The time has come for all the so called "Global Warming" myths to be laid to rest. It has taken the Earth 200 years to gain 0.7 degrees C. We still are not at the temperature of the 1200-1300's. When there were no cars, few people and certainly no aeroplanes. Life was bountiful in terms of food in those days. Check the History Books [which have no axe to grind, unlike GreenPeace, Friends of the Earth etc] and you will see that in the green and reasonably pleasant land that was the Island on which we live, the Top Brass went off to the Crusades confident that their lands were full of crops and animals and their serfs would not revolt [too much!]. Way up in Scotland, in the Isles, communities lived happily in warm weather and plenty of crops. Even the Devon moors were cultivated, so good was the climate. And as always, in the life of this Planet, the Climate was Changing. Sometimes slowly, sometimes more quickly. Vineyards, cultivated by the Monks, flourished in North Wales and over in Cumbria.
The Sun is the supplier of heat. Not anything else.
At the moment the Sun is very active and as many pilots will know there have been some spectacular Aurora's in the last few years.
Back to the 1300's. By 1309 the climate had begun a downward spiral in temperature. In that year there was a bad crop failure and from then on the trend was towards colder times. Not that gradual a change and the same could happen again! By the 1600's people were walking across the Thames on the ice and avoiding paying Toll fees on bridges. Then gradually the Climate change was to warmer times. The last really bad time was during the Irish Potato Famine. Carbon Dioxide is what trees need, the more the better. Idiots who waffle on about the "Lungs of the Earth" should be more accurate. Our lungs need oxygen and we expell CO2. Exactly the opposite of tree 'lungs'.
The UK supplies 2.4% of the World industrial CO2 and getting smaller. The computer models which are quoted to 'prove' Global 'Warming' are not using all the 2000+ variables our Planet has to offer. None of them until recently even used water vapour in the equation!!!! Not significant apparently. With even the latest sophisticated super computers how many days ahead do you professional pilots trust the forecast? So how on earth can they 'know' accurately about Global Warming?
Don't be conned by Politicians who have to hitch their credos to a star now that the Cold War has gone and as usual, History once again will show that for millenia, Politicians have used smoke screens of War, Famine, etc to keep the masses focussed on anything other than their own quest for Power.
Big news this week, Beech trees are threatened. Big deal, they only arrived a few thousand years ago as a result of Climate Change anyway, after the last real Ice Age. Dammit, the Northern UK landmass is still rising as a result of all that ice melting 11,000 years ago! South Greenland was cultivated by the Inuits long before the Vikings got there.
Science must be accurate in its telling. History is the yardstick. Cherrypicking the doom laden predictions is what our Politicians and Charity Money Gatherers do. Frighten the masses with a series of doom laden predictions. Frankenstein Food?
Not one of the Euro countries has reduced its CO2 output, in fact they have all added to their Kyoto [crap] promises and yet they have a go at the USA who have been brutally honest and realised it is just not going to work and won't make any difference anyway. All the money to be squandered in trying to reduce emissions [Squillions of Pounds] could go to help educate the third world, ease sickness, feed the hungry. But no, we will build useless wind farms, when we should build super clean Nuclear Power stations and try and increase solar power efficiency. After all the Sun is free energy and we should use as much as we can.
Then at least we will be spared Bob Geldof [failed pop singer] spouting on about saving the World!
Another rant over.
Suggest you have a look at some of the Scientific Bloggers like......
Professor Emeritus Philip Stott of London University
http://greenspin.********.com/
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