Is Climate Change really happening?
The weather is an obsession with the British and no wonder with all the changes we get during our four seasons.
Many of us Silversurfers remember years with extremes of weather like the bitterly cold winters of 1947 and 1963 with snow on the ground for weeks or the long hot summer of 1976. Climate change has been debated constantly for the past two decades with many scientists believing that man’s activities since the Industrial Revolution, and especially in the last few decades, are contributing to a warming trend globally.
Now the popular UK physicist, Professor Brian Cox has been in a debate with an Australian politician, who believes climate change is a conspiracy and the data has been manipulated by NASA and other international institutions like the United Nations. There seems to be no doubt that the climate is getting steadily warmer year by year. While some politicians around the world deny climate change is caused by mankind many others believe it is happening and we need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide which they believe is causing global warming.
Is Climate Change really happening?
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Cyclical pattern behaviour as in Mandelbrot Fractal behaviour speaks volumes.
Maybe it is also a natural phenomena, but we have speeded things up.
What has caused deforestation? Humans
What has caused pollution? Humans
What has caused the decline in many wild species? Humans
What has caused the increase of population? Humans
Which species is the most violent and selfish on this planet? Need you ask?
Yes, we've done some good things, but we can't just sit back and say we have not contributed to global warming.
Wake up people!
Older by far than 50!
They do not want to made aware that our world is getting warmer by burning ancient sunlight, this carbon was trapped never to return in the quantity we now do.
Is it there generation that started this cycle with a I will not be alive to reap what we have sown attitude?
Or are we all ostriches with our head in the sand.
If as predicted I would look at the above sea level height you live!
But why worry as we will be dead.
I assume that why as a nation we choose to be cremated so we cannot float away.
John
There is also evidence from NASA satellite observations amongst others that the average temperature has not increased significantly
One violent volcano eruption can throw more poisonous gas into the atmosphere than any one industrial nation in a year. Is that ever taken into account when calculating current levels?
There are clearly certain effects of human populations on the World, but we must be careful not to exaggerate them and to create taxation to 'pay' for pollution is specious as it damaging to our country's businesses.
No we are not all ostriches with our heads in the sand, but do tell, what is the view like from under the sand?
When looked at, the time span of change no one alive today will see the great changes the " experts" say will happen. Most detrimental changes to the world we see around us are caused by Industry and Industrial Farming trying to make more money.
Nothing will change this as MONEY rules today.
That big golden ball in the sky is so unimaginably powerful and responsible for controlling the temperature of the planet.
Humankind's contribution to 'global warming' is so vanishingly small that it's not even worth investigating.
Man made global warming is a scam, the science has been deliberately corrupted in order for governments to levy 'green' taxes.
Climate does change, of course it does, it always has and always will, and there's diddly squat we can do about it, apart from drinking water and carrying a fan in summer and wearing a sweater in winter.
'Most scientific bodies' do not accept that 'global warming' is a fact, only those scientists that rely on funding from governments, so obviously if they told the truth, their funding would be cut off.
I'm sorry Wilf, you have been led up the garden path by liars.
Climate change is all about making money. Period.
For example Rape is one of the most grown crops in the UK yet it is mostly used as a fuel. It cannot be digested by humans unless genetically modified.
Yet vegetables can be eaten by most humans with very little effort.
Don't believe what the greedy politicians say.
The weather changes year by year but the climate remains the same. We are Cool Temperate Western Margin Oceanic by definition. That hasn't changed.
What has changed? The daily weather, not the climate.
Too much money being made by a few scaremongers, I think.
That I do not believe is true. There are many more factors involved besides the CO2 man pumps into the atmosphere. Indeed, I would hotly argue we should not attempt to reduce the CO2.
Wilf I'm just a farm worker, a manual worker, but I do have a first class BSc in Geology from London University. I'm not using that to claim a supremacy. No, not at all but rather to say the climate warming reports I've read over the years are flawed. Flawed because they lack the long perspective of knowing what changed in the geological past. That's the qualifier and it's absent in this climate change panic.
That says to me, there's another motive for inciting such public alarm. What's the motive that moves most men? Money.
My case, in a nutshell, is, let's take a very long, very dispassionate look at this matter. Snap judgements are seldom right.
If there is a connection our so called experts better had find it quickly else we're gonna' go hungry.