emissions – so totally and utterly irrelevant. China and the US (plus others) are increasing their so-called emissions, and our paltry contribution comes nowhere near offsetting their increases.

Britain is leading the world in blind stupidity! How marvelous.

Last edited 11 months ago by kev
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stewart
stewart
11 months ago
Reply to  kev

Sorry, if you don’t mind my asking, in which way was the policy of the Conservative Party government’s any different?

The most recent most aggressive Net Zero targets were passed into law by Theresa May’s government.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

…in which way was the policy of the Conservative Party government’s any different?

It wasn’t.

“Over the top, lads,” shouts the Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband with all the righteous self-belief of a cross-carrying crusader, only to look behind and find that nobody is following.

I think the analogy would be more like a WW1 general ordering the advance while safely tucked away nowhere near the front line.

‘Lions lead by donkeys’.

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;

Let the anger build. We need rage.

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Valerie_London
Valerie_London
11 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

I will never forgive Boris for his “build back better” speech, at a time when we were deep in lockdown and we wouldn’t have had to build back at all if they hadn’t F*cking taken a bulldozer to our way of life already!

Last edited 11 months ago by Valerie_London
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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
11 months ago
Reply to  Valerie_London

Correct 👍

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kev
kev
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

I never claimed they were, the article was about Labour (insofar as they are the incumbent government) and thick Ed.

The Tories were equally deranged, as were the plans put forward by the imbecile Lib Dems and even worse Greens.

I put forward no defence of any of the Uniparty. They are all braindead when it comes to Energy and “Climate”. It’s hard to believe any of them actually believe the insane rhetoric, but it appears some most certainly do, they appear to believe endless amounts of money can fix a non-existent problem!

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varmint
varmint
11 months ago
Reply to  kev

Yes—-But they are NOT braindead about energy and climate. They know what they are doing. ———Following orders from the Davos World Government people who think the wealthy west living standard is too high, and Miliband is rubbing his hands with glee that he now has 5 years at least to lower that living standard drastically and he isn’t wasting much time.

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varmint
varmint
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Yes I think the Tories thought they would do us a favour and not have us pretend to save the planet till 2035, but apart from that they are all in on it, except Reform (at the moment) They all waved Net Zero through with no vote and no debate. They are all complicit in our impoverishment just so they can get a little gold star on their lapel from the UN/WEF.

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

The Tory policy was better in that they were doing it slower 🙂

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Smudger
Smudger
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Good point! All establishment parties are signed up to this madness which makes you wonder why so many people opposed to Net Zero still lent their votes to them just two months ago. Those who did appear just as crazy as the parties they voted for.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
11 months ago
Reply to  kev

Will these morons leave the country once they have finished it off ??

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Norfolk-Sceptic
Norfolk-Sceptic
11 months ago
Reply to  Freddy Boy

Once they cease to be useful, they will disappear, though they don’t know that yet.

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stewart
stewart
11 months ago

Why is the question?

The UK and Europe are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

They can stick to their green policy and failed attempt to get the world to follow the lead and crater demand for oil and gas.

Or they can go out into the market and buy oil and gas as the supplicant they are, to the nations they have hitherto controlled, or influenced or messed around with with various regime change shenanigans. That would mean accepting these nations as equals or even, God forbid superiors and relinquishing the status of world leading nations.

That’s what’s at play.

It’s going to be a tough next few decades for the former great powers.

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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

It’s going to be a tough next few decades for us, the indigenous population.

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sskinner
sskinner
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Saudi Arabia was never colonized. Here are the top 10 oil producers showing yearly production in Barrels.
1 United States 14,837,639,510
2 Saudi Arabia 12,402,761,040
3 Russia 11,262,746,200
4 China 4,905,070,874
5 Canada 4,596,724,820
6 Iraq 4,443,457,393
7 Iran 4,376,194,355
8 United Arab Emirates 3,772,788,273
9 Brazil 3,242,957,836
10 Kuwait 2,990,544,137

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sskinner
sskinner
11 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

Britain acted as a protectorate for the UAE and helped stop Marxist revolutionaries getting a foot hold – this is a good thing. Britain’s involvement in Iraq and Iran was similar to the UAE and that was to protect British and Western interests from Marxist revolutionaries.

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RW
RW
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

These “green fantasies” are imposed onto us by the unholy duopoly of the US democrats and the UN and they’re implemented by a bunch of better fifth columnists lording over us in the name of their American and globalist masters.

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RW
RW
11 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Nonsense really deserves a second reply: European countries have been importing oil and gas ever since they started that as it was cheaper than continuing to mine their domestic coal reserves. Mining operations started to be shut down in the 1980s, ie about 40 years ago, and by that time, they were already only still running because the state subsidized them in order to enable them to compete with cheaper imported fuels. The OPEC had its heyday in the 1970s when the exercised a sort-of power globally but has again fallen by the wayside because there’s more money to be made by selling oil than by withholding it in order to play tradewar. Considering the time, mass oil and gas imports into Europe have probably been going on 60 – 70 years, IOW, the situation you predict for the future and you claim to be the secret motivation behind the idiotic Renewables! project must long since have happened. In reality, the second gulf war happened (driving the Iranians out of Kuweit) and the Russian wet dream of becoming a raw materials superpower won’t. Raw materials are useless on their own.

That about as many people fall for that as keep falling for Putin’s nuke-wanking doesn’t mean it makes any sense.

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sskinner
sskinner
11 months ago

Here is a graph showing the different sources of energy for most countries. All fossil fuels are shown in black, nuclear – red, hydro – blue, ‘renewables’ -,green.
The UK’s energy mix is inconsequential compared to the rest of the world, and it is interesting that the smaller (or poorer) the country there is more ‘renewable’ as a proportion of that countries energy.

Energy-Consumption-by-source
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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
11 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

Interesting. Source please.

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sskinner
sskinner
11 months ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix
I downloaded the .csv and saved as .xlsx. I filtered and extracted the data for each country on 2021 and rounded to zero (no decimal places).

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
11 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

Cheers mate. My own analysis of the ONS data is what made me 100% sure the ‘vaccine’ was a load of shite

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sskinner
sskinner
11 months ago
Reply to  Free Lemming

Quite, Also, I’ve been in software testing for nearly a quarter of a century and I know that if you don’t test software properly you introduce risk, known and unknown. Boeing should also know this by now. When the pharmaceuticals received emergency authorization as well as immunity from prosecution that jumped out as a big red flag, but they don’t seem to care..

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varmint
varmint
11 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

Yep—–About 85% of the worlds energy comes from fossil fuels, and that is NOT going to change anytime soon, which means nothing we do in this country will make any difference to global climate even if their junk science modelling is remotely accurate, which it isn’t. It is ECO FRAUD. The pathway to global socialism and Miliband is in his element.

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sskinner
sskinner
11 months ago
Reply to  varmint

Here is another view showing consumption over the years. The trajectory of renewables is not that impressive considering all the economic, environmental and social harm caused by Year-Zero Net-Zero. Notice the small dip during the plandemic.

OWID-Energy-Consumption-By-Source
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Baldrick
Baldrick
11 months ago

Ian Pilmer does a nice but long winded demolition of all this in Green Murder. He even questions that man made co2 has caused a significant rise in co2.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
11 months ago
Reply to  Baldrick

Even?

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varmint
varmint
11 months ago

Why does the UK always have to be “world leaders” in every absurdity going? Take a look at the puss on that Moron above and it might help explain it.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
11 months ago
Reply to  varmint

We’re definitely world leaders in Orwellian propaganda and surveillance – something else to be proud of.

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Phil Warner
Phil Warner
11 months ago

They seem to have fallen for Net Zero hook, line and sinker. Klaus must be very pleased.

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varmint
varmint
11 months ago
Reply to  Phil Warner

The Uk as one of the originators of the Industrial Revolution and who benefitted from fossil fuels the most, must now according to the Eco Socialists at the UN, get rid of those fuels first.———–And our UN lackey Politicians , the likes of Miliband being the worst, are only too happy to oblige by reducing our standard of living. That standard of living is going to noticeably drop as Labour now have this huge majority. We will all be coerced into smart meters, heat pumps and EV’s.

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RTSC
RTSC
11 months ago

If we had a halfway sensible King, we could at least expect that he would ask the Prime Minister whether it is wise to destroy the economy and millions of lives on the altar of Net Zero.

But we’ve got Charlie-Boy, who supports the madness (and expects to make a very pretty penny out of it).

The rot starts at the top.

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