by Allan Taylor

Created on: April 30, 2008   Last Updated: December 12, 2008

If you believe all the media propaganda that is flooded upon the unsuspecting public then probably you would say "YES". That is what the promoters of the catastophic global warming theory (e.g., Al Gore, many politicians and the Greens) want you to believe.

We are fortunate to live on a dynamic planet continually racked by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, hurricanes. You name we've got it, which is perfectly normal. It has been going on for billions of years, unlike our dead Moon, or Mars.

Really, what are you worried about? Over the last 100 years the measured increase in global temperature is said to be about 0.7 degree C! So what! I can cope with that. Here in Adelaide, Australia, where I live, day temperatures range from 5 to 20 degrees in the winter and 20 to 40 degrees in the summer and I rather like having a Mediterranean climate! The reason for these temperature changes are astronomical. Our seasons have nothing to do with CO2 emissions.

I live adjacent to a beautiful beach that extends for 30 kms. I know that the tide comes in and out twice a day, varying by 1 to 3 meters in depth. Yet we have the climate change alarmists saying we will be flooded out by sea level changes due to global warming, which from computer models are "predicted" by the IPCC to amount to a 12 inch rise by the year 2100! The cause of this periodic change in sea level at my backdoor is astronomical too, caused by the Moon's gravitational pull on the oceans.

To prevent global warming, which is said to have terrible consequences according to the Greens, we must stop polluting the atmosphere with CO2 emissions from burning coal and gasoline. However, CO2 is NOT a pollutant but an essential fertilizer for the biosphere. It is a vital component of all living things. We could do with more, not less, CO2 in the atmosphere.

There are no scientific measurements that support the idea that increases of atmospheric CO2 cause global warming. This idea is part of the fantasy world of climate computer modelling. It is used by the Greens to promote their Utopia of a de-carbonized world running on renewable energy, which supposedly would prevent the non-problem of global warming. Such policies if enacted would be economically disastrous for the countries involved. This "de-carbonized world", as promoted by Green fundamentalist religion is similar in principal to other radical belief systems that we have had to cope with in recent times.

If a few nations, such as the EU, want to experiment with their particular climate change beliefs and associated policies then let them go ahead, but I object to having their fanciful religious ideas imposed upon the world at large, via the IPCC and Kyoto.

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