![]() When plate tectonics ceases and the world runs out of new rocks, there will be a tipping point and irreversible climate change. There has been no critical due diligence of the science of climate change, dogma dominates, sceptics are pilloried and 17th Century thinking promotes prophets of doom, guilt and penance. Its triumph is computer models unrelated to observations in nature. Climate change politics is religious fundamentalism masquerading as science. A new ignorance fills the yawning spiritual gap in Western society. The hypothesis tha humans can actually change climate is unsupported by evidence from geology, archaeology, history and astronomy. Humans have made their mark on the planet, thrived in warm times and struggled in cool times. Climate has always been driven by the Sun, the Earth’s orbit and plate tectonics and the oceans, atmosphere and life respond. Atmospheric CO 2 is the lowest for 500 million years. Current changes in climate, sea level and ice are within variability. Here's the blurb for his book, laying out his general beliefs: The IPCC thinks that this extra jacket is water vapor and clouds.Īustralian professor Ian Plimer is the author of Heaven + Earth, a book that purports to debunk all of the major global warming "myths." To really get warmer, you need to add a warmer jacket. It is like putting an additional ski hat on your head when you already have a nice warm one below it, but your are only wearing a windbreaker. Additional increments of CO2 will cause relatively less direct warming because we already have so much CO2 in the atmosphere that it has blocked most of the infrared radiation that it can. There is little argument in the scientific community that a direct effect of doubling the CO2 concentration will be a small increase of the earth's temperature - on the order of one degree. If we calculate credibility to be expertise + objectivity, its obvious that some sources merit more weight than others. For example, coal-fired plants often provide the energy to power electric vehicles. ![]() However, at least 90% of greenhouse warming is due to water vapor and clouds. The energy and machinery used to produce and sustain electric vehicles produce greenhouse gas emissions, which constitute the car’s overall life-cycle emissions. ![]() Without greenhouse warming, the earth would be much too cold to sustain its current abundance of life. The earth's climate really is strongly affected by the greenhouse effect, although the physics is not the same as that which makes real, glassed-in greenhouses work. In testimony to Congress, he used the following analogy what he means: While he does acknowledge long-term warming, he thinks the influence of CO2 is vastly overstated, and that the benefits of a modest reduction in it will be negligible. Will Happer is another, highly-respected physicist out of Princeton who compares the anti-CO2 crowd to the prohibitionists prior to the passage of the 18th Amendment. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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