European Conservatives Dismiss Higher Climate Target As Left-Wing ‘Propaganda’

The center-right European People’s Party (EPP) has slammed a call for a more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction target as “unrealistic” and part of a left-wing “propaganda” effort.

“The position of the [EPP] group was against the 55 percent for 2030 because it is unrealistic and only introduced by Greens and socialists to make propaganda,” an EPP spokesman told EUobserver. “The majority of the group decided that we should not play the unrealistic game of the left-wing groups,” he added.  —EU Observer, 14 March 2019

In order to save support for its climate plan, the Dutch government is taking flight a week before provincial elections in the Netherlands. It is promising that climate policy costs for ordinary citizens will be reduced while businesses will have to pay more. Only at the end of April will it be clear what the promises are worth. —De Telegraaf, 14 March 2019

Norway’s government is proposing to expand the area that will be offered for oil and gas exploration in the 2019 licensing round of acreage in mature areas, Petroleum and Energy Minister Kjell-Børge Freiberg said on Thursday. —OilPrice.com, 14 March 2019

Today schoolchildren are bunking off school again to protest the changing climate. Guido has obtained footage of the chant they were shouting outside Number 10: “One Two Three Four, Theresa May’s a f**ing whre.”  Watch the video here. Guido has it on good authority that people who appeared to be teachers were egging on the chanting… —Gaia Fawkes, 15 March 2019

A new GWPF report finds eco-activism is being given free rein in many UK schools. In every case of concern, the slant is on scares, on raising fears, followed by the promotion of detailed guidance on how pupils should live, as well as on what they should think. —Andrew Montford and John Shade, Global Warming Policy Foundation