By Paul Homewood
h/t Dennis Ambler, who has been joining up the dots:
In a letter sent to Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom this week, ahead of Parliament’s dissolution for the December general election, EAC chair Mary Creagh MP summarised the key findings of the Committee’s inquiry into the creation of a net-zero Government.
The letter recommends that the Government sets a 2030 net-zero target for its operations and estate, bolstered by mandatory carbon literacy training for all staff and the alignment with all procurement decisions with net-zero emissions.
The Government notably spends around £49bn annually on contracts for goods and services, with Defra having last week admitted in a report that just one of the cloud hosting firms it uses is currently providing “accurate” emissions data.
A 2030 target, Creagh wrote, would “set a real example in changing behaviour across business and society as a whole”.
In the letter, Creagh highlighted some of the Government’s successes and failures in decarbonising its own operations and estate since the implementation of the original 2008 Climate Change Act.
The key failures mentioned by enquiry participants, Creagh stated, were a “backlog” in maintenance work and insufficient funding. The letter tells of how the EAC believes that a “substantial” estate management backlog, including £6bn in the NHS estate and almost £1bn in the prison estate, is slowing down investment in decarbonisation.
Creagh concluded the letter, also sent to former Environment Secretary Michael Gove, by writing: “I trust that you or your successor will set out a road map to align the wider government with net-zero emissions before 2050, and will write to our successor Committee outlining your intended actions.”
In a statement to press, she added: “Our future must not be left to chance.
“While the net-zero government inquiry remains incomplete, our climate emergency makes this an area that the EAC may well wish to return to in future.”
Those who gave evidence during the inquiry include Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng, members of the IGov Energy Policy Group, members of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research & Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation, Lord Lee of Trafford and members of The Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education.
Mandatory carbon literacy training? Sounds like re-education camps to me!
Of course, all of this nonsense will cost taxpayers money, lots of it. Shouldn’t they be asked whether they want to pay for this green virtue signalling, when there are so many other urgent priorities?
Still, I look forward to MPs and civil servants no longer flying to their junkets, or turning all of their lights off when the wind stops blowing. Heating, of course, won’t be a problem, as there will be plenty of hot air around!
The article also notes that evidence was given by the wildly alarmist Tyndall Centre, who we are well familiar with, and another outfit called the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation. The Tyndall Centre says about the latter:
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a founding partner in a new £5 million research centre that will explore how we as a society can live differently to achieve the rapid and far-reaching emissions cuts required to address climate change.
Led by Cardiff University, the Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) is a collaboration between UEA, Manchester and York Universities, and charity Climate Outreach. It will work closely with industry, local and national governments, and charities to tackle climate change.
The centre is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and will establish a programme of social science research that places people at the heart of the transformations needed to bring about a more sustainable, very low-carbon society. The funding secured will enable a long-term programme of research lasting up to 15 years, bringing together global research expertise from across the UK and internationally.
It will focus on four challenging areas of everyday life that contribute substantially to climate change, but which have proven stubbornly resistant to change: the consumption of goods and physical products; food and diet; travel; and heating/cooling in buildings.
The UEA team is drawn from its Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the School of Environmental Sciences and the Norwich Business School. Led by Prof Andy Jordan, its work will examine how politicians, businesses and the public can lead the necessary transformations by mobilising the science, political and practice communities across society.
Prof Jordan said: “So far, emission cuts have mostly been achieved by decarbonising electricity supply. But if we’re going to tackle demand, and particularly in high-impact but challenging areas like food, transport, heating, and material consumption, we can’t do this by technological change alone. We can only do this by transforming the way we live our lives, challenging norms, and reconfiguring organisations and cities.”
https://tyndall.ac.uk/news/new-%C2%A35-million-climate-change-social-science-research-centre
This has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with propaganda and engineering changes in society.
They note that one of the collaborators in this new project is the charity, Climate Outreach, who themselves are purely a propaganda outfit:
https://climateoutreach.org/our-staff-and-trustees/
One of Climate Outreach’s founders and a Director is George Marshall, a long time environmental campaigner.
Its Advisory Board includes Ed Maibach of George Mason University in Virginia, another notorious propaganda institution.
Maibach, you may recall, was at the heart of the letter to Obama a few years ago, organised by the disgraced Jagadish Shukla, which asked the President to launch a RICO investigation into climate sceptics.
Climate Outreach has the usual links to the likes of Greenpeace, WWF and FOE. It also shares the same incestual relationship with the major left wing foundations as most other climate change charities do, notably the European Climate Foundation, which was set up to channel billions from largely American far left charities.
So we have a taxpayer funded money-go-round, all designed to “persuade” us to change the way we live and justify public policy changes which act to the detriment of all of us.
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