Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Last September Extinction Rebellion demanded the UK create a citizens climate assembly, to oversee British climate policy. Climate Assembly UK is the result.
Burning questions at first UK climate change assembly
The sessions will discuss ways to meet the target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050
Camilla Hodgson in Birmingham
What is more eco-friendly, British beef or avocados? How do we ensure that the costs of tackling climate change do not affect the poor disproportionately? Is the government listening to the science or just paying it lip service?
These were some of the burning questions that members of the British public asked environmental experts on Saturday, at the country’s first citizen’s assembly for climate change in the city of Birmingham.
On the 16th floor of the Park Regis hotel, in a glass-panelled room overlooking six lanes of motorway traffic, 110 citizens gathered for the first of four sessions in which they hope to thrash out solutions for reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 — a goal that the government enshrined in law last year.
“I see now how urgently we need to change our behaviour,” said Leia, 20, one of the assembly members, after a day of introductory speeches. “I’m hopeful that what we’re doing here will have a positive impact and will help persuade government they need to do something.”
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As the day drew to a close, the broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough arrived to thank those present for taking part. “The people of this country ought to be extremely grateful to you,” he said. “The question we’re facing is of utmost importance.”
Read more: https://www.ft.com/content/7288bfd6-3fb6-11ea-a047-eae9bd51ceba
I sure hope Extinction Rebellion feel they are receiving full value in return for all their efforts to persuade the British government to set up the new climate assembly.
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The retiring chairman of BP said that eight Asian countries are commissioning a new coal fired power station every week. Good on them. Let the 110 try living without electricity.
Oceania has always been at war with beef.
Who will be assigned the task of telling the Chinese they may not eat pork? I want to watch.
There’s more (and worse) to this than quibbling about avocados. In four weekends, just twenty minutes were set aside for an explanation of the science. Professor Haigh went two minutes over her allotted time and so had to skip all discussion of feedback, clouds, humidity, ocean heat storage and natural variation. She claimed that we know temperatures over the past “thousands of years” thanks to tree-rings, coral and stalagmites, and in the Q&A stated that China has promised to build no more coal-fired power plants. More on this at
https://cliscep.com/2020/01/26/climate-assembly/
From the BBC link by John, I see that Sir David Attenborough says that the British Parliament needs convincing by the Citizen’s Assembly to take climate change “seriously”.
This is a country that passed the Climate Change Act 2008 which the late Christopher Booker described as the most useless, expensive piece of legislation ever, give or take the funding of a few wars.
A Parliament that, spurred on by a cranky school dropout, declared a climate emergency, and has promised net zero emissions by some time after all the Members are dead.
Has anyone asked Sir David what he could do to act more “decisively” on global warming?
Instead of organising an assembly of 110 people to discuss the Climate I would much prefer to see, in the UK, (and elsewhere especially the USA) a Climate Change Emergency Parliamentary Select Committee where, say, four ‘experts’ from ‘both sides’ of the debate, within the field of Climatology, could answer questions, under oath, to the veracity of the climate emergency. The first question could be ‘what, exactly, is the emergency and why do we only have ten/twelve years to resolve it’.
One of the ‘experts’ from the alarmist side in the UK should be Prof Phil Jones of UEA who should be asked about the emails (some of the alleged 30,000 pieces of data evidence that ‘went missing’) he received and sent regarding altering the ‘base figures’ to ensure the results matched their outcomes!
I don’t think anyone can deny Climate Change. We are in an interglacial period and it should not surprise anyone that there is a slight upward trend in temperatures. The Northern hemisphere had a Little Ice Age which ended in the mid 19th century (circa 1550 – 1850).
Another MAJOR factor is today, the Earth’s axis is tilted 23.5 degrees from the plane of its orbit around the sun. But this tilt changes. During a cycle that averages about 40,000 years, the tilt of the axis varies between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees. Because this tilt changes, the seasons as we know them can become exaggerated. More tilt means more severe seasons—warmer summers and colder winters; less tilt means less severe seasons—cooler summers and milder winters. When will the axis change again? How will this further affect CC?
Why do I hear some scientists say that, regarding Climate science is ‘the Science is Settled’? Science is NEVER settled.
Many questions and very few honest and open answers.
Financial Times
Camilla Hodgson GRADUATE TRAINEE
FEBRUARY 7 2020
Climate change
Antarctica temperature touches record high of 18.3C
Scientists warn of devastating effects of global warming on ice sheets in polar regions
FEBRUARY 3 2020
Industrials
Industrial companies fall behind on global warming plans
Less than a fifth have emissions-cutting plans that align with targets set out in Paris
JANUARY 28 2020
Pollution
Children at risk from indoor air pollution, report warns
Doctors call for ‘urgent action’ to tackle lack of regulation for schools and homes
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Camilla Hodgson is a
GRADUATE TRAINEE
at the Financial Times;
Which means: the Financial Times gives Camilla Hidgson
some space to warm her fingers onto the keyboard and train her phantasie, imagination force.
These are teething problems that everyone has to go through ….
“Burning questions at first UK climate change assembly
The sessions will discuss ways to meet the target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050
Camilla Hodgson in Birmingham
What is more eco-friendly, British beef or avocados?”
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Another null problem https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1TcwSskuizdg9OIuzVNILy1JLSpKLQYAWdoH3w&q=un+guterres&oq=un+guter&aqs=chrome.
can dispose at the Rundablage:
https://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+wastebaskets&client=ms-android-huawei&prmd=isnv&sxsrf=ACYBGNTvOhRKJ30AComyuGWUh1nguyXzMg:1581139101243&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv7OCTmsHnAhXDk4sKHZh8BP0Q_AUoAXoECA0QAQ&biw=360&bih=518
My fault –
“Burning questions at first UK climate change assembly
The sessions will discuss ways to meet the target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050
Camilla Hodgson in Birmingham
What is more eco-friendly, British beef or avocados?”
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Another null problem –> net zero problem https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tTP1TcwSskuizdg9OIuzVNILy1JLSpKLQYAWdoH3w&q=un+guterres&oq=un+guter&aqs=chrome.
can dispose at the Rundablage:
https://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+wastebaskets&client=ms-android-huawei&prmd=isnv&sxsrf=ACYBGNTvOhRKJ30AComyuGWUh1nguyXzMg:1581139101243&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv7OCTmsHnAhXDk4sKHZh8BP0Q_AUoAXoECA0QAQ&biw=360&bih=518