I should start this with a disclaimer. That is, i'm not denying that the climate of the world is changing. That means i'm not a 'climate change denyer' in the strictist sense. What i'm denying, is that the fault lies on the front door of mankind.
I'm complled to write this after Gordon Brown said that climate change skeptics are 'flat-earthers', and 'anti-science'. Goes to show what the half blind manky scottish wanker knows about me then. I am pro science to the core. I get stick for it from people. I get the line 'Science isn't always right.' Well duuuuhhhh. That's the point of it, it constantly tests itself, constantly tries to prove itself wrong so it can gain more accuracy. I'd like to see Religion do the same to it's claims. It wouldn't last five minutes.
So with my pro-science attitude, i adopt the teachings of a certain Noam Chomsky. He is labelled an 'intellectual' which is a damn lofty title. He says to be an intellectual, you need to look at things yourself from every angle. In other words, don't take someone's word for it. Which is splendid advice.
With that in mind then, let's get our chops around some facts.
Let's go back a while. The Soviets analysing ice core data in Antarctica have said that according to their research, CO2 levels in the atmosphere have been steadily rising for 18,000 years.
Must have been all those planes and six litre vehicles driving around 18,000 years ago.
The Hadley Centre for Climate Change Prediciton stumbled on an 'inconvenient truth' in 2007. That is, since 1998 there has been no rise in the average temperature of the planet.
So does this mean we're all doing really really well? And we've managed to keep CO2 levels down? Or does it mean that there is NO correlation between the CO2 in the atmosphere and the temperature of the planet? Go here to find out more; www.sciencebits.com/icecoretruth
The thing with Global Warming doomsters, is that they haven't read the facts. Or, they've been selective with the facts. It's like a religion. You can swan around these days saying God doesnt exist, or you can say you dont think he does, and people will just smile warmly and say you're entitled to your beliefs.
If you say you don't believe in global warming, people get VERY narky about it. I should know, i've argued with plenty of them. It's like you've just gone round and shit in their favourite hat. They're appalled, and they have no reason to be. These are the bad scientists, the people who believe every news bulletin and newspaper article about it, without looking into it themselves.
I understand if you dont have the time, but please then dont fiercely defend something you know nothing about. It renders you without a frame of reference, regurgatating half baked ideas you've over heard on the tv. Thats not even bad science, it borders on stupidity.
The 'evidence' used to back up the claim that the planet is getting hotter, comes from ground based weather stations. Most of these weather stations were initially planted in rural areas. What's happened now, is those same stations are subject to a background bias due to urban sprawl. So they give a false reading. If you want an accurate reading, use the sattelite weather stations, as they aren't subjected to these factors. If you were to do so, you'd discover much the same as the Hadley Centre did, that is there is NO increase in the planet's average temperature, year on year.
Weird things are happening with the weather, that can't be denied. Getting hotter? I missed summer this year didn't you? A more plausible explanation for climate change is the Sun. Our glorious perpetual nuclear explosion up there. One tiny change in the Sun's output disturbs the climate here on earth. And the sun is doing things we've never seen before with it's solar flares and winds. It's a monster, and it's angry. What are the climate changers planning to do? Protest against the sun?
The only evidence for man-made global warming is computer models. Sadly, the models are wrong. How do i know this? Because they tested the models against past warming. The models predicted high temperatures in certain areas in the northern hemisphere and the tropics. When compared to actual readings from the same time frame, the models did not predict reality. It doesn't add up. It doesn't work. To think that all this fuss and fuckery, all the tax money (Cap and Trade = a HUGE con), all the protests, all the scaremongering, is the result of a computer simulation.
People are looking on mankind as a virus, a cancer on the planet that needs to be eradicated.
I don't understand why people can't marvel at their own inventiveness. Why can't we look around and think 'We're doing alright here, look at everything we've achieved'.
Humans feel the need to feel guilty about it. You can't leave your tv on standby. You can't leave your car running. You can't mix paper with plastic. You can't burn coal. You can't leave a light on. Fuck, it's getting so that you can't even throw your own rubbish out. There's a collection of individuals that see progress as a bad thing. They want us to go back to a 'golden age' which sadly only exists in memories looked at through rosy tinted specs. There is a phenomenal amount we can do with medicine, and with stem cell research diseases like Parkinsons and Altzheimers will be treatable. To me, that's not only exciting, its a fucking relief too. They're even trying to grow body parts in petri dishes now. Fucking right as well. If i lost an eye, and was told they could grow me a new one, i'd be one happy bloke. If i lost an eye, and they said we were at the point where we could have grown you a new one but some hand wringing moraliser decided we were playing God so good luck not bumping into things, I'd find that moraliser and see how they like it sans BOTH their eyes.
People should stop feeling guilty. CO2 has been rising long before you bought your car. The industrial revolution started but 200 years ago. Am i supposed to swallow that climate change is the fault of man? I don't. I don't because it makes no sense. Not when you look at nature, and it's own contributions. Through volcanoes, decaying plants and animals, and biolgic activity in the oceans. In fact, of the 186 billion tonnes of CO2 that gets released into the atmosphere every year, man is accountable for only 6 billion of it. WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT THE OTHER 180 BILLION? That's my question, because that's what should be addressed. We're pissing in the wind worrying about 6 billion tonnes when there's 180 more of it to be accounted for.
CO2 makes up less than 4/100ths of 1% of all gases present in the atmosphere. Read that again and take it in. Then consider mankind's contribution to that. If you look at geological data, we are in fact living in a time that's CO2 IMPOVERISHED. Put in capitals so you get the point. This is bad, as plants need CO2 to live. And we need plants to live.
American spent 25 billion in government funding into climate change since 1990. That is why you won't hear any of the above from anyone who makes a fast buck out of selling you a myth. It nearly happened though, on the eve of the bullshit Copenhagen summit, some clever clogs hacked into the East Anglian University's computers and stole thousands of emails containing information that the facts and figures for climate change have been 'massaged' to make things seem worse than they are.
Jobs are at stake. So is integrity. The climate is changing. What can YOU do about it? Not a lot. So stop worrying. I see a Facebook group now, going on about how people shouldn't oppose wind farms on the grounds that they're eye sores. I won't. I'll oppose them on the grounds that they're fucking useless. The solution to our 'energy crisis' is something no-one wants to hear. It starts with n and ends in uclear. But that's for another blog.
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