{"id":322913,"date":"2024-04-25T14:57:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=322913"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T12:58:02","slug":"backpedalling-now-net-zero-is-an-unhelpful-slogan-says-uk-climate-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=322913","title":{"rendered":"Backpedalling: Now \u201cNet Zero\u201d is an unhelpful slogan says UK Climate watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From JoNova <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term \u201cNet Zero\u201d has become a dirty word<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a win. The climate wars will rage on, but the Net Zero<\/em> spell isn\u2019t working any more, so they will have to find a newer one without such a smell. The sacred propaganda term that was going to save all life on Earth until five minutes ago is more than just a worn out advertising slogan, the skeptics campaign against it has made it a toxic term. Like ESG<\/em>, it\u2019s become a liability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people know \u201cNet Zero\u201d is not just a fluffy footprint on a forest, but an attack on their wallet and their lifestyle. It\u2019s a great credit to GWPF and NetZeroWatch in the UK for turning this phrase back against the infinitely well funded financial-house-and-government-alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Net zero has become unhelpful slogan, says outgoing head of UK climate watchdog<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/em> (of the ruling class)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept of \u201cnet zero\u201d has become a political slogan used to start a \u201cdangerous\u201d culture war over the climate, and may be better dropped, the outgoing head of the UK\u2019s climate watchdog has warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNet zero has definitely become a slogan that I feel occasionally is now unhelpful, because it\u2019s so associated with the campaigns against it,\u201d he said. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t something I expected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politicians on all sides are now wary of associating themselves with the term, he said, which was inhibiting progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scare stories worked. Look at the backpedaling on meat and flying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tackling the climate crisis has been presented as a massive change<\/a>, but Stark was at pains to point out that it would not be. \u201cThe world that we\u2019ll have in 2050 is extremely similar to the one we have now. We will still be flying, we\u2019ll still be eating meat, we will still be warming our homes, just heating them differently,\u201d he said. \u201cThe lifestyle change that goes with this is not enormous at all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now they are trying to tell us it will be easy to change the weather?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is part of the big backdown we\u2019ve seen in so many theatres. First ESG became a dirty word,<\/a>\u00a0now \u201cNet Zero\u201d is too. Money is fleeing from \u201csustainable investments\u201d. EV\u2019s are on the nose. It\u2019s the end of an era that started (as best as I can tell) around 2015 and the Paris agreement and has been hammered for the last five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But make no mistake, the freeloading barnacles of bureaucracy and banking will transmogrify, and they will hide their intent a little more carefully. In Australia, after the Carbon Tax<\/em> became a dirty term (when Tony Abbott won in a landslide) the tax returned under many guises, but it was never called a Carbon Tax again. Among many names, it became The SafeGuard Mechanism<\/em>, where an emissions trading scheme was legislated unbenownst to nearly everyone. Now they want to impose a fossil fuel tax<\/a>. They are barely hiding it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After years of failure at UN junkets to set up international emission trading schemes, which also got themselves a bad name, the EU has set up a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism<\/a>. These carbon tariffs will take money from foreign countries to make their own emissions trading scheme workable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And just like all the other taxes, the media sycophants tell us we will \u201cprosper\u201d with\u00a0an international carbon price<\/a>. (Just as soon as we figure out how to smelt steel with solar panels.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s a win. The climate wars will rage on, but the\u00a0Net Zero\u00a0spell isn\u2019t working any more, so they will have to find a newer one without such a smell. The sacred propaganda term that was going to save all life on Earth until five minutes ago is more than just a worn out advertising slogan, the skeptics campaign against it has made it a toxic term. Like\u00a0ESG, it\u2019s become a liability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":322919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691820184,691819743,691818666,691818154,691828343],"class_list":{"0":"post-322913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-carbon-tax","9":"tag-climate-propaganda","10":"tag-evs-2","11":"tag-net-zero","12":"tag-uk-climate-watchdog","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/59-591017_pc-duvar-katlar-hd-yeni-love-pink-tjn-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1068&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1m0h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":256464,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=256464","url_meta":{"origin":322913,"position":0},"title":"Beware 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