The Net Zero nightmare is collapsing. On Monday, Belgian author and commentator Drieu Godefridi posted the news that should have sent shockwaves through Brussels: the IPCC had formally admitted that its most extreme climate scenario, RCP8.5, is "implausible". The very pathway that underpinned the entire European Green Deal, trillions in spending, farmer-crushing regulations and two decades of energy-suicide policies across the EU, UK, Canada and Australia has been exposed as fantasy. “The house of cards is falling,” Godefridi writes. “Von der Leyen and the entire EU Deep State are cornered.” Science, he says, demands the explicit repudiation of all EU documents, legislation and communications built on this doomsday scenario – and therefore the repeal of the Green Deal in its entirety.
Roger Pielke Jr., the American political scientist who has tracked this issue for years, put it even more starkly in late April: “RCP8.5 is officially dead.” The international committee responsible for the scenarios feeding into the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report has eliminated the high-end pathways – RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5 and SSP3-7.0 – that have dominated climate research, headlines and policy for the better part of two decades. As the new van Vuuren et al. framework for CMIP7 makes clear, these extreme scenarios are no longer credible.
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I think a miss selling scandal of this scale would allow for a class action court case to demand our money back. Where are the ambulance chasing lawyers?
Reiner Fulmich is and was not an ambulance-chasing lawyer but his story is evidence that in Germany one does not provoke the Third Reich and get away with it. He is a political prisoner over his vow to pursue those responsible for the Covid 19 fraud. And yes, I do believe that Germany is run by the Nazis to this day and Fulmich’s story proves it:
German Top Lawyer, Reiner Fuellmich, Sentenced to Prison for Telling the COVID Truth
Thanks Tilak Doshi and others for having the political courage to stand up to Net Zero thugs and bullies and to tell us what the truth is.
But the problem is this – nothing happens when their falsehoods over decades are shown to be the fraud that they are.
Is that dreadful unelected EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hanging her head in shame and resigning along with her cronies? After decades of having the hands of their puppet-masters up their rear ends they know they can carry on as before.
The immense damage the EU has done to Europe over its life-time is incalculable.
Instead of being a block to prevent wars and encourage co-operation it has left Europe weak and nearly defenceless against relentless assault by the enemies of our paper-thin democracies.
Von der Leyen has a track record as the German defence minister of being attacked by members of her own party concerning her competence. She oversaw the near destruction of the Bundeswehr. This excoriating Politico article is effectively her CV for the top job in Brussels – such that her own party were delighted to get rid of her:
The inconvenient truth about Ursula von… Read more »
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidturver/p/fake-accounting-exaggerates-emissions-reduction?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=b9r3f
Apart from the fiddled climate figu, David Turver shows the gross fiddling of the UK claimed reduction in CO2 emissions.
Sorry. Didn’t see your same post.
The carbon accounting logic is bunkum anyway.
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/fake-accounting-exaggerates-emissions-reduction
Smoke and mirrors. The same with Mad Ed’s claims about electricity prices.
Did communists in the old Soviet Union and eastern European block ever admit their ideology and economic system was a disaster?
Of course not. They had to be kicked out.
Nobody renounces the ideology that is the source of their power.
Where they kicked out?
At least in Germany, the permanent GDR coalition of CDU – DBD – LDBD – NDPD – SED was formally dissolved. CDU and DBD merged with the FRG CDU, LDBD and NDPD with the west German liberal party (FDP), the SED split into its constituent parts SPD (cleverly named SDP to signal that It’s really a different party!) and KPD. The KPD renamed itself PDS (someone there really seems to like the letters S, D and P) to get around the problem that it was banned in the FRG a long time ago. The mock-SDP and merged with the SPD and an SPD splinter group merged with the PDS to form Die Linke (The Left).
Angela Merkel came from a family which voluntarily immigrated into the GDR and essentially turned the CDU into yet-another-SPD-with-a-dfferent-name during her rule. The current FRG is ruled by coalitions of all of these parties with all other parties, just with different local configurations which really isn’t that much different from the GDR National Front. Voter’s rights have been resolutely cut. The last step in this direction was the last SPD goverment abolishing people’s right to vote directly for a federal MP… Read more »
Exactly.
“They had to be kicked out.”
And came here and now govern us.
Well, they never really disappeared. They went quiet, regrouped and came back with their ideology reworked into climate policy, social grievance policies like DEI, free market destruction policies like ESG.
Basically like a hydra, from one slain head a whole bunch of new heads emerged.
The so-called counter culture of the 1960s was heavily into communism and what happened here was that the anti-communists of the WWII generation finally got rid of this genie they had led out of the bottle because it seemed to be a useful ally against Germany at that time. And while this was happening, the western communists of the 1960s and 1970s did their Gramsci-inspired march through the institutions in order to take them over. Hence, when the war generation finally ceded control due to old age, the monster came back over the hill¹.
¹ The allusion is intentional. Maybe poor joke I have to add here: In case you have the melody etc in your head. They also nicely fit
Is Boris Johnson coming over the hill?
Who – considering COVID – is certainly a real-world monster that came over the hill.
🙂
It would have to start with the BBC’s influence as the No 1 propaganda channel for Europe. Maybe Trump’s court case might dent their organisation.
The question is: why would the BBC choose to change? Its funding model doesn’t rely on it being truthful, the government supports its propagandist agenda, and OFCOM is really only interested in persecuting those organisations that depart from the established dogma.