Climate Change Policy is Damaging and Wasteful
Why is the Commission persisting with its policy on “the fight against climate change” when the evidence against the need for any such policy is becoming overwhelming?
Is the Commission not aware that the damage from such a policy is also becoming overwhelming? Yet more rain forests are being cleared to grow bio-fuel crops; essential habitats for endangered species are under increasing threat; according to the University of Minnesota bio-fuel crops disturb huge quantities of CO2 in the soil, and some give off up to 400% more carbon dioxide than they consume; and the FAO has said recently that to meet the EU’s 10% target would require 70% of all arable land to be taken out of food production and lead to catastrophic food shortages.
Why did Jean Zeigler, a UN official responsible for food policy, recently describe the rush for bio-fuels as “a crime against humanity”?
All of which ignores the science. Does the Commission dispute the facts about CO2 itself - that it makes up less than one percent of the earth’s atmosphere, that most of it is in the sea, all vegetation needs CO2 to produce oxygen, and climate change is led by sun spot activity with atmospheric changes following? They do no, and never have, lead climate change.
The need to reduce man-made pollution is one thing. Puny human beings trying to stop or overturn giant natural processes is something else altogether.
The UK is one of several governments now seriously doubting the EU’s policy. Does the Commission not agree that climate change policy is now going the same way as the utterly irresponsible common fisheries policy - untenable, unjustified and unnecessary?
How much more damage has to be done until the Commission recognises the error of its ways?
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Carbon Trading - Where is the Evidence?
Will the Commission please provide details of the measurable benefits of its carbon trading scheme?
Is the Commission aware that, immediately after the recent G8 meeting, research sources were claiming that there were no measurable benefits from the scheme, now estimated to have cost industry some 60 billion euros? Would the Commission care to deny such claims with solid facts?
Further, is the Commission aware that the UK will lose some 40% of its generating capacity by 2015, as a result of the forced closure of nine oil and coal-fired power stations under EU anti-pollution rules and the planned closure of obsolescent nuclear power stations?
Since there is little prospect of the UK making up the shortfall in the time available, largely due to the tardiness of successive previous governments, does the Commission recognise the risk of its being blamed in the UK for future power shortages?
If so, how does it plan to respond?
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