Roger B, Clearly the MP Vicky Fords comment:

“We have to tackle climate change, we do not have a choice. We have to cap the global temperature rise at 1.5%”

should have said 1.5 deg Celsius and NOT 1.5% - or was it maybe simply another of those sloppily edited IET website typos?

Additionally, I do not understand her statement “Quite simply, today, if everyone had solar panels and everybody had an electric car, our grid would not cope”

Surely, if every body, who could actually afford to replace their existing car with an electric car, was required to additionally pay for a full 4kw solar array to be installed on their house roof, and if the electric cars/mopeds/bicycles were all appropriately redesigned and downsized to make daily charging by such, then we might really be ‘cooking on gas’ – oops, sorry, not PC any more!

However, I have just noticed that the true belief system and avowed intention of the Pro Climate Emergency Movement is clearly revealed buried half way through the URL given beneath your copy of the IET EVENT about ACHIEVING NET ZERO - namely the general consensus is that the science is settled, we are already deeply embedded and deeply committed to "Thought Leadership"  (being led like sheep) - when in fact, as Professional Engineers, we should be seeking to continually examine, understand and ultimately propose real world solutions (to such things as bush and forest management in Australia and historic fire prevention practices, and flood plain protection measures with sensible house building and prolific tree planting (instead of wholesale tree removal and NOT concreting/paving over all our front gardens) to absorb the worst of the rain, in the UK etc) and not allow ourselves to be 'brain washed' by the ground swell of self appointed experts who have seduced common public opinion into happily going along with the fraud and imperfect scientific justification for all this growing panic.


It is indeed truly lamentable that our own Institution, the IET should be so easily led, "n'est ce pas, mon ami". (Either from Clouseau or Poirot!)

Roger B, Clearly the MP Vicky Fords comment:

“We have to tackle climate change, we do not have a choice. We have to cap the global temperature rise at 1.5%”

should have said 1.5 deg Celsius and NOT 1.5% - or was it maybe simply another of those sloppily edited IET website typos?

Additionally, I do not understand her statement “Quite simply, today, if everyone had solar panels and everybody had an electric car, our grid would not cope”

Surely, if every body, who could actually afford to replace their existing car with an electric car, was required to additionally pay for a full 4kw solar array to be installed on their house roof, and if the electric cars/mopeds/bicycles were all appropriately redesigned and downsized to make daily charging by such, then we might really be ‘cooking on gas’ – oops, sorry, not PC any more!

However, I have just noticed that the true belief system and avowed intention of the Pro Climate Emergency Movement is clearly revealed buried half way through the URL given beneath your copy of the IET EVENT about ACHIEVING NET ZERO - namely the general consensus is that the science is settled, we are already deeply embedded and deeply committed to "Thought Leadership"  (being led like sheep) - when in fact, as Professional Engineers, we should be seeking to continually examine, understand and ultimately propose real world solutions (to such things as bush and forest management in Australia and historic fire prevention practices, and flood plain protection measures with sensible house building and prolific tree planting (instead of wholesale tree removal and NOT concreting/paving over all our front gardens) to absorb the worst of the rain, in the UK etc) and not allow ourselves to be 'brain washed' by the ground swell of self appointed experts who have seduced common public opinion into happily going along with the fraud and imperfect scientific justification for all this growing panic.


It is indeed truly lamentable that our own Institution, the IET should be so easily led, "n'est ce pas, mon ami". (Either from Clouseau or Poirot!)