Global-warming or just 'the weather'? (Climate change)

Name: Mioliere

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Product:	Climate change
Date:	16/07/08 (44 review reads)
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Advantages: We need a healthy nationwide debate

Disadvantages: Not enough proof and not enough done by governments to make any difference

I personally think we should not fall for all the scaremongering about 'global-warming' and 'climate chage' without finding out more and having a healthy debate in which everyone's point of view is given a fair hearing; 'global-warming' and 'climate change' (which is just 'the weather') seem to have been turned into a money-making industry by the powers that be to extract even more cash from hard-working taxpayers.

Let's face it, if the powers that be truly believed in 'global-warming' they would not have approved a third runway at Heathrow Airport, they would instead be encouraging people to take fewer flights and they would certainly stop all these summits and conferences like the recent G8 summit in Japan which cost £280 million and pumped heaven knows how many CO2 emissions into the atmosphere; they would take positive steps to get people out of their cars and on to public transport but no effort is being made to, say, run a nationwide school bus service as they do in the United States of America, France and other countries; public transport in the UK is denied proper investment - many people cannot rely on it to get their children to school and themselves to work and they certainly do not make it more economical to use.

The authorities would bring in legislation to encourage manufacturers and suppliers to cut down on the wasteful packaging that seems to surround everything we buy and they would ensure that the packaging that remains is universal so that everyone can tell straightaway whether or not something is recyclable. How often do we prise something from its wrapper and wonder which bin to put the wrapping in? One of the things that most convinces me that the authorities themselves do not believe in global-warming is that they continually nag us to turn off every appliance we own when not in use, yet we can go into any store that sells, say, television sets, and see every single one in the store switched on and left on all day. This would be illegal if 'global-warming' was a real threat.

The burden we place on our youngsters, making them feel the earth is doomed because they might leave their bedroom light on, is totally unfair. Without definite proof, how dare we make them anxious about the future of the planet?

There is no definite proof that man is responsible for changes in the weather. We have had freak weather since time began and, if the planet was actually warming up, how does that explain the fact that one winter will be freezing cold and dry, and the next, mild and wet?

I do, however, believe that man is responsible for the worst effects of the weather. We continue to alter the landscape when we knowingly build huge housing estates on flood plains, stand by while whole swathes of rainforest are demolished, divert waterways to make room for development, make it difficult for our own farmers and manufacturers to keep going so that we end up depending on supplies from abroad, with all the expense of transporting them, do not build adequate storage facilities for our fuel - the UK has storage capacity for 13 days of fuel, yet France and Germany have storage for over 100 days. We produce our own North Sea oil yet end up selling it abroad because we can't store it for our own use, but, in turn, we then have to buy the fuel we need. They think the answer is wind farms but these destroy the landscape because they need access roads and massive foundations on which to place the turbines and, as soon as the wind stops, the national grid is fired up using even more energy. The authorities do nothing about junk mail which wastes reams and reams of paper and ends up in recycling facilties which cost a fortune to run, and they could also outlaw disposable nappies which are as bad as the plastic carrier bags they are trying to discourage.

These are all things that Governments could legislate to change but they don't because they themselves do not seriously believe in 'global-warming' or 'climate change' - if they did, we would see massive changes in how we go about our daily lives. As it is, they have simply found another way of taxing us.

Summary: We should be more sceptical about what we are being told