When I was at school, I recall being taught physics and it is the lasting recollections of that time that have caused me to be confused about the science of climate change; the present daily dose of verbal abuse from our political apparatchiks and the endless stream of doom from the msm (main stream media), have left me wanting to know the truth about what is happening. I say this because I have lived through times of previous doom laden predictions, all of which failed to materialise to the extent predicted. But there is a difference this time, my understanding of basic physics is being undermined.
How could there be a greenhouse effect; the earth’s atmoshere is an open system, nothing like a greenhouse, which gets hotter during the day, as the glass enclosure prevents convection of the warmed air?
Why is it that a trace gas CO² which represents such a vital part of life on the planet, is cast as a pollutant?
Then there is the matter of the second law of thermodynamics, which to me and many others completely destroys the arguments put by the proponents of AGW, so I am worried, was my education a complete waste of time?
The funny thing is that I know of no previous time when our enlightenment has lifted us from the grip of nature such that we enjoy longer life terms and generally better health, with an ability to have leisure time, previously denied to most of our forebears. How is it that our “progress” is cast as the devil in all this?
The following is from another web site which looks to address the inconsistencies in the present alarm about anthropogenic climate change.
Paper by John McRobert
The events at Copenhagen reveal a latter day lynch mob in full fury. In this case, the innocent victim is Carbon Dioxide. Without fair trial it has been deemed guilty of a most heinous crime, warming the planet.
There is ample evidence that it is innocent of this crime, and there has been no fair trial to allow this evidence to be heard. Indeed it would be difficult to find an unbiased jury, as even kindergarten children have been brainwashed with horror stories of ‘carbon footprints’. Shame on the people who do this to the minds of the young who trust them.
Carbon dioxide has been made a scapegoat for real pollution which can and should be addressed by each and every country in which it occurs. Real pollutants are particulate matter, noxious gases and heavy metal waste into the air or into the water. Carbon dioxide is none of these – it is a fertiliser essential to plant life, and essential to human life. It is not guilty of the crimes of which it is accused and the lynch mob in Copenhagen should be dispersed before another innocent victim is consigned to the gallows.
A tombstone in Boot Hill said:
“He wuz right and we wuz wrong,
But we strung him up, and now he’s gone.”
We’ll sure miss our friend Carbon Dioxide if we allow this lynching to proceed.
Regards,
John McRobert
Indooroopilly
Qld Australia
The full paper is available here [You will need Adobe Acrobat]:
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