Corbyn’s Climate Emergency

By Paul Homewood

h/t Patsy Lacey/ Robin Guenier

And we think the Roman Empire was crazy!

From the Guardian:

Labour will this week force a vote in parliament to declare a national environmental and climate change emergency as confidential documents show the government has spent only a fraction of a £100m fund allocated in 2015 to support clean air projects.

Jeremy Corbyn’s party will demand on Wednesday that the country wakes up to the threat and acts with urgency to avoid more than 1.5°C of warming, which will require global emissions to fall by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching “net zero” before 2050

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/27/corbyn-declares-national-climate-emergency

Does the old duffer really believe that Britain’s emissions will make the slightest difference to the world’s climate? Or that China will follow suit, and commit economic suicide?

Meanwhile Silly Jilly reports in the Telegraph:

The Government faces spiralling climate change costs unless it accelerates plans to fund a new breed of carbon capture projects by the mid-2020s, according to MPs.

A select committee report warned that without carbon capture the cost of meeting the country’s legally-binding climate targets will double to 2pc of GDP by 2050.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/04/25/uk-must-kick-start-carbon-capture-risk-spiralling-climate-change/

Just read that last sentence again!

2% of GDP is about £40bn a year. Some of us have been warning about how the costs of the Climate Act would rocket in years to come, from the already obscene levels.

Yet I have never heard Claire Perry admit the true cost to the public.

Even if carbon capture can be made to work, costs will still be half of that 2%. (And given that the MPs don’t know how it can be made to work, they cannot possibly know its eventual cost).