Climate Change - a poll

[Robo61]

1 hour ago, Wymsey said:

If the government was genuinely concerned about climate change, they should quite regularly advise the general public and businesses of recommendations in what anyone can do in their lives to try and change things.

Have you been living in a bunker for the last 10 years.  The minister who is trying to push this the most is also the most unpopular,  I am sad but not surprised to say that some very sensible people I know still think we are trying to go too quickly, and hate Ed Milliband for it.   

[CornwallFox]

1 hour ago, Wymsey said:

If the government was genuinely concerned about climate change, they should quite regularly advise the general public and businesses of recommendations in what anyone can do in their lives to try and change things.

Honestly, the idea individuals make that much difference is a bit of a misnomer. It requires changes at government policy and national infrastructure level. The fossil fuel car ban has been politicised. Net zero politicised. End of oil licensing politicised. Anybody with half a brain knows what the right thing is but there's an entire industry devoted to lying to the populace so big government decisions that will affect profit margins and shareholder value don't get taken. 

[Collymore]

Remember in the late 80s and 90s seeing future forecasts, albeit I was very young, but we were warned about this happening -  it's playing out worse than I remember thinking it would be though!

 

Some of the data maps are frightening. 

 

 

[splinterdream]

1 hour ago, Collymore said:

Remember in the late 80s and 90s seeing future forecasts, albeit I was very young, but we were warned about this happening -  it's playing out worse than I remember thinking it would be though!

 

Some of the data maps are frightening. 

 

 

That was about the hole in the ozone layer, not climate change 

[leicsmac]

19 minutes ago, splinterdream said:

That was about the hole in the ozone layer, not climate change 

There were studies, and predictions made, about both in that era. 

 

The dark irony is that quite often the same people who don't think there's a problem with the rising global average temperature right now also don't think there was a problem with the ozone layer thinning back then, simply because unified action solved the problem so smartly they didn't actually feel much in the way of consequences. 

 

The same, unfortunately, will not be true of the consequences of this problem unless that unified action is taken. 

[Heathrow fox]

8 minutes ago, splinterdream said:

That was about the hole in the ozone layer, not climate change 

By the end of the eighties the ozone problem had been identified,solution found and action already well under way to rectify said problem 
Climate change had already started to be the next big issue.For example In 1988 i remember reading that by 2010 the UK would be experiencing southern euro  temperatures.
Mild wet winters,hot summers etc.

The green house effect was widely spoken about right through the nineties.

 

 

[grobyfox1990]

3 hours ago, Collymore said:

Remember in the late 80s and 90s seeing future forecasts, albeit I was very young, but we were warned about this happening -  it's playing out worse than I remember thinking it would be though!

 

Some of the data maps are frightening. 

 

 

Yeh a lot of the modelling done is poor. Coz it didn’t go far enough!!!!! We reached 40 degrees in the uk in 2022 lol. You can do your own climate scenario modelling for free on some websites. It’s….interesting….