{"id":264472,"date":"2023-06-29T12:27:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T10:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264472"},"modified":"2023-06-29T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T10:28:00","slug":"deben-throws-his-toys-out-of-the-pram-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=264472","title":{"rendered":"Deben Throws His Toys Out Of The Pram\u00a0Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Government backing for new oil and coal, airport expansion plans and slow progress on heat pumps show that the UK has lost its leadership on climate issues, a government watchdog warns.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Climate Change Committee (CCC) described government efforts to scale up climate action as “worryingly slow”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was “markedly” less confident than a year ago that the UK would reach its targets for cutting carbon emissions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government said it was committed to its climate targets.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Committee chairman Lord Deben, a former Conservative environment minister, was particularly critical of the government\u2019s policy on new coal and oil projects.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision to approve the UK\u2019s first new deep coal mine in 30 years in Cumbria last December was “total nonsense”, he told the BBC.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lord Deben was also damning about plans for a major new oilfield off the coast of Scotland. Approval for Rosebank, which could produce an estimated 300 million barrels of oil in its lifetime, is expected soon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“How can we ask countries in Africa not to develop oil?” Lord Deben said. “How can we ask other nations not to expand the fossil fuel production if we start doing it ourselves?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-66032607<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The buffoon Deben does not care a toss how much this costs the ordinary people of this country or how much damage his policies may cause. All the matters is his obsession with Net Zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what good has this \u201cleadership\u201d done so far?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The rest of he world has utterly ignored what we have been doing, and carried on as normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is past time that Deben and his fellow troughers at the CCC were put out to pasture, and the interests of the public given priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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