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Oxfam says governments and companies are "hiding behind unreliable, unproven and unrealistic carbon removal schemes" in order to hit targets.
Global attempts are being made to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
But the charity claims net zero targets are often a "greenwashing exercise".

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Danny Sriskandarajah, chief executive of charity's UK branch, said companies and governments are using the "smokescreen" of net zero to continue "dirty, business-as-usual activities".
"A prime example of the doublethink we are seeing is the oil and gas sector trying to justify its ongoing extraction of fossil fuels by promising unrealistic carbon removal schemes that require ludicrous amounts of land," he told the BBC.
Well obviously. Instead of reducing output they just plant more trees...
 
The state of this article the gulf stream currents are at the lowest for at least 1600 years, man a live they cant predict tomorrows weather with such certainty, terrible, let alone invent a time machine to go back a measure the currents accurately.

You do realise making predictions is totally different to measuring something that has actually happened?
 
The state of this article the gulf stream currents are at the lowest for at least 1600 years, man a live they cant predict tomorrows weather with such certainty, terrible, let alone invent a time machine to go back a measure the currents accurately.

Here's another one from 2018 saying the same thing.. almost the same article.
 
Will be interesting to see what the push is with climate change. I do think there might be a push to try to prevent the working class from taking trips abroad. Whilst this may be beneficial I just can't look past the stat that the top 100 companies for CO2 create 71% of the overall output. Ultimately that will include normal people buying fuel etc off them but surely those companies (and countries like China) need to be the main focus.
 
Will be interesting to see what the push is with climate change. I do think there might be a push to try to prevent the working class from taking trips abroad. Whilst this may be beneficial I just can't look past the stat that the top 100 companies for CO2 create 71% of the overall output. Ultimately that will include normal people buying fuel etc off them but surely those companies (and countries like China) need to be the main focus.
A government that was telling people to get back to commuting on the day the report came out? I doubt it mate. This government will be too busy trying to make £ exploiting the fact the world's going to ratdoo.

Greenwash is all we'll get, and the likes of being told not to rinse a plate before using the dishwasher.

There's been a big propaganda push against ruminant agriculture, based on Poore's hatchet stat's, and it's been very effective
In an article about millions of tons of greenhouse gases being emitted from uncapped US oil wells (daily iirc), we get this from ITV:
"Livestock farming is one massive producer of methane. But so is drilling for oil and gas."
It wasn't even about agriculture at all.

Ruminants on pasture sequester carbon, and form part of the natural carbon cycle of around 10-12 years. It's a red herring, what we need to do is keep what's in the ground where it is, but how do we do that when we systemically bank on growth?
It's more likely that the World's industrial infrastructure goes for a Burton via natural processes in response to the warming.
 
Will be interesting to see what the push is with climate change. I do think there might be a push to try to prevent the working class from taking trips abroad. Whilst this may be beneficial I just can't look past the stat that the top 100 companies for CO2 create 71% of the overall output. Ultimately that will include normal people buying fuel etc off them but surely those companies (and countries like China) need to be the main focus.
People moving around countries is far too important for economys around the world for them to try and stop. Any way carbon neutral jet engines and fuel are not far off, prototypes are already operational but a few years off being used on commercial airlines.
 
Greenhouse gas emissions


UK spending far more on polluting policies than green ones, says WWF​

Just £145m of budget went on environment with £40bn spent on emissions-increasing measures, says charity


Only £145m in the March 2021 budget was devoted to environmental spending, most of it on the post-Brexit emissions trading scheme for industry, according to an analysis by the conservation charity WWF.
 
With the IPCC admitting they got it wrong by not including the carbon cycle in its methodology, I look forward to vegans, the media and highly processed food corporations admitting that grass fed ruminants can have a close to zero or negative (regenerative) carbon footprint.

Just in case you're wondering "wtf does he keep going on about beef FFS?".
Well, we only eat beef maybe twice a year, and never have milk or dairy products because of our daughter's severe allergies. It's their niche in the ecosystem and the essential natural fertility they create. It's irreplaceable.
 
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