No Climate Emergency

Malcolm Davies:

As per the words of Max Ehrmann's Poem, penned in 1920, called Desiderata (Things desired) in the sixth stanza he writes as follows: "You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars: you have a right to be here. And whether it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should"  I am confident that our Earth is following the same grand scheme, albeit apparently somewhat analytically 'chaotic' and unpredictable - at least in the short term. Therefore, if the Earth is indeed largely a self regulating system (e.g. as per the writings of James Lovelock et al), then whatever happens to our global climate in each 100 year period of study (say) is largely way beyond human control. Our Sun has sun spot cycles with both 11 and 33 year periodicity that have a major impact on our climate and with these and other phenomena such as irregular Coronal Mass Ejections that occasionally are directed towards our planet, we can see that natural, global timescales are inherent to the system and at least an order of magnitude greater than the lifetime of any political party in Government.


Clearly we need to properly identify those things we can control, such as food supply, air polution, water quality, the release of plastic and other waste into our envronments, plus the control of the spread of disease etc whilst accepting that there are other things that are way beyond our control. Engineers ans Scientists know, from first hand experience, that mathematical models of any system are only useful over a limited range of values and so it is with climate forecasting and the supposed influence of green house gasses etc on our climate system. Therefore we must be prepared to adopt radical behavioural change, to surrender our lovely motor cars whether ICE, Hybrid, Hydrogen or BEV, give up the hour long cummutes to and from 'work' in order to simply sit in front of a remote centralised office suite of VDUs each day, take to our feet, 'get on our bikes' and create and use effective local transport systems and by so doing, enjoy the socio-economic benefits of much improved respiratory and cardio vascular health as a result. 


Greta T may not have realised that she needs to petition the Sun to get the level of control she insists is within our greedy grasping hands. Good luck with that young lady!     


Thank you Malcom for your support but I have now decided to reduce drastically my presence in this Forum and continue  managing only my Blog where I can have a full freedom of expression- someone warned me that I' m out of  place there! Good luck to everyone!

My Blog:
https://professionalengineeringukandothertopics.wordpress.com/

Malcolm Davies:

As per the words of Max Ehrmann's Poem, penned in 1920, called Desiderata (Things desired) in the sixth stanza he writes as follows: "You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars: you have a right to be here. And whether it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should"  I am confident that our Earth is following the same grand scheme, albeit apparently somewhat analytically 'chaotic' and unpredictable - at least in the short term. Therefore, if the Earth is indeed largely a self regulating system (e.g. as per the writings of James Lovelock et al), then whatever happens to our global climate in each 100 year period of study (say) is largely way beyond human control. Our Sun has sun spot cycles with both 11 and 33 year periodicity that have a major impact on our climate and with these and other phenomena such as irregular Coronal Mass Ejections that occasionally are directed towards our planet, we can see that natural, global timescales are inherent to the system and at least an order of magnitude greater than the lifetime of any political party in Government.


Clearly we need to properly identify those things we can control, such as food supply, air polution, water quality, the release of plastic and other waste into our envronments, plus the control of the spread of disease etc whilst accepting that there are other things that are way beyond our control. Engineers ans Scientists know, from first hand experience, that mathematical models of any system are only useful over a limited range of values and so it is with climate forecasting and the supposed influence of green house gasses etc on our climate system. Therefore we must be prepared to adopt radical behavioural change, to surrender our lovely motor cars whether ICE, Hybrid, Hydrogen or BEV, give up the hour long cummutes to and from 'work' in order to simply sit in front of a remote centralised office suite of VDUs each day, take to our feet, 'get on our bikes' and create and use effective local transport systems and by so doing, enjoy the socio-economic benefits of much improved respiratory and cardio vascular health as a result. 


Greta T may not have realised that she needs to petition the Sun to get the level of control she insists is within our greedy grasping hands. Good luck with that young lady!     


Thank you Malcom for your support but I have now decided to reduce drastically my presence in this Forum and continue  managing only my Blog where I can have a full freedom of expression- someone warned me that I' m out of  place there! Good luck to everyone!

My Blog:
https://professionalengineeringukandothertopics.wordpress.com/