24-01-2023, 05:15 PM
(24-01-2023, 03:17 PM)exgaffer Wrote:(24-01-2023, 01:29 PM)dsmg Wrote: You always deny its importance and have done for years
I question the importance of man’s CO2 emissions and have done so ever since this stuff came up, a lot of climate scientists also question it.
Even if I accepted it in it’s entirety, the UK reducing emissions to zero would have no measurable effect on it.
We are in an interglacial period at the moment by the way.
The vast majority of climate scientists agree that human activity is contributing to global warming.
The UK reducing emissions will have an effect, especially as we're not the only ones doing it...
"Even just at 1% for territorial emissions, we’re still amongst the top emitting countries – number 15 in 2017 and 2018. Actually, nearly a third of global emissions comes from countries whose territorial emissions are each 1% or less of the global total; around half from nations that account for less than 3% each of annual world emissions.
And we creep up the list when you count emissions per capita – i.e. how much we emit per person. Then we’re 13th amongst individual G20 nations (excluding the EU as a bloc) for greenhouse gas emissions; 11th for just CO2 emissions. For contrast, China is middle to bottom half for CO2 and GHGs respectively, and Australia, whose population is 2.5 times smaller than the UK’s, is near the top on both."
https://eciu.net/insights/2021/why-the-u...a-big-deal
Global warming may affect the duration of the current interglacial.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/human-emissi...tudy-says/