UK government has axed the Department of Energy and Climate Change - Polidicks

[QUOTE]The government has axed the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) in a major departmental shake-up. The brief will be folded into an expanded Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy under Greg Clark. Ed Miliband, the former energy and climate secretary under Labour, called the move "plain stupid". [/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36788162"]Source[/URL]

I second Ed on this, energy has no reason to be group with business or industrial strategy, it will only make things slower moving in the long run.

Glad to see Theresa May is making great changes already. /s

Well, it looks like this government will be even more regressive than the last Who's surprised?

First the facesitting porn, now the enviroment.

[quote]Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy[/quote] Good to see they're focusing on climate change.

I'm kind of confused, why do the british government put so many departments together? Isn't that a bit messy? I mean our government sometimes combine two departments together, but they have usually something in common, here its' not the case. I just find it a bit bizarre to see two of these departments being very much apart I can see how Business and Industry strategy might fit together though. Enough about that, honestly we all know it always rains in Britain so it should obviously be proof that there's no global warming right? Haha, haha Theresa May is such a jokestar. Someone save the brits already.

[QUOTE=Tacooo;50709549]Well, it looks like this government will be even more regressive than the last Who's surprised?[/QUOTE] Brexit won, it's very much not surprising that Britain has swung hard-right.

That new name just screams "we're going to put profits over sustainability of our planet."

[QUOTE=Fapplejack;50709775]That new name just screams "we're going to put profits over sustainability of our planet."[/QUOTE] I think they're putting profits above just about everything with this one, Philip Hammond is also a nut, said gay marriage was too controversial and blamed borrowers for the banking crisis.

It could be worse, but it's still pretty shit and a terrible example to set; on the upside the UK isn't that big a contributor to global emissions, but it's still a contributor, and other countries seeing the UK's casual disregard for the environment might encourage the same thing elsewhere.

Wait a minute, is this something that literally just happened over night now that May is Prime Minister? How the fuck do you just scrap a government agency without any discourse? I thought right wing lunacy was supposed to be confined to the United States. What the fuck is even happening?

Wasn't Theresa May the woman who was for banning porn or putting on-by-default child locks on all modems in the UK?

[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;50710766]Wait a minute, is this something that literally just happened over night now that May is Prime Minister? How the fuck do you just scrap a government agency without any discourse? I thought right wing lunacy was supposed to be confined to the United States. What the fuck is even happening?[/QUOTE] No government agency was scrapped. Actual government is run by things like departments (at least here in Australia, don't know what the UK calls them). Groups of similar departments form together to create a ministry. And what they can do is change which departments are in which ministries. I'm not completely sure what it's like in the UK, but this sounds like what I've just said above. Except they refer to some of their ministries as departments, so I'm not sure what level is under their departments.

She's taken a page out of Abbott's book.

Not a good move to see, but the government has insisted that "nothing is changing" about their climate change commitments, and they are still [url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/27/section/1]required by law[/url] to work towards cutting carbon emissions to 80% of 1990 levels by 2050. I don't like Andrea Leadsom as Environment Secretary though. [editline]15th July 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Smug Bastard;50710766]Wait a minute, is this something that literally just happened over night now that May is Prime Minister? How the fuck do you just scrap a government agency without any discourse? I thought right wing lunacy was supposed to be confined to the United States. What the fuck is even happening?[/QUOTE] The Prime Minister can create or abolish a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_government_departments#Ministerial_departments]ministerial department[/url] at any time. They don't generally have a basis in law and it's up to the Prime Minister to decide how to set up their government and what kind of departments to have. The Department of Energy and Climate Change itself had only been around since 2008, when it was created by Gordon Brown.

Call me a nihilist, but it's pointless for anyone here in europe to do anything about climate change when you have big heavy polluting countries like India and China doing considerably more damage.

[QUOTE=Coffee;50712208]Call me a nihilist, but it's pointless for anyone here in europe to do anything about climate change when you have big heavy polluting countries like India and China doing considerably more damage.[/QUOTE] "haha why even try saving the planet and putting off climate change through prevention as much as we can right? Fuck that it's pointless"

[QUOTE=The Rifleman;50712240]"haha why even try saving the planet and putting off climate change through prevention as much as we can right? Fuck that it's pointless"[/QUOTE] Any change to pollution output we do will be effectively undone by the rest of the world as their heavy industries and manufacturing grow to meet the demands of the future. Reducing pollution should be a global commitment from every single country, until you can get the USA, China, India, Japan and Russia to reduce their emissions, it's going to be a lost cause.

[QUOTE=Coffee;50712537]Any change to pollution output we do will be effectively undone by the rest of the world as their heavy industries and manufacturing grow to meet the demands of the future. Reducing pollution should be a global commitment from every single country, until you can get the USA, China, India, Japan and Russia to reduce their emissions, it's going to be a lost cause.[/QUOTE] We literally just did that [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement[/url]