Climate change: Why penalise citizens?

THE WORLD climate is changing and the world is slowly warming up. The question is whether global warming is a natural event or whether man is somehow causing or contributing to it in some way.

It’s great for governments who take the opportunity to carbon-tax their citizens then spend that tax elsewhere, pursuing party political agendas that have nothing to do with arresting climate change!

Of about 32 climate change models offered by governments around the world, only a single Russian model comes close in agreement to what is actually happening.

There is a political agenda to fudge the unknown factors in the models to make it seem catastrophe is imminent and thus necessitate immediate climate change taxation.

About 8 000 years ago, the sea rose up and covered most of a large plateau region called Doggerland, leaving the highest parts above water – namely Ireland and England.

The North Sea covered the plateau right up to Denmark and the Netherlands.

This huge area covered by a rise in sea level wasn’t caused by man; it was a natural warming up of our planet after the last ice age and the warming up is still continuing.

Yet governments and compulsive political activists find it convenient to blame man for causing climate change. The world is slowly warming up and everyone must take precautions.

If governments are serious about climate change, they should not allow unprotected developments on lowlevel ground near the sea and should build dams wherever they are needed before the lack of water becomes a crisis.

And for goodness sake, they shouldn’t penalise citizens for global events that citizens are powerless to change. GERRY NELSON Durban North