Europe's NetZero climate
policies have led to mass voter rebellion against heat pumps, high
energy prices, and Chinese EVs. For Europeans, cost of living is
centre stage while climate has become a minority issue: green
governments face defeat despite Swiss climate win at EU Human
Rights Court.
CALGARY,
AB, April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Dr.
Benny Peiser of the UK's Global
Warming Policy Foundation gave a presentation to Friends of Science
Society in Calgary on April 9th, 2024, warning that Europe's extremist NetZero climate policies
are on their way to Canada.
According to Peiser, the good news for common sense citizens who
are not caught up in climate emergency dogma, is that climate has
now become a minority issue for voters in Europe. Governments face defeat over
expensive, draconian plans like heat pumps and wind farms. Cost of
living trumps climate. Peiser predicts the same rejection will
ultimately triumph in Canada as
well.
Though not well-reported on by mainstream media in North America, Europe has been wracked by massive, violent
farmer protests as reported by AP on Feb.
26, 2024. They are protesting against the "Food to Fork" and
other climate policies affecting agricultural producers, causing
many governments to back down or kick climate targets down the
road.
On other policy fronts, like renewables, as Peiser explained,
the taxpayer burden of subsidized wind farms did not show up as a
figure on people's energy bills. Now many NetZero policies are
up-close, personal, and draining the pocketbook of ordinary people.
The public are rebelling.
When the German government pushed the public to change out their
gas boilers for heat pumps, at a cost of thousands of dollars, the
push-back or 'green lash' was immediate and significant. On
May 31, 2023, The Telegraph stated -
"Boilergeddon could topple Germany's heat pump loving leaders."
Another shock to the EU industrial sector is the threat of cheap
Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) hammering the viability of the
European car industry. Peiser explained that EU car manufacturers
had been pumping money into the conversion of their gas-powered
vehicle production lines to EVs, as directed by governments. They
are suffering staggering losses as EV sales have plummeted and as
relatively inexpensive Chinese EVs have entered the market.
Germany and Italy forced the EU to delay a ban on Internal
Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicle sales to 2035.
Peiser said, "The game is over for anyone thinking that
Europe is willing to commit
industrial suicide by essentially undermining its own car
industry."
As reported by the Estonian-based International Centre for
Defence and Security on Oct. 20,
2023, Chinese EVs are seen as a threat to European
automakers.
Dr. Peiser reported that now ~500,000 cheap Chinese EVs are
waiting at ports across Europe,
and this is where EU car manufacturers drew the line. As Dr. Peiser
put it, "If this was really about climate change, wouldn't you want
the cheapest EVs, the cheapest wind and solar, all from
China?"
With European national economies, industries and millions of
jobs at stake, people now understand that NetZero policies in the
West simply hand economic dominance to China in terms of trade.
Though Germany has acted to
protect its car industry, it's not doing the same for drivers and
their freedoms. As Politico reported April
12, 2024, Germany is
planning on banning weekend driving to meet climate targets.
Canada is 28 times as big as
Germany. Freedom of movement is a
Charter Right and for most Canadians, essential to their work and
family life. However, as early as Sept. 14,
2021, a story appeared in Journal Metro of Quebec, proposing that the
alleged climate emergency be forestalled by
lockdown-style measures, even a War Measures Act of sorts,
including rations and limitations on travel. Rationing is deemed to
be 'fair' by climate activists. If such measures were implemented,
it is likely that Canada's NetZero
rebellion would be immediate.
Meanwhile, the same day as Dr. Peiser's presentation in
Canada, Europe's top human rights court ruled in a
lawsuit brought by 2,000 senior women, that the Swiss government
had violated the human rights of its citizens by not doing enough
to mitigate climate change, as reported by Reuters. The case cannot
be appealed.
Switzerland, though tiny, is
responsible for 2-3% of global carbon dioxide emissions, according
to a McKinsey report. Ironically, Canada is a huge country by contrast, but
emits only 1.6% of global emissions. According to a 2022 World Bank
report, China is responsible for
27% of global carbon dioxide emissions.
As The Times UK reported: "Tuesday's decision of the European
Court of Human Rights on climate change is the court's boldest
invasion to date of the domain of democratic politics."
Dr. Peiser noted in his presentation that this was an unusual
twist where a court took it upon itself to tell democratic
governments that their voters' decisions did not matter.
An independent submission to the
Hague Court of Appeal, regarding the Shell v.
Milieudefensie et al case, written by three eminent scientists,
shows that there is no climate emergency and carbon dioxide is a
benign gas that will not drive any dangerous outcome. Consequently,
NetZero targets are unnecessary and unsupported by 'the
science.'
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