An honest debate on climate change
It is important to be able to debate and discuss issues such as climate change, rather than face the smears and cancellation threats that spread throughout public life.
Reform UK fully accepts that climate change is real, after all it has happened for millions of years based on multiple factors completely outside human control or influence. Warming has of course taken place over the last approximately 150 years, with signs over recent years that it is now leveling off. Humans have had an impact on this global warming, though scientists disagree as to how much.
Those who think that getting to Net Zero will stop climate change are in fact just denying reality.
Even the IPCC’s latest assessment report admits that if we get to Net Zero, it would take another 200-1,000 years before sea levels stopped rising (hardly definitive in timing but clearly a long way off!). So we would be better to adapt, by spending far less money more wisely, for example on sea level defences where needed. This is more sensible than wasting trillions of pounds trying to stop climate change, when it has always changed and always will change.
There is plenty of climate good news that you will not hear on mainstream news outlets who wish to preach doom and gloom such as:
- The Great Barrier Reef has seen coral cover return to record levels just five years after the consensus of climate experts said it was permanently damaged beyond recovery.
- Extreme weather events have always occurred, but thanks to human adaptation and ingenuity, result in some 96% fewer deaths per year than 100 years ago.
- The earth has increased in greenery over the last 30 years, partly thanks
to higher CO2 levels. CO2 is a natural fertiliser, which is essential to plant life via photosynthesis, and without plants humans could not exist! - The Arctic sea ice cover has increased since a low point in 2012 and is very close to 30 year average levels.
- Overall sea ice cover in Antarctica has not declined in recent decades.
- Polar bear numbers in the Arctic are increasing, not decreasing.