The Problem Is We Don't Know What

If A Power Station Were To Be Built Down The Road, I'd Prefer A Nuclear Plant Over An Oil Burner, And Definitely Over A Coal Burner. We Simply Have To Lessen Our Consumption Of Fossil Fuels.

We Thought We Knew 20 Years Ago. That Led To Some Alarmist Books – Mine Included – Because It Looked Clear-cut, But It Hasn’t Happened. The Climate Is Doing Its Usual Tricks. There’s Nothing Much Really Happening Yet. We Were Supposed To Be Halfway Toward A Frying World Now. The World Has Not Warmed Up Very Much Since The Millennium. Twelve Years Is A Reasonable Time. The Temperature Has Stayed Almost Constant, Whereas It Should Have Been Rising - Carbon Dioxide Is Rising, No Question About That.

Geological Change Usually Takes Thousands Of Years To Happen But We Are Seeing The Climate Changing Not Just In Our Lifetimes But Also Year By Year.

I Think That We Reject The Evidence That Our World Is Changing Because We Are Still, As That Wonderfully Wise Biologist E. O. Wilson Reminded Us, Tribal Carnivores. We Are Programmed By Our Inheritance To See Other Living Things As Mainly Something To Eat, And We Care More About Our National Tribe Than Anything Else. We Will Even Give Our Lives For It And Are Quite Ready To Kill Other Humans In The Cruellest Of Ways For The Good Of Our Tribe. We Still Find Alien The Concept That We And The Rest Of Life, From Bacteria To Whales, Are Parts Of The Much Larger And Diverse Entity, The Living Earth.

You Never Know With Politicians What They Are Really Saying. And I Don't Say That In A Negative Way-they Have An Appalling Job.