Exactly. About time people told the governments (who follow the advice of the IPCC and have regular meetings about reducing CO2 emissions) what is going on. Shame the governments won't listen to their ideas for solving it though. Never mind, at least Brexit will reduce the amount of travel around Europe if nowhere else in the world. I wonder how much CO2 has been spewed out in traffic jams and long detours to avoid them in the last week.
Posted this on our board earlier this week: The whole issue with fossil fuel use and climate change is that it is a global, not local issue, and to expect countries with existing reserves to stop using them to fuel their domestic growth is not realistic unless cheaper alternatives are available. Its not the oil companies causing the problem - its consumer demand and our thirst for energy. If that wasn't there it wouldn't be commercially possible to extract fossil fuels. Growing economies are going to continue exploiting their resources and unless developed countries are willing to pay them not to they will do so until they are depleted or there is a cheaper alternative. Every country is forecasting an increase in the relative contribution of renewables to their energy mix over the next 5years but in most cases its happening slower than forecast. The technology is there to clean up emissions and reinject CO2 back into the ground and we should be looking at supplying that technology free to developing countries. Climate change and rising ocean levels may eventually cause issues which may lead to population decrease which will reduce energy demand so the cycle will right itself. At the same time technologies will improve to reduce emissions from combustion and increase energy generation from renewables and nuclear power. If anyone needs some serious background reading on energy use then have a look at this: https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/b...l-review/bp-stats-review-2019-full-report.pdf Probably the most telling statistic is that the area with the highest growth in requirement for power is Asia-Pacific, which is the area where the contribution of power generation from renewables is lowest and fossil fuel contribution is highest. Extinction Rebellion can protest all they want in the western countries but they are the ones who are actually doing the best job of increasing renewables in the energy mix. Here the government are trying to spur investment in hydrocarbon exploration and production to try and meet rising domestic energy demand and still export gas to China and Japan.
At least I go out on the piss and don't spend every day at home getting drunk on cheap Aldi cans. Your idea of a night out is drinking one of them on the way home.
I never drink and drive, so theirs you're first flaw. You just stick to your rocks mate, you wouldn;t be able to handle a night out. Ya all talk.
Would May have declared a climate emergency after the first ER uprising if it hadn’t happened? Do you understand the principle of public pressure? Patently not.
Listening to a Green Party MP on radio 4 and she's saying that since the protests every part is now discussing climate change other than just the Green Party.
True, but is it right that the Green Party try and claim some sort of attention from it - they are a political party, they have a responsibility, how are they going to get their message across better and engage with voters in such away, so that they can get those voters on side?
