By Paul Homewood
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3776
The Climate and Nature Bill has its second reading this week.
Its objective is to reduce UK emissions, including imported ones, to close to zero during the 2030s. Currently those emissions are around 800 Mt a year, and the implication is that they will have to be cut to around 100 Mt by 2035 at the latest, dropping to near zero soon after.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/the-climate-and-nature-bill/
What would this entail?
We actually have some idea, because the UK FIRES report, Absolute Zero, laid it all out in 2019.
https://ukfires.org/impact/publications/reports/absolute-zero/
They were of course talking about Net Zero in 2050, rather than 2040. So what they were planning for 2030-2049 would effectively apply to 2025 to 2040 if the CAN Bill is put into law. (The UK FIRES report also did not take into account imported emissions).
Taking them one-by-one:
- Cars – to put a 1000kg car into perspective, the Nissan Leaf weighs double that. Given the weight of an EV battery, a one tonne car would be so tiny as to be useless. Absolute Zero also calls for a 40% cut in road use, but does not say how this could be enforced.
- Flying – the chart says it all really! All airports bar Heathrow, Glasgow and Belfast to shut by 2029, and those three must also close soon after.
- All shipping to be phased out.
- Heating – full rollout of unaffordable heat pumps, with the natural gas network shut down by 2040 at the latest, meaning existing gas boilers would be unusable.
- Food – all beef, lamb and presumably dairy gone, along with most imported food. Fertiliser use “greatly reduced”, a double whammy given that there would no longer be any manure.
- Materials – no blast furnace steel, no cement, no plastics
- Construction – reduced to renovation
- And no fossil fuels at all.
All of this will happen in the next ten years or so, if the CAN Bill is passed.
In years to come, we will all look back and realise how badly we were duped about Net Zero. We were lied to about the costs, we were lied to about renewable energy being cheaper.
But probably the biggest lie of the lot was that we could achieve this green nirvana just by embracing renewable energy and planting a few trees.
I don’t remember being told that all our airports would be forced to shut, there would be no imports, no meat or dairy, food shortages, heating made unaffordable, driving impractical and too expensive for most and industries decimated.