Sorry but I’m unimpressed by The Greens!

I attended the Parliamentary hustings at St Michael’s last night.

All the candidates presented reasonable cases for the questions asked by the audience, but a wholly incorrect statement by the candidate tor the Green Party deserves attention.

Referring to ‘climate change’ – which is being increasingly challenged as purely natural weather variations – she said that last year (2023), was the hottest on record.

Anyone with any sense would realise this wasn’t true – the link to Nature and the illustration below showing USA temperatures in 1933 and 2024 proves it isn’t true.

The highest temperatures recorded in the last 100 years was in 1933.

Last year it rained for virtually the whole 12 months. My central heating system had to be switched on during the summer it got so cold at times. It’s now July and my heating is on again.

But when she told the audience the Green Party would be tackling climate change the audience erupted in support.

I can only surmise that the vast majority of the audience, believe, what is slowly being refuted, by recorded data, as complete nonsense.

However, consider this: Great Britain is pursuing its net zero targets by closing down steel and coal industries only to import steel from India, coal from Australia and wood chips from America – the other side of the world.

Doing that only increases the carbon footprint and moves the problem to another country.

The purity of the air we breathe is global. Reducing carbon emissions to net zero in the UK won’t change the global status one iota.

By transporting these elements from the other side of the world, carbon output is actually increased, employment within those industries is lost and the costs increase.

As long as Australia, China, India and the host of other industrial or emerging nations aren’t pursuing net zero, carbon emissions on a global scale will continue to increase – irrespective of what we do.

So Great Britain pursuing a net zero policy will make it worse.

And doesn’t even begin to address the CO2 issue.

This is the stuff I was taught at primary school – the photosynthesis of plants

CO2 is what plants ‘breathe’ in – they ‘breathe’ out oxygen – which is necessary for all life.

CO2 is essential for plant growth and human survival.

Commercial horticulturists pump concentrated CO2 into their greenhouses by the tonne – as this makes their vegetables and plants grow faster and stronger.

Twenty years ago the climate campaigners were warning us about cutting down the Brazilian rain forests – they called them ‘The Lungs of the Planet’ – warning that their destruction would kill all life.

The forests took in CO2 and emitted oxygen.

Without that we’d all die.

The current level of CO2 is 422.36 parts per million (ppm) or 0.04% of the atmosphere.

During the Cambrian Period, when life on Earth flourished, it stood at 4,000 ppm!

During the Quaternary glaciation of the last two million years, when virtually all life died, it fell to 180 ppm.

These measurements are from data which is accepted by the world’s scientists and geologists – and even the UN – but for some unknown reason the data is ignored.

Without CO2 all plant life, animals and humans would die. All life on the planet would die!

CO2 is essential for our survival.

https://www.nature.com/articles/132997b0

Having been presented with data (from a UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report) that contradicts his apocalyptic religious beliefs, Ben Larson, a Just Stop Oil supporter, crumples and throws away the report.