Are You Worried About Climate Change?

[dave50]

Is it acceptable for this government to ask us to make expensive changes to our lifestykes such as buying electric cars and scrapping gas fired central heating boilers among other things and enshrining in law that we must be carbon neutral by some arbitrary date when no other country on the planet has made such promises. Add this to the fact we only produce 2% of worlds emissions. Are we cutting our own throats to prove how virtuous we are while the biggest polluters of the world carry on as normal?

[bobbinwales]

//No. Climate has continually changed for millions of years.//
The equivalent of "Covid is just like flu".
The science tells us otherwise but some still seem certain the scientists are all wrong

[Gromit]

China is currently running 1,058 coal plants – more than half the world’s capacity.
But the country’s stated goal is to become "carbon neutral" by 2060.
China must take radical action now. China must close 588 coal-fired power plants in a decade to meet its climate pledges.
Sounds unlikely. But the cost of producing renewable energy has plummeted.
It is now far cheaper to produce energy from renewable sources than it is to burn coal.
If they ditch 600 coal power stations, they will save £1.2Trillion.

[ToraToraTora]

they are building one a week gromit.

[webbo3]

No
https://images.app.goo.gl/wf1YAox4deS5Etej6

https://images.app.goo.gl/DPPREgVE4br2Huvs6

John kerry buys beach front property, hardly worried is he.
https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2017/03/09/john-kerry-buys-historic-marthas-vineyard-property

[Gromit]

Webbo,
John Kerry is 77. His property is on top of a hill. The beach has a long tidal range so is not troubled by coastal erosion.

[rowanwitch]

Leading by example, at some point someone has to stand up and be counted. Climate change is a threat to us all, if global warming was an enemy with an army threatening the world no one would be querying our being in the forefront of defence.

[webbo3]

Gromit,

I bet all these thought they were safe.
https://www.google.com/search?q=houses+cliff+erosion&;oq=houses+cliffs+&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i22i30l3j0i22i30i457j0i22i30l5.10369j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[Gromit]

Webbo, just measured it on Google Earth, and the farm is a kilometre from the sea.
A bit misleading to call it a beach front. It has a sea view but is quite a distance from sea.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/42/92/a3/4292a3ffd995dd4dc86306ef895fe6a3.jpg

Kerry did good business. It was on the market for $14million and he paid less than $12million.

[fender62]

waste of time the human race is done, resources depleted, ocean polluted and over fished, unfettered human population growth, let alone wars, and were talking about pollution...jeez, see the big picture
to many people, and who all want the same as we have, it's not mine or your fault, but its unsustainable, = wars

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

I couldnt give a flying toss about climate change. Looking forward to nice hot summers.

[archibaldy]

New Judge // a changing climate does not cause forest fires //

Regardless of cause surely you'd agree that everything being colder and wetter would have some sort of effect on a fire.

[fcc]

fender62 has hit the nail on the head when he says it's overpopulation
that's the biggest threat,i wonder what china,india etc. are going to do about that.

[New Judge]

//Regardless of cause surely you'd agree that everything being colder and wetter would have some sort of effect on a fire.//

Agreed. But Greece is never cold and wet at this time of year. It's dry and hot. It's always dry and hot. I first went there in 1972. It was dry and hot. I was caught in a forest fire in Corfu a few years ago and had to leave my villa at 2am. It was dry and hot. Any fire that starts there at this time of year is likely to spread. It probably has not rained significantly there for more than two months. That's not unusual, it's commonplace and it's nothing to do with climate change.

[tomus42]

Personally I'm not worried about it. My house isn't near a river. I do feel a bit sorry for future generations though.

[archibaldy]

New Judge // It was dry and hot //

I’m sure you’ve had some sweltering holidays but those are quite far removed from scientific measurements and analysis. It’s about whether it’s trending towards drier and hotter long term, and it would look that way based on measurements. That climate trend favours fires, which we’ve agreed on.

[gness]

I’d be foolish not to worry about the effect climate change will have on my children and grandchildren.

As for HH @ 22.05. The selfishness and ignorance of the god spouting people shows their true colours once again.

[tomus42]

Well, at least we've moved on from 'It's a hoax', to 'I don't care about it'. I'm not sure if it's progress but it's a change.

[Spicerack]

It's a hoax.
Last week, some of our lefty's were crying about the number of coalmines that were closed in this country.
Hold honest opinions and you won't have to keep back-tracking, obfuscating and dissembling.

[10ClarionSt]

Climate change is not man-made. It's natural. The Earth is STILL emerging from the last Ice-Age and continues to warm up. That will continue for approx another 3,000 years, when the climate will flip and recede into another Ice-Age. It's what happens with this planet and has done since it was first formed. The main influence on the weather on this planet is the Sun, not cars and factories. People should be more concerned for the plastic pollution. That will choke the planet long before global warming does.

[bobbinwales]

Those pesky scientists will be kicking themselves in 20 years time that they didn't ask for science advice on covid and climate change from the armchair 'I know better brigade on answerbank'. Or maybe some here are just to set in there ways and stubborn to consider things might have moved on