OPINION
Is it possible to have a council that deals with reality? Their recent deliberations over net zero (November 28) are alarming.
No one wants to damage the planet deliberately, but chasing a false notion whilst committing financial hari-kari must be a definition of insanity.
Indeed, much of the Western world is retreating from this path, as the goal is absurd.
The planet has surpassed the mystical 1.5C threshold, and nothing bad has happened. Fewer storms, fewer fires, and less drought, but greater crop yields and a rapidly greening planet. What is not to like about that picture?
There is little to suggest that the recent rise in CO2 is man-made other than a speculative idea based on a dubious correlation. Correlation is not causation.
CO2 fluctuated greatly long before man started burning fossil fuels, but all that seems forgotten. Indeed, the planet’s current CO2 is historically low, but some refuse to acknowledge that truth.
A scientifically proven anathema to climate activists is that further increases in CO2 will lead to far fewer increases in temperature, as this relationship is logarithmic.
Starting from a low level of 280 parts per million (ppm) − with levels below 150 ppm not being life-sustaining − naturally, the initial increases would have the most effect. It is estimated that a doubling of CO2 from today will increase the temperature by just 0.1C. Yet, climate activists demand that the Western world spend many trillions trying to change something we simply can have little/no effect on.
We cannot play God as much as some like to think. Ironically, some of the “sustainable” options developed today are the greatest polluters and environmental destroyers.
Legacy media are highly complicit in this duplicitous deception, along with IPCC, UN and numerous other globally woke institutions. Continuing along the current path of net zero will lead only to ruin.
Iain Boyle
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