PEMBROKESHIRE was wet enough before climate change! With recent national headlines framing Eglwyswrw’s 81 days of rainfall as ‘biblical’, surely the time has come for us all to accept the fact climate change is real, climate change is here and climate change has begun.

Reading these headlines such as “Village suffers ‘biblical’ non stop rain for 81 days and even the livestock are ‘depressed’” surely has to get people to sit up and take notice?

Pembrokeshire is beautiful and when I moved here 20 years ago I almost considered it part of the charm of the place that we would get the occasional ‘summer of rain’ every two or three years or so, but this so called ‘winter’ has really surpassed itself.

I’m also a gardener and tree surgeon so the weather does have an effect on my business.

We have just had the COP21 climate talks in Paris where world leaders have been exalting themselves over their so-called commitments to lowering carbon emissions. Yet Cameron and his “Greenest government ever” have actually just slashed the UK’s renewables incentives and cut the feed-in tariff by a whopping 93%.

Leading environmental scientists are reporting that the carbon targets set at the Paris talks actually lock us in to a 2.7C rise in temperature (yes 2.7C!) – yet: “A rise of 2C is considered the most the Earth could tolerate without risking catastrophic changes to food production, sea levels, fishing, wildlife, deserts and water reserves. Even if rises are pegged at 2C, scientists say this will still destroy most coral reefs and glaciers and melt significant parts of the Greenland ice cap, bringing major rises in sea levels.”

It baffles me that people won’t take this issue seriously and that politicians get away with saying one thing and doing the complete opposite.

They are only interested in serving the interests of big business and their corporate backers who pollute our world yet in many cases don’t even pay their due taxes.

If people want a viable and inhabitable planet for their children and grandchildren I suggest they take action on this now or things really will get ‘biblical’!

I certainly am taking many forms of action and I will also be voting Green in the National Assembly for Wales elections in May.

JIM SCOTT

Pembrokeshire Green Party member