IPCC Turns Into Green Energy Lobby

The world must invest $2.4 trillion in clean energy every year through 2035 and cut the use of coal-fired power to almost nothing by 2050 to slow the quickest pace of climate change since the end of the last ice age, according to scientists convened by the United Nations.  —Bloomberg, 8 October 2018

Today’s front pages of most UK newspapers ignore the new IPCC report, reflecting the declining concern of most Britons about the climate agenda – despite the habitual alarm. —Global Warming Policy Forum, 8 October 2018

The latest British Social Attitudes Survey reveals that only around a quarter of the public has major concerns over the impacts of global warming and that only a third think that humans are the main cause of climate change. The typical Briton is mildly concerned by climate change but believes that human and natural causes are equally important in understanding why the climate changes. This is in sharp contrast to green campaigners, politicians, and the broad “climate science” community, whose message of impending disaster is dominating the mainstream media. –Global Warming Policy Forum, 11 July 2018

One of Europe’s most influential business lobbies is trying to push the EU towards climate action standstill, after a leaked memo obtained by EURACTIV called the bloc’s existing 40% emissions reduction target “already ambitious”. The draft underlines that the EU’s existing emission reduction target of 40% is “already an ambitious one”. It is an opposite stand to the scientific consensus that says it is not far-reaching enough for the EU to meet its climate target as defined by the Paris Agreement. —EurActiv, 4 October 2018

The European Commission has given up plans to ramp up Europe’s 40% emissions reduction goal for 2030 to 45%, according to German media. NGO Germanwatch said the main reason for Cañete’s alleged backtrack was opposition from the German government. —EurActiv, 2 October 2018

China and India have never had any intention of reducing their dependence on coal, as they had both made abundantly clear in documents each country submitted before the Paris agreement, where China said it planned to double its CO2 emissions by 2030, and India that it would treble them.  –Christopher Booker, The Sunday Telegraph, 7 October 2018