Climate change is a change in weather patterns due to increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which has a small warming effect.

This small effect, although only 1 or 2 degrees, has a big effect on the weather because of a number of reasons. With more carbon dioxide, more water vapour (clouds) in the atmosphere we get more weather – and that with more energy in the atmosphere (and more water vapour) that weather is more severe. Summer heat breaks records, its more likely to flood when it rains, wind is more severe etc.

Some scientists say that this could have a runaway effect in coming years and get far, far worse for a number of reasons that I’m not qualified to comment on – ask Chat GPT or Google this for yourself.

You can’t just go out and say its cold today, I can’t feel it, there is no such thing as global warming. I think the weather is more severe than it once was, while we had storms, floods and hot days in the past they are much more frequent now.

In the past 20 years we have halved the number of trees in the rainforests of the world. Trees take in carbon dioxide at night and produce oxygen. I suspect this is the real cause of climate change.

In the 70’s we had more industry, cars that did 20-25mpg, not much different to now really (although no doubt a bigger number of cars now and more miles being done than in the 70s).

For sure our current cars aren’t helping, modern hybrids very heavy doing 25mpg when my 2012 diesel Mercedes E class does 55mpg+. That’s less than half the amount of carbon dioxide produced (burning a gallon of diesel produces approx. 10kg of carbon dioxide).

Politicians are telling us to use hybrids because burning twice as much diesel is obviously good (twice as much money for them) and oh yes, burning trees to make electricity is a really good idea too isn’t it? No doubt there is some money in it for them too.

But I digress. With approx. 21% oxygen in the atmosphere, its not lack of oxygen that’s the problem, its carbon dioxide, currently doubled from 100 years ago from 200 parts per million to over 400 parts per million today or 0.04%.

I think the establishment is more interested in preserving tax revenue than anything at all to do with the climate at present. This has to change. Also we just need to plant more trees. A lot more trees.

So instead of £800 a month on that new electric car, how about if everybody spent £100 a month to plant trees and run around in that old Nissan Micra? No I thought not.

Or better still if the government spent £100 a month per person on our behalf? No they are too busy throwing our tax money away to be able to do that either…