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23/02/2007, 10:33 AM Webmaster Joined on 16/11/2006 Totnes Posts 93 Climate change Is it really a problem?    Report

03/03/2007, 5:43 PM blighty Joined on 03/03/2007 Posts 1 Re: Climate change Richard, I dont believe climate change is a problem, its a flavour of the month and the buzz words that once again our politicians have jumped on because they believe they are "in touch with the people"! (remember not so long ago we were all going to die from birdflu!!) Mr Brown has yet again jumped on the band wagon and seen a golden opportunity to tax us all  again under the guise of a green tax to save the planet, come on! has the poor old 4wd  person saved any part of the planet because they have been hammered with more tax to keep their car on the road, I dont think so,its just more coffers for our treasury to waste (and by the way I havent got a 4wd). You go to the USA, China, India, Far east, Middle East, Russia, Europe are any of these people paying more tax to save the planet? Ive been to some of these countries and believe me they couldnt care less about the subject of climate change. Climate change is a natural phenomenum  which has been happening very slowly for hundreds of years, paying more tax wont stop it nor will stopping driving your car or flying. Heres a thought? has anyone considered that the more immigration we continue to allow unchecked into this island the more overcrowded and congested we become the more housing we have to build the more roads and infastructure we have to build  doesnt all this extra work contribute to the using up of our precious resources and should we tax the immigrants when they arrive (the ones we know about) for the use of our extra resources? Think about it. Wake up Britian we are being conned yet again for our tax money, no more no less.      Report

15/05/2007, 12:18 PM Jannali_Pete Joined on 15/05/2007 Posts 5 Re: Climate change I agree. Haven't seen the article yet, we're about 3 months behind, recently got the January issue with ponies on snow covered hills. Commentary on climate change here in Australia is going ballistic, the media and politicians are trying to make us feel guilty, how can we do this for our grandkids etc. as though we are responsible for every dry spell, hurricane, deluge, flood, gale force winds, volcanoes, Indian summers whatever. I feel now that the pros and antis are based on your political following, left wingers are ardent believers and right wingers predominantly believe it's all bullshit. I was thinking the other day, if all the so called poisonous gasses that we are putting into the atmoshere are so bad and have reached such proportions that we are now affecting the weather (nothing to do with the sun of course), why have we not started to see associated health problems, why have animals not started to show changes, die out, mutate etc. To me, if there was going to be a problem, then the popultion of the world would be showing some sort of stress first prior to any couse of climate change.   Jannali_Pete    Report

15/05/2007, 12:50 PM Webmaster Joined on 16/11/2006 Totnes Posts 93 Re: Climate change Hi Jannali. Sorry you haven't got your March copy of Devon Life yet. I believe the article will be posted on this site soon and then you can have a look at it. You are right, of course - If global warming was becoming an issue then we would see signs in the wildlife. Perhaps those signs are just starting to show with species showing up in all kinds of places where they never previously existed. The big question, however, remains as to whether the change is a result of our actions. Climate change with ice ages and droughts have been a feature of this planet since long before the invention of the internal combustion engine. In any event do you really believe that the eco tax on airfares and other such measures will actually be applied directly to the issue? or are we just being relieved of more of our hard earned pennies?    Report

15/05/2007, 3:21 PM Webmaster Joined on 16/11/2006 Totnes Posts 93 Re: Climate change Hi . You can now read the full article from the March issue online by navigating to the Country and Heritage section of the magazine on this site.    Report

01/06/2007, 9:28 PM carolyn bennett Joined on 01/06/2007 Posts 3 Re: Climate change Hello all, I wrote something in the travel section about this.  In short, how often should we travel by air if at all?  In answer to some of the other comments, how do we know whether climate change is a problem?  YK2 was going to destroy the planet at the Millenium but that just seems laughably foolish now (the joys of hindsight)!  Having said that I think that we would all be happier if we made do with a little less and thought about the waste we produce a little more.  But how much action is enough?     Report

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