Climate Change

Today is Blog Action Day 2009, a perfect excuse to reawaken my blog. This year, Blog Action Day is focusing on climate change, a topic I'm particularly passionate about, believing it to be the single most important issue facing us today.

When at university, I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to work for a local MP, organising a climate change event in the constituency. I used the opportunity to learn everything I could about climate change, reading books, watching documentaries, watching Commons debates and observing committee proceedings.

I immersed myself in everything relating to climate change, learning everything I could about the subject. So much so that my dissertation tutor was baffled as to why I didn't choose it as my dissertation topic (I wish I'd listened to him). The most important thing I realised was that there is no longer a credible debate about human induced climate change. In face, the debate has now shifted to how soon we will suffer the consequences.

One experience I will never forget, was watching Lord Lawson appearing before the Joint Climate Change Committee (a committee responsible for scrutinising the draft Climate Change Bill). The bewildered faces addressing Lawson as he confidently asserted climate change wasn't happening, sea levels weren't rising and that temperatures were in fact falling, seemed to represent the whole climate change debate. A single voice of denial opposed to the many who accept we need to act to combat climate change

I am glad to see we currently have a Government prepared to act on Climate Change. The Climate Change Bill should see a significant reduction in carbon emissions. However the words of Douglas Carswell, calling climate change a 'lunatic consensus', demonstrate we must remain vigilant. We must drown out the voice of denial and pressure any future Government to do what is necessary to stop climate change, before it's too late.

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