Why be scared. it's happened before.

[Niklowe]

If you are scared of global warming, then what happened to the Global cooling predicted in the 70's?

Worth a read if you have nothing else to do.

http://nzclimatescience.net/images/P...ia_history.pdf

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[Guest]

Re: Why be scared. it's happened before.

This is interesting actually as a few months ago the Washington Times ran a story about a researcher who recently stumbled upon a lurid story in the Washington Post dated July 9, 1971. It included the scary headline: “U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming.”

The scientist based this on a scientific climate model developed by a young research associate named James Hansen. They warned that continued carbon emissions over the next ten years could trigger an unstoppable ice age.

This is the same James Hansen who is one of the gurus of the current global warming movement. And it is the same James Hansen who, just five months ago, published a paper claiming that continued carbon emissions over the next ten years could trigger a run-away greenhouse effect.

Of course, for those in the liberal elite who jet to environmental conferences in Gulfstream Fives and drive around in state funded Jaguars and Range Rovers while singing the praises of hybrids and bicycles, the Left now sells indulgences – you can actually calculate your sins on-line and they’ll gladly tell you how much money to send them (all major credit cards accepted) to assuage your conscience.

These indulgences will be used for such activities as planting more trees to absorb carbon dioxide. After all, young trees absorb an enormous amount of this “greenhouse gas” – far more than old trees. But isn’t replacing old-growth timber with young-growth timber what lumber companies used to do until the radical environmentalists shut them down?

They also preach about electric cars and trains. But this also gets a little complicated, because there are only two ways of generating vast amounts of clean electricity: hydroelectricity and nuclear power. But there’s no faster way to send one of these Luddites into hysterics than to mention that inconvenient truth.

This selling of indulgences smacks to me of Roman Catholic theology where the sinner can buy the (full or partial, depending on how much you pay of course) remission of temporal punishment for sins which have already been forgiven. The indulgence is granted by the church after the sinner has confessed and received absolution. Of course, it was open to abuse, which was the primary reason for the initiation of the Protestant Reformation by Martin Luther.

So, the idea is that you pay now in order to offset your carbon consumption and then of course, you can sleep at night. However, when these companies sell you your carbon offsets, carbon savings expected to be made in the future are counted as savings made in the present. This is known as ‘future value accounting’ and is the same technique used by Enron to inflate its profits with such disastrous consequences.

The UK Government plan to implement a "climate-change levy" yet, bizarrely, this levy taxes all forms of generation even if they don’t emit CO2.

Sci-fi panics like climate change are dangerous because they distract politicians from what really needs doing.

Y2K bug: correct solution, laugh; actual solution, Y2K Office; result, zilch at great cost.
BSE/CJD: correct solution, eat British beef; actual solution, massive research and widespread hysteria; result, nada.
Bird flu: correct solution, do nothing; actual solution, jobs for virologists and, weirdly, purchase of 200,000 body-bags; result, nil.
Climate change: correct solution, go nuclear and reverse 20th-century deforestation; actual solution, pedal-powered toothbrushes, rampant deforestation, EU paying farmers not to plant trees or anything else; result, energy crisis, species loss and no fall in CO2.

Shouldn’t we take precautions, just in case? No. The “precautionary principle” kills. Example - DDT: correct solution, limit it in agriculture but allow indoor spraying against malaria; actual solution, give the inventor a Nobel Prize, then say it’s cancerous (it’s safe enough to eat) and ban it, especially for indoor spraying; result, only this year, after 30 million dead of malaria and counting, has the WHO agreed to recommend indoor spraying.

[Tools]

Re: Why be scared. it's happened before.

Strange they haven`t grasped that the one and only leveler is actually Mother Nature herself.

And does not science dictate that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

This is a Yorkshire answer/comment and although it sounds a little blase it is true

It`ll be rayt`

[Niklowe]

Re: Why be scared. it's happened before.

Maybe I'm cynical, isn't it a case that politicians of all creeds have to keep their populace in a state of panic. If utopia was here, who would need politicians. Useless scum who if they had to hold down a real job, wouldn't last a week.

[Happyolddog]

Re: Why be scared. it's happened before.

It's a big con by world governments to get more tax out of people and wage wars on innocent countries. Don't be suckered into believing any of the rubbish they tell us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be8Ymq21kU4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3mvz6QwXXE