Climate Change Dispatch
In spite of the seemingly overwhelming tide of scientific opinion on
the matter, there are still some who steadfastly refuse to jump on the
‘global warming’ bandwagon.
Emeritus Professor Les Woodcock is one of them. When I ask the former
NASA scientist about ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’, he laughs.
“The term ‘climate change’ is meaningless. The Earth’s climate has
been changing since time immemorial, that is since the Earth was formed
1,000 million years ago. The theory of ‘man-made climate change’ is an
unsubstantiated hypothesis [about] our climate [which says it] has been
adversely affected by the burning of fossil fuels in the last 100 years,
causing the average temperature on the earth’s surface to increase very
slightly but with disastrous environmental consequences.
“The theory is that the CO2 emitted by burning fossil fuel is the
‘greenhouse gas’ causes ‘global warming’ - in fact, water is a much more
powerful greenhouse gas and there is is 20 time more of it in our
atmosphere (around one per cent of the atmosphere) whereas CO2 is only
0.04 per cent.
“There is no reproducible scientific evidence CO2 has significantly increased in the last 100 years.
“Anecdotal evidence doesn’t mean anything in science, its not significant." ......
“Carbon dioxide has been made out to be some kind of toxic gas but
the truth is it’s the gas of life. We breath it out, plants breath it
in. The green lobby has created a do-good industry and it becomes a way
of life, like a religion. I understand why people defend it when they
have spent so long believing in it, people do not like to admit they
have been wrong.
“If you talk to real scientists who have no political interest, they
will tell you there is nothing in global warming. It’s an industry which
creates vast amounts of money for some people.
“Even the term ‘global warming’ does not mean anything unless you
give it a time scale. The temperature of the earth has been going up and
down for millions of years, if there are extremes, it’s nothing to do
with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it’s not permanent and it’s not
caused by us. Global warming is nonsense.”
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