Where do you stand?

Where do you stand?

Climate Change and Global Warming


Every day it seems we hear World leaders solemnly vowing to ‘tackle Climate Change.’ Gordon Brown did it when he spoke to Congress and raised a cheer; the G8 summit with Berlusconi, Chancellor Merkels and all, agreed to limit emissions with this end in view; and to cap it all David Milliband stood by Hillary Clinton, the American Secretary of State, and solemnly pledged that ‘tackling Climate Change’ was now a matter of British Foreign Policy.

You might have thought that they would have taken the trouble to read up a little paleo-climatology, which deals with history of the World in terms of Climate. Incredibly huge changes have taken and are taking place in this world, as one Glacial is followed by an inter-Glacial. In layman’s terms one Ice Age is followed by a warm period. Perhaps they might then have understood that we are only now arising out of the Little Ice Age which ended about 1850, and which was preceded by the Mediaeval Warm Period, which lasted some 400 years between 900 and 1300A.D. Before that again was the Roman Warm Period, which climate alarmists prefer to forget, not to mention the Holocene Optimum where the Earth was far warmer than the present day for over 1,000 years. All these periods of far greater warmth than today preceded the Industrial Revolution. In no way could man have been responsible for Climate Change – Great Nature saw to that.

These words – tackling climate change – are trotted out like a sacred mantra as if everybody knows and must know what they mean. In fact the opposite is true – it is safe to say that the majority of people and certainly the majority of politicians have never even looked up the Oxford English or even an online Dictionary in order to arrive at a definition of Climate. So let me help – Climate is defined as the average of weather in a particular region or place. There is no such thing as World Climate.

No wonder they are loath to define Climate, for not one of them would have the temerity to claim to be able to change the weather. Not one of these silly and arrogant politicians can make the clouds to rain or the sun to shine. They cannot make it hot or cold, they cannot make the winds to blow, or the ocean currents to change course; they cannot stifle the hundreds of submarine volcanoes, nor can they stop tsunamis, hurricanes, typhoons, dust-storms, geysers, and eruptions – in fact in the face of Great Nature all of us like them are equally powerless.

Global Warming

Now that is another thing – they are concerned about Global Warming. Just where exactly is it warming? Is it the magma? No, hardly, that is hot already, as hot as Hades. Is it the surface of the Globe? Well, this Earth of ours is a big place – I guess the surface in Siberia is somewhat different to the surface in say Nigeria. But perhaps they are referring to the 2,000 or so weather stations dotted about mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, a few in the Southern and virtually none at all in the oceans of the worlds, which cover 71% of the surface of the Planet.

Ah, wait a minute – I got it wrong. They are referring of course to the atmosphere. The atmosphere is warming and all because of the Greenhouse Effect. But, my friends, there is no greenhouse – the atmosphere is a continuum as the Troposphere gives way to the Stratosphere, and on to the Mesosphere and the Thermosphere, and so to Outer Space!! Perhaps the middle of the Troposphere has warmed up? Alas, according to radiosonde balloons, that is not the case, and satellites tell no different tale. There is no smoking hotspot!!

Nevertheless we are assured that the Earth has warmed up some 0.7°C since 1850, and alarming projections were made by Vice President Al Gore and the IPCC that temperatures were going to rise catastrophically, such as to put the whole Planet in danger. A tipping point is soon to be reached, when the Planet gets too hot, and all good men and true must turn down their thermostats, limit their air travel and work out their Carbon Footprints, to save our Planet from disaster.

Looked at in the cold light of day, can anything be more ludicrous? Well the first computer predictions have failed. The Hadley Centre, which is part of the UK Meteorological Office, has conceded that since 1998 we have had stasis or cooling. And this is borne out by the facts – here in the UK we have had an exceptionally severe and cold winter, followed by a truly cool and wet summer. Apparently the USA has had the same medicine. What happened to that Global Warming and the dire prophecies?

Now I am not rejoicing that they have egg on their faces, because unlike them I believe that the Warm periods on this Earth coincided with the great advances of civilisation. We have only got to think of the Egyptian, the Sumerian and the Mayan, and sure enough they coincide with periods of great warming. On the other hand we associate even the Little Ice Age with famine and death, with darkness and the bubonic plague.

Global Warming in so far as it is, is a great blessing from the Almighty!


Carbon is a girl’s best friend

You must have heard this saying. Oh no, you will have heard ‘Diamonds are a girl’s best friend’. Diamonds are Carbon, C. Actually we humans are 18.5% Carbon by mass. I suppose then that if I walk to the corner shop I am making a Carbon Footprint.

Silly! That is not what is meant at all. Well, say that I drive in my brand new motor car, would that be better? I would be creating some Carbon Monoxide, from the exhaust.

No, no, it is CO2, Carbon Dioxide, that’s warming the atmosphere dangerously. But we breathe out CO2, all six billons of us human and animals. I heard that we contribute almost 40% of this atmospheric content, just by being alive.

I suppose I could buy a Carbon Credit – but just who gets the money? Not that Mr Al Gore, would it be? We could all drop dead I suppose, but would that save the Planet?
Now you see what I mean. These Global Warmers cannot distinguish between C, CO and C02. For them an element, a poisonous gas and a colourless non-polluting gas, which is a food for plants, are all one and the same. Is it any wonder that 17,000 scientists and more have signed the Oregon Petition, which says the Kyoto Protocol is a dangerous and highly expensive nonsense? And Stop-Press, they have just been joined by a whole gang of German scientists! Let alone the Russians who have long derided the Global Warming mumbo-jumbo.

But isn’t it a good thing to cut down on smoke? Well, of course. All combustion is dirty – all combustion produces gases like sulphur dioxide and a lot of smuts and a little Carbon Dioxide, indirectly. (And come to think of it we humans are also factories – we produce energy by burning oxygen and glucose, and from the moment we are born until the day we die we also produce shit.)

So the dirt from combustion needs to be scrubbed and it is there that governments need to direct their money, not into chasing a chimera. Of all the Carbon Dioxide in the Troposphere only 3% comes from combustion. The rest comes from the oceans, from you and me and a teany-weany bit from industry. In fact I will tell you that there is no real certainty about that 3% either. Think about it for a moment – just how do they measure those thousands of tonnes? Have they got a weighing machine up in the sky, or is it a mathematical calculation, which can easily be cooked? (I have just looked this up in Google – it is done using a ‘chemical equation’!!!!) Besides which the outgassing from the earth and from the oceans and from the submarine volcanoes might well themselves account for any small increase in the atmospheric CO2, which in any case is only a trace.

The scientists may puff and blow, but Great Nature ploughs serenely on, oblivious to the machinations of men.


What drives the Global Warmers?

You know the answer to that! It is the same as it ever was; the lust for power and the greed for money. This has characterised the supposedly Green movement, by which I mean the political Greens, who are distinguished by the vehemence of their attacks on any who would question their unproven assertions. They are not green at all, but red in tooth and claw. They are Reds hidden beneath a Green burkha!

While Nature may go on her sweet way, the consequences of the Global Swindle are affecting us all. Carbon Credits are an obscene way, not of balancing Nature, but of fleecing a gullible public. The Luddites of the modern world would smash all the machinery, which has made life tolerable and comfortable. Under the guise of Saving the Planet, their real aim is to return us all to Mediaeval times. And as for burning corn to make fuel, the very idea is a great blasphemy – a rejection of God’s bounty, a spitting in the face of the Almighty.

Where do you stand?

I ask you this again, for legislation gets pushed through in country after country to restrict emissions of a natural non-polluting gas which supports the food chain and which will cost every citizen until Kingdom come. It is difficult to evaluate the sheer cost of ignorance.

Of course you wish to save the planet! Of course you wish to be a custodian of the environment! Every sentient being with a minimum of conscience wishes to be green in that sense.

But that is not the question. In past times the Carbon Dioxide content of the atmosphere has been 10 times, no 25 times greater than now. In fact at the present time the CO2 is at one of the lowest points in the history of this Earth. Check that with both sides of the argument. But the presence or absence of CO2 has no correlation to temperature, as Ice Ages occurred when CO2 was high. All the alarm about Global Warming is a nonsense propagated by a number of politicians who have manipulated the media in order to gull an unsuspecting public. This is simply propaganda, nothing whatsoever to do with science. Against this assault on reason, against this assault on Science in the true meaning of the word, the Skeptics, the Climate Realists, have stood firm.

So, my friend, where do you stand?


Anthony Bright-Paul
August 16th ‘09