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Keeping cool about global warming
Published: 27 October, 2010, 14:41
Edited: 31 October, 2010, 21:30
TAGS: Global warming, UK, Protest
Global warming skeptics have gathered to air their views in the UK on what they have dubbed 'Climate Fools Day'.
It is also the second anniversary of the signing of the UK Climate Change Bill, which critics say is simply a waste of tax-payers' money.
The skeptics claim that the global warming issue has become a business scheme to tax industry and consumers, and make money from ‘green’ schemes.
Global warming has simply been made up, insists Piers Corbyn, one of the organizers of the annual Weather Action Climate Fools Day conference.
“There’s no evidence for carbon-dioxide driving temperatures or climate whatsoever in the last thousand years,” he told RT.
Corbyn claims that the fight against global warming is a myth, supported by government imposed policy all over Europe. “We’ve got basically a one-party state operating which is imposing taxes and restrictions on production of carbon-dioxide,” he said.
“If these politicians really cared about people, they would actually make use of effective long-range forecasts which can forecast hazards and even very damaging incidents which can cause deaths,” added Corbyn.
Climate change is a natural thing, where man’s amount of carbon dioxide represents a tiny proportion of the shift, only about four percent, stated Reverend Philip Foster, a colleague of Piers Corbyn.
“Extreme weather events always take place, always have and always will, and to blame them on human emissions is simply pointless, as there is no real connection,” he told RT.
Nobody disagrees that climate change is happening, echoes writer and legal analyst John O’Sullivan.
“The climate has changed for 4.5 billion years,” O’Sullivan said. “We are not arguing about something trivial like the issues of climate change. We are looking at corruption issues here that are not made known to the public. Today in parliament we put evidence to parliamentarians to show that around the world climate skeptics are bringing into court national government weather agencies and showing that they do not have a bona fide climate record.”
“What we’ve tried to do is ask the governments around the world to show us the evidence,” he added. “It’s not good enough to tell us that they have the records. We have found time after time here in England and recently in New Zealand that when challenged, government agencies cannot produce the records.”
The first Climate Fools Day was held in the UK in October 2008, as British legislators passed the Climate Change Bill. The Bill is aimed at stimulating a low-carbon economy and gives ministers powers to introduce the measures necessary to achieve greenhouse gas reduction targets.
The Bill makes the government responsible for ensuring that by 2050, the net UK carbon account for six greenhouse gases is at least 80 per cent lower than the baseline set in 1990. An independent Committee on Climate Change has been created under the Act to provide advice to the UK Government on the issue.
27.10.2010, 14:40
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Watched the interview and noted the question regarding the Summer heat wave, reminded me of the NOAA conclusions amongst others who say it was largely the result of natural events. Thought it might add to the debate.
"Despite this strong evidence for a warming planet, greenhouse gas forcing fails to explain the 2010 heat wave over western Russia. The natural process of atmospheric blocking, and the climate impacts induced by such blocking, are the principal cause for this heat wave. It is not known whether, or to what exent, greenhouse gas emissions may affect the frequency or intensity of blocking during summer. It is important to note that observations reveal no trend in a daily frequency of July blocking over the period since 1948, nor is there an appreciable trend in the absolute values of upper tropospheric summertime heights over western Russia for the period since 1900."
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/csi/moscow2010/
A Russian Science input: http://notrickszone.com/2010/08/12/russian-scientist-extreme-central-russian-heat-wave-not-an-indication-of-a-future-climate-change/
Recent research is also linking the Suns activity to the Arctic blocking events.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727730.101-frozen-jet-stream-links-pakistan-floods-russian-fires.html
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Just adding to the debate. :)
Mick.
The real science doesn't see the "Natural" versus "Anthropogenic". The orbital theories of paleoclimate at present cannot explain the "observed changes" in climate for the last two centuries, and there are more and more calls to consider the greenhouses effect among other variations in regional geochemistry, ocean circulation, bio-activity and other factors that influence the Earth's response to insolation. The atmospheric warming is uneven, but if it was only due to solar forcing we wouldn't have such temperature anomalies. The mechanisms of transforming insolation input into negative feedback (output) is almost unknown and poorly studied. The real science identified the methane leak/emission coming from the East Siberian Arctic shelf - the effect of this leak is also unknown, considering that the potency of methane is 30 times higher of the carbon dioxide.
Predicting the nature's behaviour without adequate warning time is pointless in the countries where thousands of lives perished and millions left homeless.