US to West’s energy watchdog: scrap net zero focus or we’ll quit

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Good luck trying to prise the EU, UK and a few others away from their pointless and damaging net zero climate obsessions. The only zero to date is the effect on temperatures, despite massive expense and widespread environmental damage.
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PARIS: US Energy Secretary Chris Wright gave the International Energy Agency on Thursday a one-year deadline to scrap its support of goals to reduce energy emissions to net zero or risk losing the United States as a member, reports Business Recorder.

European countries played down the threat at the agency’s biennial meeting and restated their commitment to pursuing cleaner fuel. [Talkshop comment – being clean was never the point of net zero].

In 2015 the US and nearly 200 other countries signed the Paris Accords, an international pledge to limit global warming by burning less oil, gas and coal, with a goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

“There has been such a group mentality, 10 years invested in a destructive illusion of net zero by 2050, that the US will use all the pressure we have to get the IEA to eventually, in the next year or so, move away from this agenda,” Wright said.
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Wright said many countries have agreed in private with the US stance to move away from net zero goals and continue to increase production and consumption of fossil fuels.

“We are certainly seeing a lot of nations, at least privately, talking about wanting to become competitive again, wanting to re-industrialise their countries, wanting to have strong militaries,” Wright said. However, he added some politicians, mostly in Europe, were unlikely to publicly backtrack on their green stances.

“A number of the European nations have staked their political platforms and frankly, their desire to be relevant in some area in the world on a net zero agenda. Only the cold, hard reality, the uprising of people and voting out political parties can change things,” Wright said.

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