Booker On The BP Energy Review

By Paul Homewood

Booker covers the BP Energy Review today:

Christopher Booker

One of the more disturbing features of our time is the yawning gulf between the way some of the most serious issues of the day are generally discussed and reported, and the real story behind them, which too often just gets buried from view. Here I update on two familiar examples.

The first concerns our old friend carbon dioxide. It might seem wonderfully ironic that we are now being told that pubs, breweries and our food industry are facing a serious shortage of the CO2 they rely on for much of what they do, such as putting bubbles in their drinks. The more usual picture we are given of CO2 is that it is a deadly polluting gas that we need to get rid of because it threatens the future of the planet.

Far from cutting their emissions in 2017, the EU and the rest of the world, led by China and India, have been increasing their CO2 output, as if Paris had never happened

President Trump is thus vilified for deciding to pull the US out of the Paris accord, by which all the world had supposedly agreed to make unprecedented cuts in its “carbon emissions”. But the real story is revealed by BP’s latest Statistical Review of World Energy. Far from cutting their emissions in 2017, the EU and the rest of the world, led by China and India, have been increasing their CO2 output, as if Paris had never happened.

The one country that has significantly reduced its emissions is the US itself, thanks to its continuing switch from coal to cheaper shale gas. It was precisely because Mr Trump recognised that China, India and the rest had no intention of reducing their emissions that he denounced Paris as just an empty, virtue-signalling charade. He thus, finally, called the bluff of the entire global warming scare story, and these latest figures merely confirm how right he was. But where else have you seen this reported?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/23/co2-brexit-yawning-divide-told-truth/

As Booker points out, this news has hardly been headline stuff amongst the MSM. Certainly as far as the BBC is concerned, their Energy News page does not mention the BP Energy Review at all, (see here).

And a quick google of “BP Energy Review 2018” links to BP, me and a few other expert sites.