2024-02-20
It seems reasonable to assume from their name that the Good Law Project is all about good law.
It isn't therefore necessarily about good climate science, but the Government in its all-knowing wisdom has enshrined its binding net zero targets in law, I suppose because that's the only thing they know how to do.
Of course, that doesn't mean to say that the targets will actually be met, but there's a good chance that it won't be this government that's in place when the targets fall due and the lawsuits begin to fly.
Anyway, the Good Law project, mindful no doubt of the sometimes lengthy nature of legal proceedings, has shrewdly got its retribution in first and compelled the government to disclose its assessments of the risks that may bedevil these now legally binding targets - and I guess to nobody's surprise, insubstantial these risks are not.
Regular readers of this site will know what we think of these targets already.
It's a pity that the Good Law Project chooses to illustrate its article with a needlessly alarmist picture of a world consumed by fire, but we must hope that's just to placate the green lobby.
However, we do support their endeavours to hold the government to account for legalising a bunch of make-believe targets in order to grandstand to a green lobby totally besotted with the UN-WEF's make-believe about a demonstrably bogus climate catastrophe. Politicians that set legal traps for themselves to walk into are welcome sources of merriment and ridicule, not to mention lawsuits and easy copy for journalists, and we should make the most of them.
A real question arises though - when these targets are missed, who gets arrested?
Of course the risk is that the government will now initiate a desperate and wholly unworkable attempt to bring forward all its unaffordable and ultimately doomed projects to install innumerable off-shore wind farms around our coasts and on-shore wind farms in all the opposition's constituencies, all to net zero effect when the wind doesn't blow.
This will further confirm their stupidity (sadly at enormous cost) but it will also help to bring home that stupidity to the population.
In the end however, since one parliament cannot bind a subsequent parliament, the day that the government is forced to concede defeat and repeal this damaging legislation before they all get arrested perhaps draws that bit closer.
2024-02-21
Climate Change Committee “deceived Parliament and the British people”
