“Net-Zero Tyranny”

Net Zero is a neo-pagan religion that is seriously harming people’s liberties and livelihoods.

We look back with bewilderment at the ritual sacrifice of animals by our ancestors. Whether it was the Celtic people’s sacrifice of livestock to appease pissed-off deities or the Ancient Romans’ slaughter of oxen so that Jupiter might be more sparing with his stormy weather, it was all a bit mad. We would never be so superstitious, we tell ourselves. I’m not sure that’s true. Consider the proposed slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cattle in Europe in the holy name of Net Zero. This is the return of pagan lunacy, surely.

🔴 UKEZ camera taken down in half a day

Tools (documenting for science)
▪️ Cordless impact drill
▪️ 10mm socket (std bit holder)
▪️ TX30 bit (spline drive)

I love ❤️ the Blade Runners pic.twitter.com/9AN1wP41YO

— Anti WEF (@ANTlWEF) August 13, 2023

h/t Mauser

With the announcement of the draft Clean Electricity Regulations on Thursday, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has laid a trap at the feet of the federal Conservatives.

Why? Because the Conservatives are best-placed to get rid of these new rules.

The regulations are designed to push Canada toward a net-zero electricity grid — with a stick instead of a carrot. In 2035, they would ban carbon dioxide emissions over a certain level in electricity generation (with some flexibility permitted : carbon capture and storage could be used to mitigate net emissions, and the new standards would be phased in for older plants).

Europe’s climate-change policies are at risk of failure because its governments have ignored the costs they impose on voting blocs that urban elites don’t understand or have contempt for.

The perceptive newsletter EuroIntelligence, edited by former Financial Times columnist Wolfgang Münchau, says, “One of the mistakes policy analysts keep on repeating with growing enthusiasm is to view the world” from an urban perspective that ignores the interests of farmers, rural homeowners, and commuters.

Politicians, business leaders, bureaucrats and the media regularly discuss decarbonization and a rosy future where Canada is no longer a net contributor of emissions that are causing global climate change.

But too often, absent from that discussion is what we actually have to do to meet the federal government’s objective to be a net-zero nation by 2050, never mind the ambitious environmental targets that are quickly approaching in 2030.

I give the author credit for coming clean on the fact that the Green-Scam is not realistically attainable even though that was not his intention.

He harbours an unbridled enthusiam for what only a Stalinesque slave state would have the arrogance to attempt.

So much of our foreign aid is being used to keep the developing world down.

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s softening on Net Zero will have had many breathing a sigh of relief. This week, Sunak confirmed that oil and gas would still be produced in Britain for the foreseeable future, issuing 100 new drilling licences in the North Sea. This is good news for the UK, but a shift in thinking on climate policy could have huge ramifications for the developing world, too.

ONE of the best dystopian novels I have read recently is The Denial  by journalist Ross Clark. In it he describes a dark, damp, cold, miserable and oppressive future in which we all have individual ‘carbon budgets’ which restrict what we can buy, how much we can heat our homes and how far we can travel.

Last week’s heatwaves in southern Europe would have been “virtually impossible” without humans altering the climate, reports the BBC, quoting model-produced work rushed to press by World Weather Attribution (WWA). Humans caused the spell of Mediterranean summer heat to be 2.5°C higher, it was said. This latest study confirms what we knew before, says frequent BBC contributor and WWA founder Dr. Friederike Otto. More to the point, last week’s coverage of these heatwaves confirmed what we knew before – the BBC will pull out all the stops to promote weather fear in the cause of the collectivist Net Zero project.

h/t Mauser

Three cheers for the Irish farmers who’ve joined the revolt against Net Zero.

Should we kill all cows? Amazingly, it’s a question the green elites are asking. ‘Cow burps’, with their methane, contribute 14.5 per cent of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions. Cow dung releases ammonia, a nitrogen compound that damages natural habitats. From both their mouths and their behinds, cows cause pollution. So let’s cull them. Earlier this year, the Irish government proposed the slaughter of 200,000 cows to help it meet its climate targets. The Dutch government has flirted with the idea of reducing livestock numbers by 30 per cent to ‘reduce damaging ammonia pollution’. ‘Should we kill trillions of animals to save the planet?’, headlines ask.

The war on fossil fuels is far more dangerous than climate change.

In 2021, Jeremiah Thoronka was making a name for himself in clean-energy technology. The then 21-year-old Durham University masters student had invented a device that uses kinetic energy from traffic and pedestrians to generate electricity. It certainly sounded groundbreaking. In a pilot project in Thoronka’s native Sierra Leone, two devices had apparently provided free electricity to 150 households and 15 schools.