Idiots….. How much carbon will it take to clean that off?
Do these hypocrites realise how much oil is used in the process of making that stuff they like spraying everywhere? Plus, much as I’m concerned about climate change etc, their behaviour makes me not want to have anything to do with whatever it is they’re shouting about. Total fools.
>Shortly after the 2005 general election, 412 of the 646 Members of Parliament signed an early day motion calling for a Climate Change Bill to be introduced, to include a requirement for 3% annual cuts in carbon emissions.[15] Only three other early day motions had ever been signed by more than 400 MPs.[16]
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>After the Committee on Climate Change’s advice on the level of the 2050 target was brought forward, the 2050 target was revised from 60% of 1990 carbon dioxide emissions to 80% of the six major greenhouse gas emissions at the instigation of the government. It was also agreed that the British share of aviation and shipping emissions would form part of the target, when a method of measuring these could be agreed.[32]
I hold these protests in contempt, not because I do not believe in acting on climate change, but because they have near zero interest in climate change other than the social media clout they get from it.
What we need is a grown up discussion about how to get our energy mix to be virtually all low or zero carbon over 30 years.
This will be expensive and have political costs, the first half was the easy half. Eliminate coal and use wind when available with gas backfilling during low production times. Now we will need to go nuclear and build out storage that can backfill for the wind when it’s low over days and weeks.
Wazzocks painting on parliaments and art works and glueing themselves to roads is not part of that conversation. You can see by the responses, no one is getting gnarly with the details, just hot takes on the idiots actions.
Carbon Brief and Our World in Data should be the go to to open a discussion on CO2 emissions, this lot just think of the Instagram hits.
Most of the oil is already gone and UK offshore is just about the most expensive oil in the world. The licenses will be canned by Labour and they are going to struggle to get past funding reviews if they were not. And there is very little new oil here. It’s an issue for those with low attention to detail djinned up by politicians to shout about. Bit like UK fracking, that was never really going to happen.
They should have sprayed the big new Scottish Office, just up the road a bit
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Idiots….. How much carbon will it take to clean that off?
Do these hypocrites realise how much oil is used in the process of making that stuff they like spraying everywhere? Plus, much as I’m concerned about climate change etc, their behaviour makes me not want to have anything to do with whatever it is they’re shouting about. Total fools.
>Shortly after the 2005 general election, 412 of the 646 Members of Parliament signed an early day motion calling for a Climate Change Bill to be introduced, to include a requirement for 3% annual cuts in carbon emissions.[15] Only three other early day motions had ever been signed by more than 400 MPs.[16]
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>After the Committee on Climate Change’s advice on the level of the 2050 target was brought forward, the 2050 target was revised from 60% of 1990 carbon dioxide emissions to 80% of the six major greenhouse gas emissions at the instigation of the government. It was also agreed that the British share of aviation and shipping emissions would form part of the target, when a method of measuring these could be agreed.[32]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Change_Act_2008](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Change_Act_2008)
One of the best pieces of climate law in the world, close to a consensus among politicians.
We are halfway to net zero by 2050
[https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-is-now-halfway-to-meeting-its-net-zero-emissions-target](https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-is-now-halfway-to-meeting-its-net-zero-emissions-target)
I hold these protests in contempt, not because I do not believe in acting on climate change, but because they have near zero interest in climate change other than the social media clout they get from it.
What we need is a grown up discussion about how to get our energy mix to be virtually all low or zero carbon over 30 years.
[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?stackMode=absolute&country=~GBR](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-source-and-country?stackMode=absolute&country=~GBR)
This will be expensive and have political costs, the first half was the easy half. Eliminate coal and use wind when available with gas backfilling during low production times. Now we will need to go nuclear and build out storage that can backfill for the wind when it’s low over days and weeks.
Wazzocks painting on parliaments and art works and glueing themselves to roads is not part of that conversation. You can see by the responses, no one is getting gnarly with the details, just hot takes on the idiots actions.
Carbon Brief and Our World in Data should be the go to to open a discussion on CO2 emissions, this lot just think of the Instagram hits.
Edited, also the new licenses are a con.
[https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1562905833582649346](https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1562905833582649346)
Most of the oil is already gone and UK offshore is just about the most expensive oil in the world. The licenses will be canned by Labour and they are going to struggle to get past funding reviews if they were not. And there is very little new oil here. It’s an issue for those with low attention to detail djinned up by politicians to shout about. Bit like UK fracking, that was never really going to happen.
They should have sprayed the big new Scottish Office, just up the road a bit