Where 'climate sceptics' and environment campaigners could form a pact

An interesting piece spotted in our RSS feeds. It came from the Parliament website.

Now, this blogger has become very much a 'climate sceptic'. In taking that position, no doubt a lot of environment campaigning types would be irritated by some of the things we spot in the mainstream news and comment upon.

But why don't all of us - 'climate sceptics' and environment campaigners step back a little?

This blogger actually cares about the planet and our environment. The rainforests should not be felled and industrial pollutants should be handled with great care.

What environment campaigners will notice - if they read virtually any of the 'climate sceptic' blogs especially - is a big cynicism about politicians using the pretext of 'man made global warming' turned 'climate change' for tax raising and global Government infrastructure development.

Now, here's the first few lines of the Parliament website news story:

The EU’s flagship Emissions Trading System is failing to deliver vital green investment after a collapse in carbon prices magnified by the recession, MPs warn in a report out today.

The Environmental Audit Committee is calling on the Government to consider measures that would guarantee a minimum price for carbon, such as a new carbon tax.

The Committee heard calls for a carbon price of €100 a tonne of CO2, or higher, in order to drive urgently needed investment in green technologies and energy efficiency. Current prices, which remain nearer to €15 a tonne, are too low to pull through the required investment.

In a nutshell, we have every single point that 'sceptics' claim are behind the IPCC's dodgy dossier on climate change.

We have huge money trading hands across the globe, we have the European Union... go read the rest.

Then pause.

How much of what is being discussed demonstrates true compassion for our planet?

We all care passionately about the planet.

How about 'climate sceptics' and environment campaigners join together to get politicians who want to destroy national sovereignty and democracy and big business with multi-trillion dollar interests to get their nose out of the debate?

Maybe then, us 'climate sceptics' and true environment campaigners can sit down in an atmosphere of mutual respect, hire some genuinely agenda free scientists who are equally agreed upon and equally funded, and we work towards a consensus rather than name calling (on both sides) and scaremongering with visions of the Apocalypse?

We could do it if we placed the actual environment - rather than big business and supranational government - at the heart of discussions in an atmosphere of mutual respect.

We could see where we agree on caring for the planet.

Or we could continue along the path of divide and rule which makes some people very powerful and some people very rich.

The latter obviously will not help us all look after our planet.