Climate Change
I notice that in advance of the Copenhagen climate change conference later in the year, the pontification has already started as politicians try to soften us up in the hope that they can impose more restrictions and regulations upon us.
Even President Obama was at it yesterday spelling out the oft quoted mantra of the obligation we owe to future generations.
The Inter Governmental Panel on Climate Change whose report, produced in 2000, predicted the growth in carbon emissions over the next 100 years predicted in the same report a massive rise in living standards across the globe including the developing world over the same period.
So we are expected to make sacrifices now for generations to come who according to the IPC’s own analysis will be vastly better off than we are today. The world has enough problems to sort out now without having to anticipate what will happen in 100 years time.
No one knows what will happen
No one knows what will happen in 100 years time - cooling or warming are a possibility. Climate change (used to be 'global warming' until the world stopped warming) is a natural event beyond the control of man.
The current cooling or non-warming trend is set against a background of rapidly rising CO2 emissions. According to data from the Global Carbon Project (GCP), CO2 levels rose by 3.5% a year between 2000 and 2007, compared with the 2.7% projected by the IPCC. During the 1990s warming trend, emissions rose by only 0.9% a year. CO2 emissions since 2000 should have caused 0.2C warming according to GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) computer models - but didn't!
Climate is being used by politicians to foist taxes and restrictions on the electorate. Simple as that!
On the day that the BBC
On the day that the BBC heavily features the claim that in 10 years time the Arctic will be totally free of ice in the summer I notice that the New Scientist carries a report that 32% of the ice remaining at the end of the 2009 melt season was 2 years old compared with much lower figures for the previous 2 years.
This suggests that the ice is actually thickening.
Source:- US National snow and ice Data Centre.
see www.newscientist.com/news
On the same day The Times reports unseasonably heavy snow falls and low temperatures in Southern Poland and in the north-eastern parts of the Czech Republic causing death and disruption.
Was this predicted by the computers used by the climate-change scare-mongers?