Views in denial on climate science

Far from encouraging positivity on climate action, Victoria White (Opinion, Feb 21) instead promotes effective denial of climate science and increases my despair for our future.

White strongly endorses the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) conclusions on reframing climate change policy, which concentrate on reducing the need for ‘how much’ targets in favour of ‘how to’ innovation. Like NESC, though, she makes no argument to support the idea that targets somehow impede innovation. The experience from Ireland’s ‘stretch’ wind energy targets, pushing previously thought unfeasible development, is just one of many examples that disprove this fallacy, yet White supports it.

It is also worrying that White also commends NESC for saying: “action on climate change has to feed economic recovery” and “no-one knows exactly how a developed economy can get to carbon neutrality because it’s never been done before.”