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Blair says current net zero policies 'doomed to fail'
BBC ^ | April 29 | BBC

Posted on 04/29/2025 1:22:32 PM PDT by RandFan

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This is strange. Blair is a true believer and a global elitist so what is going on? Anyone?
1 posted on 04/29/2025 1:22:32 PM PDT by RandFan
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He now has a ‘Sir’ in front of his name.............


2 posted on 04/29/2025 1:23:33 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Someone, anyone, please tell our new WEF stalwart Prime Minister Mark Carney that Net Zero is full of folly.


3 posted on 04/29/2025 1:28:12 PM PDT by HardyCanuck (Press Gangs)
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Oh yes another true believer


4 posted on 04/29/2025 1:32:58 PM PDT by RandFan
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Blair may be the boy yelling that the Emperor has no clothes.


5 posted on 04/29/2025 1:34:36 PM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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The timing is odd. For decades, renewable energy (RE) simply hasn’t made economic sense, and government promotion of RE only led to dead-end technology stealing market share for the sort of niche applications that should support developing RE technology (Such as providing electricity to areas that are remote from the power grid.)

Now, solar power costs have finally dropped so low that solar power is economically feasible without government support (noting that coal would be cheaper without government obstruction). And EVs allow for at least some huge portion of vehicles to operate feasibly on RE. (Now that RE is economically competitive, that electricity EVs are using actually *is* funding RE, not coal.) And as we continue to use RE from plants that have already been built, their carbon footprint is plunging.

So what gives? He could be standing up to China, which has used dumping practices to drive the USA out of the market. Or maybe just the opposite: now that the USA will be moving back into the market, he sees no reason to coddle the Chinese? Or dear God, could he simply be thinking independently?


6 posted on 04/29/2025 1:36:18 PM PDT by dangus
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Net Zero is counter-productive, as is every Leftist notion.

All plant life on earth THRIVES MOST at elevated CO2 levels. Every greenhouse on earth elevates their CO2 levels to stimulate growth and photosynthesis. The Ideal Range for virtually every species is between 750 and 1500ppm CO2. We are at 422, and growing at less than 2/yr... and the Left wants to end, or reverse, that trend TOWARDS the Ideal Range for all plant life. They don't want more trees or flowers or crops or natural grasses... while pretending that it somehow "saves the planet".

(And by the way, elevated CO2 levels have no negative impact on mammals until around the 5500ppm level... we won't be there for another 2800 years. The earth has maxed out at 7000ppm twice that we know of, back in the Eras that I cannot spell... Pleistocene? and Ordovician?)

7 posted on 04/29/2025 1:37:05 PM PDT by Teacher317
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Uh, non existent item. At least on mother erf


8 posted on 04/29/2025 1:42:39 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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That’s curious. Why just yesterday, Spain achieved net-zero, albeit quite suddenly!


9 posted on 04/29/2025 1:42:39 PM PDT by pingman ("Step right up! Get your free helicopter ride, courtesy of Pinochet Air!")
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IMHO, Blair wants to be seen as being on the right side and the enlightened side of things. That he says it’s time to tone down the net zero warmageddon baloney may be a sign that the elites know that their cause has petered out and been exposed for the fraud that it is. It’s similar to how some Dims in the U.S. like to say that the transgender madness doesn’t make sense — they’re saying it after the fad is over.


10 posted on 04/29/2025 1:51:19 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Well....duh.

There is no such thing as “net zero”. It doesn’t exist. Just warm and fuzzy language.


11 posted on 04/29/2025 1:53:57 PM PDT by Hoboto (I blame Hippies.)
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Strange how nobody ever mentions the vast amount of emissions that have been eliminated now that a great percentage of business travel has become virtual.


12 posted on 04/29/2025 1:55:01 PM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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Though most people will accept that climate change is a reality caused by human activity,...

Not this people.

13 posted on 04/29/2025 1:57:52 PM PDT by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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You cannot “decarbonise “ as we are the carbon!

BTW Tony Blair is the Bill Clinton of England. He takes bribes from anyone. He is saying this about energy because the mideast countries with oil are paying him.


14 posted on 04/29/2025 2:02:05 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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BullShit. Manmade climate change is not widely accepted. The earth has had the climate changing as a sine wave and it’s not man-made. One volcanic eruption is far more than what man creates for decades. Scientist need to find out to which planet common sense escaped to and return it ASAP.


15 posted on 04/29/2025 2:23:14 PM PDT by Mlheureux
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Net Zero is a Fantasy and would never ever work


16 posted on 04/29/2025 2:46:18 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Much like Biden at the debate. They all knew the truth but wouldn’t acknowledge it until forced. In this case the Spain blackout.


17 posted on 04/29/2025 3:21:56 PM PDT by 3RIVRS
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Its not just doomed to fail.
Its failed already not just in the UK, in Germany, Spain etc too.


18 posted on 04/29/2025 5:18:09 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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This is strange. Blair is a true believer and a global elitist so what is going on? Anyone?>>> Not sure but my dad’s cousins while growing up in ballyshannon, ire (he is a relative by marriage) used to call him bunny. (ears)


19 posted on 04/29/2025 7:52:22 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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You can’t plug batteries into an AC grid.


20 posted on 04/29/2025 7:53:36 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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