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So says Prof Ian Plimer, climate change sceptic. In my view his arguments against CO2 being the cause of global warming are the most convincing so far.
1. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no effect on climate above 50 parts per million (ppm).
Prof Plimer rejects the argument that the increased concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere from its pre-industrial (1750AD) level of about 270 ppm to today's level of about 380 ppm, has begun to affect the world's change.
In an interview with ABN Newswire in June he said: "Carbon dioxide has an effect on the atmosphere and it has an effect for the first 50 parts per million and once it's done its job then it's finished and you can double it and quadruple it and it has no effect because we've seen that in the geological past, and we've seen it in times gone by when the carbon dioxide content was 100 times the current content. We didn't have runaway global warming, we actually had glaciation."
On Thursday he said: "If we had only had warming, then there would be a connect between CO2 and temperature; there is not."
Water vapour is responsible for about 96 per cent of the greenhouse effect, he has argued, a theme consistent among climate change sceptics.
Most climate scientists argue there is a correlation between CO2 and global mean temperatures, pointing to evidence from air trapped deep in the polar ice that gives a snapshot of the atmosphere thousands of years ago.
2. Extraterrestrial events like solar flares have driven major climate change episodes in the geological past
He has said: "It's got nothing to do with the atmosphere, it's about what happens in the galaxy."
Promotional material for his controversial book Heaven + Earth reads: "Climate has always been driven by the Sun, the Earth's orbit and plate tectonics and the oceans, atmosphere and life respond."
Most climate change scientists argue that changes in the atmosphere have been fundamental to changing global temperatures throughout the planet's history.
3. Global warming should be welcome because humans 'thrive' in a warmer planet
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4. Climate change scientists push global warming theory because it is good for their careers
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5. A belief in man-made climate change is a 'fundamentalist religion'
He has described people's belief in anthropogenic climate change as "a fundamentalist religion adopted by urban atheists looking to fill a yawning spiritual gap plaguing the West".
Well. I'll be . . . . didn't we have a court case just a week or so ago when someone won a court case over unfair dismissal on the grounds that his beliefs in global warming etc were his religion?
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Green Energy
A belief in man-made climate change is a 'fundamentalist religion'
So says Prof Ian Plimer, climate change sceptic. In my view his arguments against CO2 being the cause of global warming are the most convincing so far.
1. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no effect on climate above 50 parts per million (ppm).
Prof Plimer rejects the argument that the increased concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere from its pre-industrial (1750AD) level of about 270 ppm to today's level of about 380 ppm, has begun to affect the world's change.
In an interview with ABN Newswire in June he said: "Carbon dioxide has an effect on the atmosphere and it has an effect for the first 50 parts per million and once it's done its job then it's finished and you can double it and quadruple it and it has no effect because we've seen that in the geological past, and we've seen it in times gone by when the carbon dioxide content was 100 times the current content. We didn't have runaway global warming, we actually had glaciation."
On Thursday he said: "If we had only had warming, then there would be a connect between CO2 and temperature; there is not."
Water vapour is responsible for about 96 per cent of the greenhouse effect, he has argued, a theme consistent among climate change sceptics.
Most climate scientists argue there is a correlation between CO2 and global mean temperatures, pointing to evidence from air trapped deep in the polar ice that gives a snapshot of the atmosphere thousands of years ago.
2. Extraterrestrial events like solar flares have driven major climate change episodes in the geological past
He has said: "It's got nothing to do with the atmosphere, it's about what happens in the galaxy."
Promotional material for his controversial book Heaven + Earth reads: "Climate has always been driven by the Sun, the Earth's orbit and plate tectonics and the oceans, atmosphere and life respond."
Most climate change scientists argue that changes in the atmosphere have been fundamental to changing global temperatures throughout the planet's history.
3. Global warming should be welcome because humans 'thrive' in a warmer planet
read more
4. Climate change scientists push global warming theory because it is good for their careers
That sounds about right read more
5. A belief in man-made climate change is a 'fundamentalist religion'
He has described people's belief in anthropogenic climate change as "a fundamentalist religion adopted by urban atheists looking to fill a yawning spiritual gap plaguing the West".
Well. I'll be . . . . didn't we have a court case just a week or so ago when someone won a court case over unfair dismissal on the grounds that his beliefs in global warming etc were his religion?
- Greenpeace Co-founder: No Scientific Evidence Of Man-made Global Warming
Daily Caller:There is no scientific evidence that human activity is causing the planet to warm, according to Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who testified in front of a Senate committee on Tuesday.Moore argued that the current argument that the burning...
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We're Going To Disneyland From Sky News: Climate scientists are attempting to shore up flagging public confidence in measures to control greenhouse gases with a crucial assessment of global warming.The latest report from the Intergovernmental...
- Leaked Copy Of U.n. Climate Change Report Shows Agency Struggling To Explain Why Global Warming Has Been Non-existant Over Last 15 Years
An unreleased draft of the U.N.’s next major climate report reportedly states that scientists are more certain than ever that man’s actions are warming the planet — even as the report struggles to explain a slow-down in warming that climate skeptics...
- Awesome: Bbc Admits There Is No Anthropogenic Global Warming And None Of Any Kind Since 1998!
From Reliapundit the Astutest of all Bloggers: BBC: What happened to global warming?This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.But it is true. For...
- Global Warming Is The New Religion Of First World Urban Elites
From the Vancouver Sun: Geologist Ian Plimer takes a contrary view, arguing that man-made climate change is a con trick perpetuated by environmentalists Ian Plimer has outraged the ayatollahs of purist environmentalism, the Torquemadas of the doctrine...