How should the UK tackle climate change? - BBC Newsnight 

regarding flooding, UK needs to give room for rivers to naturally flood on their floodplain like they do in the Netherlands, by restricting development. A wide scale reintroduction of beavers in suitable areas will also help slow down large amounts of water and is a cheaper solution than traditional flood defenses

You could start by switching off the 4 giant unnecessary TV screens behind you. Imagine how much energy the BBC waste on a daily basis.

Use Boris and Priti as sandbags.Job done.

“ let’s face it, we all use a dishwasher” wow……..he’s pretty out of touch with many people in the U.K. Thank you MP Matthew Pennycock for noticing that!

Of the UK government wants to see what happens when you build too many houses especially on flood plains they should look at what happened to Houston Texas a couple years ago when a hurricane hit and the water had nowhere to go.

Easy. Clear the drains properly, update them from Victorian quality, dredge the rivers, streams and canals as they should be, stop building houses on the flood planes and take council workers off Furlough and we will be fine as we have been every other year

Alarmists

How to make a big change? End subsidies for animal agriculture. See how well the industry survives without constant governmental support.

I think we need to distinguish clearly between climate change and pollution. The former cannot be "controlled" whereas the latter can be. Practically speaking, there is no way we can prevent floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and tornadoes from happening. But there is a lot we can do to reduce pollution. The sad fact is that, no matter how much activists protest and talk, there is always more plastic in the supermarket, always more paper in our mailboxes (loads of unsolicited ads), always more and more people buying new cars with all the latest features, more and more planes criss-crossing the skies.Always more and more people buying the latest smartphones, tablets and computers. And few think about where all the old phones, Ipads and computers end up. They are NOT biodegradable. We have an unsatiable appetite for unlimited travel - and all the latest that technology has to offer -- and we want it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Unless we - as a global community - are willing to make some serious changes to our lifestyles, I fear that any talk about climate change is ..... not terribly meaningful.

Funny that they ban electric scooters even for short distance routes but try and force them to use deiseal vehicles instead.

Too many houses were built on flood-risk areas. There seems to be a love affair in the UK with low-density housing in the countryside, but this needs to change. The government should make it easier for developers to construct high-density housing (apartment buildings) in urban centres which are not at risk of flooding and which are close to amenities.

Why do we never hear about a global effort to plant more trees?

Climate always changes and never stops.......

Weather manipulation comming to full blown and not or our good.

If we, the people, dont act ie: start growing and producing our own food and resources at home and amoungst our own streets and communities outside of the governments "authority" and completely naturally ie not using fossil fuels or electric, then this society is fu£@ed. To put it in simple terms 🤣🙏

We have 95% CO2 emissions from these 3 sectors: 1) heating in winter (coal, oil, gas, some wood) 30% CO2 emissions 2) transportation (almost all on oil) about 28% CO2 emissions 3) electricity usage (55% of EL is produced with, you guess, coal, oil and gas, some wood) 25% CO2 emissions We also have animal agriculture about 14% CO2 emissions

Just start preparing for the Grand Solar Minimum. Simple. Cold weather crop losses. Geoengineering too

Building embakments along rivers ,flood plains along river beds, raising the floor levels of houses. People need to adapt to the change in weather. conditions.

What is climate change, I've never heard of it

Move everyone to inner 20 minute city area living on top of one another (affordable housing) Great reset

Selective statistics I remember much hotter and wetter you are misinformed

KEEP CUTTING THOSE TREE DOWN! WHO NEEDS A GREEN PLANET ANYWAY

The Cult is very much thirsty for power. Aren´t they?

We need to do all we can to prevent flooding but it is not good to keep building on our green belt. That should stop. Poorer people need help if gas boilers have to be replaced. Not everyone is in a cosy secure well paid job.

World: Global warming is causing floods in Germany, China, Britain, New Zealand and America. US: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." D.Trump Native: "Your kids can name more KPop groups than they can types of native trees." Sean Sherman China: "Ecology is a resource, wealth and treasure." Xi Jinping.

This is England the weather is temperamental What are these fools talking about .... rain when we don’t expect it

Does anyone else notice the vastly different approaches our media apply to interviewing a Tory versus Labour MP Please don’t try to tell me there’s any neutrality left in journalism

Affordable? Yea, losing your house in a flash flood or in a forest fire is affordable? Or having food and water in your table is affordable to lose? And all the environment with all the species is affordable to lose too? Talking about economy without having ecological losses within is just nuts, but hey we have been there centuries already... All economies have made a total miss calculation and left all natural damages out. We take what we want from nature - with zero economical costs and we use that stuff days and then we toss wastes back in the nature (most times in a format that nature can't handle)...

Have to say, here in Scotland I remember cold white winters, we'd have weeks off school, this was only just a decade ago. Now we get no snow, the past 4 summers we've had basically no rain and soaring temperatures

you build next to a river what do you expect

It’s time to get corporations and bankers to pay for the damage they have done to humanity, better if government handles it otherwise people will rip them apart!!! We all had enough Tod this sons of Satan.

'Boris Johnson is his own man' no media bias then?

By giving more green tax dodges to billionaires corporations . We need to pay more carbon tax to billionaires . Fools

I'm concerned about British nature and climate. What a great nature!

Plant more trees!

The boat has already capsized and people are discussing how to handle the oars.

Climate Change > "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"

China contributes more than the three highest contributing countries combined. So I feel like no significant changes can occur without if China is not going to change as well.

Cancel the TV license now folks. Turn off state brainwashing.

Turn off the BBC.

make it warmer and stop complaining about global warming

The UK is like a man smoking a cigarette next to another man burning a thousand tires, and someone asks him to put the cigarette out because it’s making a smell

Don't bother tackling it. Climate change saved 555,103 lives in England and Wales between 2001 and 2020 (ONS, 2022). Go Climate change!

increased sunshine? are you having a absolute laugh?!? one of the worst summers i can remember

Keep work from home wherever possible, rather than irresponsibily lecturing people to "get back to the office". There will be an economic impact, but we're supposed to be in a "climate emergency" right? The doublethink practiced by this government is laughable.

We have had a couple of atmospheric rivers in the past while. Now, people look at this and cannot conceive of the situation elsewhere on the planet. The rate of desertification that is taking place right now is mind numbing. People having to make a mass exodus from their landsis staggering. Our weather is being manipulated and they use "climate change" as an excuse to justify these unexplainable weather anomalies.

Tony Heller has analysed the data, and the graphs are always shown with the initial figures fraudulently lowered.

Taking a historical view of change, have humans been better adapters or controllers? How fruitless it will be if we see ourselves as able to control the weather by changing our boilers.

They are building everywhere the water has no where to go it's not the climate

its allways raining in england even in summer wr used to it

I skipped Allegra's talk because it's bs. The rest of the programme is very good

The futility and arrogance. To think that humans who have been on the planet for a relative blink of an eye could have an influence and affect on an ecology that is billions and billions of years old. Laughable.

Why do people complain hot summer and then run to Spain, Greece or Thailand for hot summer beach holidays? Just have fun at home. Make Coke and Pepsi to stop digging out water. They should use surface water or desalination water to sell their beverages.

Introduce. Strict. Carbon. Taxation.... Price in the externalities across all industries. This is economics 101.

By not worrying about it. It has been changing for thousands of years.

Some people make dams other people breaking ice to make canals... other people and mother nature suffers.

You can do little about Climate change, as it is a natural phenomenon . Yes mankind may be adding to it, but we know that the climate has always changed, even massively in the past as scientists have told us, so why do we think it would stop now for our convenience?

Greed, start a polar shift for buried treasure🐽

Again the UK stable door , horse ect .

You may believe from this report that Allegra Stratton is a scientist or someone who is actually qualified to talk about this complex subject. Actually she is a former journalist who studied archeology and anthropology. She is BJ’s former press secretary. More Tory hype and Boris bullshit.

@1:52 and we found the real reason for this being pushed right now, more money for the old boys network.

One way would be to ignore this tripe and vote the bums out.

Oh wow ohhhh since 1766! THE EARTH IS 4 BILLION YEARS OLD - there’s been far far bigger changes during that time!

BBC: tackle climate change? me: you make china stays in its own house, and at least 20% of all problems on earth solved.

We shouldn't.

Head down to off license, load up on gin, beer, cider, and stay as drunk as possible (the routine) and hope Harry and Schmegans are OK.🌏🌏🌏😀😀😍

You can't tackle "nature", the often forgotten aspect whenever "climate change" is discussed. The sun rises and sets each day, this is called the "day cycle" ... a period of light and warmth followed by dark and cold. The sun also proceeds north then south, the "seasonal cycle" bringing warmth then cold. The sun goes through a "solar cycle" in which it outputs a higher frequency of energy "solar maximum" before descending to a lower output "solar minimum" ... which operates on a period of about 11 years. These are observable cycles, you can observe longer cycles outside of this i.e. in the 1750s the period between the solar maximum & solar minimum where much longer, since the mid-1800s the period has decreased. The fact these cycles are ignored, "climate scientists" often parroted by the media point only at the chemical composition of the atmosphere > the claim that only man could effect that. Also, given "world leaders" only seem to care about "climate change" when trying to enforce some thing upon the people they "govern", their motives should be questioned i.e. "world leaders" so concerned about "climate change" yet travel on their own private aircrafts, splurging money on supporting technology [wind, solar, battery] that require significant resources to be extracted from the earth or the tearing down of trees & greenland [which ironically are the solution to "excess" CO2] to make way for "high-speed" trains which the average person will likely never use. The climate on earth has always changed, regardless of man, it will continue to change again regardless of what man does ...

Distracted by the weird EMPHASIS on RANDOM words

First we need to plant much mour trees and mour River defences and stop buildings house in low level ground

Like dinosaurs, we have had our time. Other creatures will survive

As if it is a local issue....look at those enormous fires in Siberia...if the Permafrost melts away there is nothing more we can do...

1,5C is just not possible. Not even with IPCC's own report. Best IPCC scenario was 1,4C and that included many flaws. Starting line was 2015 and after that we have already emitted 5,5 years more carbon with 8.5 pathway adding around 0,1C to IPCC's model the temperature (ie. here said 1,2C which is 0,1C higher than IPCC's used 1,1C). Aerosols are pretty messed up in lower scenarios. IPCC says 0,4C aerosol cooling currently and when we pahse out fossil burning that means 0,4C warming leading to 1,5C alone. Then IPCC added 300-500GtCO2e to the mix, so all their emission pathways stays on positive signs... And they even say "Additional ecosystem responses to warming not yet fully included in climate models, such as CO2 and CH4 fluxes from wetlands, permafrost thaw and wildfires, would further increase concentrations of these gases in the atmosphere (high confidence). {5.4, Box TS.5, TS.3.2}". Most non-linear responses are not there and we have already gone over Amazon rainforest tipping point where the forest can no longer inhale carbon, but instead emits it (2 studies in 2021). IPCC has even chosen industrial era 1850-1900 to their preindustrial starting point (because it has better data, but still). And then there's around 1600GtCO2e of uncertainties which could mean max. around 0,5C warming (or unlikely cooling). So IPCC has made political reasoning and made the data look like we have a chance for 1,5C. But if you read what I said, that's only a politically needed lie. When adding a low tipping element forcings you'll soon end up to a world over 3,0C warming by 2100 and likely 2,0C by 2050. And that's where I think we are going even if we try to avoid further heating.

Do they want a serious answer?

The idea that Boris has a conscience!

Kinda bizarre that we have been home for a couple years and yet all this climate change is getting out of control.

bbc, in blue studio why some always has to walk in and sit in front of someone already sitting at table?

Amazing how weak labour is on this when this should be home turf for them.

Again not actually answering questions, just providing responses. No solid goals they'll commit to.

As a Japanese 🇯🇵 Japans🇯🇵 rising Sun felt in the UK.

All westerners could just stop consuming (except food and drinks) for a year. We already have enough. And all that stuff has made its impact to the nature already and continuing consumerism just makes things worse.

Look at the background! Hard surfaces everywhere. What is the best change to make? Far less concrete and asphalt, more permeable surfaces, along with far more green infrastructure, green spaces that have trees, undergrowth and zero lawns. Rainwater collection in each home, far less fossil fuel heating, and far fewer vehicles. Nope, not going to happen because money. Seriously? How much more money are people going to spend next year, the years after?

Why don't you put graphs up of 500 years

Change our FPTP undemocratic voting system which is exactly why we only have 1 Green MP. In a guaranteed “safe” Tory seat…..my vote has bee totally pointless for 30 years.

Aw not acceptable from such a once great BBC. Self importance and big words from a crummy tv company

COLDEST APRIL AND MAY ON RECORD.

Rinsing dishes is not a big problem. Animal farming is a huge cause of climate change. Don’t worry about dishes, stop eating animals.

2050 is way too late and UK as a stater of the industrial emissions should be the first one to stop the emissions. Completely. Even sucking all emissions that UK has made from the atmosphere would be nice.

free public transport.

Bit too late now. I guess we're all doomed already. Just need to brace ourselves for the impacts

No green pass.

Too little, too late. 👎

The world population is too high that's why the earth is seriously warming

We had such a very cold spring and summer is not much better. Tackling something that docent exist will bankrupt us.

Future living under water - Baba Vanga prediction.

I think we can use ram pumps to solve the energy crisis. First we build a hollow cylindrical tower out at sea, to a depth of say 1100m. The tower is open to the air at the top and has a sealed base at the bottom. We drill a hole about 20m below the surface and feed water into the tower. The water falls down a pipe for about 200m where it powers a turbine that is connected to an electricity generator. We collect the water and drop it down a pipe for another 200m to another turbine. We do this twice more until we are getting electricity from four generators. We then drop the water another 200m to power a turbine which drives a cog that is geared to turn a disc at the base of the tower. The waste water from the last turbine starts to collect at the bottom of the tower creating a shallow reservoir that we need to pump out. The rotating disc at the base of the tower has cams along its edge. These cams are used to push pistons outwards. These pistons are in cylinders built into the wall in a circular formation. The cylinders are sealed at the interior side apart from where a piston rod enters to push the piston outward. The outside of the piston head is exposed to the deep sea water. The cam will push the piston outward against the high pressure deep sea water. An inlet pipe will take water from our shallow reservoir which will be pulled into the space created in the cylinder, behind the piston head. When the cam releases the piston, the low pressure water inside the cylinder will be the only thing pushing the piston out against the high pressure deep sea water. This is when the system acts as a ram pump. The piston will be forced inward and will force the low pressure water back out through the inlet pipe toward the reservoir. The inlet pipe will now act the same as a waste pipe in a ram pump and the flowing water will shut a waste valve. The remaining water in the cylinder will be forced through a check valve into a pipe and upwards to the surface. The larger the diameter of the tower, the more cylinders that can be built into the wall at the base of the tower. I realise that the ram pump cylinder will pump more of its water back into the reservoir than it sends to the surface but we can always add more cylinders to the system. We can even put another layer of cylinders above the original ones as ram pumps still work underneath shallow water. I think we should be able to pump water upwards at the same rate that it falls into the bottom of the tower and so keep the reservoir nice and shallow. Now, if I understand the maths correctly, we might only be able to pump the water near to the surface. In that case, we can pump the water into a reservoir tank (inside the tower) and use the electricity generated by the first turbine to pump out the tank. This will leave us with 3 generators worth of electricity for every tower built. Would this work? Everyone, please comment.

no FK BILLIONAIRES not all the straws in the world will cover a single jet setting billionaire #OutlawBillionaires #EndWealthHoarders #UBINow

I need a lawyer, the case is open I cant say the name of the Multinational. I'm in London and afraid, false publicity on the environment and the evidence is devastating. I thanks the Parliament to have stop them but when it came of blowing the whistle no help for the case.

It's too late even if we all went electric! Prepare for the worse! 😭

No green enviroment without nuclear power.

jack harries also mentioned about that in great details