Climate Change

[Keith at Tregenna]

I do have a good idea what they do with the tax,
It is not for me to inform you, please arrange a
meet with your MP.

K.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Brian are you bored?

Never argue with cut and paste

[happy daze john in oz]

Good onya Ivan, well said.

The subject does cause some angst amongst one member or so but that is life, cannot satisfy all.

Very interesting article today in our news, put forward by a local climatologist who has bee forecasting weather patterns her with alarming success over the years.
Scientists are currently focusing their efforts on Greenland where ice depletion is taking place.
As reported earlier Greenland was at one time a Greenland, then came the ice age which brought it to what it is now.
Here in Oz we have severe drought, nothing new in that, brought about by El Nino which is a warming of the southern oceans.
It occurs on a regular basis and is followed by La Nina which brings the flooding rains. About a ten year cycle.

The warming of the southern oceans effects the Gulf Stream which also warms. This warming causes change to weather patterns in the northern hemisphere which is making ice melt at a faster rate than normal. One La Nina hits this will change back.

The UK issued a statement today which I found some what odd.
For all of you living there in 2050, I know not most of you but others, you will be heating your house and cooking only with electricity.
Only driving electric cars and relying on wind and solar for your power.
Why?
Because the UK gov has today declared that by 2050 it will be at emissions zero.

They have failed to specify how they will manufacture any thing, or where the cattle will be kept, obviously not in the UK.
But yes you can be emission free by then and buy all from some other country that is not.
India and China today declared that s they are still emerging nations they will require coal and iron ore for many years to come.
They can continue to buy quality ore and cola from us here in Oz, or if we decline second rate from other nations such as Poland for Coal and Brazil for ore.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Greta Thunberg Is Right, World Leaders Say, We Are Failing

(Bloomberg) -- World leaders and chief executives of global corporations gathered at a United Nations summit on Monday to say that a 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden is right: They are failing.

[Captain Kong]

Greta Thunberg has been criticised as a hypocrite .She is a mouthpiece for a faceless nameless organisation. and a good little actress.
.
She sailed to New York in a Four Million Pound yacht, £4,000,000, a lot of carbon created to make that. who is behind that?
That boat had no toilet facilities, just a bucket.
Was her and the crews Excrement and Urine dumped into the sea after each session?? poisoning the ocean for two weeks.??.
The Crew and her are Flying home in a Jumbo Jet and another crew are flying to New York in another Jumbo Jet to bring back the
boat. A lot of Carbon footprints there. Why does she and the crew not sail back??
Has she travelled by car while in New York? adding to New York`s street pollution.
We are being conned by a little actress.

[Keith at Tregenna]

She is doing more than most and is just starting.

Already she is being listened to:

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, who convened the summit to urge increased action on tackling emissions, welcomed the young people who have been protesting over climate change.

"My generation has failed in its responsibility to protect our planet. That must change. The climate crisis is caused by us, and the solutions must come from us."

He said the world had the tools, the technology and the imperative, provided by "undeniable and irrefutable" science, and said tackling emissions would deliver other benefits in areas such as health, food security and equality.

Mr Guterres said: "There's a cost to everything but the biggest cost of all is doing nothing, the biggest cost is subsidising a dying fossil fuel industry, building more and more coal plants, and denying what is plain as day: we are in a big climate hole and to get out, we must first stop digging."

While he said the climate emergency was a race the world was losing, it is a race that could be won, and urged leaders to "lace up our running shoes and win the climate race for us all".

The UN estimates there needs to be between a three-fold and five-fold increase in efforts to cut greenhouse gases, to prevent global temperatures rising more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
The climate action summit in New York aims to galvanise efforts by countries and businesses to close the gap between what is needed to curb global warming and current policies, which put the world on track to warm by more than 3C.
More than 60 world leaders are set to speak, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, with heads of nations such as Finland and Germany promising to ban coal within a decade.

[Captain Kong]

BRAZIL who is burning the lungs of the world , the Amazon Rain Forest is NOT ATTENDING.
So they keep on burning. no one stops them.
But they tax my little car £273 a year. Big Deal.

[Keith at Tregenna]

#113; Did you arrange to take it up with your MP ?

K.

[Captain Kong]

My MP is from a mo o slam country and lives 300 miles to the south of me.
I have written 8 times to it and it has Never answered one letter.
It is Not my MP ,I do not have one.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Hope this helps:

Car tax increase this year - drivers will pay more if their car was built before 2017

Drivers who still need to renew their car tax will be faced with the increased vehicle excise duty costs after new prices were launched in April. To confuse things, cars are divided into two groups based on their date of registration, with vehicles split between whether they hit the roads before or after 31 March 2017. Cost rises are therefore different compared to which type of vehicle or fuel you are running, leaving some drivers confused as to what prices they should be paying. The increase in costs will be used to fund the Government’s promised £30 billion worth of road improvements.

Old Vehicles

Highly polluting vehicles built before 31 March 2017 will see rises of either £10 or £15 in 2019.

Petrol and diesel cars with the highest pollution could now be paying rates of up to £570 a year for their road tax compared to last year’s sum of £555.