Farmer rebellions in the Netherlands, Macron calling for an end to green EU laws, Germany returning to coal, the EU U-turning on the combustion engine ban, new drilling in the North Sea – the signs are all around that the world has passed Peak Green, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
A few days ago, I received an email from my local council offering ‘climate anxiety’ therapy for those worried about global warming. It was too interesting an invitation to refuse. A ‘climate psychologist’ convened the group and asked for their feelings: afraid, angry, helpless and guilty were the main words offered. Such anxiety is natural, he said, but can be remedied by “distancing” oneself from negative climate news. He didn’t quite say how such a feat could be achieved.
For children it would mean avoiding school, where much of this is now built into the curriculum. It would also mean avoiding television or radio news, seldom short of climate gloom. This week, for example, the BBC announced that the planet is “predicted to pass the 1.5 degree global warming threshold in the next few years”, a tipping point after which terrible effects become irreversible. This was followed up by a guest saying how global warming would be worse for Europe than Bangladesh. But the balancing good news – of which there is plenty – was never mentioned.
We’re now familiar with the lack of scrutiny or perspective when the subject is discussed. Some newspapers tell writers to avoid neutral phrases like ‘climate change’ and instead say ’emergency’, ‘crisis’ or ‘breakdown’. Politicians have tended to compete with each other to see who can ring the alarm the loudest. Ed Miliband wanted to decarbonise electricity by 2030; Theresa May made Britain one of the few countries in the world with a legal target to hit Net Zero by 2050. But just how much would this cost? No one was really told.
Now, the bill is beginning to land – and reality beginning to bite. Dutch farmers recently drove tractors into The Hague to protest against its green diktats. In Germany, where the war in Ukraine has brought a new energy realpolitik, wind turbines are being dismantled to make way for an expanded coal mine. Sweden’s 27-year-old environment minister has been quietly diluting the green laws she inherited. Emmanuel Macron – famously chastened by the gilets jaunes – last week called on the EU to stop its barrage of green legislation, saying that enough is enough. We might just have passed Peak Green.
It’s all moving quite quickly. Last autumn, Germany signed an EU target to ban the sale of internal combustion engine cars by 2035. It now opposes the idea, as do Italy, Poland and Czechia. That’s not to say the green agenda is collapsing under the pressure of public scorn: it’s simply being subjected to the kind of scrutiny that was never applied in the first place. How much will it cost? What will it achieve? Germany’s transport minister has been making a good argument: what’s the point in electric cars if the power that drives them comes from burning coal?
Rishi Sunak has been quietly dialling down the green agenda he inherited from Boris Johnson, using the language of Net Zero while adding his own dose of realism. He has created the ‘Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’ – the first part of the job being the most important. So he has authorised new drilling in the North Sea and even the opening of a new coal mine in Cumbria, both projects over which Johnson prevaricated. His recent energy security speech was given in a fusion research centre in Oxfordshire: a nod to his hopes for technology, not diktats, to make the green running.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Ross Clark takes up a similar theme in this week’s Spectator, saying ‘Europe is turning against Net Zero‘.
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Well good morning everyone.
Now to read the ATL posts.
what does ATL mean please?
ATL = Above the line, meaning the articles etc provided by the site owners/creators/editors.
BTL = Below the line, meaning comments from the public viewing the site.
Morning all….does anyone else think that the ‘rise’ in Covid cases might have the slightest thing to do with this headline in December…?
UK ministers secure 114m more Covid vaccines for next two yearsExtra Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna jabs for 2022 and 2023 ordered to ‘future proof’ vaccine programme.
Seems like an awful lot of stuff when numbers of people willing to be jabbed ‘again’
is plummeting….?
Morning to the dwindling few
, 114 million doses , let me think 
….. will coercion still be craftily used as cash is squeezed out & 5G surveillance ramped up – China style !..
Afternoon!
How could you be so cynical? Of course it doesn’t!
What’s wrong with Rwanda, Africa, Your Royal Highness?
Will “racist” interpretation of remarks lead to cancellation?
When Woke is hoist on their own petard.
Yes, what’s so bad about Catholic Rwanda? Or perhaps it is sub-Saharan Africa that people find objectionable, like those medical scientists in South Africa?
Rwanda’s a lovely place. I know because it said so on Top Gear!
I suppose they could always be sent to a centre in France instead (though to be fair that would probably be worse than Rwanda)…
Why I’m 99% certain that Justin Bieber’s facial paralysis was caused by the COVID vaccineWas it vaccine related? That’s what the math says. Here’s my calculation.
Steve Kirsch
6 hr ago
395
353
and the wife likely vax injured too:
Just shared on Facebook and anything else you can too.
Share if you can…..
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/we-begged-the-government-not-to-vaccinate-children-now-ten-are-dead-and-nearly-2000-injured/
We begged the Government not to vaccinate children – now ten are dead and nearly 2,000 injured.
Update….this article has now just vanished, both from the Conservative woman, and Kathy Gyngell’s Twitter???!
A pity. I seem to remember some months back that the figure for healthy 15-17 year olds dying of (or with) “covid” in the UK was given as zero. If it can be confirmed that children have died from this experimental muck, then that strongly suggests that children’s lives have been sacrificed in the name of the “vaccine” narrative.
Is that a fair conclusion?
Bloody hell! I read this article this morning and no question it was a shocker but everything seemed fully referenced and the evidence was clear.
What’s going on?
Well…tyrannical vile people do have to stick together don’t they?
Justin Trudeau
Keeping our air clean, protecting our nature, and growing our economies – that’s what the new partnership between Canada and California focuses on, and that’s what Governor @gavinnewsom and I are committed to. More on what we announced this morning:
egghhh! Shudder!!
Just found this at Off-G in the BTL comments:
“Russia’s former health minister is a bigwig in the Global Pandemic Preparedness Board that Bill Gates has set up with the WHO as a front organization to make billions from his vaccine-pushing pharma investments. The man’s greed is beyond evil.”
There is something not quite right with this Russia war business but it’s beginning to look like we are being spun another one.
This is interesting & deserves to be widely shared.
Anyone with even one brain cell had worked this out….
https://www.planet-today.com/2022/01/bombshell-veritas-documents-reveal-dc.html?m=1#.YqFn4eresfX.twitter
More evidence to support the conspiracy theory of eugenics by the lovely caring WEF & philanthropic Billy Gates…..
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/06/exclusive-moderna-foia-bombshell-males-will-be-sterile-and-ask-dr-jane/
Causing harm with an experimental drug can result in the death penalty being imposed. Maybe this will finally convince those injectors of the toxic bioweapon that doing so is not such a good idea? Self preservation might win the day where appealing to their integrity has failed dismally…..
https://t.me/A4Army/132
I thought they said these didn’t exist?….
https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3057517/fact-sheet-on-wmd-threat-reduction-efforts-with-ukraine-russia-and-other-former/
June 9th 2022.
The United States has also worked collaboratively to improve Ukraine’s biological safety, security, and disease surveillance for both human and animal health, providing support to 46 peaceful Ukrainian laboratories, health facilities, and disease diagnostic sites over the last two decades.
Good article rounding up various things around the problem of children, pregnancy and vaccination…food for thought, but this bit chills me to the bone …
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/developmental-disorders-in-babies?s=r
Imagine a vaccine enthusiast mother, who gets three doses during her pregnancy. Say, two doses during month 4 and one during the last week of pregnancy. The unborn baby is, obviously, exposed to all that.
Then the baby is born.
If the June 14-15 FDA meeting goes as planned, FDA will approve a three-dose Pfizer vaccine for infants and toddlers. So shortly after being exposed to THREE doses of mRNA vaccines prenatally, the recently born 6 months old baby will get THREE MORE Pfizer mRNA shots.
That’s a total of, drumroll, six spike protein, and nanoparticle exposures. For a tiny newborn, all during one first year of her life.
They are evil. I can’t think of another word that appropriately describes them.
We have our own cache of evil beings here in the U.K. The NHS has now included the shite in a syringe in the vaccination schedules – 2 doses – for children aged 5 – 15. They will be working hard to include the newborn to age 5 in the jabs schedule asap.
Science be damned. It’s evil. Sheer, unadulterated evil.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/nhs-vaccinations-and-when-to-have-them/
If the poor little mite survives to life birth in the first place…
They are truly, truly evil.
Yes…Let it sink in…my Government wish to harm me…not just keep a status quo, want to actually harm me……beggars belief…