The world we know is in serious peril due to the climate crisis as the latest heatwaves to hit Europe, China and the US illustrate. The Net Zero by 2050 plans are woefully inadequate and likely fraudulent but the deniers are trying to undermine these.
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This is not just a UK phenomenon, or even just a populist right phenomenon, as Joe Manchin in the US illustrates. What's more, governments supposedly committed to Net Zero by 2050 are opening up new fossil fuel reserves.
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Yet the UN Secretary General is making it crystal clear, that it is dangerous and reckless to open up any more new fossil fuel reserves.
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The public is baffled by what is going on. There are climate activists and honest climate scientists like and saying we need urgent cuts to emissions now.
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Then we have the IPCC and being ever more forthright on action now, and no opening up of new fossil fuel reserves.
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Next we have governments supporting Net Zero by 2050 or whatever, saying one thing and then acting like there is no climate crisis, opening up new fossil fuel reserves.
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Finally, we have the climate change denying crazies demanding Net Zero by 2050 plans are dropped. Of course modern climate change deniers, deny they are deniers, and so it gets very confusing.
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The situation may be clear to informed climate activists, environmentalists, climate scientists, the generally informed, but it is anything but clear to the general public who haven't got a clue which version is correct.
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