25 Oct 2018
The global warming hysteria began in the late 1980's, after
the fear of global cooling and visions of the extinction of dinosaurs and a
nuclear winter became discredited. The mad barking about global warming
has continued for thirty years now.
Here’s a bit of math. If global temperatures have been
increasing at a rate of 0.1 degree per year for thirty years, then global
temperatures should have risen a (we are assured) catastrophic 3.0 degrees
since the late 1980's. Well, where is the promised catastrophe?
The catastrophe hasn’t happened in part because there has
been no global warming since 1998. Never mind what you’ve heard from
IPCC, NASA, or NOAA about this year being “the warmest on record.”
They’re all involved in data manipulation. Have you ever tried to measure
to a tenth of a degree on a wide-range mercury thermometer? The climate
alarmists can’t either, and they’re hoping that there is no systemic bias in
the way they do measure temperature. Their systematic error is closer to +/- 0.5 degrees.
They claim to be able to measure temperature to within a
tenth of a degree, and yet say that we can’t afford an increase of 0.02
degrees per year. In short, they have to wait five years just to be able
to observe an increase, assuming there is no systematic error. Horse
feathers!
It is very big of global leaders to limit global warming to
only 1.5 degrees, when what they control (at best) are carbon dioxide
emissions. King Canute would be embarrassed.
If Mr. Trudeau wants to fight an election on the moral
superiority of a carbon tax to limit global warming, great. Trudeau’s
carbon tax isn’t a plan to fight “global warming” either because Canada’s
emissions are too low to affect world carbon dioxide levels – if you believe
that nonsense. Let’s fight an election on the wisdom of taxing ourselves
while China and India emit at twenty-five times the rate Canada does.
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