To Climate Action Network W Midlands

Dear Simbi

Thanks for the email.

My climate action for the G7 and COP 26 is a mass (more than just me!) letter/email/text/twitter - writing and phoning campaign to names and addresses here

 September 2019 A5 flyer

and many others - to climate educate that, in burning our finite supply of fossil fuels we have unsuspectingly released a Pandora's Box of unintended consequences and horrors. We must now live much more lightly on the planet to minimise travel and maximise simpler lifestyles. "To tread more lightly on the planet" as Jonathon Porritt wrote many decades ago!

Spending = fossil fuels burnt = greenhouse gases emitted = the natural greenhouse effect dangerously enhanced = a runaway greenhouse effect that venus has = THE END! (venus is hotter than mercury even though mercury is nearer the sun)

Therefore, billions of greenhouse gases for extensions to HS2 (£106 bn), Metro (£15 bn), Sprint (£1 bn) is not a good idea when that money should be used, now, to cut greenhouse gases in the medium to long term and not make things even worse - and quite unnecessarily, too!

Or, am I completely wrong, mistaken, deluded? Is there anyone, out there, who agrees with me?!

Response to Colin Dobson's comment on SolarFarm@sheffield.ac.uk

 No preparations for Covid and no preparations for when the oil and gas run out.

No urgency to go down the solar route.

No wonder we seem to be turning earth, with its runaway greenhouse effect, into the one that makes venus uninhabitable and hotter than mercury that is nearer to the sun.

SPEND TO CUT GREENHOUSE GASES, NOT WORSEN THE CRISIS

SPEND TO CUT GREENHOUSE GASES, NOT WORSEN THE CRISIS

It is urgent that we spend NOW on those many projects to reduce greenhouse gases in the medium to long term.  Constructing HS2 and Metro tram extensions is spending NOW to increase greenhouse gases that turn earth into venus with its intense greenhouse effect, say, scientists.  The more we spend the quicker we get to fossil fuel shortages and a similarly intense greenhouse effect as venus.

It is because of its intense greenhouse effect, says Wikipedia that venus, although further away from the sun than mercury, is hotter than mercury.  Venus is called our twin or sister planet.

Be alarmed.  Be very alarmed and act.

Planet Earth turning into Planet Venus

D Poulton wrote about planet venus in your issue dated 1 November.  It is not producing heat that puts all life on earth in danger but producing greenhouses gases in the process of keeping ourselves warm and travelling, frequently, far and fast.  It is our prodigious burning of fossil fuels that puts us in danger.  All fossil fuels give off carbon dioxide that enhances the earth's natural protective greenhouse effect and is endangering all life on earth.  Venus is hotter than mars, even though it is nearly twice mercury's distance from the sun, because of its strong greenhouse effect.  Exactly what we humans are doing to planet earth; foolishly giving ourselves a runaway greenhouse effect and passing all tipping points!  Hence, the urgency of going low carbon in our life styles and, living sustainably.  But we are nowhere near doing that.

Tim Weller

​SOURCE is Wikipedia:

​"​The CO2-rich atmosphere generates the strongest greenhouse effect in the Solar System, creating surface temperatures of at least 735 K (462 °C; 864 °F).^[12][58] This makes Venus's surface hotter than Mercury's, ​​which has a minimum surface temperature of 53 K (−220 °C; −364 °F) and maximum surface temperature of 700 K (427 °C; 801 °F),^[59][60] even though Venus is nearly twice Mercury's distance from the Sun and thus receives only 25% of Mercury's solar irradiance.​​"  Wikipedia​