If this survey is real the messages these young people are receiving are completely wrong.
We need to reduce our impact on our planet but CO2 is a complete red herring. The current ECS (temperature increase for a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere) is centred around 3°C (IPCC AR6). The 2°C will destroy civilisation is simply made up.
We had an EPC assessment done, which concluded that we were using the original usage before we implemented our changes - so government don't understand what we have done, it is not in their model.
Ah yes - even simple things like insulating the sloping section of a roof, instead of the flat of the ceiling does not seem to be handled properly, or in most 1970s ‘chalet style’ buildings, where the gap is vented by the roof tiles and air rushes from front to back between floorboards of upstairs and plaster board ceiling of downstairs makes a huge difference, but this loss is unaccounted for.
A few years of fuel bills may well be a better guide to the cost of heating a non-standard set-up than the EPC - the fact that even the chaps doing it cannot explain the sums behind it, but just put things into the computer hopefully, is a big clue as to the level of understanding.
Mike.
We had an EPC assessment done, which concluded that we were using the original usage before we implemented our changes - so government don't understand what we have done, it is not in their model.
Ah yes - even simple things like insulating the sloping section of a roof, instead of the flat of the ceiling does not seem to be handled properly, or in most 1970s ‘chalet style’ buildings, where the gap is vented by the roof tiles and air rushes from front to back between floorboards of upstairs and plaster board ceiling of downstairs makes a huge difference, but this loss is unaccounted for.
A few years of fuel bills may well be a better guide to the cost of heating a non-standard set-up than the EPC - the fact that even the chaps doing it cannot explain the sums behind it, but just put things into the computer hopefully, is a big clue as to the level of understanding.
Mike.
