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The AGW Party Is Losing Ground
In their latest fear-stoking bid, The Guardian highlights a surge in oil and gas exploration in 2024, predicting "12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions" which they claim will rival China’s annual carbon output.
The article states that wealthy nations like the US and UK, traditionally seen as 'climate leaders', are issuing new oil and gas licenses at an unprecedented rate: "the US has handed out 1,453 new oil and gas licences," a 20% increase vs the Trump era.
Harjeet Singh, global engagement director for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, criticizes the "hypocrisy of wealthy nations" investing in fossil fuels despite their climate commitments. However, the public’s growing recognition that energy security wins over melodramatic alarmist claims is a key battleground that The AGW Party has arguably already lost.
The Guardian’s portrayal of impending climate catastrophe—"heatwaves, wildfires, drought, and floods"—is failing to resonate with the majority of citizens who understand that practical energy policies underpin economic and social stability.
The rag further attempts to alarms readers by comparing the projected emissions from new oil and gas fields to China’s annual carbon output, warning of "death and destruction globally" as a result. This was a key question the AGW Party always struggled with: Why bother tackling Western CO2 emissions, pegging back our economies, when China has a free run? This latest move is an attempt to neutralize this argument, but it is based on wild estimations, and also on absurd assumptions that China won't grow.
Regarding emissions, China is all-but uncatchable, showing a straight line up:
Such exaggerated claims fail to consider the immediate necessity for reliable energy. The global focus should be on ensuring energy stability, as also highlighted by the investments from other nations like Norway, projected to hand out 80 oil and gas licences this year, and even Australia, with 20 new licences.
While The Guardian attempts to paint a dire picture of climate inaction, it becomes evident that the AGW Party’s influence is waning. The public is increasingly aware that energy security, not the marginal temperature increases observed since the Little Ice Age, should lead policy making, and that sense should prevail over the extreme claims of placard-brandishing eco-warriors, claims that even Their Science fails to back-up…
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