Via PRWeb, Friday, Feb 19th:
Dr. Patrick Moore Offers $100,000 Wager on Global CO2 Emissions
Dr. Patrick Moore, PhD ecologist and President of Ecosense Environmental Inc. has offered a bet of US$100,000 that global CO2 emissions will be higher in the year 2025 than they were in 2015. His offer was made a month ago to his nearly 10,000 followers on Twitter (@EcoSenseNow) and was re-tweeted to tens of thousands more, yet no one has taken the wager.
“The warmists claim that 97 percent of climate scientists believe that human CO2 emissions will cause dangerous climate change,” Dr. Moore stated. “The UN Paris climate summit was hailed as ‘an historic agreement that is our best chance save the planet’. If that is so then surely they believe CO2 emissions will come down during the next ten years, as pledged by all the countries attending the meeting. Yet no one seems willing to put their money where their rhetoric is.”
In recent years fossil fuel use and attendant CO2 emissions have increased dramatically, especially in China and India, yet satellite and weather balloon data show little or no additional warming over the past 20 years.
Dr. Moore denies claims that CO2 is a pollutant and is skeptical that it will cause much warming of the climate. The Earth’s climate has warmed slightly over the past 300 years since the peak of the Little Ice Age around 1700. “Humans did not cause the end of the Little Ice Age, and I do not believe human emissions of CO2 are the cause of the continued slight warming over the past 50 years,” said Dr. Moore. “But surely the people who do believe in catastrophic global warming have faith that world governments will heed their warning, as expressed in the Paris Agreement. Or are they just playing a game with the world?”
“In fact CO2 is one of the most important foods for life on Earth,” Dr. Moore continued. “If there was no CO2 in the atmosphere, this would be a dead planet, as plants require CO2 to exist, and animals require plants to exist. It has been clearly demonstrated that increased CO2 in the atmosphere is causing a ‘greening of the Earth’, especially in arid regions such as the Sahel in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Dr. Moore was on the crew of the first Greenpeace campaign against US H-Bomb testing in Alaska in 1971 and then served for 15 years in the top committee as Greenpeace became the world’s largest environmental activist organization. He departed in 1986 over policy differences.
Today Dr. Moore is the President of Ecosense Environmental Inc., Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, and a director of the CO2 Coalition, which will hold its inaugural public meeting at the Princeton Club in New York City March 29.
Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/02/prweb13217588.htm
Here is my estimate of the increase in CO2 emissions, based on current trends, if all goes to plan.
In 2015 In 2030
7,132 5,923 North America -17.0%
6,711 5,988 Europe & Eurasia -10.8%
1,539 2,231 S. & Cent. America 45.0%
2,272 3,140 Middle East 38.2%
1,221 1,692 Africa 38.6%
17,103 20,029 Asia Pacific 17.1%
1,043 1,015
37,022 40,018 8.09%
Reblogged this on Climate Collections and commented:
Reblogged to capture Rud Istvan’s generous offer to another commenter:
ristvan February 19, 2016 at 2:49 pm
Agree. And I will offer k.mitchell upthread a little one. I will take one of the two contour fields due for rotation from alfalfa to corn or or soy on my Wisconsin farm. And offer it to him free– he gets to keep his yield and sell it. Heck, we will even harvest it for him (so the machines can track yield). Now, we would have used glyphosate, then a no till seed drill behind my diesel tractor. He will have to plow (by horse, since FF are evil), sow by horse or hand, and then hoe the rows three times: in late May (seedlings), Mid June (plant development), then early July (preanthesis aka for corn, tasseling) to control the weeds that glyphosate woild have eliminated. After tasseling, corn doesn’t care so much about weeds except giant palmer amaranth–we have only a little. I will provide free board at the farmhouse, horses, plows, and hoes. NOT non GMO seed. On his own there, since I think he will have to go to Europe to find a decent modern nonGMO hybrid.
Three serious bets. 1. K. Mitchell declines this generous offer (a rare opportunity to live in whatnis partly an 1880’s pioneer cabin, cook over a wood stove, unplug the evil electric refrig and TV, and even read by kerosene lamps (power outage backups as we are pretty remote) to get back to his idyll of agrarian farming. 2. If he does take my generous offer, he will not be able to survive the rigors. 3. If by some miracle he does stay the coirse physically, his yield will be less than 2/3 of we produced last on those same fields using modern agricultural techology. And he will have proven you cannot feed the world the way he wished and hoped. Sort of like renewables, but with a much sharper cutting reality edge.
Offer made. Awaiting reply.