Why “net zero” is a fraud: science, technology and politics

Here’s a talk by Simon Pirani – “net zero” is a fraud: science, technology and politics – given at an on-line session earlier this month, hosted by the COP View group. That’s the first 20 minutes of the video; then comes a talk by Jonathan Fuller on media coverage of climate issues.

More to read on “net zero”

□ It’s a “dangerous trap”, climate scientists James Dyke, Robert Watson and Wolfgang Knorr write

□ “Don’t expect real climate solutions from COP 26” by Simon Pirani

□ The Not Zero report by environmental NGOs

□ “How the UK Climate Change Committee steals from the carbon budget”, by Peter Somerville

□ “A Factor of Two: how the mitigation plans of ‘climate progressive’ nations fall far short”, by scientists at the Tyndall Centre paper  

□ “Carbon Dioxide removal sucks” – People and Nature  

□ The Global Carbon Project  

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Graphic from the NOT ZERO report