Climate Change, Or, Just Climate?

Climate change is the buzz-phrase of the moment; we should all take time to read the facts and keep an open mind.

So, the jury’s out, is it? The consensus is total? Or, as I read the other day, “the whole of the UK is on board with it”. Are we? All of us?

I am becoming increasingly concerned, not about “global warming” but about the effect all the scaremongering is having on the most impressionable of us. Those who believe implicitly in global warming and climate change do not know for certain that it exists or that, if it does, that we, the human race, are responsible for it. What a burden we are putting on our young. We may as well say “we are doomed and it is all your fault!”

It is time for a balanced debate, one in which everyone gets the change to have their say, and that includes the sceptics amongst us. The powers that be have turned “climate change” into an industry and some are making a lot of money from it. They need to keep the wagon rolling along and they need to keep us paying for our sins while they dream up more and more cunning ways to extract our hard-earned money. If they genuinely believed everything they are telling us, they would make the significant changes necessary to save the planet.

Instead, they not only continue flying round the world, sometimes on jaunts about global warming, they also encourage the building of additional runways at airports. Communication today is so easy, versatile and accessible that international travel could be greatly reduced; if even Members of Parliament think they shouldn’t have to sacrifice their foreign holidays how on earth are they gong to be able to convince everyone else to keep their use of fossil fuels to a minimum? Why haven’t the water companies been called to account for wasting millions of gallons of water every day, through leaks in the system.

Obviously, it is easier and cheaper to impose a hose-pipe ban than to carry out any repairs. If it was imperative that we saved water for the sake of the planet, then we would have no leaks and, every time one was reported, it would be repaired within hours. Public transport would be vastly improved to give us a real incentive to use it. So far, I don’t know anyone who has given up the use of their own car simply to reduce emissions. Our buses and trains are so unreliable, infrequent, expensive and dirty and simply too inadequate to fit in with the lifestyle of the majority. A school bus for all school-age children would be a great way to relieve the rush hour traffic, reduce congestion and,