Today, the Climate Scientists at the Heart of the UEA controversy have been cleared by a second report into their conduct. They were pretty much exonerated. This won’t stop the loonies from using this “scandal” as evidence of a climate conspiracy forever more.

Look, I wish Climate Change weren’t happening. I love 21st Century living. I love my Wii and my X Box, My Sky Plus and my big telly and wish I didn’t have to constantly look forward to save energy on these (we’ve opted for a standby Saver which seems to work pretty well, though the PS3 doesn’t seem to like it much). I love to travel and I would love to do more of it – going further afield, but we currently restrict ourselves to flying only every 4-5 years. 

So I’d love to be wrong on climate change. But I’m not. We are going to slow cook our planet unless we change course, and we are doing so, so I can leave my games console on after shooting imaginary bad guys and fly to the Maldives sometime before they submerge.

Even if I were wrong – and I can’t reiterate strongly enough that I am not – we are going to run out of oil, gas and coal and we are already running out of these at a rate of knots. So whether we do it now and firmly establish ourselves in an emerging market, or wait until the fossil fuels run out are we are priced out and try to join an already crowded industry seems to me to be the only choice. Now I’m not an economist, but it seems to me that’s pretty much a no-brainer.

So even if I’m wrong about global warming (I’m not) my solution is still the right course of action for our country’s prosperity.

Tags: climate change

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