Brexit Sparks Worry About Fate of Global Climate Action – ‘Will harm international efforts to halt global warming’
Britain’s surprising vote to leave the European Union in a national referendum on Thursday sent a shock through global financial markets, and there is similar concern that the move will have profound implications for climate policy as well.
Clean energy investments, carbon markets and the Paris climate agreement weren’t a major part of the calculus when Britons went to the polls, but now environmentalists fear Britain’s contribution to global climate action may be compromised, with negative ramifications for global warming.
“It leaves me shocked, disappointed and extremely concerned about the future of environmental protections in the UK,” James Thornton, the chief executive of ClientEarth, a non-profit environmental law organization with offices in London, Brussels and Warsaw, said in a statement. “Many of the laws which my organization uses to ensure that nature and health are protected in Britain were drawn up with the UK’s agreement in Brussels. Now as the UK prepares to go it alone, we have no idea which laws will be retained.”
The UK’s former energy and climate change secretary Edward Davey went further, quoting the Bible in a tweet.
“Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing”
Brexit is also a repudiation of EU ‘global warming’ mandates – 69‰ saw ‘green movement’ as a ‘force for ill’
http://newbostonpost.com/2016/06/24/brexit-is-also-a-repudiation-of-eu-global-warming-mandates/
Brexit is also a repudiation of EU global warming mandates
BY MICHAEL BASTASCH | JUNE 24, 2016, 13:09 EDT
In this Friday, June 24, 2016 file photo, a remain supporter stops to talk to people as he walks around with his European flag across the street from the Houses of Parliament in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)When British voters chose to leave the European Union Thursday night, they weren’t just voting against Brussels’ immigration policies, they were also voting against Europe’s growing list of green mandates.
The EU’s allowance of millions of refugees and open borders policy did play a large role in the “Brexit” vote, but it was also a repudiation of global warming policies Brussels has imposed on the U.K.
“The decision by the British people to leave the European Union will have significant and long-term implications for energy and climate policies,” Dr. Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Forum, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Conservative pollster Lord Michael Ashcroft surveyed 12,369 Brits voting in Thursday’s referendum and found 69 percent of those who voted to leave the EU saw the “green movement” as a “force for ill.”
“By large majorities, voters who saw multiculturalism, feminism, the Green movement, globalisation and immigration as forces for good voted to remain in the EU; those who saw them as a force for ill voted by even larger majorities to leave,” Ashcroft wrote.
Britons have been struggling under high energy prices for years, in part due to rules passed down from EU bureaucrats. Environmentalists opposed leaving the EU for precisely this reason. The Brexit vote signals the U.K. is lurching right, and will likely reject heavy-handed climate policies.
“It is highly unlikely that the party-political green consensus that has existed in Parliament for the last 10 years will survive the seismic changes that are now unfolding after Britain’s Independence Day,” Peiser said.
Prime Minister David Cameronannounced his resignation after the vote, since he supported the staying in the EU. Cameron was one of the main forces behind the so-called “green consensus” in Parliament, which supported green energy subsidies and energy taxes to pay for them.
“The British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected,” Cameron said Friday. “The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered.”
Cameron’s government did begin tocut back subsidies
Will we see a climate skeptic as British Prime Minister?
Will we see a climate sceptic as British Prime Minister?
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The marvellous Brexit news and PM Cameron’s plan to resign leaves Boris Johnson as the “walk up” candidate to be the new P.M. Yet I wonder if Cameron holding the fort till October is to give the greatest chance for the party to find an ALT to Boris.
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UN boss: Brexit may mean rewriting Paris Agreement on climate change
A vote for Brexit in tomorrow’s UK referendum on EU membership (23 June) would mean that the COP21 agreement would have to be rewritten, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change said today (22 June) in Brussels.
Christiana Figueres, one of the architects of the historic deal struck last December to limit warming to no more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels, said the international pact, “would require recalibration”. It is currently in the process of ratification.
“From the point of view of the Paris Agreement, the UK is part of the EU and has put in its effort as part of the EU so anything that would change that would require a recalibration,” she said at a press conference.
“In principle, it is actually, historically, we say, as humankind, we are moving towards larger and larger tents of collaboration […] rather than in the opposite way.”…
‘Climate Change Activists Should Be Nervous About Brexit’
…How The Poor Suffer The Brunt Of Europe’s Obsession With ‘Global Warming’ – ‘They’ve dramatically raised electricity prices’
How The Poor Bear The Brunt Of Europe’s Obsession With Global Warming
“They’ve dramatically raised electricity prices.”
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European businesses make billions from free carbon quotas
European businesses make billions from free carbon quotas
http://junkscience.com/2016/03/european-businesses-make-billions-from-free-carbon-quotas/
The twisted world of climate rentseeking. From EurActiv:
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‘Profound Lifestyle Changes:’ Leaked Gov’t Docs Show What’s Really Behind The Global Warming Agenda
…Leaked document: Europe’s climate change goals ‘need profound lifestyle changes’ to occur
European countries should prepare for a far-reaching debate on the “profound lifestyle changes” required to limit climate change, according to a leaked European commission document.
The commission will tell foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday that a Europe-wide debate is needed on how to limit global warming to 1.5C, according to a staff working document for ministers seen by the Guardian.
It was written in response to last December’s Paris climate summit,which agreed a plan for cutting emissions to net zero after mid-century, and an intent to peg global warming to 1.5C.
Temperatures have already risen by 1C since pre-industrial times and slamming the brakes on climate change “is by no means an easy undertaking”, the document says.
“It will require exploring possibilities for realising ‘negative’ emissions as well as profound lifestyle changes of current generations.”…
UK Greenie George Monbiot’s Rewilding Soul – 3 Part critique of his views
http://www.shawnalli.com/monbiot-effect-series-part-3-of-3-george-monbiot-rewilding-soul.html…