Danielle Rowley, who has just been appointed shadow climate justice and green jobs minister, has demanded a ban on fracking. She will also meet climate change activists to formulate Labour policy.
It would appear that on being elected, politicians all lose all sense of reality.
The UK has 1.3 percent of global emissions and is one of only a handful of countries with legally-binding climate change policies.
Other countries are opening up coal-fired power plants whilst the UK relies on fickle wind and solar energy, plus nuclear.
Other countries are fracking for shale gas to drive their economies whilst Ms. Rowley wants to ban it.
Reducing UK emissions to net zero by 2050 will cost taxpayers £1 trillion – that is £1,000,000,000,000. As expected Downing Street rushed to squash this truthful figure and put a spin on it.
Instead of capitulating to the climate activists, Danielle Rowley should advise them, especially the impressionable children, of the following facts:
China is responsible for 30 percent of global emissions and will not reduce them until after 2030 – maybe.
India and Indonesia are increasing their coal consumption.
Queensland, Australia, has given permission to extract coal from an area the size of Britain.
The US is exporting coal and its largest customer is Europe followed by China.
Finally, Al Gore prophesied in 2006 that sea levels would rise by 20ft ‘in the near future.’ Ask the activists when the remaining 19 ft 11.7 in will happen?
Politicians are jumping on the climate change bandwagon regardless of the cost to taxpayers and the UK economy.
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The countries building coal-fired generators aren’t really getting away with anything. They’re doing what we did, build our economy and raise our standard of living.
When Brazil cut down their forests to grow crops on cleared land, they did what we did.
What’s really going on is the hypocritical rich western NIMBY’s are sapping our potential while claiming the moral high ground.
Carbon dioxide produced 12 time zones away is still global. China and India signing the Paris Climate Accord was an empty gesture. They gain at our expense.
And all based upon Junk Science,Politics and Eco-Stupidity like the ban on DDT and CBC’s along with Plastic Soda Straws