{"id":1528,"date":"2015-11-20T18:36:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2015-11-20T18:36:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:36:44","slug":"uks-new-energy-policy-direction-demonstrates-the-governments-climate-sceptic-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/uks-new-energy-policy-direction-demonstrates-the-governments-climate-sceptic-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"UK’s new energy policy “direction” demonstrates the Government’s climate sceptic credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a quick response to Amber Rudd’s (Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change) speech “on a new direction for UK energy policy<\/a>”\u00a0– 18th November 2015.<\/p>\n

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\nBehind its confident bluff and eloquent rhetoric the UK Government\u2019s new energy focus reveals its contempt for contributing to any meaningful deal on 2\u00b0C in Paris.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Through smoke and mirrors Amber Rudd claims her Government\u2019s love affair with gas is aligned with the UK\u2019s domestic commitments on climate change. But this is all an elaborate ruse \u2013 one in which too many academics, NGOs and climate change experts are complicit. The UK\u2019s\u00a0domestic\u00a0carbon budgets are far removed from the Government\u2019s repeated\u00a0international\u00a0commitment for the UK to make its fair contribution to\u00a0\u201chold the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whilst some gas may just about squeeze into the UK\u2019s\u00a0budgets, these are themselves premised on a very high chance of exceeding 2\u00b0C. More disturbing still, the Government then assigns a significant and highly inequitable slice of the global carbon budget to the UK. To cap it all off, they then assume that a large scale uptake of highly speculative negative emissions technologies will, in some far off decade, suck our CO2 emissions out of the air.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dismantling this expedient catalogue of nonsense leaves the UK with a ‘fair’<\/em> 2\u00b0C carbon budget that has absolutely no emission space for a new fleet of high carbon gas-fired power stations \u2013 the arithmetic is that simple!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a quick response to Amber Rudd’s (Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change) speech “on a new direction for UK energy policy”\u00a0– 18th November 2015. ******* Behind its confident bluff and eloquent rhetoric the UK Government\u2019s new energy focus reveals its contempt for contributing to any meaningful deal on 2\u00b0C in Paris.\u00a0 Through smoke and mirrors Amber Rudd claims her Government\u2019s love affair with gas is aligned with the UK\u2019s domestic commitments on climate change. But this is all an elaborate ruse \u2013 one in which too many academics, NGOs and climate change experts are complicit. The\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":5}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kevinanderson.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}