Climate change u-turn?
The local press carried a report recently that John Maples MP had changed his mind about supporting the Climate Change Bill in the House of Commons. Liberal Democrat District Councillors, including Richard Cheney and Bob White put forward a motion at the District Council
meeting on 14th July pointing this out and asking Council to re-iterate it’s own support for measures on climate change. Needless to say the Conservatives put forward an amendment (which was carried, since they have a majority on the Council), which started:
‘Council notes that John Maples MP made a thoughtful and well informed speech in the 2nd reading debate on the Climate Change Bill. While he did not question the fact that global warming is happening he argued that the predicted consequences have been greatly exaggerated and that many of these can better be met by adaptation than by the Kyoto process of drastic CO2 emission reductions’.
And yet the Conservatives still have the nerve to say, ‘Vote Blue, Go Green!’
Philip
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It’s irresponsible to minimise the effects of climate change. The scientists question their own research. MPs and ministers should be looking at the conclusions.
According the Met. office, predicted temperaure changes “are likely to result in an increased frequency and severity of weather events such as heatwaves, storms and flooding. Rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere … (could) result the melting of large ice sheets will result in major consequences for low-lying areas throughout the world.”
IanRidley (PhD Climate Physics)