I remain unconvinced that our CO2 production has, or is having a significant effect on global warm,,, sorry, climate change. I do not dispute that the planet is warming, but with reference to winter times, there have been many more milder winters in the past. Back then, people spoke about the planet warming up. Now that it's bloody freezing, they are saying this is due to a sine wave and it's still global warming. Talk about destroying your own credibility! Utter tosh! I agree, a 3 year timescale is an irrelevance, infact 100 years is irrelevant if you want to be scientific about the matter. I was listening to teachers in the 1970's telling us about the problem. If we'd believed the reports about Amazonian deforestation, there would be no rain forest by now. This isn't a new problem, so why has it taken 40 years for governments to act on climate change?
Our ability to detect weather/climate has become far better in just the past decade or so, with the emergence of new technologies and the ease at which information is distributed to us. I also think the way news can travel so far and so quickly has had an impact on how we perceive the world. We now get in an instant, in full graphic detail, information about what the weather is doing to people all over the world.
I reckon so called extreme weather has actually been occurring for a very long time, but seeing as we have improved the ability to see more in recent years, it feels like the problem is getting worse. We can also be certain that the increase is due to the subject being on the political agenda! As any mathemetician will tell you, if you lookat a big enough sample, there will always be identifiable patterns. There is no doubt that there is political agenda and I cannot trust any internet article whose url ends with "dot gov"!! Scientists are not agreed on whether it's man who is causing the problem, only the ones receiving government grants do.
Climate change is cyclical and global warming has happend thousands of years before we had the capability to burn and waste so much precious fossil fuel. I DO NOT advocate pointless waste, I believe in conserving as much energy as possible. It's not difficult to get your consumption down if you put vanity to one side, and act smart in your home, with your movements and when you shop. Having no job and no money makes the task a great deal easier as reducing all consumption and travel comes with the territory (if you are smart enough to live by your means).
Listening to scientific programmes, one detects plenty of evidence that we are in a cycle over which we have very little control. Throughout my life I have heard how only 300 years ago, the climate was much warmer in Britain, some 100-150 years before the industrial revolution. One programme I listened to talked about how, thousands of years ago due to a warmer climate, sea levels were 6-7m higher than they are now. 6-7m???
My advice, continue to conserve energy, but don't buy into this climate change political meddling, it's just another source of stealth taxation!
