By Paul Homewood
The nutters are back again!
from the Guardian:
None of the big oil and gas producers surrounding the North Sea plan to stop drilling soon enough to meet the 1.5C (2.7F) global heating target, a report has found.
The five countries – the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark – have failed to align their oil and gas policies with their climate promises under the Paris agreement, according to the campaign group Oil Change International.
North Sea governments must act urgently, said Silje Ask Lundberg from Oil Change International, who co-wrote the report. “Failure to address these issues not only undermines international climate goals, but also jeopardises the liveability of our planet.”
The report found that policies in Norway and the UK were furthest from the Paris climate agreement because the countries were “aggressively” exploring and licensing new oil and gas fields. In 2021, the International Energy Agency found there was no room for new oil exploration in its pathway to net zero emissions.
Tessa Khan, the founder of the climate campaign group Uplift, said the UK was in a tiny club of countries driving a crisis for little public gain. “This government is set on squeezing every last drop out of the North Sea, yet we know we’ve already discovered more oil and gas than it is safe to burn.”
For a start, the “pledges” made at Paris would not have been consistent with a 1.5C goal, according to the UNFCCC itself. Far from halving emissions by 2030, which was the objective, the pledges would actually result in emissions continuing to rise.
Secondly, the whole of Europe only accounts for 3% of the world’s oil and 5% of gas production, so is pretty much irrelevant in the overall view of things:
BP Energy Review
Moreover Europe consumes five times as much oil as it produces, and two and a half times the gas. Plainly it is not oil and gas production that is the issue, but consumption. Maximising North Sea assets will make no difference one way or another to consumption. But what it will do is reduce emissions, by reducing reliance on highly polluting countries and the need for shipping.
But commonsense never was a Guardian strongpoint!
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Author: Paul Homewood
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