Reply To: Take Back Control

[Bucksiron]

Reducing CO2 will make virtually no difference to the climate, NI, which will continue to change as it always has and always will, i.e. naturally. However, I’m not entirely against net zero because, if nothing else, it will reduce pollution.

The problem is that we’re now in a crazy situation where India and China, in particular, are building fossil-fuel power stations at an astonishing rate, which means not only that net zero is decades — probably centuries — away, but also that pollution will continue to be a huge problem. At the same time, while India and China are doing what they want, poorer nations are being denied access to the cheap energy that would transform the lives of millions. It astonishes me that the likes of Gurny believe this is acceptable.

Regarding the example of summer temperatures, the point is that the places to which I referred were used by many media to “prove” record temperatures. What they actually proved is that places at airports and airfields were the hottest in the UK. People can, of course, draw their own conclusions but this remains a simple fact that cannot be explained by chance alone, yet the media conveniently forgot to cover it. It’s almost certainly down to the UHI effect, which is making a huge difference to temperatures being recorded across the globe.

Siderite, your comment about “7 temperature records” is completely incorrect and I am NOT saying “no climate change”.

Re Brexit, I refer you to previous comments. It isn’t and never was about economics. As for the French stock exchange, let’s see what happens over the next few years. The likelihood of it remaining of higher value than London is small.

Finally, regarding the economy as a whole I’m appalled by the Tory approach. We should, indeed, give Labour a chance to fix it. I’m not holding my breath they’ll be able to do so, however. We have a useless bunch of politicians across the entire parliamentary spectrum.