| Topic: | Reply | |
| Posted by: | Michael Ixer | |
| Date/Time: | 16/04/24 12:26:00 |
I'm not sure I've seen 2030 being set as a critical date for climate change, other than the one originally set for final sale of ICE cars in the UK, now charged and aligned with the EU one of 2035. The net zero target date is 2050 as far as I'm aware. I regularly attend science lectures, mainly at Imperial College or hosted by the British Astronomical Association, and I'd say I've met few attendees or lecturers who don't accept the realities of man made climate change (well, except Piers Corbyn who always seems to be popping up); the evidence of the exponential rise in the proportion of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is all too obvious. What isn't too clear is the rate at which temperatures will rise and at what point the level of greenhouse gases will reach an irreversible "runaway" point. For example, my understanding (which is a very amateur one) is that the effect of polar ice cap melting was underestimated. The compounded effect is that as the more ice melts the reflective effect on sunlight will reduce adding to the heating of the earth. The underestimate of this one parameter could mean 2050 is too late. I must admit the burying of heads in the sand by many world leaders, CEOs, etc isn't encouraging but at my age the long term effect probably isn't going to affect me significantly. However, I suspect we've reached the point now that the only way of recovering the situation is an effective carbon capture process but to date we're short of delivering one that is anywhere near effective enough to solve the potential catastrophe. Personally, if I was a "young person" I might be anxious about the future but, perhaps given Ukraine and the Middle East, one should be more concerned about someone throwing nuclear weapons around? Anyway, as I understand it, the ECHR case was about the right to family life as an direct result of the failure to act on net zero? So if the women were constrained in that - either being forced to stay at home or having their lives shortened by rising temperatures - then surely that is a legal judgement on their reduced quality of family life? If the result of that is that governments have to take action to mitigate climate change, and halt the potential extinction of the human race, then who could argue that's a bad thing even if it is poor democracy? Well, except perhaps the cockroaches who are waiting around to claim world domination! :-) |
| Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
| Comedy gold | 13/04/24 15:10:00 | Richard Carter |
| Re:Comedy gold - not so much | 14/04/24 10:14:00 | Nicholas Evans |
| Re:Re:Comedy gold - not so much | 14/04/24 11:45:00 | John Hawkes |
| Reply | 14/04/24 12:09:00 | Nicholas Evans |
| Re:Reply | 14/04/24 13:46:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Comedy gold - not so much | 14/04/24 13:01:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Comedy gold | 14/04/24 11:12:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Comedy gold | 14/04/24 15:54:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Comedy gold | 14/04/24 16:55:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 14/04/24 20:02:00 | Freddie Francis |
| Reply | 14/04/24 20:22:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 14/04/24 21:21:00 | Freddie Francis |
| Reply | 14/04/24 21:30:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 14/04/24 22:05:00 | Steven Rose |
| Reply | 14/04/24 22:29:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 15/04/24 10:28:00 | John Hawkes |
| Reply | 15/04/24 11:13:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 15/04/24 10:26:00 | John Hawkes |
| Reply | 15/04/24 11:29:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 15/04/24 09:59:00 | John Hawkes |
| Re:Re:Comedy gold | 14/04/24 22:48:00 | Richard Carter |
| Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 15/04/24 10:19:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 15/04/24 12:38:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 15/04/24 15:46:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 15/04/24 16:21:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 15/04/24 16:36:00 | Richard Carter |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 15/04/24 17:31:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 15/04/24 17:41:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 15/04/24 18:42:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 15/04/24 19:47:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 15/04/24 20:57:00 | Steven Rose |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 16/04/24 09:35:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
| Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Comedy gold | 16/04/24 10:24:00 | John Hawkes |
| Reply | 16/04/24 12:26:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Reply | 16/04/24 13:08:00 | Michael Ixer |
| Re:Reply | 17/04/24 15:46:00 | Philippa Bond |