Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-10-23-Speech-3-350-000"
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"Madam President, the EU’s climate and energy policies are probably unnecessary, certainly ineffectual and ruinously expensive.
Unnecessary, because the theory of man-made climate change is increasingly disputed, and there has been no global warming for nearly two decades. The earth’s climate system is complex, chaotic and poorly understood. It is absurd to think that man-made CO
is the only driver of climate.
Ineffectual, because with 1 200 new coal-fired power stations in the global pipeline, nothing we do in the EU will make a scrap of difference. Levels of atmospheric CO
will rise for decades whatever we do.
Ruinously expensive: Energy Commissioner Oettinger said that Europe cannot continue to follow a unilateral climate policy. Commissioner Antonio Tajani said we face ‘an industrial massacre’, and he is right: businesses are moving out of the EU taking jobs and investment with them, and households are being forced into fuel poverty. Thousands of pensioners will die of cold in Europe this winter.
It is time to abandon our obsession with CO
and start to prioritise reliable and affordable energy supplies."@en1
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