COP 26

[Potemkin Villager]

The incessant tsunami of virtue signalling coming up to
COP 26 continues unabated.

I see Buck House has just got greenwashed!

[kenneal - lagger]

..........I see Buck House has just got greenwashed!

That's probably why the Queen is irritated.

[Potemkin Villager]

It would be fascinating to know the BER of the various royal palaces
and the overall and broken down carbon footprint of the firm's operations.

Go on hazard a guess Ken!

No doubt it is classified Top Secret and it would be claimed that revealing such "sensitive"
information would be damaging to "national security".

[kenneal - lagger]

Haven't got the foggiest, PV!!

[Potemkin Villager]

Maybe some MP might be persuaded to ask a parliamentary question?

[kenneal - lagger]

Should the extensive travelling that "The Firm" does on their charity visits be allocated to "The Firm" or to the charity, PV? After all the visit benefits the charity rather than the royals. That would make a big difference to their carbon footprint.

[Potemkin Villager]

I suppose it could be either, charity events don't necessarily
have to have folk travel long distances in large cars and
sparsely occupied aircraft.

My guess is the royal palaces are unlikely to be greater than a BER G rating.
It would take a bit more than bathing buck house with green light
to improve this......

No doubt you are totally excited by all the ambitious plans
announced in the UK today ahead of COP.

[kenneal - lagger]

I've had a WWOOFER in over the weekend so I have been too busy to keep up to date. I'll have a look in the next few days.

[Potemkin Villager]

Hard to disagree with this.

" earthdust96
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

COP26 is around the corner. Loads of planned protests. I’m hoping to join in some of them. Pretty excited to be “involved”.

However the hosts, The U.K. government, has just announced in their budget today that they are going to reduce passenger duty for regional flights (eg short haul between England, wales, NI and Scotland). Soo tone death and I hope they get ripped by every single delegate next week.

Not that I should be surprised but it is clear that COP26 is going to be another f***ing waste of time and oxygen."

[Mark]

Honest Government Ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIyKmqEdgR4

Something to amuse from Australia......

[Catweazle]

The Telegraph reports that the final agreements are being watered down from previous positive-sounding texts:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/1 ... el-pledge/

This snippet is both positive and depressing at once: "If it makes it to the final text, it would be the first time that fossil fuels have been explicitly mentioned in a final agreement at the annual climate summit"

[PS_RalphW]

The BBC has been going overboard on climate change and COP the last few weeks. Nothing wrong with that, but the chasm between what the scientists are saying is needed to prevent catastrophic warming and what governments are agreeing to do (with no guarantee they will even do what they say they will - their record is not brilliant even on that) is glaring. Basically the big emitters are agreeing to keep talking but not cut significantly, and the big oil and coal exporters are saying "Nothing to do with us mate". Boris has been saying "Do what I say not what I do" and has impressed precisely nobody.

[kenneal - lagger]

The UK government will be influenced by surveys such as this one which say that people of the western world are quite happy to do something about climate change as long as it doesn't affect their lifestyle!

[clv101]

If you haven't already, I'd recommend anyone with a passing interest in climate politics to read Kim Stanley Robinison's The Ministry for the Future. It describes the next few decades brilliantly, obviously fiction, but strongly strongly grounded in plausibility (kinda jumps the shark in the 2nd half though IMO). 'Eco' terrorism has a role to play.