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Sweden Pledges To Cut All Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 (independent.co.uk)
Sweden has announced ambitious plans to completely phase out greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. The nation also reaffirmed the urgency of tackling climate change and called for all countries to "step up and fulfill the Paris Agreement." The Independent reports: "Our target is to be an entirely fossil-fuel-free welfare state," said Climate Minister Isabella Lovin. "We see that the advantages of a climate-smart society are so huge, both when it comes to health, job creation and also security. Being dependent on fossil fuels and gas from Russia is not what we need now,â she added. All parties but the far-right Sweden Democrats party agreed to pass the law in the coming month, which will oblige the government to set tougher goals to cut fossil fuel emissions every four years until the 2045 cut-off date. Plans also include a 70 per cent cut to emissions in the domestic transport sector by 2030. The Government said the target would require domestic emissions to be cut by at least 85 per cent and the remaining emissions would be offset by planting trees or by sustainable investments abroad. The law is expected to enter into force as early as 2018.
No, even the worse estimates still show that it will take a 50 years for us to get to what would be considered a normal global average for human history.
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We in the UK have such a thing called the "Climate Change Act". It was the most expensive bill ever passed by a UK Parliament. Luckily there's a small chance a non-retarded government will get itself elected and repeal the bill, which has effects across our economy particularly with respect to fuel bills. Yes, our MPs are thick. They're now shamelessly banging on about "fuel poverty" without any embarrassment whatsoever. It's easier to blame it on evil capitalists rather than their own idiotic energy policies.
What does a "normal global average" mean? What is normal and what is natural variation?
Were they crawling under barbed wire to escape from a welfare state or a totalitarian police state?
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What does a "normal global average" mean? What is normal and what is natural variation?
The "years before present" in one of those is years before about 2000.
I thought xkcd put it well. It's not just the temperature but the rate of change of temperature which is unnatural.