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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Neil Lock<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the second in a set of essays about the issue generally known as \u201cclimate change\u201d or \u201cglobal warming.\u201d In the first, [[1]<\/a>], I looked for evidence to support the claims of catastrophic climate change, caused by emissions of carbon dioxide gas (CO2<\/sub>) from human civilization, which have been and are being made so frequently and so stridently by green activists and alarmists. I found no such evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I embarked on the writing of this second essay, my target was to pull together, all in one place, the full back-story to these accusations. I started to document, in some detail, how the United Nations, governments, mainstream media and others have joined together in a project, whose objective appears to be no less than the destruction of our human industrial civilization. But the tale grew in the telling. After several weeks of work, I realized I had far too much material to be able to tell the story all in one go. I therefore determined to split the back-story into more digestible chunks. That in itself was quite a task!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am presenting this back-story with a particular focus on climate policies in the UK. In my researches, I have made some amazing<\/em>, and unsettling, discoveries about how dishonestly the UK government has treated us. But I\u2019m sure that those in other countries will be able to find parallels from their own experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ended up with a revised plan, which required splitting the back-story into four parts. So, there will now be five essays in the set, not two as I originally planned. In this, the second, I\u2019ll give you a feel for how badly the UK government has been treating us on this issue over the last few years. In the third, I will trace the back-story up to the Rio \u201cEarth Summit\u201d of 1992. The fourth will cover the back-story from 1992 onwards, with the exception of the thorny issue of cost-benefit analysis, which I will discuss in the fifth and final essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2019: a year of madness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To summarize the UK government\u2019s handling of the \u201cclimate change\u201d issue in recent years, I chose to pick a relevant date in the recent past, and to begin my account from that date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The date I chose was April 30th<\/sup>, 2019. That day marked the start of a huge wave of UK government activity, all directed towards killing the mobility, freedoms and prosperity of ordinary people in the name of some claimed (but, in reality, non-existent) climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Extinction Rebellion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On that day, April 30th<\/sup>, 2019, minister Michael Gove met with Extinction Rebellion (XR). There is a video of the meeting, here: [[2]<\/a>]. I only watched a small part of it. But, particularly in the light of subsequent destructive actions by XR, the chumminess of this meeting is very concerning. And they got to see Labour politicians, and the mayor of London, on the same visit! The Guardian commented on the meeting here: [[3]<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later in the year, south-east England\u2019s anti-terrorist police included Extinction Rebellion in a list of \u201cextremist\u201d organizations. Though they were eventually forced to withdraw this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cClimate emergency\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On May 1st<\/sup>, the day following that meeting, the parliament declared a \u201cclimate emergency.\u201d Without any hard evidence that any such emergency existed, and without even taking a vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is typical of how today\u2019s political classes operate. They bring up some problem, which may or may not be real. They blow it up until they have made it look like a really big issue, that needs to be \u201cfixed.\u201d They then \u201cfix\u201d it by making bad laws, which seriously infringe on basic human rights. Climate is not the only case in point; just recently, the UK political class has done exactly the same thing on the issue of asylum seekers arriving by boat across the English Channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, as I showed in the first essay of this set, there is no \u201cclimate crisis\u201d or \u201cclimate emergency\u201d in the real world. The \u201cemergency\u201d or \u201ccrisis\u201d of May 1st<\/sup>, 2019 only existed in the minds of those seeking to use climate as an excuse to make bad laws and hurt people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, on May 2nd<\/sup>, Sky News published the results of a poll [[4]<\/a>] of a random sample of their subscribers. 56% said they would be unwilling to drive significantly less to protect the environment. And 53% said they would be unwilling even in principle to significantly reduce the amount they fly. Clearly, the politicians had lost the plot, and were completely out of touch with the people they were supposed to be serving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNet zero\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In June 2019, the government put forward, and the parliament passed, a bill to set \u201ca target for at least a 100% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (compared to 1990 levels) in the UK by 2050.\u201d (At least<\/em> 100%? Maybe more<\/em>? Crazy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This target, called \u201cnet zero,\u201d replaced an earlier target of an 80% cut from 1990 levels. An official government web page describes this, indeed, all but crows about it: [[5]<\/a>]. This was at least the fourth time since 1992 that the UK government had moved the emissions goalposts. Always in the direction of greater reductions, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The CCC Net Zero report<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The report which supposedly \u201cjustified\u201d this, called \u201cNet Zero: The UK\u2019s contribution to stopping global warming,\u201d came from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). This committee was chaired by John Selwyn Gummer, also known as Lord Deben. The CCC is supposed to be an independent and impartial advisory body. But in my view, it\u2019s about as impartial as Extinction Rebellion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find the report at [[6]<\/a>]. But I don\u2019t advise you to read it, unless you\u2019re a masochist. I tried to read several different bits, and on each occasion had to give up in less than a page. It reads like nothing more than a gigantic exercise in virtue signalling, and I can\u2019t understand why any sane person could believe anything in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All I gleaned from it is that they reckoned the cost of \u201cnet zero\u201d measures might be 1-2% of UK GDP in 2050. But, as we know, government projects always cost more and take longer. So, I think one to two pinches of salt are in order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UK Climate Assembly<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Parliamentary select committees also initiated a scheme of \u201ccitizens\u2019 climate assemblies,\u201d one of the demands put forward by Extinction Rebellion. It\u2019s amazing, and very concerning, that in a so-called \u201cdemocracy,\u201d those who are supposed to serve the people kow-towed to disruptive extremists, but never even bothered to ask us the people what we thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result was a \u201cUK Climate Assembly,\u201d which eventually produced a report in 2020. I\u2019ll discuss that report in the next section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Absolute Zero<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In November 2019, a joint report called \u201cAbsolute Zero\u201d was published by five UK universities, using the collective moniker \u201cUK FIRES.\u201d For a summary, see [[7]<\/a>]. The purpose of this report seems to have been to soften people up for the de-carbonization of Western economies, which national and international political \u00e9lites want to force on us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After just a single pass through the diagram summarizing the proposals, I could see that the whole idea was a dystopian nightmare. The proposals read like the edicts of a crazed, ultra-conservative dictator. And they made Soviet five-year plans look like a cake-walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The general election of 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In a sense, the UK general election of December 2019 didn\u2019t change anything, because it kept the Tories in power. One issue completely dominated that election: Brexit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myself, I was well aware that an awful lot was wrong with what the Tories had been doing to us. But I regarded Brexit, and in particular getting away from the European Court of Justice (ECJ), as a sine qua non<\/em> for any kind of improvement. I had gone so far as to become a member of the Brexit party. I had been agitating as hard as I could for the party to commit to getting \u201cnet zero\u201d and the rest of the green agenda reviewed by outside, independent auditors; but they weren\u2019t yet ready to do that. Despite this, and despite having been a conscientious non-voter in UK elections for 32 years, I was ready to vote for my local Brexit candidate. But when Nigel Farage withdrew all the candidates in Tory held seats, he was one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tory manifesto proposed \u201cthe most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth.\u201d \u201cWe will lead the global fight against climate change.\u201d And a lot more crap like that. Even if their candidate had not been Jeremy Hunt, I could never have voted for the party. So, I returned to my conscientious non-voting. But many people, who just wanted Brexit done and didn\u2019t care a damn about the green agenda, were fooled into voting for that agenda by the Tories\u2019 promise to \u201cget Brexit done.\u201d The Tories had offered people a carrot with a huge turd on it. And far too many people took the bait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2020-21: no let-up in the madness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You might have thought that, with COVID-19 exploding on to the world scene, and people being all but confined to their homes for weeks or months at a time, there might have been some let-up in the mad rush towards the green cliff. But not so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Extinction Rebellion dig up a lawn<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If anyone still needed to be reminded that Extinction Rebellion are destructive and extremist, an event in February 2020 provided such a reminder. XR dug up a famous lawn at Trinity College, Cambridge: [[8]<\/a>]. The lawn is famous, because it backs on to the staircase where Isaac Newton used to live, and has an apple tree (but not the one that prompted him to think about gravity). Oh, and Trinity was\u00a0my<\/em>\u00a0college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The UK Climate Assembly report<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The UK Climate Assembly produced a report in September 2020. A summary is here: [[9]<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The assembly \u201casked citizens to listen to advice from climate experts,\u201d before setting them to make \u201ca list of recommendations for how the country should reach net-zero emissions by 2050.\u201d The first \u201cexpert lead\u201d was Chris Stark, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change, which has been driving the \u201cclimate change\u201d agenda in the UK since 2008. A second was Professor Jim Watson, the chair of the \u201cUK Net Zero Advisory Group.\u201d And a third was the director of the \u201cCentre for Climate Change and Social Transformations\u201d: [[10]<\/a>]. Not exactly independent or unbiased experts, then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The assembly\u2019s final report \u201crecommends changes across a broad range of sectors, from meat-and-dairy consumption and air travel through to zero-carbon heating and electricity generation. Measures receiving high levels of support from the assembly include: a levy for frequent fliers; a ban on the sale of petrol, diesel and hybrid cars by 2030-35; and a switch to a more biodiversity-focused farming system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a travesty of \u201cdemocracy\u201d and \u201cconsulting the people!\u201d Obviously, with such biased \u201cexperts,\u201d there was no possibility of the assembly members ever being told the truth, or allowed to express their reservations. And anyone who thought \u201cnet zero\u201d was unnecessary or counter-productive must surely have been purged from the assembly even before it began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Ten Point Plan<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In November 2020, the government published their Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution<\/em> [[11]<\/a>]. The phrase \u201cgreen industrial revolution\u201d was lifted by the Tories straight out of Labour\u2019s 2019 manifesto! I set out my own views on these matters here: [[12]<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose this plan was a little less extreme than \u201cAbsolute Zero.\u201d But of the ten points, only one (expansion of nuclear power) seems to me to be clearly a sensible path to take. Some parts of another (better flood defences, and planting more trees) would likely produce some benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest, I find highly dubious. (Much) more off-shore wind power? It didn\u2019t succeed last time it was tried, and the costs look to be far greater than has ever been admitted. Low carbon hydrogen? A costly and dangerous pipe-dream. Electric vehicles replacing fossil-fuelled ones? Impractical for many; unaffordable for most; and the scale of the electricity grid expansion needed was grossly under-estimated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public transport, cycling and walking? Impractical for very many journeys. In particular, you can\u2019t use public transport that isn\u2019t there at all, or doesn\u2019t run when you need it. You can\u2019t cycle easily in hilly areas. And you can\u2019t walk on a journey if you have a big load to carry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJet zero\u201d and green ships? Another pipe-dream. Greener buildings? Very expensive, and extremely disruptive (though they have since walked back the proposal to ban new gas boilers in pre-existing homes). Carbon capture? Unproven, and horribly expensive. Green finance? The only beneficiaries will be politicians, financiers and big-company bosses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In summary, these \u201cnet zero\u201d proposals were and are, in no particular order: Not properly costed. Not properly thought through. The benefits are unsure. Pie in the sky. Very expensive. Seriously reducing, or even destroying, freedom and mobility for many ordinary people. Disruptive and potentially dangerous. Likely to raise the costs of travel and of trade. Requiring huge investments of money that people don\u2019t have, in order to bring about a lower standard of living than we have now. Already been tried and failed in one country or another. Requiring huge tax rises. All but certain to tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the costs will fall on, guess who? Ordinary people. What will we get in return? We will suffer unnecessary disruptions. We will lose freedom and convenience. We\u2019ll be poorer. Our lives will be worse, not better. And we will get little, if anything, of any positive utility to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides which, where are the feasibility studies for each of these proposals? And where are the objective cost versus benefit analyses? I\u2019m willing to bet they haven\u2019t been done at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COP 26<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Then there was the UN \u201cConference of the Parties\u201d meeting in Glasgow in November 2021. Its stated purpose was: \u201cto accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.\u201d And its theme statement was: \u201cuniting the world to tackle climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I wrote at the time: \u201cLike bidders at an auction at which they are spending other people\u2019s money, politicians fall over each other to make commitment after commitment on behalf of the people they are supposed to (but fail to) represent. These commitments, they must know, if carried out will cause severe pain and inconvenience to very many ordinary people. And those people have never even been consulted on the matter. But drunk with their sense of power, they plan to go on regardless; for it\u2019s our<\/em> money they are spending, not their own. And we<\/em> are the ones who are and will be suffering the pain and inconvenience, not them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an example of some of the crap spouted by the UK government in Glasgow, consider a commitment made by then education secretary Nadhim Zahawi. \u201cYoung people will be empowered to take action on the environment as part of new measures designed to put climate change at the heart of education.\u201d This is on an official government web page: [[13]<\/a>]. If that isn\u2019t indoctrinating young children with propaganda, I don\u2019t know what is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the results from Glasgow were not entirely catastrophic for those of us who are implacably opposed to the green agenda in all its forms. There were some high-profile non-appearances. Putin stayed at home in Russia. Xi, likewise, stayed home in China. Modi went home to India, having announced plans that will surely disappoint the extremist agitators. And remember, China and India between them account for 36% of the world\u2019s population. There did seem to be a sense that the green leviathan had, at last, encountered a certain degree of resistance from a few countries that had worked out that it isn\u2019t in their interests to stay on that bandwagon much longer. That\u2019s encouraging, but not nearly enough yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The war on our cars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But the great bulk of the actions that UK governments, both national and local, have been taking on the green agenda in recent years, have been those directed towards their long-planned objective of forcing ordinary people out of our cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sham \u201cconsultation\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In July 2021, the UK government held a \u201cconsultation\u201d on \u201cbringing forward the end to the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans from 2040 to 2035, or earlier if a faster transition appears feasible.\u201d I myself submitted a 58-page, detailed response. My response, and the responses of others like me, to that \u201cconsultation\u201d were totally ignored. And the ban was moved forward to 2030. The whole \u201cconsultation\u201d was a sham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, this subject has been in the news again, as the EU, pressured by the Germans, have started to back away from their own similar commitment, which was only due to come into force in 2035 anyway. I expect the pig-headed UK government to bury their snouts in the sand on this one, and stay on their course to civilizational suicide. Indeed, prime minister Rishi Sunak announced, just recently, that car makers will have to ensure that 22 per cent of the vehicles they sell in the UK are all-electric by 2024: [[14]<\/a>]. That\u2019s\u00a0next year<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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C40<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of the organizations which has been driving the green agenda, particularly in London, is C40: [[15]<\/a>]. C40 is an international organization, which describes itself as \u201cA global network of mayors taking urgent action to confront the climate crisis and create a future where everyone can thrive.\u201d C40\u2019s mission, so they say, \u201cis to halve the emissions of its member cities within a decade, while improving equity, building resilience, and creating the conditions for everyone, everywhere to thrive.\u201d Moreover: \u201cC40 member cities earn their membership through action. C40\u2019s most distinguishing feature is that it operates on performance-based requirements, not membership fees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And every year, they hold a world mayors\u2019 summit, at which they gather and gab about forcing us to reduce our emissions, for example by making us walk or cycle instead of driving our cars. But not many of them actually walk or cycle from their homes to and from the mayors\u2019 summit, do they? What a bunch of hypocrites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C40 has, so its website says, been in existence since 2005. I retched when I found out the name of its founder: \u201cRed Ken\u201d Livingstone, former mayor of London. But in retrospect, I found it hardly surprising, since I already knew the identity of its chair, the current mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. Put Boris Johnson in between them, and you have three extremist green stooges in a row as mayors of London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The London ULEZ expansion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Which brings me to the London Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ). This was originally planned by Boris Johnson, but introduced by Sadiq Khan in April 2019. More proof that the two main UK political parties are both hives of green zealotry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t resist a bit of a plug for my own work, even in a different field (air pollution). In 2017, I published some social cost calculations on air pollution from cars in the UK, together with a lot of background and back-story on the issue. You can find that paper here: [[16]<\/a>]. My conclusion was: \u201cThere is no case, on social cost grounds, for such charges on Euro 5 diesels (2010 to 2014) or on any petrol cars. For all these cars, the excess of the social cost of the pollution they emit, compared to a new (Euro 6) car of the same type, is \u00a325 a year or less. Two entry fees to the London ULEZ would cover the social cost of this pollution for a whole year. To levy such outrageous charges on drivers of these cars is unreasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ULEZ was, from the start, a money-grubber for Sadiq Khan and Transport for London. As well as being a way to impose what are in effect fines on car drivers. An independent 2021 study showed that any improvement it might have made in air quality was only marginal: [<\/a>[17]<\/a>]. More recently, even the \u201cscience\u201d that, allegedly, shows that significant damage is caused to Londoners\u2019 health by air pollution from cars, is being increasingly questioned. Yet, Sadiq Khan has planned to extend the ULEZ throughout all the London boroughs from August 2023. We hear he has already bought cameras to enforce it: [[18]<\/a>]. And it looks as if the police will have access to those cameras, too: [[19]<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this time, Khan isn\u2019t having things all his own way. Four outer London local councils, together with Surrey County Council, are challenging the ULEZ expansion in court:\u00a0[<\/a>[20]<\/a>]. We shall see what the High Court will have to say. Khan himself has started to get more than a little rattled and emotional, as this video shows:\u00a0[<\/a>[21]<\/a>]. And Gareth Bacon, MP for Orpington in outer London, has highlighted that the ULEZ extension isn\u2019t about improving air quality, but about raking in money. If Khan is not stopped, we will be seeing\u00a0gilets jaunes<\/em>, or worse, on the streets of outer London. In fact, the movement is already starting:\u00a0[<\/a>[22]<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cSmart Road User Charging\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But harassed London drivers \u2013 and, in time, the rest of us \u2013 will soon be under further attack from a slightly different angle. There\u2019s been a recent \u201cconsultation\u201d on \u201csmart road user charging\u201d in London: [[23]<\/a>]. According to the consultation document, this is meant to \u201caddress the triple challenges of toxic air pollution, the climate emergency and traffic congestion.\u201d The consultation period in this case was remarkably short, only just over a month. Suspicious? This does appear to be still in the relatively early stages of discussion, and I won\u2019t say more until I see the detailed proposals. But given how fast our enemies like to move, it could be with us sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UK national road charging<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Then there is the matter of a national road charging system. A report from 2022 is here: [[24]<\/a>]. One proposed option, which seems to be favoured by many of those involved, is \u201ca road pricing mechanism that uses telematic technology to charge drivers according to distance driven, factoring in vehicle type and congestion.\u201d Does this mean, as the word \u201ctelematic\u201d would seem to imply, tracking in detail every single car journey made anywhere in the UK? And does it mean charging so much for journeys made by petrol and diesel cars, that those who can\u2019t afford to buy electric cars won\u2019t be able to afford private mobility at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest I have been able to find on this is at [[25]<\/a>]. It includes a copy of a letter from Jeremy Hunt, chancellor of the exchequer \u2013 \u201cChief Thief,\u201d in my parlance. Hunt states \u201cthe government does not currently have plans to consider road pricing.\u201d But I know Hunt. He is, after all, \u201cmy\u201d MP, and far worse than useless as a \u201crepresentative,\u201d because he is hostile to virtually everything I stand for, including honesty. So, I read that statement as \u201cwe aren\u2019t considering it, because we decided long ago to make it happen, and we\u2019ve already started implementing it.\u201d Expect this issue to rear its head again, sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oxford traffic filters and \u201c15-minute cities\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But right now, \u201cground zero\u201d in the fight for our rights and freedoms against draconian green policies is the city of Oxford. In November 2022, Oxfordshire County Council decided on a plan to install traffic filters in six key locations around Oxford. There is a description of the proposals here: [[26]<\/a>]. The filters \u201care intended to reduce traffic levels in Oxford by targeting unnecessary journeys by cars.\u201d Who are these arrogant sods, that they claim a right to decide that someone else\u2019s journey is \u201cunnecessary?\u201d Or a right to \u201ctarget\u201d anyone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residents in Oxford will be able to get a permit to go through the filters on 100 days a year, and residents in Oxfordshire but outside Oxford city on 25 days a year. The web page says nothing at all about how much these permits will cost, or how the rules might be changed in the future. Those snapped going through the filters without a permit will be fined \u00a370. Like Sadiq Khan, I think, those favouring the filters have their eyes on the money, as well as on hurting people they don\u2019t approve of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a \u201cconsultation\u201d period in September and October 2022. Local people have told me that the vote was over 90 per cent against the introduction of the filters. But Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council dispute this figure: [<\/a>[27]<\/a>]. What the councils say there suggests that there was no question in the questionnaire, to enable respondents to say how strongly they agreed or disagreed with the scheme! If so, that\u2019s bad questionnaire design. Or, perhaps, the questionnaire was designed to avoid a result the councils didn\u2019t want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, the data they give implies that, of the 6,190 comments they counted from 4,814 respondents, 4,213 (68%) were against the scheme, 656 (11%) were for it, and 1,321 (21%) were against it unless and until public transport was significantly improved. That looks like between 68% and 89% against the scheme. Still a very significant majority against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet Oxford residents were told, just after the consultation ended, that the scheme will be going ahead anyway: [[28]<\/a>]. So much for any pretence of \u201cdemocracy!\u201d Moreover, when a public debate was held on the issue in early March, the councillors responsible for the scheme were invited to attend and speak, but did not bother to do so. Only one Oxfordshire councillor turned up. And he was from Witney, 12 miles away from Oxford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closely related to the traffic filters is the \u201c15-minute city\u201d project, which seems to be a project of Oxford City Council rather than the county council. It\u2019s hard to find an unbiased view of what this is all about \u2013 google \u201cOxford 15-minute city\u201d and virtually all the links you get will be views from extreme greens, accusing those opposing the idea of being \u201cright-wing conspiracy theorists,\u201d \u201cflat earthers\u201d or spreaders of \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question this raises in my mind, though, is why the hell councils are making \u201clocal plans\u201d for us, without us having ever had the chance to scrutinize them or object to them? I don\u2019t want my life planned by some bunch of bureaucrats. The only person entitled to plan my life is\u00a0me<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK 100<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUK 100\u201d is an organization, about which I only found out a few months ago. It describes itself as \u201ca network of local leaders who have pledged to lead a rapid transition to Net Zero with Clean Air in their communities ahead of the government\u2019s legal target.\u201d This looks like the UK equivalent of the C40 global network of city mayors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their membership page [[29]<\/a>] begins: \u201cAs local leaders across the UK, we recognize our responsibility to tackle the climate emergency and take bold action toward Net Zero.\u201d The About page says: \u201cUK100\u2019s primary purpose is to support a local-led rapid transition to Net Zero and Clean Air. We do this through collaboration. To accelerate action, we believe in bringing together the most influential leaders across the country to learn together and agree on priorities for legislative and regulatory change while empowering them to engage with national decision-makers. We provide our network with the knowledge, tools and connections to make this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the list of members (I counted 108), it seems that this is not an organization of mayors, or of individual politicians, but of councils. It includes councils at both the county and district levels, sometimes overlapping. Many of the expected suspects, that have been taken over by green extremists, are there: Bath and North East Somerset, Birmingham, Brighton, Cambridge (and Cambridgeshire, too), Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, 11 London boroughs plus Westminster, Oxford (and Oxfordshire).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That Oxford and Oxfordshire are both in the list, suggests that UK 100 may well be the force behind the goings-on over the proposed Oxford \u201c15-minute city\u201d and traffic filters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are 13 county councils in the list, including the county in which I live (Surrey). That there are this many, suggests that the extremists do not intend to stop when they have reduced all the UK\u2019s cities to the status of unfit for human beings to live in. It looks as if they plan to carry on extending their mad, bad schemes to towns, to suburbs, to villages, and eventually out into the countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cebr report<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Now, a small piece of good news. In October 2022, a report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) analysed the costs and benefits of the 2030 ban on sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles on the UK. You can down-load this report via [[30]<\/a>]. As far as I am aware, it was the first attempt by professional economists in the UK to do an unbiased, objective cost-benefit analysis on any part of the green agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The take-home message of the Cebr report is that \u201cthe benefits to UK households of implementing the fossil fuel vehicle sale bans are far outweighed by the costs.\u201d The costs of the bans to ordinary people in the UK, as calculated using the government\u2019s own cost-benefit methodology, will be more than five times the \u201cbenefits\u201d from the savings in carbon dioxide emissions and pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond this, they revealed that the number the UK government uses to calculate the benefits of reducing CO2<\/sub> emissions by a tonne (\u00a3255.40) is more than five times the sterling equivalent of the US government\u2019s published value of the \u201csocial cost of carbon\u201d per tonne (\u00a348.54). I repeated Cebr\u2019s calculation of the costs versus benefits, using the US government number rather than the UK. My conclusion was that the costs exceeded the \u201cbenefits\u201d by a factor of more than 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To their credit, the Sun<\/em> did report this at the time: [[31]<\/a>]. But it made no difference whatsoever to the government\u2019s position. The final report of their \u201creview of net zero\u201d [[32]<\/a>] merely says: \u201cIt is not a cost-benefit analysis but a first step in understanding trade-offs over a 30-year economic transition.\u201d In other words, they\u2019re going to do the \u201cnet zero\u201d crap to us anyway, and stuff how much it costs or hurts the plebs. How much more dishonest can you get?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rampant hypocrisy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout this saga, on top of their thinly veiled arrogance and pervasive dishonesty, you can see the astonishing hypocrisy of many \u201cnet zero\u201d promoters. They want to force draconian and damaging restrictions on how ordinary people live, while themselves enjoying their jet-setting, limo-riding lifestyles, many of them at taxpayer expense!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, for example, the then Prince Charles, a major promoter of the World Economic Forum\u2019s \u201cGreat Reset,\u201d travelled to Cambridge to give a speech about cutting aircraft emissions. He made the journey by helicopter! [[33]<\/a>]. He could be the king of bloody England for all I care. But this incident shows him up for what he is: a prat and a hypocrite, unable or unwilling to practise what he preaches. Charlie Chump, as I call him, should have walked or cycled on that journey, as he wants to force us to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the politicians are just as bad. In the middle of the CoP 26 gabfest in 2021, prime minister Boris Johnson flew from Glasgow to London by private plane, for no better reason than a dinner engagement: [[34]<\/a>]. Alok Sharma, minister responsible for hosting the CoP 26 conference, at the time ran two diesel SUVs: [[35]<\/a>]. And more recently, prime minister Rishi Sunak has made a habit of using Royal Air Force planes to get to his engagements: [[36]<\/a>].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you really want people to believe any of your \u201cnett zero\u201d nonsense, you wallies, you must\u00a0live<\/em>\u00a0nett zero, and be seen to do so. Hypocrisy in government, or indeed\u00a0any<\/em>\u00a0dishonesty towards the people government is supposed to be serving, ought to be a dismissal offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To sum up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the last four years alone, the UK government has been, again and again, tyrannical and dishonest on the \u201cclimate change\u201d issue towards the people it is supposed to serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has fraternized with extremists like Extinction Rebellion. It has declared a \u201cclimate emergency,\u201d without any hard evidence of such an emergency, and without the parliament even taking a vote. It has mandated emissions reductions that, if informed in advance of their likely consequences, we would have rebelled against. It has moved the emissions goalposts, always in the direction of greater reductions. It has erected a supposedly democratic \u201cassembly,\u201d and made it nothing more than a rubber stamp for a pre-determined agenda. It is seeking to make it all but impossible for those, who cannot afford to buy electric cars, to retain their personal mobility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has laid down, and is implementing, policies which go very seriously against the interests of the people it is supposed to be serving. The effects will be disruptive, and will severely and negatively impact our freedoms and our prosperity. And it is doing these things to us without proper feasibility study, or proper analysis of the costs and benefits or of the risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the occasions where it has allowed us an apparent say in the matter, it has ignored our views. It has conspired \u2013 yes, I do mean that word \u2013 with international parties to develop and promote an agenda hostile to us, the human beings it is supposed to serve; something that no democracy should ever do. It has encouraged extremists to force that agenda on to us at the local level as well as the national. It is indoctrinating young children with lies and scares. And in all these things, it has behaved with arrogance, dishonesty and hypocrisy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We, the people, want all this climate crap stopped. Now. And we want our money back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>[[1]] https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2023\/03\/15\/climate-crisis-what-climate-crisis-part-one-the-evidence\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[2]] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EMGqP5rP8v8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[3]] https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/apr\/30\/extinction-rebellion-tells-politicians-to-declare-emergency<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[4]] https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/majority-of-brits-unwilling-to-cut-back-to-fight-climate-change-poll-finds-11709486<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[5]] https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/uk-becomes-first-major-economy-to-pass-net-zero-emissions-law<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[6]] https:\/\/www.theccc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Net-Zero-The-UKs-contribution-to-stopping-global-warming.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[7]] https:\/\/ukfires.org\/absolute-zero\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[8]] https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-cambridgeshire-51534446<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[9]] https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/qa-how-the-climate-assembly-says-the-uk-should-reach-net-zero\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[10]] https:\/\/cast.ac.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[11]] https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-ten-point-plan-for-a-green-industrial-revolution<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[12]] https:\/\/libertarianism.uk\/2021\/01\/24\/green-industrial-revolution-or-great-leap-backward\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[13]] https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/education-secretary-puts-climate-change-at-the-heart-of-education\u20132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[14]] https:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/money\/cars\/article-11923751\/So-switch-electric-car-need-know.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[15]] https:\/\/www.c40.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[16]] https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2017\/08\/11\/the-social-costs-of-air-pollution-from-cars-in-the-uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[17]] https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/londons-ultra-low-emission-zone-resulting-in-only-marginal-air-quality-improvements-12469903<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[18]] https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11849453\/Sadiq-Khans-plans-London-cars-crackdown-blocked-legal-challenge.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[19]] https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2023\/03\/19\/sadiq-khans-new-ulez-cameras-could-used-met-police\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[20]] https:\/\/www.hillingdon.gov.uk\/article\/10672\/Councils-challenge-ULEZ-expansion-decision-in-the-courts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[21]] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=10GvN5VrTck<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[22]] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=twGjux08IMg<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[23]] https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-02\/Road%20User%20Charging%20-%20Call%20for%20Evidence%20_0.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[24]] https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/publications\/8754\/documents\/88692\/default\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[25]] https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/publications\/34225\/documents\/188339\/default\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[26]] https:\/\/www.oxfordshire.gov.uk\/residents\/roads-and-transport\/connecting-oxfordshire\/traffic-filters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[27]] https:\/\/news.oxfordshire.gov.uk\/joint-statement-from-oxfordshire-county-council-and-oxford-city-council-on-oxfords-traffic-filters\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[28]] https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/23079671.anger-travel-chief-announces-traffic-filters-going-happen-definitely-ahead-decision\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[29]] https:\/\/www.uk100.org\/UK100membership<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[30]] https:\/\/fairfueluk.com\/CEBR-2030-BAN\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[31]] https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/money\/20066387\/banning-sale-petrol-diesel-cars-costs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[32]] https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/1026725\/NZR_-_Final_Report_-_Published_version.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[33]] https:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/news\/cambridge-news\/prince-charles-flew-368-miles-17688702<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[34]] https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/nov\/03\/johnson-takes-private-jet-from-cop26-to-london-to-attend-dinner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>[[35]] https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10160271\/COP26-president-Alok-Sharma-two-gas-guzzling-diesel-Volvo-SUVs-parked-outside-Berkshire-home.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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