Posted on 10/10/2018 8:27:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The UK’s obligations in response to this week’s warnings from the UN over global warming will be controversial and politically fraught, taking the country into “uncharted territory” and testing the political consensus on climate change, the its top climate adviser has warned.
The government will have to regulate industry and intervene in the market in ways that will prove controversial in parliament, predicted Chris Stark, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCCP).
He said reducing emissions by the amounts needed would “require answers that the market unfettered will not deliver”.
Stark said the independence of the CCCP, which sets out a “straitjacket” of five-year carbon budgets that require policy targets years beyond the current parliament, was at the core of its mission. If a government wishes to challenge the targets, it must seek judicial review, a step no administration has taken in 10 years of the act.
But Stark warned of risks to the prevailing cross-party political consensus on climate change in the UK that could make setting policy on the issue harder than it has been on the past. “There was a degree of consensus on climate change in 2008 [when the Climate Change Act was passed],” he said. “The consensus is still there but the excitement that was there 10 years ago is not there now.”
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If you shut the World down for 5 years it will fix everything ,LOL
How appropriate.
CCCP = USSR.
Here come the fascists...
It's hard to have a “consensus” it has to be about something that isn't bull$hit!
The only thing that keeps all this Climate Change crap alive is the prospect of two things: 1) More government control of people's lives by the elites who don't expect it to impact their lives 2) More tax money from those same unwilling suckers.
So it’s make Great Briton Shi**y Again?-)
I wouldn’t say it was uncharted. The USSR made plenty of charts.
What could possibly go wrong?
These fools have learned nothing from the 20th century. State ownership of the means of production, hmm...now where have I heard that one before?
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