There is no coming apocalypse. The worst that might happen is that some areas that are currently fine for agriculture will no longer be in future but that has happened plenty of time before due to non man made climate change and that didn?t produce any apocalypse and wont when its man made if that does happen.
After all, something like a billion or so moved out of europe to other parts of the world for other reasons. No reason why the same thing can't happen just as well for climate change reasons.
Not if we minimise CO2 production and increase CO2 consumption by growing more CO2 binding plants etc.
You may be certain of that, but it isnt certain that there will be an apocalypse.
No, they can heat by electricity for roughly the same cost - but it'll cost many thousands when the existing gas boiler reaches end of life and you are told that you can only legally install a ground-sourced heat pump!
Wherever you like with wood. Even easier with limestone etc.
I mean, stooging about this
Plenty that can be planted with trees. Sure, that would f*ck the environment there but we werent discussing the environment, just reducing net gg emissions.
Yes, there would still be a problem with aircraft but obviously we could just stop flying so much and telecommute etc instead.
Don't take it too seriously. It's a farewell sop from May to the likes of the greens, extinction rebellion and brainwashed school kids with pigtails. It'll never happen. They'll pretend it has of course, by fudging the calculations, carbon credit trading etc as Tim+ says. Scotland will be doing the same even sooner (like next year?).
There are just too many people in the world. Perhaps if all the medical research companies stopped investigating ways to cure diseases, and instead turned their attention to ways of creating highly infectious and incurable ones...
I suppose it is theoretically possible for the UK to cut greenhouse gas emissions to almost zero by 2050 if we built plenty of new nukes and massively upgraded the supply network and stopped wasting time and money on renewables, but it would be extremely expensive and would cripple investment in other projects needed to keep the economy going, and would only make a pin-prick on global CO2 levels anyway. So we'd cripple our economy for no benefit. Hey-ho, forward to the past!
The only thing that impacts global CO2 levels in any significant way is trees. The Keeling curve shows approximately a 1.5% drop in global CO2 between Spring and Autumn as the northern hemisphere comes into growth. No man-made attempts to reduce CO2 will achieve anything similar. Shame it's not sustainable, but goes back up again over the winter! Wrong sort of trees?
But global warming's got nothing to do with CO2 anyway, as will be blindingly obvious by 2050.
WE would all be wearing but plugs attached to methane tanks I'd imagine as would all wildlife and cattle, pigs sheep and horses. Not sure about birds.
There is an interesting article on aerosols in Nature this week, and I'm not talking about hair spray, but small particles and their effect on cloud formation etc. Brian
It's not just the boiler but the whole existing heating system has to be optimised and the house well insulated to make it efficient. There is no payback time as this expenditure just results in you paying for the heating and hot water at a similar price as currently using mains gas.
The energy industry cannot meet their existing targets to replace meters with smart meters so what chance have they of swapping one heating technology with another in the 30 year timescale, starting from virtually zero?
Back in the late 70s the nuclear industry wanted to expand. The tree huggers objected and screamed no need, we have coal for 300 years, oil, gas etc. So we stopped investing in new designs of nuclear reactors.
Then the left wrecked our coal industry and the tree huggers invented man made global warming and we can?t use the coal etc.
See a pattern here?
Now we face energy shortages while places like Russia and China just ignore the nonsense of man made global warming, other than making money from the gullible west out of it.
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