If James Shaw yawns in a carbon sink forest, did the climate notice?
Climate change Minister James Shaw confirms sinking lid of emissions budgets
Climate Change Minister James Shaw has released the first three emissions budgets – binding targets for the country to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
The sinking lids aim to steadily reduce emissions to meet the country’s overall goal of zero net emissions by 2050.
Yawn. We don’t need a sinking lid, we need a speeding roof!
James Shaw set climate crisis expectations way down with this sleepy nothing that does little.
To appreciate how nothing James Shaw’s conclusion on what to do about catastrophic climate change is, it was immediately endorsed by the National Party whose evangelical leader probably believes global warming is happening because God is hugging earth extra tight.
The Greens have become politically irrelevant and this nothing to be carbon neutral by 2050 is a joke!
By 2030, over 50% of the oceans will be collapsing as bio-habitats.
By 2030, East Coast cities in the U.S. can expect to see two to three-times as many flooding incidents.
By 2030, 122million will be driven into extreme poverty as direct result of climate change.
By 2030, 100million will die as a direct consequence of climate change.
By 2030, even if the Paris Agreement is actually implemented, we will see a planet warm to 3.4 degrees by the end of this century meaning there will effectively be no future civilisation capable of surviving on a planet that warm.
By 2030, the global annual cost of global warming will be $3trillion.
2030, the number of extremely hot days — classified as maximum temperatures of more than 35C — are tipped to climb in all capital cities.
Oh.
And by 2050 NZ might be carbon neutral.
Yay!
See, when you actually compare what the planet will look like by 2030, being carbon neutral by 2050 is meaningless isn’t it?
The magnitude of what we need to do to adapt to counter the nightmare unending capitalism has wrought upon the planet is simply beyond the capacity of the current political establishment and that is most apparent with the Greens.
This is less transformative and more glacial, except there won’t be any glaciers by 2050.
If you think James Shaw is the solution, you are part of the problem.
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And yet nothing that we do in NZ is going to make a blind bit of difference to global warming other than to impoverish us as a country and make a few of you feel all lovely and virtuous.
Until India, China, Russia, etc stop burning fossil fuels which they’re not going to, we’re fucked.
So rather than punishing us all can we perhaps just focus on mitigation?
Also, no mention made about how large parts of the west are now moving away from this madness as cold hard economic reality bites and cheap Russian gas is no more.
Agree Yeti. If we are going to stop using Russian oil and imports are getting harder perhaps we should restart drilling for our own oil .If there was as much as was predicted it would make the money to do the mitigation work just like Norway and we could help other Pacific Nations as well.
Plus our coal – there’s trillions of love green USD in them thar hills!
Forget sea level rise, its the collapse of agriculture in the short term: multiple simultaneous extreme climate events hitting the bread baskets. We are living the climate catastrophe now. 1.5C is locked in which = HELL.
All of Africa is basically in a mega drought now and will stay that way. 100 millions will starve and try to get to Europe.
Everywhere really, if its not extended record breaking drought its a biblical flood.
Its going to get rapidly more insane like NOW in the next few years and decade. Once 2C is locked in around 2030 on current emission trend its game over for human civilization.
They’ll starve as they haven’t adopted modern agricultural practices and their governments are run by crooks and swindlers.
Malawi is importing Afrikaans farmers and they’re growing a strong agricultural economy (pardon the pun).
2030 is nit all that far away. As all previous predictions by Al Gore et al have proved ridiculously wrong, perhaps we should hold back a but and see if any of these are any better?
Martyn needs to calm down a bit over climate change. 2030 is only 8 years away. It is highly unlikely any of the things he is forecasting will happen by then.
Similarly it is not possible to radically reduce emissions in such a short time frame, at least not without causing a major recession.
Even if 50% of all new vehicles over the next 8 years are low emission vehicles, that will still be only 10% of the total vehicle fleet in 2030. I guess the governments (either Labour or National) could ban new ICE cars from 2032. But will utes and heavy trucks be all low emission vehicles by 2032? I reckon not, more like 2040.
So the New Zealand response is going to heavily depend on new forestry. I hope not all of it is radiata pine, how about a decent amount of new native forest.
I suggest you get together with the other dwarfs and check your sources.
Yes, agree. This guy thinks 8 years gives time for him and his generation to ignore it all?
Wayne – I am wondering what your true surname is.
Can you think 80 and 800 years ahead, and work out the real problem?
But wait. A congestion tax for Aucklanders!
That’ll fight climate change. Keeping people out of their CBD. That will work. Not. And then spread it out to the burbs. Keep them poor AND bottled up.
A tax. As a cost living crisis develops. A tax!
It almost seems like this government want to restrict the poor everyway they can, now their freedom of movement, even to earn a living.
I get that these politicians do not experience a cost of living crisis because they are well paid, by us, and are therefore insulated and out of touch.
But this lot are hell bent of losing the next election, aren’t they?
Xray how many “poor” park in the CBD? I would think a CBD congestion charge would not overly impact the poor
Most of Auckland is in the longer term plans, the CBD is just. the beginning.
And the poor are everywhere in the CBD. And they have cars too!
Unfortunately the poor covers may who are working now . With the runaway rents caused in part by this governments various policies couples bringing in a $1000 a week are classed as poor under the guide lines used to define poverty
Less cows, more sheep would be a better start.
Noah James Shaw should target New Zealand’s ugliest company Fonterra rather than fawning over them like Jacinda, they are the nation’s biggest polluter plus they are driving the cost of living crisis with their $20 blocks of cheese. These degenerates are essentially robbing us in our homes, taking a dump in our living room on the way out and are then praised by the authorities for their hard work.
Gee it makes you think dunnit! What to do. I know build high rise apartments and the bottom floors could be utilised as parking levels all ready for rising sea levels. Then they could be giant aquariums where the building residents could grow fish for sustenance and to conserve species.
Let our minds roam free instead of being fenced off with norms we have come to accept.
We’ve killed off so many species as if we are insatiable gods so let us become benign gods instead seeing we know all and till now thought that we should have anything that the ‘deserving’ at the top, and the bottom of our partly-educated stratum of our ‘civilisation’ chain, demand.
We had to have started dramatically cutting CO2 emissions in 2020 and down 40% by 2030 and the rest by 2040. Instead emissions have INCREASED at an ACCELERATING rate.
COVID economic stimulation packages hijacked and funneled into fossil fuel industry instead of renewables. The greatest crime in all of human history?
1.5C locked in within 2 years. 2C by 2030. Your children will be living in hell on earth if they dont perish with you first.