Philip Hammond has warned Theresa May that plans for Net Zero Emissions, by 2050, will cost the UK £1tn, according to a report in the Financial Times.
I am a bit puzzled by this climate change thing.
The UK, as I understand it, accounts for 1% of global CO2 emissions (2015 figures).
Even if the UK doubled CO2 emissions, surely that is well within the realms of experimentally inaccuracy.
Halving it would make no measurable difference to the world. The UK taking it to zero will be economically paralysing to UK and still make not difference to the world.
Isn't the environmental (aesthetic and wild life) cost of wind farms (and so on) much more significant than our rather minimal potential contribution to global CO2 reduction efforts?
No doubt someone will explain?
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Apparently climate change is now officially a religion, and in that case it gets special dispensation ( unlike Boris Johnson ) to claim anything without anyone being allowed to question it - and all the logic and facts in the world will have no effect... Sure climate change will make more jobs - they will need thousands of pump engineers in London alone once the rising water gets into underground train tunnels, and once the sewers flood the Thames will be like it used to be, a river of sewage.
Humans are the cause of pretty much all the planets problems, many humans are greedy thoughtless people who do things on a whim without thinking it through, like foreign holidays that cause aircraft to pump all their pollutants into the upper atmosphere - where they do most harm. Why be satisfied with enough when you can have everything ? The main thing most people want to do as their standard of living increases is take foreign holidays to impress their friends and neighbours. The new fad to go on cruises is also causing extra pollution, as next to aircraft ships are also a major polluter.
quote from an article on pollution..
A special characteristic of aircraft emissions is that most of them are produced at cruising altitudes high in the atmosphere. Scientific studies have shown that these high-altitude emissions have a more harmful climate impact because they trigger a series of chemical reactions and atmospheric effects that have a net warming effect. The IPCC, for example, has estimated that the climate impact of aircraft is two to four times greater than the effect of their carbon dioxide emissions alone.The scary thing is that aircraft emissions in Co2 alone contribute up to 8% of global Co2, multiply that by the average of above figures ( 3x) and you get 24%, aviation is expanding rapidly and experts say and that figure could double by 2050. There also seem to be more and more people going on cruises, and ships are another major polluter.
When 1400 private jet flights took place ferrying delegates to Davos world economic forum where a major topic was climate change, it seems very much a case of 'do what we say not what we do' - you will probably find the same at every climate change summit or conference that has taken place so far, and some were further away in Japan and South America - madness.