De ser etter utganger som også er innganger, såkalte ut-og-innganger. Kortest mulig distanse mellom gårsdagens aksepterte sannhet og morgensdagens nye. Vi må huske på at UK har den mest radikale klimapolitikken i verden, der de planlagte tiltakene ikke lenger lar seg forene med den økonomiske virkelighet. Jeg tror aldri Cameron har hatt noen interesse for "klimakrisen", men bare brukt den for hva den er verdt. Og nå er den lite verdt. Ferdig med det.
Climate Change Act må være noe av det mest bisarre noen politikere har fått seg til å vedta. Dette er fra Bookers rapport om BBC, det er grimme saker:
"A year later, when the Bill came up for its third and final reading on 29 October
2008, it had a new ministerial sponsor, Ed Miliband, as the first Secretary of
State for the new Department for Energy and Climate Change. His main
contribution was to propose that the original 60 percent cut in CO2 emissions
should now be raised to an even more astonishing 80 percent. When, after
six hours of debate, MPs supported this amendment by 463 votes to 3, the Bill
was about to make Britain the only country in the world committed by law to
reducing its CO2 emissions by 2050 by four-fifths.
One remarkable thing about this was that, on the only figures yet available,
based on the government’s original 60 percent target, the cost of this measure
was estimated at £205 billion, whereas its benefits were given at only £110
billion. So the MPs voted near-unanimously for a Bill which they were told would
be almost twice as costly as its benefits. Another was that not a single MP who
had voted for the Bill could have begun to explain how such a staggeringly
ambitious target could in practice be achieved without closing down virtually
all Britain’s largely fossil-fuel and computer-dependent economy.
This already made it far and away the most expensive law ever passed by
Parliament - and it would become even more so when the Government finally
produced a revised figure for the cost of its new 80 percent reduction target.
This, it now estimated, could be as much as £18.3 billion every year for 42
years, totalling £768 billion, or £30,000 for every household in the country."
http://thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/booker-bbc.pdf