The Politics of 'Climate-change'

[PalazioVecchio]

is it all just......

a) a catastrophic Existential challenge to humanity. The real deal. Up there with Noah's flood.

b) spin, hot air, and an ideological power-grab....with future Covid-lockdown-style 'climate emergencies'

c) pseudo science, propaganda and man's never ending need for a doomsday scenario just over the horizon.

d) other ( please insert )

United Kingdom weather records - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

Climate change is happening. Scientific fact.

In politics it's an excuse to raise taxes but do nothing worthwhile. An excuse to morph the manufacturing industry to generate jobs and raise people's expenditure.

The ridiculous nature of policy:
Shall we fine Los Angeles for breaching air quality standards and emissions with their wild fires ?
Do the missiles and tanks of Russia and Ukraine run on bio-fuels so they are better for the environment ?

We're all going to die, but more likely from nuclear warfare than anything else.

 

[Living In Hope]

Difficult to deny it is happening and that it poses a huge problem to people / the world. However, it can only be resolved by a concerted global effort, not by the actions of the UK government. So in my view our government needs to bang the drum for global action, but strenuously avoid impoverishing the nation in pursuit of net zero policies. Sadly the really key thing will be that we as a nation are wealthy enough to mitigate the impacts of climate change on our population, as we will be powerless to prevent China, India, Russia and the USA from continuing down the same track of environmental damage and further climate change.

 

[kevlee]

Climate change is a proven massive hoax.
Ask Donald Trump, his new environmental head Chris Wright and Senator James Inhofe.
I would also add that the world is flat…

 

[eaglesdare]

Drill baby Drill!

 

[Badger11]

Drill baby Drill!

Agreed. I am not a climate change denier however just like Y2K and Brexit a lot gets blamed on climate change e.g. fires and floods even though the locals point out that the authorities have failed to maintain flood defences or cleared dead wood through controlled burning etc.

CC is a get out of gaol card used by some to cover their own incompetency.

Until the major polluters actually do something why should the rest of us wear the hair shirt just so do nothing politicians can feel better.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

Agreed. I am not a climate change denier however just like Y2K and Brexit a lot gets blamed on climate change e.g. fires and floods even though the locals point out that the authorities have failed to maintain flood defences or cleared dead wood through controlled burning etc.

CC is a get out of gaol card used by some to cover their own incompetency.

Until the major polluters actually do something why should the rest of us wear the hair shirt just so do nothing politicians can feel better.

Of course disasters happen as a consequence of things other than climate change. They always have. Climate change just changes the dynamics and unpredictability which demands we change what we do in response.

So doing more, rather than less, of the things that caused the change makes it worse, not better. If governments take a short term approach designed to make them popular it will not be dealt with. Which is why the developed world has been taking the lead. Failing to do so is both irresponsible and a disaster.

Why should we wear the hair shirt? Because if we don’t our great grandchildren may not be here to wear shirts.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

Drill baby Drill!

Of all the many mega stupid things that Trump said yesterday this was one of the most ignorant.

Popularism is not leadership. It’s the massaging of prejudice to maintain ego.

 

[cryrst]

Of course disasters happen as a consequence of things other than climate change. They always have. Climate change just changes the dynamics and unpredictability which demands we change what we do in response.

So doing more, rather than less, of the things that caused the change makes it worse, not better. If governments take a short term approach designed to make them popular it will not be dealt with. Which is why the developed world has been taking the lead. Failing to do so is both irresponsible and a disaster.

Why should we wear the hair shirt? Because if we don’t our great grandchildren may not be here to wear shirts.

Maybe if we didn’t build on flood plains which Mother Earth determined or cleared woodland with fire breaks, or accepted that weather is hot and cold there would be less of the CC to moan about. The earth is alive and very well and has a cycle which we are in atm. It is a bit older than any records we can put on the table.