Net Zero CO2 emission policy is monumentally stupid

“The prospect of even moving in a cooling direction is something to truly fear, both for the biosphere and for man-kind.”
– Ed Hoskins
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Net Zero CO2 emission policy is monumentally stupid

Ed Hoskins

A reaction to the passing of Net Zero CO2 emission policy in the UK House of Commons.

When will people realise that any CO2 reduction policy should also be seen in a longer-term context:

• The modern short pulse of beneficial Global warming stopped ~20 years ago and recent global temperatures are now stable or declining.

• According to reliable Ice Core records the last millennium 1000 – 2000 AD was the coldest of our current Holocene interglacial and the world had already been cooling quite rapidly since before Roman times, in fact since ~1000 BC.

• At 11,000 years old, our Holocene interglacial, responsible for all man-kind’s advances, from living in caves to microprocessors, is coming to its end.

• The weather gets worse in colder times.

• The world will very soon, (on a geological time scale), revert to a true glaciation, again eventually resulting in mile high ice sheets over New York.

The prospect of even moving in a cooling direction is something to truly fear, both for the biosphere and for man-kind.

Spending any effort, without true cost benefit analysis and full due diligence, let alone at GDP scale costs, trying to stop the UK’s 1% of something that has not been happening for 3 millennia is monumentally stupid.