Thanks Captain Obvious! Reuters Admits Pursuit of ‘Net Zero’ Emissions ‘Resounding Failure’

NewsBusters ^ | 3/3/2025 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

Wow, who knew that setting insane and arbitrary emission goals to “net zero” would be an exercise in utter futility, eh Reuters?

The climate-obsessed Reuters had somewhat of a red-pill moment in a February 28 item when it admitted that the “pursuit of net zero carbon emissions has been a resounding failure.” For an outlet that once advocated for the Nobel Peace Prize to be doled out to juvenile eco-delinquent Greta Thunberg, this must have been a hard pill to swallow.

Reuters conceded that “[d]espite trillions of dollars spent on renewable energy, hydrocarbons still account for over 80%, opens new tab of the world’s primary energy and a similar share of recent increases in energy consumption, according to The Energy Institute.” Coal, oil and natural gas production, reported Reuters, “are at record highs.”

Good for Reuters to come around to the obvious, er, finally. But the meaningless nature of such economy-crippling standards was already circulating in the ether long before Reuters did its about-face. As Climate Depot founder Marc Morano told MRC Business in June 2024, “Net zero in the climate agenda is really nothing short of Soviet-style central planning. Every sector of our economy is subject to long range planning to meet net zero goals.”

Even by leftist standards, net zero emissions was already speculated to achieve next to nothing. Then-Secretary of State under President Barack Obama John Kerry conceded in 2015 during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21): “If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions – remember what I just said, all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions – it wouldn’t be enough.”

[butlerweave]

Net zero has to be stupidest idea in the history of mankind to try on a Carbon Based Planet ,LOL

[BobL]

“Net zero has to be stupidest idea in the history of mankind to try on a Carbon Based Planet ,LOL”

It served its purpose - collapsed Europe economically and enabled China to pass us economically.

Hard to call it a failure, at least from Democrat perspective.

[boxlunch]

If the no longer get their USAID checks for propaganda, I guess the motivation to lie kind of goes down.

[GOPJ]

The environmental scam was never anything beyond stealing taxpayer dollars and playing democrat's useful idiots and their butt boys in the press - - for fools.

[minnesota_bound]

I watch the tv show: “This Old House” and they have a series of episodes as they are building a home talking about net zero then go on building with steel, aluminum, wood, concrete, asphalt, copper, plastics, glass, fiberglass, solar cells with it’s heavy metal materials. Using heavy equipment to dig the foundation and power tools that are using batteries. All tools needing oil, gas, nuclear power from the power company to charge them up.

I remember some guy who lived on an island in a harbor in the area who was going on and on about having solar panels that cost thousands and a windmill that cost thousands and was not turning at the time and as backup he had a diesel generator and a large bank of batteries that could power all of 10 hours. He did not say how much that cost.

Just a ballpark estimate put the cost at over $50,000.
Cheaper to run an electric line out from shore.