
Originally Posted by
marrow
Ha! The evidence is not new.
In fact - we don't need scientific evidence to sense scam in "man made global warming". It's only a loose theory and yet seems to be enforced and defended more than catholicism in middle ages. All governments sensing quick buck here have rolled out the biggest guns and defend the theory with all ferocity.
Why? UK contribution to world's CO2 emissions is, frankly, laughable. Government findings tell you that UK's flight industry emits more than 15 poorest countries put together. Which are those? Read and weep: Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Sierra Leone and Zambia. By the way, I challenge anybody to actually find reliable figures of UK's annual CO2 emissions compared to USA, China, Indonesia, Thailand or India.
Despite the fact that overwhelming majority of the public has no idea as to how much CO2 the UK actually produces they still follow whatever rubbish they're told. This year's car tax is scandalous and yet we pay it without question content that we've done "our bit".
Obviously, when it comes to real money, the government is not so keen to observe it's own environmental policies and thus has approved planned expansion of Heathrow and Stansted airports, despite staunch opposition from local residents and erstwhile-best-chums environmental groups. Talk about double flippin standards.
As for scientific stuff - IPCC has been proven to have bent facts when preparing it's initial findings in the form of the famous "hockey stick" graph.
It has been confirmed that if IPCC were a business enterprise, CEO would be behind bars for gross misconduct and fraud.
But what does that matter when political agenda is forcing another stance - recently the "hockey stick" has again been confirmed as accurate, despite crushing criticism from climatologists. Al Gore still won his Noble prize despite "Inconvenient Truth" being an obvious and even admitted manipulation.
Global warming phenomenon is like a speeding train and so many people rely on it these days to make a living or justify their positions, grants, transformation projects etc. that it's unlikely that it will be ultimately put to bed in the next decade.
People seem to be oblivious to the fact that CO2 is NOT a pollutant, in fact higher levels of CO2 positively affect agricultural output and that the warming of the climate is not in any shape or form as sinister as we're led to believe.
At the same time, Joe Bloggs the cretin, blissfully abandons REAL environmental issues - deforestation, shocking pollution of world's oceans and rivers, dwindling supplies of food and water in 3rd world etc.
And stills chucks empty plastic bottles in the street, why not.
I really wonder sometimes why we as societies are so narrow minded and selective in our concerns. What do you think the next big thing is going to be?
EDIT: Ha ha, just read your post Bovril and realised what you'll make of it but please do find a while and investigate, I'm sure you'll be surprised.