However, the “emissions” reductions the Government claims are a sleight of hand. They are only reporting their calculated “emissions” within the UK’s borders. All the Government has done is move the generation of “emissions” to other countries.
You can see the obvious problem for net zero zealots: atmospheric carbon dioxide, for example, doesn’t adhere to country borders. It doesn’t say, “Oh, I was emitted in China, so I’ll stay lurking over China.”
This is just the first of the problems with “emission accounting” that David Turver points out.
The UK government’s zeal to reduce emissions is not an environmental success story; it is a sorry tale of industrial destruction – jobs, investment and economic growth have been destroyed, tax revenue forgone and reliance on imported electricity increased – to make Ed Miliband and his acolytes feel and look good at United Nations climate change meetings.
The destruction of electricity generation capacity and the collapse of vital industries should be a source of shame, not celebration, he writes....<<<Read More>>>...
