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Canada sticking with 2050 net zero targets says brain damaged minister

Canada sticking with 2050 net zero targets, but progress may come faster than expected, minister says

Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the federal government is not ruling out finding ways to achieve net zero sooner than the existing 2050 goal, but would not say whether there would be a definitive commitment to move up the target.

The government’s current target is to hit net zero emissions — the point at which the amount of greenhouse gas emitted is equal to the amount that is removed from the atmosphere — by 2050, a goal shared by the other G7 countries. But in March, a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prompted United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to encourage developed countries move up their net-zero timelines to 2040.

Net Zero Lunacy from the Times – Time’s up for Drax’s tree-burning racket

… The most heinous example of this racket is the way the government has subsidised the wood-chip burning (“biomass”) of Drax to the extent of many billions of pounds. This Yorkshire-based power station company does not burn a single British tree among the 27 million it gets through a year. It imports all its wood chips — mostly shipped in colossal diesel-powered vessels across the Atlantic from forests in Canada and Louisiana.

As I wrote here in February: “The CO2 ‘chimney emissions’ in the process are not recorded in the UK’s carbon accounts . . . they are on the American and Canadian carbon balance sheet.” Crazier still, more than £6 billion of subsidies have been funnelled to Drax — it would not have a viable business model otherwise — on the basis that its contribution to the national grid is “carbon neutral” because these millions of trees are replaced by newly planted ones that will absorb carbon in the atmosphere as they grow.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam, WTF?

Rowan Atkinson: I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly I feel duped

Electric motoring is, in theory, a subject about which I should know something. My first university degree was in electrical and electronic engineering, with a subsequent master’s in control systems. Combine this, perhaps surprising, academic pathway with a lifelong passion for the motorcar, and you can see why I was drawn into an early adoption of electric vehicles. I bought my first electric hybrid 18 years ago and my first pure electric car nine years ago and (notwithstanding our poor electric charging infrastructure) have enjoyed my time with both very much. Electric vehicles may be a bit soulless, but they’re wonderful mechanisms: fast, quiet and, until recently, very cheap to run. But increasingly, I feel a little duped. When you start to drill into the facts, electric motoring doesn’t seem to be quite the environmental panacea it is claimed to be.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Green-Scam

Ireland’s mooted cow massacre is a warning to net zero Britain

The Irish government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 dairy cows to meet its climate targets. It’s madness

The collateral damage of net zero is now getting uncomfortably close to home. First Dutch farmers were threatened with compulsory purchases to satisfy EU emissions targets, fomenting a new revolt in the process. Now it’s Ireland’s turn, where the government is reportedly looking at plans to cull around 200,000 cows to meet its climate targets. The scheme would be a bit like voluntary redundancy, with farmers offered financial inducements to give up their cows.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

The Revolt of the Farmers

The Dutch government wants farmers to give up their land to save the planet. They’re fighting back.

The Dutch have a particular horror of fascism. They bravely resisted the Nazis during the Second World War, as the German occupation of the Netherlands cut off food and fuel shipments. During the “Hunger Winter,” which lasted from 1944 until the Allied liberation in 1945, at least 22,000 Dutch people died from malnutrition.

That experience branded the national character with a strongly libertarian streak. It also explains why, post-war, the Netherlands created the most successful agricultural economy on the planet out of the ruins.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"The Great Reset", Green-Scam

Stellantis Bribe Likely to Exceed Volkswagen Boondoggle

Stellantis NV is likely to receive more in subsidies for a new electric-vehicle battery plant in Canada than the C$13 billion ($9.5 billion) Volkswagen AG extracted for a similar project, according to an expert who has crunched the numbers.

Stellantis and South Korean partner LG Energy Solution Ltd. announced the factory in Windsor, Ontario last year, but have halted construction while they negotiate more financial aid from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. The companies are seeking the equivalent of what they would receive under the Inflation Reduction Act if they located the plant in the US.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam, WTF?

The Left’s Climate Indoctrination Program Terrifies a Generation of Students

Children are becoming neurotic Green New Dealers. No more cars. No more flush toilets or washing machines. What’s next to save the planet? Euthanasia?

As nearly every standardized test is showing, our schools are doing an abysmal job teaching children how to read or do math. In some cases, children graduating from high school can barely read their diplomas.

Yet the schools are wildly succeeding with their climate change indoctrination program. When I speak to students on high school and college campuses and ask what the greatest threat is to their generation, the answer isn’t China’s aggression.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

PBO report shows Ottawa’s carbon tax rhetoric was always bluster

We now know how much the Trudeau government’s carbon taxes will cost Ontario families once fully implemented: an average of $2,315 a year.

For the past five years, the feds have been peddling pure fiction on carbon taxes. The government’s line has consistently been that Canadians are better off financially with a carbon tax.

But Canadian taxpayers never bought the spin.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Liberals defend green-scam after Danielle Smith slams Justin Trudeau

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says the re-election of a Danielle Smith-led United Conservative government in Alberta will not hinder Ottawa’s efforts to advance aggressive climate action policies.

The morning after Smith’s victory speech took clear shots at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s environmental policies as a threat to Alberta’s economy, Trudeau slipped into a cabinet meeting via a back door after attending a national prayer breakfast, leaving key cabinet ministers to react to the overnight news of her victory.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAlberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Fourth Reich disseminates ominous new report on ‘environmental policy’

If you said that climate lockdowns would be next, you might be a conspiracy theorist.

If you’re making simple observations and drawing basic conclusions about the world around you, you might be a conspiracy theorist.

If you have even the most rudimentary understanding of big government leftism and limited government conservatism, you might be a conspiracy theorist.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany, Green-Scam

Renewables and rare earths: the virtuous ravaging of South Africa

South Africa Beats Climate Goal as Blackouts Slash Emissions. It’s one of those headlines you read and assume the Babylon Bee is to blame. In this case, it came from a Bloomberg article, gushing about South Africa’s falling emissions putting it on track to meet its 2025 climate goals. They were even bold enough to note: ‘Power plant breakdowns are reducing industrial activity.’

Sure, collapsing into the Stone Age is probably going to lower your CO2 emissions – for a while – but pretty soon everyone is going to be chopping down the nearest forest like it’s 5000 BC.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Green-Scam, South Africa

More Proof Your SUV Won’t Cause the Earth to Become a Burning Ball of Fire

In light of increasing hysteria from climate activists, including a recent idiotic demonstration at the Trevi Fountain, it seems to be a good time to go back to hard data. A study last year found that atmospheric carbon caused by fossil fuels has been too low to cause global warming, as climate dogmatists claim. The earth is not about to become a burning ball of fire because you drive an SUV.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGreen-Scam

How big are Canada’s carbon emissions? Compared to China, we’re a rounding error

… The average G7 leader, to say nothing of the average G7 citizen, may be under the impression that this confab, with Canada sat in the seventh seat, is the club of the world’s most powerful countries and a kind of alternative global government. It isn’t. The G7 speaks for only a fraction of the Earth’s population. It also accounts for well under half the world’s economic output, a share that is steadily falling.

And when it comes to greenhouse gases, the G7′s contribution is surprisingly small. Small, and shrinking.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam

Job creation tied to Windsor, Ont., Stellantis EV battery plant compared to ‘musical chairs’: prof

A Carleton University business professor is casting doubt on the number of jobs that will be added to Windsor’s economy by an electric vehicle battery factory.

Ian Lee says the country’s unemployment level is the lowest it’s been since the 1960s and calls the idea that Ontario is desperate to create new jobs as “nonsense,” adding the province is already seeing a critical shortage of workers.

Stellantis and LG Energy Solution will draw many of their employees from other plants that are already operating in the region, he says.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam