Posted on 07/16/2022 1:39:20 AM PDT by Libloather
When European lawmakers voted last week to allow some gas and nuclear investments to be designated as green, the outcry was swift and forceful.
“This is a disastrous decision by the Parliament,” said Sebastien Godinot, a senior economist for the nonprofit Worldwide Fund for Nature’s European Policy Office. Although nuclear power produces no greenhouse gas emissions, it remains controversial in Europe due to concerns about safety and radioactive waste. Natural gas is a fossil fuel that produces both carbon emissions and air pollution when it’s burned, and also contributes to global warming when it leaks out of infrastructure like pipelines.
Now, nonprofit advocacy organizations like Greenpeace and ClientEarth - as well as the countries of Austria and Luxembourg - are vowing to overturn the decision through lawsuits filed with the European Court of Justice. The Worldwide Fund for Nature, or WWF - which announced just hours after the decision was released that it “will not rest” until the decision is reversed - is also considering a legal challenge, among other options.
“[W]e will fight this in the courts,” Ariadna Rodrigo, a sustainable finance campaigner for Greenpeace EU, said in a statement, adding that her group is “confident that the courts will strike down this politically motivated greenwashing as clearly in breach of EU law.”
Last week’s decision from the European Parliament was part of a drawn-out process to flesh out the EU’s Taxonomy Regulation - colloquially referred to as the “green taxonomy” - a classification system to signal to investors which kind of investments are considered sustainable within the context of the European Green Deal. Projects designated as green under the taxonomy could be eligible for a wider variety of public and private loans and grants, depending on the investor’s environmental criteria.
(Excerpt) Read more at grist.org ...
We really do live in clown world. Next they will be saying wind power is carbon based and causes climate change.
The Gaia worshipers will stop at nothing to destroy the modern economy and return us all to the stone ages.....well, that is after most of us starve to death thanks to their luddite ways. See Sri Lanka for details.
But that's a feature, not a bug.
Never forget that the whole "CO2 global warming" scam was invented by the neo-malthusian Club of Rome as a tool to force a drastic die-off of human populations. This is only the beginning. Ultimately, YOU are the carbon they want to reduce.
Meanwhile, trust the climate oligarchs to find private profit in public policy.
Maybe the euro trash can warm themselves up this winter by beating the crap out of these eco nazis and their lawyers.
“We really do live in clown world. Next they will be saying wind power is carbon based and causes climate change.”
If they did, it would be factually true.
These technologies (like others) require massive capital investment not truly market driven. When governments spend this kind of money, they are literally spending taxable labor of all goods and services of future generations. This means the only way to pay those future taxes is for a nation’s economy to produce that much more goods and services. Thus inherently means more energy burned/used to produce those goods and services.
Most today cannot grasp what this really means.
Then of course, the amount of raw material and energy taken to transport and manufacture these “alternative” technologies is far greater than most can remotely grasp.
So the segment about “wind power is carbon based”, ignite stopped there, would be absolutely correct.
On the left, there are wolves and sheep. The wolves have always known the entire purpose for the necessary generation long global AGW deception was always about achieving total control.
As well, they violently contradict themselves.
On the one hand they are claiming “we will all die” if we don’t forever turn over all political, economic, and societal authority.
Then they proclaim the earth’s population needs to be between 200 to 500 million people to save it.
In other words, not only are they really not afraid of AGW wiping out the population, this is precisely what they intend.
It’s the sheep who cannot connect all “2” of the dots.
“ignite stopped there” = “if it stopped there”
I understand all that. You understand all that. But clown world would argue the wind itself is carbon based...and thus causes climate change. And since carbon is in the atmosphere...they are also right.
The point is leftists cherry pick any data point that argues their point and then turns it into propaganda to manipulate the masses.
To be fair. All the birds and bats windmills kill releases a lot of carbon into the atmosphere.
the usual from “climate” zealots at Grist. check the boy who wrote this piece:
Joseph Winters - Grist
https://grist.org/author/joseph-winters/page/26/
Brandon is seething I’m sure. Imagine them defying him and his disastrous green policy.
It’s time for the Green New Deal advocates to face reality. There are some simple realities that are undisputable. These include:
1) It is impossible with available technology to store wind and solar energy in enough quantities to provide a continuous overnight supply, much less, a continuous annual supply. There are also no plans to invent and then build such technology.
2) There are not enough copper and other rare earth materials in the world to provide the electricity and distribution systems in sufficient quantities to replace all present fossil fuel supplies. There are also no plans to find and then process these materials, which would take decades to complete.
3) There is no known technology to fly large airplanes such as airliners and cargo aircraft without the use of fossil fuel.
4) The only known energy supply that might even dent parts of these facts is nuclear energy. The fact that Green New Deal advocates don’t even consider it simply proves they are not facing reality.
It occurs to me progs have provided us a solution to the problems of
Overpopulation
Energy shortage
Famine
Crime
Tyrany
Carbon Dioxide in atmosphere.
If we would just start burning progs alive
The population would decrease
Be fuel for power generation
Rid the world of useless eaters thus
leaving more food available
Stop all amoral crime
Remove all known forms of tyrany
Reduce exhaled co2 added to atmosphere.
( just spit balling mind you /-)
Counter sue them. Time to fight fire with fire.
Maybe they should cut off all gas and electricity from the the Greeniacs private jets and mansions to “save the planet”.
George Orwell was a prophet!
They are going to have to kill some of these leftists who are overwhelming the system.
saying wind power is carbon based and causes climate change.
= = =
I contend that wind power does cause climate change.
It interrupts the wind flow volume and direction. That will change the climate in that area. How much, we don’t know yet.
“Next they will be saying wind power is carbon based and causes climate change.”
Well, it is. The blades are made of carbon fiber.
What happens to all that carbon once the blades are buried someplace?
And the fact that wind turbines extract energy from the atmosphere that has to have some effect on climate.
“In other words, not only are they really not afraid of AGW wiping out the population, this is precisely what they intend.”
There actually is a “voluntary extinction movement”.
I hope they practice what they preach and set a good example.
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