By Viv Forbes
A scheming cabal of green bureaucrats, academics and corporate speculators is trying to scare us into a mess of energy taxes, subsidies and rationing in order to combat what they call “catastrophic man-made global warming”.
Climate alarmists speculate that if the level of harmless carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is doubled (which may or may not happen in a century or so), world temperature may be one or two degrees warmer than it would have otherwise been.
The proposition that this mild warming, if it occurs, would be “catastrophic” is so laughable that they had to invent “positive feedbacks” to multiply this scare to maybe six degrees in a century. However the emerging evidence, and Earth’s past history, show that feedbacks are negative – the vast oceans tend to stabilise warming temperatures so that even the two degree forecast is probably excessive.
In many places in Australia, temperature rises about sixteen degrees from dawn to mid-afternoon – over say eight hours, or two degrees per hour. So people who can cope with a daily warming of 16 degrees over 8 hours are supposed to panic about a fudged forecast of two degrees over a century – about the warming we feel in just one hour every morning. Even less “frightening” is the less than one degree of warming that has occurred over the last 200 years.
Why worry about warming anyhow?
The world has never suffered “runaway global warming” even when carbon dioxide levels were far above those of today. But it does suffer regular ice ages. It is not warmth that causes hardship and mass extinctions – it is the deathly grip of ice. The Little Ice Age that ended just 150 years ago was a time of failed crops, abandoned farms, advancing glaciers and famines. Even in modern times, there are more deaths caused by winter cold snaps than by summer heat waves. And those people free to move (tourists and retirees) always flock to warm places like Florida, Bali and the Riviera, not to frigid climes like Siberia, Alaska or Antarctica.
Moreover, more warmth always causes extra evaporation from lakes and oceans. What goes up, must form clouds and come down somewhere as extra precipitation. And if there is more carbon dioxide and water in the atmosphere, plants will grow better. Why do we need carbon taxes and ration cards to protect us from a warm moist climate with more luxuriant plant life?
The whole climate scam is just a smoke screen to hide the UN inspired grab for more taxes and more power.
Viv Forbes,
Rosewood Qld Australia
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Warmth and moisture are two of my favorites things.
Politicians seem particularly gullible. As if they are genetically defective.
I think it is more than that. The extraterritorial, hard to disprove, environmental issue gives an excuse to push systems thinking/systems dynamics that are thinly masked political theories as climate modelling and in the classroom. It is no accident to read that it is not enough to use systems modelling in the hard science classes. Systems thinking/modelling must be treated as a social science. That means it is control over people and their behavior and their economic decisions that are the real target.
Following up on a classroom lead took me to the 2005 European Conference of System Science which announced that we in the West are moving away from the science of the Enlightenment to the Chinese view that is best described as experience science. And that experience science pushes the unity of the natural and human sciences. That’s the sort of views Uncle Karl and Uncle Vladimir had and it is the antithesis of human freedom to be deemed by your government and its National Academy of Sciences to be a socio-technical sub-system of the broader ecosystem. So much of this AGW modelling like socio-cultural and systems thinking/systems dynamics in K-12 education is not science or pedagogy in any sense we have historically recognized as valid.
http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/who-granted-permission-to-spearhead-societal-evolution-to-a-global-cooperative-consciousness/ and Bela Banathy’s Nine Dimensions shows you there really is no domain of life being left out. They want to redesign and control it all. Even though most of what is targeted was never intentionally designed in the first place. It evolved and only survived if it worked even if no one knew why exactly.
And the UN is pushing this as part of the implementation of the DeLors report from the mid-90s so this is international.
Any possible warming is primarily in nighttime temperatures anyway, so who really cares? Really. I’ve always wished for more tolerate frigid nights most of the year, more like five or ten degrees further south, those nights would be fantastic! More moisture? That wouldn’t hurt either.
Guess those of us living in the north of Australia (in my case Townsville) and enjoy 24c minimums too 36 to 38C maximums day with upwards of 90%rh on a constant basis for 4 months at a time are just freaks then.
Who wouldn’t be scared, the warmth is even making the fish shrink,,,,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19758440
heck, between tonight and tomorrow afternoon, we are supposed to see an 18 degree celsius difference in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. We think it is a good thing, it means one more day with out snow.
The important point to remember is there is nothing the OECD can do about reducing co2 emissions.
http://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/iedindex3.cfm?tid=90&pid=44&aid=8&cid=CG6,CG5,&syid=1990&eyid=2010&unit=MMTCD
Just to remind everyone of a few pesky facts—- in 1990 the total human emission of co2 p.a was 21.6 bn tonnes, 11.6 from OECD and 10 from non OECD
The latest numbers for 2010 are 31.8 bn tonnes p.a , 18.8 bn tonnes for non OECD and 13 bn tonnes for OECD.
At the end of 2012 the non OECD alone probably will equal total world emissions of just 22 years ago in 1990.
Of course China, India etc have another billion and a half people to be lifted out of poverty, so there is zero we can do to stop the increase in co2 emissions at all.
This is very simple Kindy maths that a competent 5 year old can understand, so why have we got such stupid donkeys running our countries?
“The whole climate scam is just a smoke screen to hide the UN inspired grab for more taxes and more power.”
Viv Forbes,
Rosewood Qld Australia
Yes, and world domination ultimately, Viv. We won’t let it happen.
Bring on 600ppm+, I say.
Warmth (if CO2 had any effect on temps, which is a nonsense anyway) and CO2,
The Earth shall flourish and be abundant.
Well done Vic, you are a great fighter against the crooks and huckster who are trying to push the criminal climate scare.
Well in the Chico, Ca, USA area right now We can see lows in the morning of 60 – 61 and highs in the upper 90’s. That gives a swing of 30 – 40 degrees in a single day. Which is one of the many reasons I’ve never bought into the catastrophic angle.
That and no one can tell me what the normal temperature of the earth is. I mean if we are warming off of a normal we must know what that normal is right? Oh wait we don’t need to know it since the catastrophic consequences will be so evil.
Great summary of the situation. Plain as day and most of us know it!
So people who can cope with a daily warming of 16 degrees over 8 hours are supposed to panic about a fudged forecast of two degrees over a century –
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Sure, but the same amount of fall in average temperatures would bring on the ice age. Saying a rise of that amount has no effect is not physically consistent.
Bravo Viv Forbes! Spot on! You have set out the key to unraveling the whole huge UN sponsored fraud. I wonder if any of our mentally defective leaders will read and understand?
Moreover, more warmth always causes extra evaporation from lakes and oceans. What goes up, must form clouds and come down somewhere as extra precipitation.
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Sure, but where does it come down? The Australian economy has just recovered from a series of massive floods in one year. The floods took 2% off the GDP.
Neville. says (September 30, 2012 at 3:44 pm): “This is very simple Kindy maths that a competent 5 year old can understand, so why have we got such stupid donkeys running our countries?”
Because so many “stupid donkeys” vote for them?
The celebration of hope, climate rationalism and traditional science so evident on this site is the breathe of life, the light of freedom and (anecdotal) the most effective anti-depressant I have experienced. The controlling catastrophists are cultivating a double dose of depression for themselves. Not only will they bear witness to their expensive and arrogant failure to control the climate, they will suffer the existential failure of their ‘control’ delusion. For many, perhaps this could be their ‘On the road to Damascus’ moment. For others, they will merely redouble their efforts to control the uncontrollable, their focus shifting elsewhere.
One problem is that being pushed inexorably back from a position of extreme Ideology, the rest of us breathe a sigh of relief as a less extreme position is adopted. The extreme position of CAGW is morphing into politically correct ‘human induced climate change’, which unfortunately includes all aspects of climate and all aspects of human activity. Given the proclivity of post-normal science to embrace an evidence free precautionary principle, the recipe for political intervention by the Ministry-of-We-Know-Best remains as motivated as ever.
“Spurn this,” as one comedian once said, “as you would a rabid dog.”
Neville-never forget the OECD itself has said that everything they push is part of their Green Growth agenda.
It’s just the premise for a power grab via stealth.
Ooops on that latter goal.
The whole climate scam is just a smoke screen to hide the UN inspired grab for more taxes and more power.
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Utter BS. The trend under all governments, both left and right, over the last 25 years has been reduced taxes.
What will likely happen is that the new schemes will be such utter failures that there will be a backlash. For example, when we start to read headlines such as, “Greek Electrical System Faces Collapse,” then we know people are starting to rethink. The warm-and-fuzzy sounding ideas have not resulted in a warm-and-fuzzy reality, but rather a cold-and-thorny one.
The word for this backlash, if you are a true leftist, is “counter-revolution.” Rather than seeing ideas were stupid to start with, and facing failure, the blame is laid on “counter-revolutionary elements.” Then, if you retain the political clout, those “counter-revolutionary elements” must be “purged.” They are the scape-goats who get the blame for your own failure.
All this does is prolong the failure. Prolong the human misery. Prolong the ignorance.
The alternative is to vote the bums out.
I guess Lazy hasn’t noticed that the new Socialist French president is raising income tax rates to 75%.
Three for the government, one for me… three for the government, one for me…
As long as the ”Skeptics” confuse big / small climatic changes with the phony GLOBAL warmings – they are guilty as hell… the honest public cops the bill. More H2O +CO2 in the air = milder climate, not global warming!!! Milder climate is: cooler days / warmer nights. Clear sky = hotter days / colder nights: http://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/water-vapor/
Utter BS……. from Lazy Teenager….
I was tempted to comment until I realized that you probably ARE a lazy teenager and haven’t yet had some life experiences that mature most people. Come back after you have lived some and then report, for now, adults are trying to have a conversation…. :)…..
So tell us lazy teenager, how would you reduce co2 emissions? See my post above and I hope you understand simple kindy maths.