COP26 ... Your predictions

[Hilly]

 

[Hilly]

The out come will be that bunch of strokers controling people more and more and the idiots who pander to them are giving away our freedoms .

 

[Steevo]

Local plod was saying every force in the UK is short staffed this week due to the number of bodies sent to glagow - So if you are planning a big burglary job .................................................

By sheer coincidence I had heard that a very well off elderly lady that I know of was due to be away in Glasgow for a few days as well. I had hoped to take advantage of this however by all accounts she'll be staying home now so plans have now been shelved.

 

[serf]

My prediction is that whatever COP26 comes out with, the BBC and Roger Harrabin in particular will report that we should vastly reduce red meat consumption.
I expect that their summarising of COP26 has already been written, filmed and edited.

What about Tom Heap doesn't he have a say too ......

 

[Courier]

This government will have severe credibility problems persuading any finance houses to stump up without guarantees which are more cast iron than when the FIT was the method of guarantee…


They need certainty to invest ?

That is what many folk who were incentivised by the wish to acknowledge the forthcoming climate crisis and the FIT scheme believed they had 10 years ago where there are now many projects abandoned half completed.

The FIT scheme guaranteed an incentive tariff with a 10% reduction every six months.

There are projects under that scheme where planning permission has been paid for and agreed, grid connection has been agreed paid for and installed, infrastructure installed and paid for and the first turbine installed, paid for by borrowing against the government’s guarantee having done sufficient paid for “Due Diligence” to satisfy the mainline UK banking system and commissioned with the understanding that the second turbine would piggyback onto that grid connection so would cost a fraction of the first one and would be economically viable under the reduced rate of FIT still available at the date of commissioning.
Then immediately after COP 21 in Paris our then environment secretary Amber Rudd returned and effectively withdrew the FIT thus destroying a burgeoning industry dead….

Why should governments pledges be believed this time around?

A sign of good faith would be to restore the FIT at its last agreed level so that those projects which were stalled in December 2014 could be completed.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

What about Tom Heap doesn't he have a say too ......

Oh no. I forgot about him.

 

[Dave6170]

Hes very good that man! More intelligent than anyone in government

 

[Timmy k]

Don't know if this has been mentioned as I haven't read all the posts but it's not so much what people are doing but how many people are doing it! So the answer to global warming or what ever you want to call it is decreasing the population. There are 3 ways of doing it
1. War..... not going to be popular
2. Reducing the amount of children you have.... probably an infringement on someone's human rights.
3. Release a disease to kill people off...oh wait.

 

[Drillman]

By sheer coincidence I had heard that a very well off elderly lady that I know of was due to be away in Glasgow for a few days as well. I had hoped to take advantage of this however by all accounts she'll be staying home now so plans have now been shelved.

She was told that venison wasn’t on the menu so sensibly decided to stay home and do a decent roast dinner there!

 

[Steevo]

Some good points there.

The "50% of air travel is by private jet" stat made me think - I'm not sure if that's 50% of flights or 50% of air mileage, rather than 50% of passengers flown......but it's an interesting statistic all the same.

Logically one pretty simple step to help carbon emissions would be to ban all private jets. Or at the very very least heavily tax the fuel or air passenger duty on them.

 

[Steevo]

I'd love to ask just one question......


"What is it about?"

 

[Highland Mule]

The "50% of air travel is by private jet" stat made me think - I'm not sure if that's 50% of flights or 50% of air mileage, rather than 50% of passengers flown......but it's an interesting statistic all the same.

Haven’t watched the film but am confident that’s a falsehood, purely on watching FR24.

 

[Steevo]

He also forgot to add that all of the G20 are in Rome this weekend for a summit......before flying to Glasgow.

 

[Bald Rick]

Some good points there.

The "50% of air travel is by private jet" stat made me think - I'm not sure if that's 50% of flights or 50% of air mileage, rather than 50% of passengers flown......but it's an interesting statistic all the same.

Logically one pretty simple step to help carbon emissions would be to ban all private jets. Or at the very very least heavily tax the fuel or air passenger duty on them.

Doing a bit of quick research ....

Your bog standard billionaire has an annual “carbon footprint” of 8190 tonnes carbon equivalents.
The average fat American’s footprint is 15 tonnes CE

Or to put it another way, the top 1% wealthiest people on the planet emit over twice as much annually as the 3.1 billion poorest people.

Kill my cows now ....

 

[Bald Rick]

And guess who’s on his way to put in his two penny worth at COP ....

Fantastic... you stick it to them Mark

 

[delilah]

Or to put it another way, the top 1% wealthiest people on the planet emit over twice as much annually as the 3.1 billion poorest people.

Added to which, those 3.1 billion can't afford the luxury of patting themselves on the back as they are too busy trying to keep life and soul together.
There was an awful report on the World Service the other day about folks in Egypt making themselves ill, by using raw sewage to irrigate their crops, due to the Nile (tributaries ?) drying up. What are we doing to help them ?

 

[Hilly]

I'd love to ask just one question......


"What is it about?"

Control is what it’s about .

 

[Bald Rick]

Added to which, those 3.1 billion can't afford the luxury of patting themselves on the back as they are too busy trying to keep life and soul together.
There was an awful report on the World Service the other day about folks in Egypt making themselves ill, by using raw sewage to irrigate their crops, due to the Nile (tributaries ?) drying up. What are we doing to help them ?

Now I’m glad you’ve brought that up because the developed world promised $100 billion of climate mitigation aid to the third world but, to date, haven’t coughed up much.

Cynic that I am, though, I was set to wondering how much of that cash would build things like flood defences and how much would be salted away in Switzerland?

 

[tepapa]

And guess who’s on his way to put in his two penny worth at COP ....


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Fantastic... you stick it to them Mark

You joke but he's worse then the UK government gold plating EU rules. Best say goodbye to the cows and quick.

 

[Still Farming]

And guess who’s on his way to put in his two penny worth at COP ....


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Fantastic... you stick it to them Mark

What the F is he going to do there?
He just had billions off the UK Conservative Government to keep going but if you listen to them at the senedd,Wales is devolved powers and set their own taxes ????
Crazy?