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 George Hollingbery on the Environment
Anyone who has been involved in the Sciences should be healthily sceptical about global warming.
Weather systems and global climate are such fiercely complicated beasts that any definite statements about where they are going and what they are doing should be treated with the greatest caution.
That said, it seems to me that a rational observer would conclude that something is clearly amiss and that human activity may well be the cause.
But this is not a matter of rights and wrongs. I don’t know whether Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace are right but it doesn’t really matter. This is about risk management and the consequences that will flow from them being right are so enormous and so terrifying that we would be fools not to attempt to address them.
So yes, we should continue to negotiate internationally to try and create treaties on emissions, we should work to establish carbon trading programmes, we should encourage energy conscious behaviour in all walks of life and legislate to create incentives to use less energy on the one and harness energy from sustainable sources on the other.
It may turn out that there wasn’t a problem and that we have simply polluted less and found alternative energy supplies to fossil fuels sooner rather than later... and can that be a bad thing?
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| | stephen harwood (Guest) | 29/03/2010 08:34 | | Quote from your environment section:
“But this is not a matter of rights and wrongs. I don’t know whether Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace are right but it doesn’t really matter. This is about risk management and the consequences that will flow from them being right are so enormous and so terrifying that we would be fools not to attempt to address them.”
I agree with your conclusion here but strongly disagree with the implication that climate change is led by the likes of the activist groups which you mention. The doubters seem to be led by business interests.
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“Anyone who has been involved in the Sciences should be healthily sceptical about global warming. I would say that it is the exact opposite.” No doubt you know of scientists who deny it?
You cannot seriously believe that all the CO2 we have been throwing into the atmosphere for the last 150 years has not had an effect. A lot of people think this but it is because they do not want to accept the changes that action will bring to their lives. It is understandable that people living in the south of England do not wish to see it, but look at the pattern of nature around d UK (birds, flowers, fish etc) and, more vividly, what is happening in Africa.
| | | stephen harwood (Guest) | 29/03/2010 17:56 | | My previous comment made this morning. Please amend Line 6 to read.."the climate change debate"..
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