Roger Bryant:

.... most people just believe without doing any checking.

The tobacco industry had that down to a fine art.  The sugar industry is doing a good job of it too.  But the asbestos industry left it too late for it to work.

That action must be powerful and wide-ranging. After all, the climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal systems of oppression have created and fueled it. We need to dismantle them all. Our political leaders can no longer shirk their responsibilities.

Sadly, C. Eng Dave, I am not surprised by the behaviour of your fellow Church goers. It is clear that many UK citizens are feeling that their lifestyles are constantly and increasingly 'under threat'. Doubtless this anxiety has already been experienced all round the globe and there is much in our daily news feeds to upset and unsettle us as we attempt to 'keep up' with everything. Unfortunately, many people seem to adopt a binary approach to the world choosing, for their own reasons, to aggressively support either one or other side of any movement or campaign. It would appear that only a small percentage are open minded enough to invite the 'self appointed experts' or protagonists to 'show me the evidence' not just a transient correlation between data sets (often gathered in 'man made' heat islands) and recent global events such as floods, tsunamis, plagues of locusts, dust storm weather bombs and bush fires.


I wholeheartedly support your comment regarding the excellence of such modelling systems as 'P Spice' and associated CAD MAT systems (as used, for example, in the computer aided design and development of complex electronic or mechanical systems) and the apparent absence of any such equivalent modelling applications to demonstrate any degree of accuracy in the prediction of our daily weather forecasts for more than say 16 days (as offered by the 'metcheck' and similar USA hosted web sites) let alone being able to predict how much reduction in global CO2 is necessary to reverse current day weather extremes all around the globe. 


It would seem that Governments of the day are all too willing to listen to powerful corporate lobby groups and to then placate them in an almost 'knee jerk reaction' by drafting legislation that satisfies thinly veiled corporate agendas. Invariably, these far reaching legislative proposals, such as banning the sale of all fossil fuelled motor vehicles by 2035, do not provide any real benefit to our career development or to our individual family lives. E.G. I fail to see how society in general has come to so happily regard the universal adoption of 'energy inefficient' battery powered electric cars as being either a sensible or practical solution to our problems, when the fundamental reasons for abandoning the concept, back in the 1900s, along with steam powered cars, have not materially changed, e.g. even Li-ion batteries are still very heavy and have very poor energy density and poor driving range when compared to modern petrol powered internal combustion engines.


Surely, it would be better for Governments to legislate for a dramatic and systematic reduction in our love and use of cars (by say 50% to cover all those who are currently travelling many miles per day just to work at a computer terminal) and to make use of modern broad band telecommunications systems as an 'oven ready alternative' by the creation of local 'tele-commuting' workplace hubs to carry 'most of the traffic' instead of our increasingly congested and potholed road networks.