i Have two petitions at no 10 - one asking that the climae change issue be given an equivalent status to wartime footing
secondly I am asking that an international baseline is agreed as to populations in each nation by which future calculations will be made - this will place a downward pressure on population growth as there will be more assets or credits per capita on low growth or shrinking populations

I’m not really surprised to hear that people are now suspicious of the global warming information that has come out in recent times; scientists have to report their findings with honesty, not lie or spin results that seem to conflict with prediction and/or expectation, or what is the point? False information reporting is far worse than mistaken information. Anyone can make a mistake, but to hide behind false information or purposely misleading statistics is the worst kind of science, leave the spinning to politicians. It must be said this seems to be a particular problem with a number of scientific fields just of late so the climate scientists should not, perhaps be singled out; rather the peer system needs to be reviewed. It seems to me, if someone finds a result that differs from perceived wisdom in any science subject that person is immediately vilified and/or told they are obviously wrong, stupid or incompetent. All of which may be true until you find that the peer group are either too busy, lazy or just don’t like the results. It really isn’t surprising science sometimes enters blind alleys or struggles to move forward. Scientists above all people should remember that perceived wisdom is often just that perceived!
It seems to me that if you want to engage with “the people” you need to treat them with a little respect, and believe they can understand complex issues. So you as scientists and politicians believe global warming is at least in part caused by human activity i.e. the burning of fossil fuels. O.K. this is one of the most complex of issues involving inputs from the sun, atmosphere, sea, deforestation and other human activities to produce energy. Keeping it reasonably simple, I would recommend a more holistic approach to the subject and avoid using absolutes and scare tactics, you can point out that even though there is a huge natural carbon cycle that takes place each year, human activity is a net additional input of carbon (that can and has been measured?) and could be a factor in increasing global warming, you can point out that the sea takes in a huge amount of carbon each year as part of the carbon cycle, so do plants on the land but before human activity really got going the amount of carbon released to the atmosphere was almost exactly balanced by the amount of carbon that was removed by plankton and plants. Since Mans increased activity there is today, a net increase of carbon left in the atmosphere due to the addition created by burning fossil fuels and a reduction of carbon removal from the atmosphere due to deforestation, this at least is believed to be partly responsible for global warming or at least speeding the process up. The last statement is referring to the fact that the largest single influence on our planet is the sun, which is a cyclical beast and goes through various cycles of getting warmer and cooler and unsurprisingly has a direct effect on the earth. Some people believe that this alone is responsible for global warming, but a surprising correlation has been seen between the rates of global warming in line with the rate of fossil fuel extraction over the last approximately one hundred years that would sagest that human activity is having an adverse effect on our climate. On a personal note I would like to point out that regardless of your position with regard to global warming, human activity is polluting our planet at a great rate of knots (a technical term!). Various pollutants now affect many of our rivers ether rendering them lifeless except for microbes and bacteria or more innocuously turning all the fish female. Large areas of land is being contaminated due to oil spillage, fly ash from coal burning and combustion products of allsorts goes into our atmosphere not just carbon dioxide, this is mainly driven for our desire for energy and the by-products of oil including our ground water being contaminated by farming derived fertilizer and insecticide effluent. This is an oversimplification of what is trying to be relied to people to point out our responsibilities to our environment but hopefully it gives the general idea of the how. It should be remembered by all of us we are not trying to save the planet here, mother nature has been quite happy to do things in the long term even after major setbacks such as massive volcanoes and asteroids, she’s been doing it for approximately five billion years before humans arrived and she will carry on for about the same amount of time after our demise.