The climate changes. It has since the beginning of time.
Whether human-generated greenhouse gas emissions are causing climate change is another question.
That's not the question I will tackle in this article!
However, I did come across some interesting information that really contextualises the debate for the UK. It's about how much CO2 in the global atmosphere the UK is responsible for:
"CO2 levels at present are near 390 part per million of the atmosphere (0.039%)...
The natural carbon cycle produces 2,960,000 tonnes CO2.
Mankind's contribution is understood to be 33,500 tonnes which equates to 1.13%.
The UK contribution of 458.6m tonnes equates to 0.0155%...
So, the UK's CO2 percentage of global atmospheric gas is: 0.0000000604%."
The USA produces ten times more CO2 than the UK.
China produces even more than the USA, not to mention the developing economies of the world.
Given this information, does it make any sense to set a carbon zero emission target by 2050?
Does it make any sense when the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, said hitting such a target would cost £1trillion?
Does it make any sense when taxes on energy companies to subsidise green energy projects are increasing our energy bills by £149 every year?
Somebody tell me if I'm being illogical here:
It seems to me that, even if we accept human-driven CO2 emissions are manipulating the planet's climate, it doesn't make sense for the UK to do anything unilaterally. Our supposed influence on the climate is literally zero.
Therefore if the climate change lobby want to save the world from CO2, they have to convince the USA, China and the entire developing world to go carbon zero by 2050.
Sound like madness? Is it impossible? Is this revelation the doom of us all?
Only if you believe CO2 is a problem...
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