Climate change isn’t a threat. CO2 isn’t a significant factor. But the action we’re proposing to take on climate mitigation will devastate our Western economies and impoverish a whole generation.
Over the last hundred years, mean global temperatures have increased by 0.7 of a degree Centigrade. That’s all. The whole climate scare is all about a fraction of a degree. According to Professor Phil Jones of the infamous Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, there has been no significant warming for the last 15 years.
And the slight warming we have seen is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term natural climate cycles. We had the Roman Optimum (warm); the Dark Ages (cool); the Medieval Warm Period; and the Little Ice Age (when they had ice-fairs on the River Thames in London). Over the last couple of centuries, we’ve been moving into what seems to be a new 21st Century Optimum. It’s rightly called an “Optimum.” Generally speaking, human societies do better in warmer weather.
When I raised this with the European Commission, they told me that recent changes were so sharp and rapid that they must be man-made. But 12,000 years ago in the Younger Dryas cold climate period, at the beginning of the current Interglacial, we saw temperature change at 10 times that rate. And there wasn’t an SUV to be seen.
When I was at Cambridge in the 1960s, everyone knew that climate was cyclical and was driven largely by astronomical cycles. And there is good evidence that recent decades have also seen warming on Mars and elsewhere in the solar system – pointing to a solar cause.
But the Warmists have the bizarre idea that only CO2 matters. Certainly CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but it’s not even the most important one. That’s water vapor, and there’s nothing we can do about it (as long as the wind blows over the ocean).
I’m horrified that the Environmental Protection Agency has declared CO2 a pollutant. They might as well declare oxygen a pollutant. We are a carbon-based life form, and CO2 is vital to the whole biosphere. Higher levels of atmospheric CO2 drive increased bio-mass formation and improved crop yields.
Read More: By Roger Helmer, Washington Times
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Plants need the CO 2. They give off oxygen which we breathe.
All this climate change or global warming is a hoax. The government just wants to control everything
we do and steal more of the taxpayers money.
HI DEE,
BIGO! YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE TAX PAYERS MONEY.
Gore, you are as stupid as you look !!!
HI THOMAS,
I WOULS SAY SO!
Obama and the Democrats know the truth about 'Glabal Warming', but they need the tax revenue that 'Cap & Trade' will bring in to support all their new social programs. To bad they don't have the sense to know that it will be a short-lived tax gain because it will bankrupt the people, the country, and destroy most of the jobs we have left and then our economy. Who will be left to pay those new carbon based taxes, no-one. Obama and his marxist socialist idiots he has running his administration are trying to patern this counrty after the 'European Union' and its high energy costs and socialistic governments, but are to stupid to realize they are going broke faster than we are. What ever happened to being observant and using insight, good judgement, and common sense when it comes to the economy of the world? OH, thats right, Obama and the 'Democrats' are in charged now.
This must be another liberal blog site, for they just refused to post my comments until they have a chance to censor them, and there is not a profane word in there, just political views. And this is the second time it has happened on this site, as well as to Zanzibar as he explained to me. I don't believe conservative sites use censorship, just the liberal ones to keep Obama and the Democrats from looking to stupid. I made the same blog on the Washington Times site and they posted it, why not on this site?
HI RHH,
I AGREE!