After my previous post Stating that I Believed Channel 4's programme on The Global warming Scandal I have looked at other arguments and various opinions and facts posted on the net. What I would dearly like to see is a programme made showing the arguments against channel 4's programme so that I can make an informed decision on both sides of the argument. I still feel Channel 4's programme has put the facts to the general population in a simple easy to understand format.

Im not a scientist, I am just a normal average person who need these facts put simply so as to understand, I can not ever remember this being done on the CO2 argument, we have all just been asked to blindly believe what we are told, so come on, some one give me the co2 facts as strongly as Channel 4's argument.

Until the facts have been proven one way or the other I will keep an open mind, but at the same time I do feel strongly that people should not be taxed and percsecuted for the way they live, all in the name of green house gases. I read one opinion from http://portal.campaigncc.org/node/1820 titled Holding development back which I have taken the liberty of including below, This gentleman's opinion seems to be that solar power is fine and that the medical centre shown in the programme just needed another solar panel, possibly true, but who is going to pay for it? Africa is a still a developing country and does not have the money to pay for wind farms or the hundreds of solar panel needed to bring them into the 21st century. Why then if people believe so stongly that solar and wind power are the answer do they not use these resources for themselves and disconnect themselves from the national grid, it would be interesting to see just how long they could use their Tvs and computers for. I do believe that wind farms and solar panels are a clean and useful form of energy but they are still just a complimentry source of power to the carbon fuels we already unfortunately rely on and they are much to expensive at the moment for third world countries to be expected to use as their only source of energy.

Holding development back

I thought the last section about developed countries putting pressure on developing countries to not develop was particularly interesting. There are many development NGOs e.g. WDM that would have been sympathethic to that valid concern. Yet none were interviewed.

We were shown that a fridge and a light bulb could not be powered by 1 or 2 panels on the roof of a small health centre - not surprising. But we were encouraged to think that solar power was not a suitable power source in Africa rather than that the bloke running the fridge actually needed a third solar panel.

African emissions per capita are tiny compared to the developed countries and it is going to be decades before they waste energy in the same amounts that we manage to do.