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At World Bank Climate Talk, Nicholas Stern Floats End of Conventional Vehicles Sales: Urges ‘clarity on timescales for stopping the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles’

https://www.theepochtimes.com/at-world-bank-climate-talk-speaker-floats-end-of-conventional-vehicle-sales_4419714.html By Nathan Worcester Excerpts: In remarks to the World Bank’s “Financing Climate Action” event on April 21, Baron Nicholas Stern, one of the world’s most influential climate economists, spoke about what he sees as necessary global actions on climate change, including on the sale of conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. “The right kind of policies have to be put in place, including the abolition of fossil fuel subsidies, the advancement of carbon pricing, but clarity on timescales for decentralization of the grid, clarity on timescales for stopping the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles, and so on—making sure the sense of direction is clear in those ways,” said Stern, who served as chief economist for the World Bank from 2000 through 2003. … Stern was also asked about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has contributed to rising energy prices in the United States and around the world. “The right thing to do is to move away faster and harder from fossil fuels,” he said, later adding that making that move entails “much bigger capacity for electricity.” # Related: Owning a car is outdated ’20th-century thinking’ & we must move to ‘shared mobility’ to cut carbon emissions, UK transport minister says Owning a car is outdated ’20th-century thinking’, transport minister says – Trudy Harrison, 45, is also Boris Johnson’s parliamentary private secretary – She said the UK should move to ‘shared mobility’ to cut carbon emissions  # Marc Morano: “You were warned! Don’t be surprised when the climate agenda is successful in taking away private car ownership and use. They have literally been talking about this since the 1970s and now with the power of COVID lockdowns, they see a real possibility of success.” Flashback: Dem presidential candidate Andrew Yang: Climate Change May Require Elimination of Car Ownership – Suggests ‘constant roving fleet of electric cars’– “We might not own our own cars.” UK funded 2019 report ‘Absolute Zero’ urged climate lockdowns: ‘Stop flying…no new roads, airport closures…stop eating beef & lamb…stop doing anything that causes emissions’ – Regulate CO2 similar to ‘asbestos’ Climate lockdown: ‘It’s Time To Ban The Sale Of Pickup Trucks’ – ‘Shift away from relying on private vehicles entirely’ Business Insider mag: ‘Electric vehicles won’t save us — we need to get rid of cars completely’ May 2021: Climate lockdowns!? New International Energy Agency’s ‘Net-Zero’ report urges A shift away from private car use’ October 2021:Climate Lockdowns: British Medical Journal Study Calls For ‘Substantially fewer journeys by car ’Obama EPA’s Real Motive?! Flashback 1975: Obama Science Czar John Holdren warned U.S. ‘threatened’ by ‘the hazards of too much energy’– Holdren warns against “society that uses its 5,000-pound automobiles for half-mile round trips to the market to fetch a six-pack of beer” Out: COVID lockdowns. In: Climate lockdowns – ‘There could be a ban on ‘nonessential travel’ with hefty fines’ June 2020: ‘Scientists’ warning on affluence’: Study urges banning ‘oversized vehicles’ Prepare for the Coming ‘Climate Lockdowns’ – ‘Govts would limit private-vehicle use’ World Bank concludes Stern report is climate rubbish: ‘The hypothesized damages quoted by Lord Stern are completely inconsistent with empirical evidence’ Shame Deepens: Stern Report ‘was changed after being published…information was quietly removed from influential govt report…because supporting scientific evidence could not be found’ UK’s Lord Stern committing academic fraud? ‘More Quiet Post-Publication Changes to the Stern Report’ – ‘A whitewash of the historical record’

Warmist Nicholas Stern: The UN IPCC’s report has been prepared by 259 researchers; CO2 might result in ‘population movements of perhaps hundreds of millions’

Nicholas Stern: The IPCC’s report has been prepared by 259 researchers; CO2 might result in “population movements of perhaps hundreds of millions” http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/09/nicholas-stern-ipcc-report-has-been.html World leaders must co-operate on talks for strong new climate change deal | Nicholas Stern | Comment is free | The ObserverThe IPCC’s report, which has been prepared by 259 researchers from 39 countries, will show even more clearly how human activities, primarily burning fossil fuels and deforestation, are creating a dangerous trend with immense risks for the lives and livelihoods of billions of people around the world from shifts in extreme weather, rising sea levels and other serious problems….What we have learned from history is that if people are faced with increased dangers of floods, droughts and other extreme weather, they will try to escape, resulting in population movements of perhaps hundreds of millions, leading to widespread and continued conflict.

UK’s Lord Stern: If we do not deal with climate change decisively, ‘what we’re talking about then is extended world war’

extended world war http://climatechangepredictions.org/uncategorized/3853 If we do not deal with climate change decisively, “what we’re talking about then is extended world war,” Lord Nicholas Stern, the eminent economist, said. What Lord Nicholas was telling them, was the potential for mass migrations setting off mass conflict. “Somehow we have to explain to people just how worrying that is,” the British economic thinker said. If negotiators falter, if emissions reductions are not made soon and deep, the severe climate shifts and sea-level rises projected by scientists would be “disastrous.” It would “transform where people can live,” Stern said. “People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move if you talk about 4-, 5-, 6-degree increases” Homeland Security Newswire 24 Feb 2009 for new category – just plain scary — gReader Pro

Watch: Morano talking ‘climate emergency’ on Laura Ingraham on Fox: ‘This is the intentional collapse of our energy, transportation & food’ with no ‘vote of Congress’ involved

  Fox News Channel – The Ingraham Angle w/ Laura Ingraham – Broadcast September 29, 2023 ‘Real Teeth Behind It’: Fox Guest Says GOP Senators Have Been Silent On Possible Biden Climate Emergency Declaration By HAROLD HUTCHISON A guest on Fox News said that Republicans in the Senate have not reacted to the threat of a “climate emergency” declaration from President Joe Biden. Biden administration officials considered a “climate emergency” initiative in July 2022, according to emails released following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Energy Policy Advocates. Left-wing Democrats called on Biden to declare a “climate emergency” in June, citing wildfires in Canada that caused smoke to drift into the eastern United States, Bloomberg News reported. (RELATED: ‘Electric Cars Are Losing Us Money’: UAW Member Slams Biden’s Push For EVs) WATCH: “If I was a senator, I would be burning the place down making the point that the Biden administration is trying to destroy this country through climate policy, but Republicans don’t seem to be too exercised about it,” Steve Milloy of JunkScience.com told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. Biden cancelled oil leases in Alaska granted late in the Trump administration, according to CBS, while proposing new regulations to limit energy production. Biden considered declaring a climate emergency in 2022, but did not do so. “The most significant thing was the message of all the protesters in the streets of New York City urging Joe Biden to declare a national climate emergency. Now, that just sounds like a slogan, but there is real teeth behind it,” Marc Morano told Ingraham. “The Covid emergency declaration made the climate activists jealous. We had a Teen Vogue activist, Jamie Margolis say, if we can shut down the world for a virus we can do the same thing for climate. That’s exactly what they want to do.” “The Center for Biological Diversity has estimated that Joe Biden will get 130 new executive powers by which to bypass democracy if this climate emergency declaration goes through,” Morano continued. “They will be able to literally have no vote in Congress to impose this agenda on us, just like Covid.” # Laura Ingraham opening segment on elites Pushing climate # Marc Morano Says RFK Jr. Has the Best Answer on Climate Change Among Presidential Candidates Transcript INGRAHAM: “Shouldn’t whoever the nominee is going to be — it might be Trump, it probably will be Trump at this point, could be DeSantis or maybe someone else — this should be front and center every single day. ‘I’m going to get gas down to about — by the time I’m done, it’s going to be $2.25 a gallon again.’ Yes? Isn’t that a winner issue?” MORANO: “Just run on the fact that we’re not going to ban gas-powered cars. No one voted for it. It’s not going to happen. You tell the automakers that and you tell the consumers.” INGRAHAM: “They’re killing the UAW. The EVs are killing the UAW, they’re killing the auto industry.” MORANO: “And corporate banks are now saying they won’t give car loans to people who buy gas-powered cars. The World Bank isn’t going to allow financing at the automaker level, according to Nicholas Stern. This is the world which we face and the Republicans need to get their game up and fight this.” MILLOY: “So we’ll see, you know, next week at the debate, whether any Republicans are going to be serious about this. You know, at the last debate Vivek had good answers, DeSantis had good answers. But after that, it just all kind of goes into — “ INGRAHAM: “ — generalities. Just like cliches and generalities. We’ve got to get specific on this.” MORANO: “I’ll tell you who has the best answers. RFK Jr. He actually says — forget anything else you know about him — he says, ‘I won’t talk about climate change because it’s been hijacked by the World Economic Forum and the U.N. for totalitarian control of society.’” INGRAHAM: “As long as we’re making China rich, don’t tell me me we are fighting climate change. I mean, they’re not serious about any of that. Great to see both of you. Thank you so much.” MORANO: “Thank you.” My friend Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) and I join @IngrahamAngle to talk about the actual climate crisis: No one voted for climate idiocy and the neutered GOP is letting us down by doing nothing to oppose Biden on it. pic.twitter.com/tY6YUTcOum — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) September 20, 2023

Watch: Morano on Mark Steyn’s UK TV show – 2 Live Segments on The Great Reset: Morano: ‘Decisions are being made by fewer & fewer people, it’s a concentration of power at the top’

First Live Interview – Broadcast September 28, 2022 – (Also watch the below segment here: ) Mark Steyn interviews author Marc Morano on his book Great Reset which reveals some uncomfortable truths about what ‘the elites’ have in store for us. Second Live Interview Segment – Broadcast September 29, 2022 – Watch Below – Morano segment beings at 13:00 minutes in (Also available here.) – ‘Informed consent was turned on its head’ | Marc Morano on his book, ’The Great Reset’ GBNews – Sep 29, 2022 ‘The whole idea of informed consent was turned on its head.’ Marc Morano joins Mark Steyn to discuss his book ‘The Great Reset,’ which he claims is underway. Watch on TV: Virgin 604, Freesat 216, Sky 515, Freeview 236, YouView 236 Listen on DAB+ Radio The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown – By Marc Morano Rough Transcript Excerpts:  Mark Steyn: Marc Morano is a best-selling author and his latest book is called the Great Reset: Global Elites and these are the words to bear in mind Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown. Morano: if you go back decades New York Times, Tom Freeman praising China’s one party rule. Justin Trudeau saying he has great admiration for China’s basic dictatorship. The U.N climate Chief you Christina Figueres. The Obama administration officials praising China. So what happens? COVID comes along, the World Health Organization sends a sham committee to China and after two or three days they come back and say ‘If you want to know how to stop a virus follow China. Do what China is doing. So, the whole world like Lemmings jumping off a cliff. And the West started copying the most insane authoritarian response of literally of nailing people in their home while they’re wearing hazmat suits that’s what the once free West emulated.  … Morano: “If Hillary Clinton were president and she had pushed the ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’ in the United States, I think there would have been a huge rebellion. I think we now know that Donald Trump was literally duped by his White House COVID advisor Deborah Birx, by Anthony Fauci. They now admit it. Deborah Birx is going around boasting and swindled the president and they knew it was never going to be ’15 days.’ So Donald Trump got into that, but had it been Hillary Clinton, I think you would have had much greater rebellion in our country from people who accepted lockdowns, because they thought okay we have this under control but unfortunately, once you started that two weeks it was almost impossible to get out of it. We had an unprecedented situation this is in human history once free West overnight shut churches, gyms, schools, businesses, curfews, stay at home orders, weddings, funerals, — but hey Walmart was open. And and big Tech profit skyrocketed. We created a new billionaire every 30 hours. It was the greatest transfer of wealth from poor and middle class to the wealthy.  We’re still under a  9 11 emergency power act that led to the creation of the Patriot Act which gave us the surveillance State against our own citizens. Then you have COVID added we’re still under the COVID emergency.  Joe Biden keeps extending it. Joe Biden now wants to add a climate emergency declaration according to Associated Press that would give him 130 new executive powers. The Scottish government has been trying to make the pandemic powers permanent and we now have medical associations ensuring doctors can’t even do research or recommendations that are contrary to Public Health. Doctors can’t present data if it contradicts with public health. They’re trying to pass this in California. They’ve passed it in Australia. And so it’s an idea that this is going to be a new normal where the decisions are being made by fewer and fewer people it’s a concentration of power at the top. And it’s about controlling the narrative on every aspect so we are now facing thermostat controls, gas powered car bans. And here’s the key, they’re intentionally collapsing our energy our food our transportation and our free speech and once they collapse it that creates chaos then they claim the free market failed and now there’s a whole movement afoot to nationalize everything I just mentioned, food, energy, transportation, seeking a government takeover. … Morano: No one voted for gas car bans. Gov. Gavin Newsom in California issued an executive order. The California Air Resources Board, an unelected unaccountable bureaucracy, came up with the timetable the 2035 and with strict limits going up to that year. 17 States, including my home state of Virginia, have a trigger law to follow California. Biden’s transportation secretary loves the gas car ban so much they’re now looking at it as a federal mandate. The World Bank’s former president Nicholas Stern says we have to look at timetables for ending gas cars. So the World Bank is telling automakers that gas cars are ending. A bank in Australia won’t even give you a car loan if you want to buy a gas-powered car. We didn’t vote for this. They’re taking away our meat our gas-powered cars our free speech and our agriculture, forcing us to eat insects. We didn’t vote for any of this. We didn’t vote for lockdowns. We didn’t vote for mask mandates, these were all done through emergency decree, through unelected bureaucracy, that is what the Great Reset is. Think back to China One party rule,  they don’t want any stinking democracy. # Segment 2:  Mark Steyn: Marc Morano is back for more on the Great Reset…Marc Morano is the author of this terrific new book The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown and he is back with us. Marc, we were talking about the requirement for vaccines. Morano: All those emergency powers are what enables governments to do this to their citizens. Yes to answer your question directly. How did this happen? Why is this vaccine allowed to be here with all these with a disproportionate adverse reaction: It’s very simple. Emergency use authorization, emergency powers. You can bypass all traditional vaccine requirements and tests. They’re doing this with all of the updates with children,  it’s all a way to bypass not only democracy, but traditional medical safety because we’re in an emergency here. And you could also say Donald Trump, president Trump’s whole idea to rush a vaccine to market was misguided.  I know he was a private businessman who came to fame and getting things done under budget. But maybe an untested vaccine on the mass population that would later be used to mandate and force people and threaten them with their jobs — was the wrong thing to rush through. That’s something we have to look at because in the future we don’t want to be like ‘Let’s ram this thing in as fast as we can.’ You mentioned informed consent. They’re not giving you the information and you don’t have the consent that’s what they tried to take away. So that whole idea was turned on its head. Once again the premise and it goes back to what I said about emergency powers with COVID, with terrorism, with climate coming up, they want to bypass traditional procedures democracy, medical safety, and this is the method in which they do it. They say ‘we have to do this this, it is an urgent because it’s a Public Health Crisis and it becomes a permanent crisis.  Mark Steyn: You see across the continent these seriously collapsing fertility rates then you have reports that are now acknowledged in peer-reviewed journals, particularly in terms of women’s health that the vaccines change their periods and and have impacts on breast milk, and all the rest of it  just as a general proposition they don’t seem worried about that because they’re not into large families. Marc Morano: No it’s if anything it’s a side benefit that they didn’t promote or think about. This is a benefit to those who worry about overpopulation, but you not only have women’s menstrual cycles being affected and — by the way that was considered misinformation you would be de-platformed, canceled, taken off all social media, no one was allowed to say that, but now it’s in the New York Times, The Washington Post, in peer-review journals —  but you have women’s cycles being interrupted but you also have men’s sperm counts dropping with the vaccine and with the boosters. So combine those two and you’re going to have lower fertility rates. Now they claim it’s a temporary effect on male fertility but again we don’t have long-term tests to know what’s temporary because this is emergency use we don’t have time. Remember, Greta Thunberg said ‘I want you to panic,’ because when you panic you do incredibly stupid, dangerous things and you play with people’s lives. But to your point, we’ve dealt with this before, this idea of affecting feritliy, with Paul Ehrlich. A 1969 New York Times headline read, sterility drug hinted at in our water and food supply and it goes on to talk about in both Africa and the United States they wanted to add a sterility agent drug that would suppress US population growth and create less fertility, less reproduction. This was Paul Ehrlich. And then you have Jacques Cousteau, actually saying at one point we need to lose 350 000 people per day in order to bring the Earth’s population down to a reasonable level, that Earth can handle.  #

Australian bank announces it will BAN loans for gas & diesel cars to meet ‘net-zero’ climate goals

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11122207/Bank-Australia-announces-BAN-loans-petrol-diesel-cars-2025-fight-climate-change.html By STEPHEN JOHNSON, ECONOMICS REPORTER FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA An Australian bank will stop approving personal loans for new petrol and diesel-powered cars from 2025 as the federal government flags tough new fuel efficiency standards. Electric vehicles this year have a minuscule 1.6 per cent market share even when Tesla sales were included, with starting prices of $47,000 and a lack of charging stations turning off many potential motorists. But the customer-owned Bank Australia wants to change that, in a bid to reduce carbon emissions linked to climate change. Its chief impact officer Sasha Courville told the National Electric Vehicle Summit in Canberra on Friday the bank’s new policy was ‘an important step in decarbonising the Australian economy’. ‘By ceasing car loans for new fossil fuel vehicles, we are sending a signal to the Australian market about the rapid acceleration in the transition from internal combustion to electric vehicles we expect to see in the next few years,’ she said. … ‘We’ve chosen 2025 because the change to electric vehicles needs to happen quickly, and we believe it can with the right supporting policies in place to bring a greater range of more affordable electric vehicles to Australia.’ Australia’s new electrical vehicle plan CHARGING STATIONS: Average interval of 150km as part of a plan for a national network COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT CAR FLEET:  Low emissions target to apply to 75 per cent of purchased or leased vehicles by 2025 HYDROGEN HIGHWAYS: Refuelling network for another renewable energy-powered vehicle … Bank Australia made the announcement as Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen and Transport Minister Catherine King jointly announced that new fuel efficiency standards would be introduced as part of a National Electric Vehicle Strategy. ‘Apart from Russia, Australia is the only OECD country to not have, or be in the process of developing, fuel efficiency standards,’ their joint media release said. Under Labor’s plan, a low emissions target would apply to 75 per cent of the Commonwealth government’s car fleet by 2025, with that figure including purchases and leases. ‘Up until now, Australian households and businesses have had very little choice regarding low-emissions and fuel-efficient vehicles, and they have been paying for it,’ Mr Bowen said. The ministers have also promised to have electric vehicle charging stations at average intervals of every 150km on major roads along with a national hydrogen highways refueling network. Ms Courville said Bank Australia would continue allowing loans for secondhand petrol and diesel cars from 2025, as it banned financing for new fossil fuel-powered vehicles. Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries chief executive Tony Weber described the government’s polices as ‘a major step on our journey to delivering low emission vehicles to Australian customers’. ‘This is a good day,’ he said. … Australia has a net zero by 2050 target with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor government this month securing from the Greens support to legislate a 43 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. Bank Australia has a net zero by 2035 target. # April 2022: At World Bank Climate Talk, Nicholas Stern Floats End of Conventional Vehicles Sales: Urges ‘clarity on timescales for stopping the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles’ – Nicholas Stern, former chief economist for the World Bank from 2000 through 2003: “The right kind of policies have to be put in place, including the abolition of fossil fuel subsidies, the advancement of carbon pricing, but clarity on timescales for decentralization of the grid, clarity on timescales for stopping the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles, and so on—making sure the sense of direction is clear in those ways.”    https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1560934032254410758

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