For posterity, this is a write up of what was said on BBC
(See discussion at: Bishop Hill)
Daily Politics 1st March 2011
Scene: chemistry class in a School – turns to office-room with Johnny Ball
How are your kids, your grandchildren, the next generation. How are they doing at school?
Scene returns to chemistry class in a School – back to room with Johnny Ball at desk.
(the) Potential is all there, in a few years time the world, will be their oyster. So why are we filling, all their heads, with doom and gloom?
Picking up book from desk.
This is a GCSE chemistry book, and the first picture you come to, is a boy in a very severe mask to protect him from air pollution. Turn the page, and we are into “the earth’s atmosphere”, but that’s covered there.
Points to top 1/3 of a page
And then those pages, (points to rest of page and following one) and the next ten pages are just about pollutants in the atmosphere.
Why(?) When everything about our lives is getting better by miles, are we giving our kids the impression that the world, is becoming unravelled, and may not be able to support life. What is happening?
Scene moves away from desk to garden
Our modern technology is quite amazing, take communications, everything mobile phones, iPads gets better and better and cheaper. Why? Because it’s consumer led, it’s what people want. Not one decision in this industry (holds up phone) is made by politicians.
So what about the lunatic energy policies that have been thrust upon us by lunatic politicians? Wind generators, hated but everywhere. And not one would be built without a subsidy. Whereas two nuclear generators on the old sites, would produce no CO2 and out distance all the wind generators built and planned, why don’t we subsidies those?
Scene: bird pecking at bird feeder in garden then back to office
All the efforts to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere are patently not working. Only 4% of the CO2 that goes into the atmosphere is put there by man. The rest is completely natural. And the rain falls and washes it out again, and so you have to have a carbon cycle to keep replenishing it.
Every aspect of the technology we use to improve our lives and to lessen our impact on the world is improving commendably and the future for our kids is brighter than we can yet imagine, and that is the message, we should be delivering to every child.
For discussion see: Bishop Hill
Scene: chemistry class in a School – turns to office-room with Johnny Ball
How are your kids, your grandchildren, the next generation. How are they doing at school?
Scene returns to chemistry class in a School – back to room with Johnny Ball at desk.
(the) Potential is all there, in a few years time the world, will be their oyster. So why are we filling, all their heads, with doom and gloom?
Picking up book from desk.
This is a GCSE chemistry book, and the first picture you come to, is a boy in a very severe mask to protect him from air pollution. Turn the page, and we are into “the earth’s atmosphere”, but that’s covered there.
Points to top 1/3 of a page
And then those pages, (points to rest of page and following one) and the next ten pages are just about pollutants in the atmosphere.
Why(?) When everything about our lives is getting better by miles, are we giving our kids the impression that the world, is becoming unravelled, and may not be able to support life. What is happening?
Scene moves away from desk to garden
Our modern technology is quite amazing, take communications, everything mobile phones, iPads gets better and better and cheaper. Why? Because it’s consumer led, it’s what people want. Not one decision in this industry (holds up phone) is made by politicians.
So what about the lunatic energy policies that have been thrust upon us by lunatic politicians? Wind generators, hated but everywhere. And not one would be built without a subsidy. Whereas two nuclear generators on the old sites, would produce no CO2 and out distance all the wind generators built and planned, why don’t we subsidies those?
Scene: bird pecking at bird feeder in garden then back to office
All the efforts to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere are patently not working. Only 4% of the CO2 that goes into the atmosphere is put there by man. The rest is completely natural. And the rain falls and washes it out again, and so you have to have a carbon cycle to keep replenishing it.
Every aspect of the technology we use to improve our lives and to lessen our impact on the world is improving commendably and the future for our kids is brighter than we can yet imagine, and that is the message, we should be delivering to every child.
