Climate lockdowns!? New International Energy Agency’s ‘Net-Zero’ report urges ‘behavioral changes’ to fight climate: ‘A shift away from private car use…. upper speed limits’ & thermostat controls; limits on hot water & more!
Are you willing to comply to save the planet!? IEA report page 174: "The Covid‐19 pandemic has increased general awareness of the potential effectiveness of behavioral changes, such as mask‐wearing, and working and schooling at home. The crisis demonstrated that people can make behavioural changes at significant speed and scale if they understand the changes to be justified, and that it is necessary for governments to explain convincingly and to provide clear guidance about what changes are needed and why they are needed." ...
"Urban design can reduce the average city dweller’s carbon footprint by up to 60% by shaping lifestyle choices and influencing day‐to‐day behavior."
Full IEA INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY Net Zero by 2050 A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector:
Regulations and mandates could enable roughly 70% of the emissions saved by behavioral
changes in the NZE. Examples include:
Upper speed limits, which are reduced over time in the NZE from their current levels to 100 km/h, cutting emissions from road vehicles by 3% in 2050.
Appliance standards, which maximise energy efficiency in the buildings sector.
Regulations covering heating temperatures in offices and default cooling temperatures for air conditioning units
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Keeping air travel for business purposes at 2019 levels. Although business trips fell to almost zero in 2020, they accounted for just over one‐quarter of air travel before the pandemic.
Keeping long‐haul flights (more than six hours) for leisure purposes at 2019 levels. Emissions from an average long‐haul flight are 35‐times greater than from a regional flight (less than one hour).
(Climate lockdowns have arrived: France to ban domestic flights where trains are available, in move to battle ‘global warming’) & (Get ready: In a declared ‘climate emergency,’ you can’t fly commercial unless it is ‘morally justifiable’ – Activist Holthaus sets rules for the ‘use for luxury aviation emissions in a climate emergency’)
A shift to high‐speed rail. The opportunities for shifting regional flights to high‐speed rail vary by region. Globally, we estimate that around 15% of regional flights in 2019 could have been shifted given existing rail infrastructure; future high‐speed rail lines ensure that by 2050 around 17% could be shifted (IEA, 2019).
The behavioral changes the @IEA says are needed to meet 1.5 degrees are very interesting (refreshing to see this: too often the debate focuses only on supply, whiteout addressing demand). Another question is whether voters would support those behavior changes | #ClimateAction pic.twitter.com/y12aNRy3an
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) May 18, 2021
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https://twitter.com/IEA/status/1394523178521829377
Yesterday, we released our #NetZero2050Roadmap – a key contribution to the conversation on how to reach climate goals.
The Net Zero by 2050 Emissions Scenario – a pathway in line with 1.5˚C – maps out a major transformation of the global energy system → https://t.co/5inyCZ0mVZ pic.twitter.com/JDbUq6WLrE
— International Energy Agency (@IEA) May 19, 2021
We just launched our #NetZero2050Roadmap – offering a pathway in line with 1.5˚C for the transformation of the global energy system.
Explore the report: https://t.co/Wnr8RWiTSi
Read the press release: https://t.co/6puAHytBK9
Download the data for free: https://t.co/00FCzRaW1K pic.twitter.com/2yxp9gMq3L— International Energy Agency (@IEA) May 19, 2021
Excerpt: The world has a viable pathway to building a global energy sector with net-zero emissions in 2050, but it is narrow and requires an unprecedented transformation of how energy is produced, transported and used globally, the International Energy Agency said in a landmark special report released today.
Climate pledges by governments to date – even if fully achieved – would fall well short of what is required to bring global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to net zero by 2050 and give the world an even chance of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 °C, according to
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Watch: Laura Ingraham talks Great Climate Reset – May 18, 2021, edition of Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle
Huff Post outraged, but Ingraham is dead-on accurate: Laura Ingraham: Left Used COVID Lockdowns To Groom Public For Climate Change Lockdowns
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): A lot of us have felt like this was a process long in the making of conditioning the public. When we realize it was mostly a vulnerable population that was really suffering from COVID, most people would tolerate it quite well. Nevertheless, these lockdowns persisted. Was this a conditioning process for the next lockdown?
NEWT GINGRICH (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): It may have been.
“The climate agenda isn’t really about saving the planet, it’s about controlling the people,” the Fox News host said on “The Ingraham Angle.” …
“In other words, a lockdown of another kind ― this time in the name of climate change,” Ingraham said. “Can’t say we didn’t warn you that this was coming. COVID gave them the playbook for how to bring society to its knees and in fear. And now they have a new crisis perhaps to weaponize.” …
“A lot of us have felt like this was a process long in the making of conditioning the public ― when we realize it was mostly a vulnerable population that was really suffering from COVID, most people would tolerate it quite well. Nevertheless, these lockdowns persisted. Was this a conditioning process for the next lockdown?”
Declaring the climate crisis a national emergency under the NEA would not only send a powerful signal about the urgency of bold action, it would unlock powers that allow our nation to take significant, concrete actions regardless of congressional gridlock. Examples include redirecting spending to build out renewable energy systems, implementing large-scale clean transportation solutions and financing distributed energy projects to boost climate resiliency — all of which would help safeguard our communities and slash harmful pollution.