Every building a mini power station with roofs plastered in PV panels, with storage battery. You live within your means of using your own generated and stored electricity.
It is called living off the grid or, as much of the grid as you can, and leaving more oil and gas for future generations to use. I've proved it does work but, you do have to be disciplined and not go crazy with thoughtless, greedy consumption eg, no EV car for me!
I sure do hope that all you experts - scientists and statisticians as you are - are right. You are all such a great comfort to me. However, ...
Please explain why we wealthy lucky humans, in burning up our one-off geological inheritance of finite fossil fuels, cannot possibly have any detrimental effect on the composition of the earth's atmosphere.
Why must such behaviour be always such a rollicking good idea that we can go on doing it for ever and a day with no unfortunate consequences?
Paul, Please don't be too bothered by net zero or, even climate change. Net zero means that every gram of greenhouse gases we emit must be soaked up. This is misleading, deceptive and, anyway impossible to achieve. Gross zero is also impractical and impossible to get anywhere near zero!
Going green on a green planet is sensible for that very reason. Living as though our very useful fossil fuels will never become exhausted is foolish. Cutting back on them as much as possible is sensible. I have always thought that in order to leave the planet in better shape for my descendants. I want to be a good ancestor.
Therefore, dear Paul, why do you want us all to rip into them as if there is no tomorrow? Tim
Paul, I am sure you are a man of integrity from what I have read of yours.
It is brilliant that you are challenging the conventional wisdom on climate change and keeping the scientists on their toes. However, are you not concerned about the rapid rise of GHG in the atmosphere that must be changing its chemical composition - for good or ill? Or, am I mistaken?
Could you, perhaps, believe that every journalist wants to do a good and fair report for all sides? There is no conspiracy, I believe. There was some funny business going at the Uni of E Anglia and the hacked emails, I thought. Or, did you approve of the hacking?
In addition, although human-induced climate change is now accepted only in theory, by all with the recent declarations of a climate emergency, it has not made a scrap of difference in reality. We are all carrying on as normal with NO concession whatsoever to the warnings from the vast majority of climate scientists. They are simply not believed, in actual fact, from the way we each and everyone carry on as if there is nothing to be concerned about!
Please don't get het up with reporters highlighting records. It's all good entertainment for readers and something for journalists to write about.
Remember, nothing will change, anyway with economic growth or economic greed always being paramount. Our high impact consumption of finite fossil fuels and the conversion of countryside into concrete, brick and tarmac is continuing apace. Now we see food farms converted into solar farms, High Speed too fast to stop still needing the present intercity service and burying nature, of which we are part!
I would love you to highlight the urgency of every building being converted into a mini nuclear fusion power station with PV solar on every roof. In this way we can become more independent of Russian gas and French nuclear electricity. In eight years, I have exported 32,000 kWh of electricity from my 6.24 kWp array for others to use via the grid. I'm doing something practical about the rising cost of gas that will be seen again when shortages arise.
Why do you all not also target ITN, Channel 4, Sky and all the other media outlets who also report on rising greenhouse gas emissions and a possible runaway greenhouse effect that has made our twin or sister planet uninhabitable? See Wikipedia on venus (hotter than mercury although it is further away from the sun than mercury).
Please argue your case to prove I am, thankfully, very wrong in thinking that we are all living unnaturally on a natural planet and infinitely on a finite planet.
You do believe we can go on, forever, burning up our one-off geological inheritance as if there is no tomorrow, don't you?
And we can discount the poorer nations and carry on living it up today and to hell with tomorrow, for tomorrow we die, too? Never mind the grandchildren. All that matters is us, here and now.
Please go on telling me that you are right, as always and I am wrong, as always.
CORRECTION
I meant mercury (nearest to the sun, yet cooler than venus with its runaway greenhouse effect, so we are told) and NOT mars! Thanks for telling me.
Something about positive feedback loops giving a runaway greenhouse effect there and here? Some scientists seem to think that is a possibility. What do you think?
Better just to disappear under the bedclothes, keep our fingers crossed and carry on regardless! And, I've been wrong for 40 years, too. Don't listen to me! Tim W
Have either of you changed your lifestyles towards lower greenhouse gas emitting behaviour, ie cutting your energy bills in house and car? Minimising travel unless it is by walking or cycling or horse riding? Eating a more plant-based diet? Living more simply so that your own kith and kin, other nations and poorer nations may simply live?
