Climate Scientists “Failure to Tell the Truth” is why Net Zero was Abandoned?
21 hours ago Eric Worrall
Essay by Eric Worrall
“… they worry that if the true nightmare was revealed, … everybody … would … just give up …”
Trump’s America is abandoning climate action and the fight just got harder
By Alan Kohler
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Bulldozing the Amazon rainforest is a fitting way to mark 30 years of failure, of annual gabfests that have released colossal amounts of carbon dioxide from the mouths of the well-meaning, and burned tonnes of aviation fuel to get them there, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions not one bit.
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Energy scientist, Vaclav Smil puts the total cost of achieving net zero by 2050 at $US444 trillion, or $US17 trillion a year for 25 years, “requiring affluent economies to spend 20 to 25 per cent of their annual GDP on the transition”.
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So net zero by 2050 won’t happen and the increase in global temperature will not be limited to the 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels that was agreed as preferred at Paris in 2015 – nowhere near it.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/17/failure-to-tell-the-truth-is-why-net-zero-failed/
