Climate change

The current tour of the "mad Monkton" is thought provoking. I suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle ground.

I think that the current climatic changes are probably consistent with the changes which have occurred in a cyclic manner over time. This time round we have a change in the variables ... Man.

The methods proposed (to mitigate the effect of man's follies on the planet) are unlikely to produce enough change to be useful .... for the simple reason that the cost of the changes has to be acceptable! In a democracy, if the cost of the change is not 'acceptable' ... or palatable to the masses.... then the government will change. So real change is unlikely.

The logic of the current carbon tax method is very obscure .... how is change going to happen when the polluters are shielded from the effect of the tax? If the consumer is compensated for the rising prices, the buying habits will not change. If the buying habits don't change, the production of goods will not change ... and hence there will be no change in carbon pollution!

The hard truth is that we will never know the truth. Society has no system for accurate, independent verification of truth!