Hypocrisy Dujour

The EU government seems to be a circus composed entirely of clowns.

The amount of greenhouse gas pumped into European skies rose by up to 30 million tonnes last year despite the EU’s pledge to lead the world in tackling climate change.

A much-heralded emissions trading scheme, which is being copied by California and is seen as the market solution to reducing harmful gases, failed to achieve the cuts in industrial pollution needed to hit Kyoto targets, figures from the European Commission showed.

The Europe-wide increase in CO2 came in the second year of the scheme to allocate emission permits to companies and power generators. Critics described the EU trading system as “botched central planning” because too many permits were granted, enabling polluters to buy them at knockdown prices and carry on producing the gases that cause climate change.

Figures published yesterday for industrial emissions in 18 of the 27 EU countries, showed that European companies and power generators produced 1.79 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas last year. They came less than a month after the EU vowed to set an example to the world by making at a cuts of at least a 20 per cent in greenhouse gases by 2020.

Now for the irony. If all the factories and cars in the world stopped running tomorrow, CO² would still go up because that’s what happens when the sun warms the earth more. Factories and cars can’t compete with the untold trillions of plant, animal and microbe lifeforms on this planet who each produce some kind of “greenhouse gas” byproduct. And when the earth gets warmer, more life comes out of hibernation as more regions thaw. And if any volcanoes go off in significant ways, forget about it.

All of this carbon crap is mindless hysteria perpetrated by crypto-socialists who want to control capitalism.

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