The UK’s Climate Change Bill might represent a bad deal for taxpayers, as spoken by a Conservative minister.
Peter Lilley MP said that the worst-case scenario could put a net cost of £10,000 on each UK household.
The government said the costs of not acting on climate change would be higher than the costs of acting now.
Mr Lilley says he does not oppose action to curb climate change.
“We all want to save the planet from overheating, just as we all want to save the financial system from meltdown,” he writes in the BBC’s Green Room series of environmental opinion articles.
“We accept that both rescues may cost us a lot.”
But, he says, the Climate Change Bill, which is broadly supported by the Conservatives, may not represent value for money.
Recent finds on climate change mean that marine life could be diminishing from acid threat.
Professor Wootton says the most troubling finding is the speed of acidification, with the pH level dropping at a much greater rate than was previously thought. “It’s going down 10 to 20 times faster than the previous models predicted,” he says.
Biology and climate change is affecting pH, through photosynthesis and respiration.
All this latest news is a big warning that homeowners should look to make bigger changes in the home and lifestyle to preserve what we have now with out resorting to government forcing us to.
