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Scottish Government Targets 66% Emissions Cut By 2032 (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BBC: The Scottish government has outlined a new target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 66% by 2032. Climate Change Secretary Roseanna Cunningham set out the government's draft climate change plan for the next 15 years at Holyrood. She also targeted a fully-decarbonized electricity sector and 80% of domestic heat coming from low-carbon sources. Ministers committed last year to cut harmful CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050, with a new interim target of 50% by 2020. The previous interim target of 42% was met in 2014 -- six years early. However, the independent Committee on Climate Change said the decrease was largely down to a warmer than average winter reducing the demand for heating. Ms Cunningham said the new targets demonstrated "a new level of ambition" to build a low-carbon economy and a healthier Scotland. Goals to be achieved by 2032 include: Cutting greenhouse emissions by 66%; A fully-decarbonized electricity sector; 80% of domestic heat to come from low-carbon heat technologies; Proportion of ultra-low emission new cars and vans registered in Scotland annually to hit 40%; 250,000 hectares of degraded peatlands restored; Annual woodland creation target increased to at least 15,000 hectares per year. The 172-page document sets a road map for decarbonizing Scotland. The aim -- although not new -- is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds by 2032. Among the policies are making half of Scotland's buses low-carbon, full-decarbonizing the electricity sector and making 80% of homes heated by low-carbon technologies.
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Thanks for our daily dose of global warming propaganda! I thought this site was about technology..
Ah poor liberal losers. Your tears are delicious though.
Bye bye Obummer!
Labour's Claudia Beamish, who has put forward a members' bill calling for a fracking ban, said it was a "major let-down" that it was not mentioned in the statement. While she broadly welcomed the draft plan, she said: "If the government was serious about tackling climate change it would back my Bill to ban fracking in Scotland."
You poor fucking Scots have the same type of no win system as we do.
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All very laudable and all that, but when an economy like Germany is struggling to get to zero carbon economy. How does the Scottish Government plan to pay for this shift in energy use??
...is to intubate Scottish sheep to collect their methane emissions.
Emission cuts are the XXIst century equivalent of self-flagellation in the Middle-Ages to cure the Black Plague. Pointless.
Its good to see the scotts limiting the amount of evaporation their country contributes to the CO2 force feedback methodology pushed forward by a few universities and many activist organisations under the guise of "United Nations".
With over 66% of the greenhouse atmosphere over head being this dangerous heat capturing gas as the cause of and primary blame for the peak of temperatures last year (oh, and El ninio).
Its great to see the Scotts being responsible when it comes to this alarmingly powerful planet warming pollution.
What are they going to do with all that extra haggis?
Liberals are known for making long pointless talks about global warming and produce a huge amount of C02 in the process. A quick back of the napkin calculation shows that by removing the liberals and liberal politicians from Scotland and transplanting them to Mexico we could eliminate 55% of Scotlands current carbon emissions. The remaining 11% could easily be combated through more efficient transportation and energy production that will naturally flourish when the bottum feeders are no longer clogging up the Scottish Economy.
As an additional benefit the deportees will be forced to become productive members of the global economy and get real jobs. The new transplants will find that they have to stop worrying about ( gender inequality | global warming | European Privilege, etc ) and get a real job like plumbing or masonry.
Of coarse you will have a hard time getting Mexico to accept these people because they have tough immigration policies and do not like to support useless bottom feeders
It's not propaganda, its simple well understood science backed by a mass of empirical observation.
Pre industrial revolution out CO2 was 280ppm, by the 1950's we'd reached 315ppm, by the year 2000 we'd reached 360ppm. Now we're over 400ppm.
The temperatures are rising, the oceans are getting more acidic and the chemical mechanisms are well understood.
Do you think that if you shut enough people up, that CO2 will decline, and global warming stop? How? By what mechanism? Does this chemical reaction involve la-la-la-lanium? Do twitter rants from 'Whiney Orange Victim' affect atmospheric CO2?
Trump is Putin's pedo puppet president, he'll seed all the agencies with his Trumpskys, so one thing you'll begin to see is a hiding of all that unpleasant empirical data from NASA and NOAA and a new fluffy science. Climate scientists are the cause of global warming. Accountants cause bankruptcy. NATO hacked the elections. Hawaii is really Russian territory, and Trump corp gets the casino and hooker rights.
Scotland's emissions dropped a massive amount a few decades ago back when Thatcher used the one-off North Sea oil windfall to finance a transition from a UK wide manufacturing economy to a Southern England financial services economy.
Scotland and the UK in general had not recovered yet.
So there are not a lot of emissions to cut which doesn't make it a very difficult job.
Meanwhile the Govt is in serious debt, the Education system is failing, North Sea Oil is on it's arse and the First Minister is blindly hanging to the concept of Independence #2 [whilst being tied to the EU] despite the EU saying "Non", the UK Government telling them there is snowball-in-hells chance of a 2nd Referendum and Brexit hammering in the final nails.
Never mind all that - Climate Change Virtue signalling is what we need ! Is BeauHD a shrill for the SNP ?
How is the 80% of domestic heat from "low carbon heat technologies ?" Most people I know have Gas Central heating not electric. If it's not that is fuel oil. Since when was North Sea Gas low carbon? Or are the Government going to pay to rip out all the Gas Boilers ? [British Gas might have an issue with that].
As for a "healthier Scotland" - Add a tax of 1000% to Buckfast, Greggs Pie's, Chicken Nuggets and Lamber and Butler fags and you might have a fighting chance at it.
And yet the SNP are committed to maintaining--if not expanding--North Sea oil and gas operations.
A good start to reducing gas emissions by 66% would be for the SNP to stop talking.
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Ah, I see, when liberals berate trump, it's tears. When YOU berate, and berated for 8 years, Obama, it's, um....
What?
with it.
It's laughable.
'Greenhouse gases'. Do you mean 'carbon dioxide'? There is no such thing as 'catastrophic man-made global warming'. As for "decarbonized", words fail me.
The whole thing is a giant shakedown, by people who do nothing whatsoever of value in their jobs.
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Scotland can get cold. You'd think they'd welcome a few degrees of warming. But then again, like the loss of a 'stiff upper lip' in England, all good sense seems to have deserted the Scots. They actually seem to think they could make a go of it as a nation without subsidies from the English.
near the Arctic Circle can significantly reduce its Carbon output then there is no reason why the rest of us can't.
Kudos to the Scots for taking a cut in their standard of living! Thanks to Scotland's draconian commitment to global religiosity, worldwide greenhouse gas emissions will be cut by 0.0000000023%. Well, that's assuming that China, India, Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, and Thailand don't increase their greenhouse gas emissions, or cut down any more forests.