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Well, The UK is really driving down its CO2 emissions. Nothing to do with the reality that instead we import the goods we used to make. But at least that means its off our score card of CO2 so thats all right.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-china-will-keep-on-making-toasters-for-tesco-and-batteries-for-boots/
Wouldn’t it be nice though to be able to buy things not made in China, a country I increasingly view as Hostile.
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Rachel Reeves-The UK chancellor- claimed to have found a £22 Billion Black hole on taking office. As a result she stopped pensioners winter fuel allowance -total 2 Billion-and awarded that sum of money to very well paid bus drivers.
Now we can see where the 22 Billion has gone to, as Minibrain has earmarked it for carbon capture and storage
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/04/labour-commits-22bn-to-carbon-capture-and-storage-projects-in-move-that-unites-sceptics-and-alarmists-in-condemnation/
Those who pay attention know that last time round-some 20 years ago-carbon capture was the magic formula to remove our nasty CO2 emissions. It didn’t work then and it won’t work now as the Physics, the cost, the technology and the available space, do not add up.
Where do these idiots keep coming from?
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Sorry, Bus drivers should read train drivers.
I was once told by someone who converted from driving trains to buses when he moved somewhere with out a train service that driving a bus was far more difficult. Much more traffic, more potential problems, more traffic signals to cope with etc. The pay of a bus driver is little more than a third that of a train driver but the latter do have a powerful union.
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Brilliant comment by JXB in the page you linked:
if we have decarbonised by 2050, why do we need carbon capture?
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Nett zero is not decarbonization, just a return to the supposedly perfect world of say 2000 AD.
Decarbonization is the elimination of all life on earth. To save the planet and stop the oceans from boiling as at present. Carbon is evil, black. Carbon Dioxide is worse.
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Listing the most prevalent atoms in the universe and ignoring noble gases helium 24% and neon 1.34% you get
Hydrogen 73.9%
Oxygen 1.04%
Carbon 0.46%
And all of life is made from these three elements. Lucky, eh? Everything else is just rocks and gas.
The compounds are water, CO2 and carbohydrate and hydrocarbon. One of these is pure evil.
That’s modern Climate Science. So much for Rational Science.
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It’s what happens when you let politicians legislate on science. As nearly happened in Indiana in 1894 when the congress define pi to be 3.2, to make life easier for everyone.
CO2 is in equilibrium. Slight ocean surface warming produces slight increase in the equilibrium level. Sequestration is useless. NASA proved this with satellite obsevations between 1988 and 2014 when CO2 went up 14% and world tree cover also went up 14%.
England has a lot of licensed tree farms earning carbon credits. It’s all childish fantasy science. And the Universities say nothing. They are now billion dollar businesses dependent on foreign students and who really cares that it’s all nonsense. Australia has the same mad schemes and massive hidden charges inside the electricity bills. After all, we invented the idea in 2001.
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The link title says it all
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/04/pfizer-and-modernas-vaccine-ad-blitz-dodged-transparency-rules-by-failing-to-state-it-was-unlicensed-and-had-side-effects/
No doubt they will be heavily fined and our politicians will apologise for misleading us.
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