Climate change is not caused by humans
I'm sure the science community looks forward your submitted paper backing this up Smokey
. For starters ...
You need to explain what natural phenomenon has caused CO2 levels to rise to 400ppm and rising (33% higher than the maximum of the natural fluctuation of CO2 levels (180ppm-300ppm) over the past 400,000 years or so due to the Milankovitch cycles)?
You need to explain what natural phenomenon has caused the ratio of Carbon isotopes C13/C12 in the atmosphere to fall over the past 150 years after this ratio had remained relatively constant for the past 400,000 years or so?
it has been happening since we had the Big Bang and will continue to do so until the next Big Bang.
Ummm the Earth wasn't around at the Big Bang
and it makes no sense to say the "next Big Bang".
The planet has gone through a number of major climatic events in its history, far greater than the normal seasonal moves we see today and it will continue to do so in spite of what Gore and his leeching cronies scare people into believing.
First part of this sentence is true but they can all be explained by natural phenomena. Add to that Humans weren't around when most of these major events occurred and the Earth's climate make-up was very different to that of today (eg: the Oxygen level in the atmosphere roughly a billion years ago was just 1%; it's rise to 20-22% spawned the evolution of macro-species).
The environment however, is impacted hugely by the human race and that's where we should be focusing our efforts and spending money - saving endangered wildlife, stopping pollution, harvesting land and sea in a sustainable way, not getting wealthy countries to line the pockets of those who suckle on the teet of the climate change industry.
It's not an either situation. Climate changes impact on the environment.
The amount of carbon produced by humans is such a minute amount in the air that it has no discernible impact on the climate
I love this old red herring excuse on two fronts
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(i) The Earth's atmosphere is made up mostly of Nitrogen (78%), Oxygen (21%) and Argon (0.9%). Now the more mathematically inclined on OER will find that adds up to 99.9%. Now these three gases are NOT greenhouse gases. So only a very small proportion of the atmosphere (<0.1%) are greenhouse gases of which CO2 makes up currently 400ppm (=0.04%). Now the existence of these greenhouse gases, despite their 'small' proportionality, results in approximately a 20-30 degree Celsius increase in the mean surface temperature of the Earth (eg: 30 degrees higher than compared to treating the Earth as a "black body"). So small changes within the atmosphere can have significantly effects.
(ii) Your statement treats the amount of CO2 as absolute which is the wrong way of understanding how the Carbon cycle works. It naturally works in terms of a dynamical equilibrium between CO2 sources and CO2 sinks. Man is having an effect on both sides of this equilibrium and artificially unbalancing it. We are firstly taking Carbon-based substances (fossil fuels/hydrocarbons), which are buried and not part of the natural atmospheric Carbon cycle, and as a by-product of burning them to create energy, we are artificially adding excess CO2 into the atmosphere (ie. we have created an additional man-made CO2 source). We know it's man-made as the ratio of Carbon isotopes C13/C12 is different in fossil fuels than in the atmosphere and as a result we are altering this ratio in the atmosphere over time. Secondly, via deforestation, we are reducing the natural CO2 'sinks'. This dual effect combined is leading to this continual increase in CO2 levels which then leads to global warming and climate change.
and to tax us for that is just an underhand way for governments and the world climate change industry (for that's all it is - a profit making industry for the elite) to rob us of money.
Ah a conspiracy theory! Quite funny actually after listening on 3aw last week to a representative of the electricity wholesalers association saying that people with solar panels should be forced to pay more money to the electricity companies because it's not fair they aren't paying as much as they use to before they got solar panels
. Yep the fossil fuel industry isn't robbing us by jacking up our bills over the past decade even though we've individually cut back our electricity usage
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The world is not warming at a rate that will cause climate change, the sea ice in the world is not declining (in some areas it's increasing to record levels), the planet is actually greening itself more, and there is no significant change up or down in the number or type of catastrophic climatic events such as cyclones, fires, floods etc. The climate has always changed and will always change regardless of what we do
Do you have an actual scientific source for any of this?
but what is happening at present is that some entrepreneurial types such as Al Gore have seized on their minute slice of time on earth to promote a campaign of fear that lines their collective pockets just nicely thank you.
Climate 'sceptics' are doing nicely themselves. As an example, Dr Willy Soon was funded almost a million dollars by Exxon, the American Petroleum Institute and Koch Industries. The Heartland Institute, which most of these 'sceptics' belong to, also received large funds from the oil industry in America; just as they received large funds from tobacco companies to take on medical science to dispute the link between smoking and lung cancer.
And the lemmings continue to march.............
Yes they do on wacko 'the scientists are out to get us' conspiracy blogs and websites
