It’s schadenfreude time for the skeptics of so-called “green energies”, and humiliation time for green energy cheerleaders.
Not a single EU state is meeting its climate targets, a new analysis by CAN Europe finds.
It’s been close to three years since countries worldwide signed the Paris Agreement, which obligates nations to pledge to commit themselves to intend (or something like that) to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in order to “safeguard the planet’s future.”
The language of the Agreement is, in fact, non-binding, and so one wouldn’t be surprised to learn that some signatories might not be living up to the agreement’s spirit.
“Relevant hoax”… all EU states “off-target”
Well, here’s the real shocker: According to a new analysis by nongovernmental organization CAN Europe, all EU countries are missing the Paris Agreement targets, as assessed by CAN Europe.
So now it’s crystal clear: Europe was never really serious about implementing the Paris Agreement from the very start. It was nothing more than a New Year’s resolution which no one ever intended to stick to.
Little wonder ex-NASA GISS director James Hansen just told the Guardian: “…the relevant hoax today is perpetrated by those leaders claiming to be addressing the problem.”
Hansen is right.
CAN Europe: dismal results
The aim of the CAN Europe report was to examine “which EU Member States are willing to increase their climate action and tackle the gap between the goals of the Paris Agreement and current greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts in the EU.”
The final results? According to the CAN Europe:
23 of 28 countries rated “poor” or “very poor”
The chart on page 5 of the CAN Europe report shows us that a whopping 23 of 28 European countries are in fact performing poorly or even very poorly.
Source: CAN Europe.
The nongovernmental organization assessed the European countries according to a variety of factors, especially pro capita emissions and progress on expanding renewable energies. For example, leader Sweden met 77% of the CAN measures, while Poland met only 16%.
Overall, poor countries performed far worse. This could in part indicate that green energies are more a trend for the rich and snobby countries.
Germany embarrassed
Moreover, just days ago, Germany was forced to admit that it would fail to meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets by a broader margin than first believed — “an embarrassing admission for a government that wants to lead the charge on limiting climate change.”
Nine years without a reduction
Even more embarrassing: Germany, in reality, has not reduced its emissions in 9 years and there are no signs this trend will change any time soon!
In fact, since 2007 the USA alone has reduced its CO2 emissions by approximately 700 million metric tons annually, which is in the neighborhood of Germany’s total annual output!
Read more at No Tricks Zone
And just think how they reacted when Trump pulled America out of the Paris Accord that Obama the Traitor got America into the reaction from the liberal press and from the Eco-Nazis/Water Melons and the Europeans who have not met the goals of the Paris Accord
I must have psychic ability to see the future. I knew that European nations would be missing their goals under the Paris Treaty. However, I’m sure there are many thousands who also knew in advance. My psychic ability isn’t that good because I didn’t foresee so many nations missing their targets that badly.
There are two big ironies. The biggest is that the United States, after being made villain for not supporting the treaty, is the only one that reduced emissions. The second irony is that CAN, which was set up to see which nations could cut back emissions beyond their initial pledges, has been reduced to reporting on how badly each nation is doing.
Those who believe in the crisis of climate change have always said that if every nation met its commitments, there still would be an emissions gap between what was being done and the higher reductions that needed to be done. With these nations failing to make their goals, that gap is even wider.
So what does all of this mean? It means nothing for those who support climate change as an excuse to create new taxes. New taxes based on climate change are being implemented and this will continue regardless of countries not making their goals. As far those who want to use climate change to transfer the wealth of industrial nations to the developing nations, there will be no impact. However, that effort will not be successful for other reasons. Those who support climate change as a means to force de-industrialization will be impacted. Nations failing to meet emission targets are probably doing so because they refuse to cut back to the point that will cause de-industrialization.
How about those who have been dumb enough or indoctrinated to really believing in anthropological climate change. The answer is obvious. Shift to mitigation. Depending on what they are, some mitigation efforts might be beneficial to everyone. That certainly isn’t true of making energy more expensive.