Campaigners call Graham Stuart’s comments ‘laughable’ and say Conservatives are weaponising climate action

Campaigners call Graham Stuart’s comments ‘laughable’ and say Conservatives are weaponising climate action

Oil and gas are “not the problem” for the climate, but the carbon emissions arising from them are, the UK’s net zero minister has told MPs.

In words that suggested the UK could place yet more emphasis on technologies to capture and store carbon, Graham Stuart said fossil fuel production was not driving climate change, but demand for fossil fuels, in a bullish defence of the government’s much-criticised stance.

  • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    “There is nothing fundamentally wrong with oil and gas, it’s emissions from oil and gas that are the problem and that we must focus on.”

    You really couldn’t make this crap up. This clown show needs to end, before it ends us all.

    Carbon capture is a fantasy, and increasing supply will only encourage demand. The only real path we have is to fully transition away from fossil fuel based energy production, however temporarily painful it may be. We also can’t expect other nations to do something we are not willing to do ourselves.