First of all, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It makes crops and forests grow faster. Mapping by satellite shows that the earth has become about 6 percent greener overall in the past two decades, with forests expanding into arid region.
Someday the world will wake up and laugh when they finally understand that the entire pursuit of economic ruin in the name of saving the planet from increasing carbon dioxide is in fact a terrible joke. You see it is an unarguable fact that the portion of the Earth’s greenhouse gas envelope contributed by man is barely one-tenth of one percent of the total.
Do the numbers yourself: CO2 is no more than 4 percent of the total (with water vapor being over 90 percent followed by methane, sulphur, and nitrous oxides). Of that 4 percent, man contributes only a little over 3 percent. Elementary school arithmetic says 3 percent of 4 percent is 0.12 percent and for that we are sentencing the planet to a wealth of damaging economic impacts.
900,000 years of ice core temperature records and carbon dioxide content records show that CO2 increases follow, rather than lead, increases in earth temperatures which is logical because the oceans are the primary source of CO2 and they hold more CO2 when cool than when warm. Therefore, warming causes the oceans to release more CO2.
While temperatures have fluctuated over the past 5,000 years, today’s earth temperature is below the average for the past 5,000 years.
To the environmentalist, the size of your carbon footprint is a measure of your guilt. Guilt works for a while, until science began to show that there simply is no evidence of man-made climate change.
Just remember, the consumer always pays. The business adds it to the cost of the product, so the householder is paying the tax twice. I have never heard of the government doing anything for no charge, they always get their share.
My references: Will Happer, professor of physics, emeritus at Princeton University and Rod Nichols, former president of the New York Academy of Sciences, are members of the CO2 Coalition (CO2Coalition.org). Tom DeWeese and Jay Lehr, Ph.D. Science Director of The Heartland Institute.
Marion McKeever
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