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I have to wonder: do the EU citizens agree with all the climate targets scams, knowing that they are the ones will bear the burden?

EU’s climate chief warns of ‘geopolitical winter’

The planet is heating up, but the geopolitical landscape is freezing over, European Union climate chief Wopke Hoekstra warned in an interview with POLITICO.

Donald Trump, a fossil fuel evangelist and climate heretic, is back. Across Europe, far-right, anti-green crusaders are rising. And in Brussels, Hoekstra’s own center-right political family is questioning the EU’s climate ambitions.

“We clearly have entered a geopolitical winter,” Hoekstra said in his office in the European Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters describing “tremendously challenging geopolitical times” that “will get worse before it gets better in the years that we have ahead of us.”

Good grief. “Fossil fuel evangelist and climate heretic”? And then the media, here and in Europe, wonders why the trust in them is so low and why people think they are activists, not journalists. I’ve seen more even handed treatment from climate cult groups. I’m going to have to do some sort of climate related TDS graphic.

Hoekstra is not a new figure to Brussels, having taken over as EU climate chief in 2023. But he was recently reconfirmed for his role at the Commission, the EU’s executive branch, starting a new term on Dec. 1.

For the Dutch commissioner, who oversees international climate negotiations for the EU as part of his job, the next few years are likely to be a bumpy ride as he tries to convince the rest of the world to accelerate efforts to cut planet-warming emissions.

“We’re truly making progress in tackling climate change and implementing measures here, but Europe alone cannot save the day,” he said. “The way the heating of the Earth works is that climate change is indiscriminate. It doesn’t matter where CO2 is being pumped into the air. It affects the whole planet.”

Didn’t he take a fossil fueled flight to Azerbaijan for COP29?

Press conference by European Commissioner for Climat Action, Wopke Hoekstra at COP29 pic.twitter.com/tiW3yK6lTv

— Zumrud Pashkin ???????? (@ZumrudPashkin) November 18, 2024

Huh. Anyone think he flew coach?

One stick the EU is about to impose on the world is a carbon border tax, which will charge importers a levy on emissions-intensive goods starting in 2026. The move has drawn fierce criticism from countries such as Brazil, India, China and South Africa, which also sought to discuss the issue at last month’s COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan.

And you know who will pay the price? The peasants in the EU. Have fun.