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In November last year, the Centre Party (Senterpartiet) put forward a proposal to abandon the Government’s objective of making Norway climate neutral by 2030. Today the proposal secured a majority from the Progress Party (FrP), the Conservative Party (Høyre), Red (Rødt), the Christian Democratic Party (KrF) and the Centre Party (Sp), and thus the distinctly Norwegian “hairy target” from 2016 is history. The reason is that we are writing 2026, and Norway is not even close to any climate targets, despite more than 1,000 billion having been poured into the “green transition”.
The objective that Norway shall be climate neutral from 2030 was adopted by the Storting in 2016, against the votes of Høyre and FrP. This occurred in connection with the consideration of the Climate Act (klimaloven) after the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2015 unanimously. Now the lack of actual results is beginning to become as difficult to conceal as the enormous disadvantages and costs, at the same time as climate policy is collapsing in more and more countries. Climate hysteria is beginning to become an embarrassing political burden, and it will become worse.
Impossible targets adopted by law
After 2016 the “climate targets” have been reinforced through the Climate Act of 2019, in which the Storting has adopted that man can govern the planet’s climate, and Norway shall reduce emissions by at least 55 per cent by 2030, compared with the 1990 level. This target remains, even though it is unattainable. It is only the sub-target of climate neutrality in 2030 through contrivances such as carbon trading that has been repealed today.
Another matter that remains is the climate target for 2050, whereby Norway shall have become a “low-emission society”. This entails reducing emissions of plant nutrients by 90–95 per cent in relation to the 1990 level. This target is enshrined in the Climate Act of 2019, but that too is impossible and will never be reached – and the reason is to be found thoroughly documented in the book “Klima Antiklimaks” from 2020.
Not yet the end of climate hysteria
The powerful climate industry is naturally both panicked and morally shaken by the climate disobedience in the Storting. This is nevertheless not the end of the foolish and costly climate hysteria, for the Climate Act remains. Today’s resolution is, however, a very important crack in the dam of consensus that has cost unimaginable sums and problems, without anything in reality having been achieved.
The climate targets and the “climate accounts” are in reality merely a “think-of-a-number” game that has been adopted as truths by politicians who know nothing about the natural sciences. The targets are purely prestige-based and have value only for politicians with groupthink, as well as private actors who profit from the climate hysteria. They have no relevance for ordinary citizens.
What will occur going forward towards 2030 is that more and more countries will reinforce and move their climate targets to 2040 instead of repealing them. It is also likely that the horde of climate researchers will produce research showing that we have more time than we thought, yet nevertheless the climate struggle MUST continue – together with the subsidies to the climate researchers, naturally.
But a “green transition” based on wind turbines and solar panels is therefore not possible. It never has been. All climate targets will fail in the end, and everyone will eventually become “climate sceptics”. Wait and see.