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September 5, 2023 at 08:08AM

Wind and solar supply 5% of global energy, and Carbon Brief says they will be the “world’s top electricity source within three years.”

Renewables will be world’s top electricity source within three years, IEA data reveals – Carbon Brief

Primary energy consumption by source, World

Electricity production by source, World

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September 5, 2023 at 07:23AM

More climate gobbledygook from miserablists who want to impose their obsessive and negative ideas on everyone else, by insisting that tiny amounts of the essential trace gas CO2 are an enormous problem leading the world to their imaginary catastrophe.
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The emission reductions in the 11 high-income countries that have “decoupled” CO2 emissions from Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fall far short of the reductions that are necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C or even just to “well below 2°C” and comply with international fairness principles, as required by the Paris Agreement, according to a paper published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal.

Politicians and media have been celebrating recent decoupling achievements of high-income countries as “green growth” — claiming this could reconcile economic growth with climate targets, says Phys.org.

To investigate this claim, the new study compared carbon emission reductions in these countries with the reductions required under the Paris Agreement.

“There is nothing green about economic growth in high-income countries,” says lead author of the study, Jefim Vogel, from the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds, UK.

“It is a recipe for climate breakdown and further climate injustice. Calling such highly insufficient emission reductions ‘green growth’ is misleading, it is essentially greenwashing. For growth to be legitimately considered ‘green,’ it must be consistent with the climate targets and fairness principles of the Paris Agreement—but high-income countries have not achieved anything close to this, and are highly unlikely to achieve it in the future.”

“Continued economic growth in high-income countries is at odds with the twin goal of averting catastrophic climate breakdown and upholding fairness principles that protect development prospects in lower-income countries. In other words, further economic growth in high-income countries is harmful, dangerous, and unjust.”

The study identified 11 high-income countries that achieved “absolute decoupling” (defined as decreasing CO2 emissions alongside increasing GDP) between 2013 and 2019, which were Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

For each country, it compares “business-as-usual” future emission reduction rates to the “Paris-compliant” rates needed to comply with the country’s “fair-share” (or population-proportionate share) of the respective global carbon budget that must not be exceeded if we are to limit global warming to 1.5°C (the aspirational Paris target) or even just to 1.7°C (reflecting the lower-ambition Paris target of “well below 2°C”).

None of the high-income countries who have “decoupled” emissions from growth have achieved emission reductions anywhere near fast enough to be Paris-compliant.

At current rates, these countries would on average take over 200 years to get their emissions close to zero, and would emit more than 27 times their fair share of the global carbon budget for 1.5°C.

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September 5, 2023 at 05:36AM

By Paul Homewood

 

h/t Ian Magness

Apparently this is what the BBC call factual reporting!

 

 

 

Heat. Wildfires. Torrential rain. Typhoons and hurricanes. Much of the northern hemisphere has been battered by extreme weather this summer.

Not all these events can be immediately linked to climate change. It can take a while for scientists to untangle what exactly is going on – plus, the planet’s natural weather and climate systems are powerful and also affect the weather.

But in the past few weeks, significant meteorological records have been broken in quick succession, to the concern of climate change experts.

As the summer draws to a close, let’s look back at what on earth happened – and how it is connected to climate change.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-8f0357f9-9013-4567-8407-be938c8c70cf

The BBC must be getting really desperate now to sell its Net Zero agenda, which is increasingly turning off the public.

This article is the usual list of bad weather events, which could have been cherry picked from any year in the past. For each one, as we shall see, they accept that natural factors are at play, but then try to pin the blame on climate change anyway.

Hottest June Evah

They conveniently ignore the fact that  June 1846 was much hotter, not to mention 1676, 1822 and 1826.

Heatwaves In Europe

Heatwaves in the Mediterranean are not exactly new, and temperatures of 40C in Rome are hardly unheard of:

 

Wildfires in Greece

Forests are always tinder boxes in summer in Greece; but it takes a spark to start them, and most of this year’s fires were caused by arson, not climate change:

Meanwhile, the long term trend for wildfire acreage around the Mediterranean is clearly downwards.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/burnt-forest-area-in-five-4#tab-chart_5

Even this year’s burnt area in Greece is about a third lower than in 2007.

Confusing Computer Models With Actual Data

 

Typhoons

The BBC omitted to mention that global hurricane activity has been close to record lows during the last 12 months:

https://climatlas.com/tropical/

Maui Wildfires

 

Climate change MAY have contributed? Why even mention it then, if you don’t know, BBC?

The BBC are an utter disgrace for not acknowledging that Maui is always hot and dry in summer. Or the fact that the fire spread so quickly because of the unmanaged growth of savanna type grasses in recent years, which have invaded abandoned plantations.

Wildfires in Canada

No mention then that the long term trend in Canadian wildfires is actually down.

Nor that fires this year in the US are the lowest for more than a decade for the time of year.

Tropical Storm Hilary

 

Although it is rare for tropical storms to hit California, it is not unheard of, and has zero to do with climate change.

As for the hysterical nonsense about flooding, both the El Cordonazo in 1939, and Hurricane Kathleen in 1976, which both followed similar tracks to Hilary, dumped much more rain on Southern California.

Every year there are floods, heatwaves, droughts, hurricanes and wildfires. There is no evidence whatsoever that this year’s batch is any worse then before.

Which of course brings us back to the BBC’s real agenda:

 

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September 5, 2023 at 05:15AM