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UK Government consulting on a Carbon Border ‘adjustment’ …
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/consultation-on-the-introduction-of-a-uk-carbon-border-adjustment-mechanism
Not covered by the BBC in its coverage of today’s Budget, which raises taxes by £40,000 million.
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“Detail of outcome
“On 21 March 2024, the previous government published a consultation entitled ‘Introduction of a UK carbon border adjustment mechanism from January 2027’. The consultation ran for 12 weeks and received over 340 responses from a variety of domestic and international stakeholders, including from UK and overseas industry, trade associations, importers, think tanks and academics. The consultation set out proposals for the design and administration of the UK carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). A full summary of responses and the government response is available here.
“The government response confirms that a UK CBAM will be introduced on 1 January 2027. The UK CBAM will place a carbon price on some of the most emissions intensive industrial goods imported to the UK from the aluminium, cement, fertiliser, hydrogen and iron & steel sectors that are at risk of carbon leakage. Products from the glass and ceramics sectors will not be in scope of the UK CBAM from 2027. The sectoral scope of the UK CBAM will be kept under review beyond 2027.”
My bold – I guess prices will, necessarily, rise.
China – possibly – may be unhappy.
Also the US if Trump wins and cuts the green nonsense … and anyway Sir Starmer may be in DJT’s bad books over his folk canvassing for Kamala . . .
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It’s extraordinary that no one has proven a connection between fossil fuel CO2 and atmospheric CO2 beyond mild coincidence and yet the government cash grab never stops. And no one has proven that growing trees reduces CO2, and yet there are hundreds of tree UK farms at public expense to reduce atmospheric CO2.
NASA even announced a 26 years satellite study which showed that tree coverage have expanded massively world wide without reducing CO2, but still the religious belief in controlling CO2 not least by growing trees is enshrined in legislation and the cash grab continues. And there are half a million massive windmills to dwarf the equally inexplicable Easter Island Statues.
Now we have inter government trade based CO2 taxes, levies, charges, certificates. The myth and business of man controlled CO2 and CO2 controlled weather is booming. None of this is science. The parable of Chicken Little is the only explanation. And who is Foxy Loxy? China and the UN?
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Thanks TdeF. A green tick is all I need to add to that.
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Was COVID just a cover up for the damage of vaping? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8719436/
Then some non-vapers all hopped up on fear found they caught a bad flu, worse than what they had ever had…. but it was just the flu, really.
Myopic COVID responses meant that the health system was not looking for anything else happening at the same time.
Seems every UK high street these days is just charity stores, vape shops and Turkish barbers. What is even in these vapes? – I don’t imagine the nicotine is distilled from tobacco plants / other nightshades. I have seen a place where they were making and bottling vape fluids – certainly not a sterile environment, looked like there were lots of bottles of (poorly stored, outdoors) chemicals involved, seemed to be a lot of linseed oil.
Big pharma happy to seize the opportunity to run cover for big tobacco? (who are, ultimately, behind the whole vaping thing)
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The title link is self explanatory
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/29/my-warning-to-australia-on-the-cancer-risks-of-covid-vaccines-did-not-go-unheeded/
Seems to be lots of action on the covid front at present.
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This is an interesting one
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/29/other-countries-are-taking-the-health-risks-of-5g-and-wireless-radiation-seriously-why-isnt-the-u-k/
Having done some research on the subject myself in preparation for a possible article-I would not like to say with certainty one way or another as to whether modern day smartphones and 5G towers are safe or unsafe. Which is why I didn’t write the article.
We certainly need to take more care until we know one way or the other but seem to be ploughing on regardless with numerous 5G towers in order to enable the smartphones.
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https://www.wearenotsam.com/evidence – the body of evidence does raise significant concerns. We were told to “trust” epidemiologists during COVID, why not on this one?
“Phones are tested on a plastic dummy that has no reproductive organs. Thousands of studies unequivocally show that current levels of microwave radiation from phones and other wireless devices can cause sterility. Your cell phone can send a microwave radiating handshake to the tower 900 times a minute. Nobody should accept that handshake.” – Dr Devra Davis, Epidemiologist and President of the Environmental Health Trust.
– Vaping and mobile radiation are both on the increase, yet declining health outcomes are all attributed to COVID. Or to the vaccines.
There is a lot happening all at once – none of it seems good though
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The comments above by TdeF and Ted rightly highlight the fact that human origin CO2 does not accumulate in the atmosphere to any significant extent.
This means that Human Origin CO2 does not remain in the air “forever” as is claimed by Global Warming proponents.
Pushing deeper into the real science we can clearly see that the there is no system or mechanism by which any atmospheric CO2 can “heat” the atmosphere.
Even Arrhenius eventually clarified his laboratory work and dismissed the atmospheric “heating” thing.
That the UNIPCCC has been able get away with this for so long is astounding.
The true science of thermodynamics, atmospheric physics and atomic physics is there to be acknowledged.
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The Guardian….
jeesh…
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Guardian columnists be like: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/wilby
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