By Andrew Stuttaford
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Those trying to justify the destructive policies of the
“race” to net zero like to stress the urgency and the depth of the climate
crisis/emergency. That’s a case that would have more credibility if those
promoting behaved as if they believed in that depth and that urgency. See DiCaprio and all the others.
Britain’s Conservative governments went quite some way
down the route to taking the country toward climate authoritarianism and green
ruin, and its Labour successor has picked up the pace, making this story from
the Daily Telegraph of some note:
The Government sent 470 delegates
on a 5,000-mile round trip to the Cop29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, it has
emerged.
The delegation, including seven
ministers, more than 100 civil servants and two official videographers prompted
allegations of net zero “hypocrisy” against the Government.
Zoom, anyone?
The UK registered 470 delegates
to the summit, according to figures reported by the Mail on Sunday, compared
with 405 from the US, 437 from Italy and 115 from France.
405 from the U.S. There’s a case for Messrs. Musk
and Ramaswamy to look at when they get going. Meanwhile, Javier Milei’s chainsaw has been to work:
Argentine delegates at the COP29
United Nations climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, have been ordered to
withdraw from negotiations and return home, according to a source at the
country’s foreign ministry.
The delegates took part in the
first two days of the summit, which began on Monday, but were ordered to
withdraw Wednesday by the ministry, the source told CNN en Español.
A group of delegates who were
scheduled to travel to Baku on Wednesday were also ordered not to travel, said
the source, who asked to remain anonymous as they were not authorized to speak
on the record about the matter.
But back to the Brits. To be fair, the country’s
delegation was not only from the government:
The British delegation was made
up of 354 government officials or ministers, with the remaining 116 including
representatives from British overseas territories and crown dependencies,
journalists, business figures and policy experts.
“Business figures.” Of course. Climate policy continues
to be a rentseekers’ dream.
And beyond the cost to hard-pressed taxpayers of this
futile jamboree, there was the wound this travel will inflict on our “boiling” planet:
The Mail on Sunday reported
that the British delegation was estimated to have tallied 2.3 million air miles
in total for return trips, with a total carbon footprint of at least 338 tons
of carbon dioxide.
A spokesman for the Government
insisted that “any carbon footprint” generated by the delegation “is dwarfed by
the carbon prize of delivering our agenda”.
Oh come on.
[Britain’s Prime Minister Keir
Starmer] used the summit to announce a new climate goal for the UK, which included reducing
emissions by 81 per cent on 1990 levels by 2035.
He insisted while in Baku that
reaching the new target would not involve his Government “telling people how to
live their lives”.
Oh come on.
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