Computer modelling seems to play a large role in these hysteria. Someone needs to investigate how dodgy models can be, and have been, abused. Since these people don't understand, they see a pretty chart/graph showing "projected estimates", and they abandon all skepticism.
Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of all of this is not that the leaders of the movement are not qualified, but that the leaders of the movement have a strong vested interest in keeping the story going regardless of the consequences.
There is no independent review of decisions, everyone in the decision making process makes their living from propagating the concept of Net Zero. Even if they were qualified, none of them would stand up and say "this won't work, we need to change course".
I found a paper that calculated the global use of anaesthetic gases was equivalent to one coal fired power station in terms of CO2e. Scotland's share of that will be of the order of a thousandth of the total. The effect on climate is not measurable. The effect on patients? Perhaps an anaesthetist can comment.
Computer modelling seems to play a large role in these hysteria. Someone needs to investigate how dodgy models can be, and have been, abused. Since these people don't understand, they see a pretty chart/graph showing "projected estimates", and they abandon all skepticism.
Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of all of this is not that the leaders of the movement are not qualified, but that the leaders of the movement have a strong vested interest in keeping the story going regardless of the consequences.
There is no independent review of decisions, everyone in the decision making process makes their living from propagating the concept of Net Zero. Even if they were qualified, none of them would stand up and say "this won't work, we need to change course".
I found a paper that calculated the global use of anaesthetic gases was equivalent to one coal fired power station in terms of CO2e. Scotland's share of that will be of the order of a thousandth of the total. The effect on climate is not measurable. The effect on patients? Perhaps an anaesthetist can comment.