"- Earth's 4.5 billion year history is one long story of climate change. There were several periods in history, notably the Medieval Warm Period and the Holocene Maximum, which were much warmer than today. In the 17th century, Europe experienced the Little Ice Age, where temperatures were so consistently chilly that ice skaters revelled on the completely frozen London Thames."
Het is al aangetoond dat er geen periode is in het (geologisch) recente verleden waarin het warmer was. Vele honderden miljoenen jaren geleden wel, maar toen lagen de continenten anders, en kan dus niet vergeleken worden.
"- If the Earth was laboring under an accelerated greenhouse effect caused by human produced CO2, the troposphere (the layer of the earth's atmosphere roughly 10-15km above us) should heat up faster than the surface of the planet, but data collected from satellites and weather balloons doesn't support this fundamental presumption."
Moet dit niet juist andersom zijn?
"- The human contribution to carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is minimal in comparison to other natural means, including volcanic emmission and CO2 produced by animals, bacteria, decaying vegetation and the ocean. The human "carbon footprint" is vastly outweighed by all of these factors."
Als de factor eerst 1 is, dan is een toename van 4% behoorlijk veel (factor wordt 1.04). Er was sprake van een koolstofbalans: door het verschil van +/-4% is er geen balans meer.
"- Sun spot and solar radiation activity almost exactly parralel temperature change on the Earth. "Solar activity very precisely matches the plot of temperature change over the last 100 years. It correlates well with the anomalous post-war temperature dip, when global carbon dioxide levels were rising." The increase of cosmic rays produced by the Sun prevents the formation of clouds, which have a cooling effect on the planet, therefore the temperature rises."
Allicht heeft dat een effect. Maar een trendlijn is een trendlijn, en de zonneactiviteit past niet in die trendlijn: het niveau zou gemiddeld min of meer hetzelfde moeten blijven, met pieken en dalen. De huidige dalen liggen boven de oude pieken (qua temperatuur).
"- The UN's much vaunted IPCC report was heralded as closing the case on the argument of man-made global warming. But as the show explains, the IPCC's conclusion was politically driven and they deliberately censored any dissenting scientists while still listing them as participants, leading many to threaten legal action against the IPCC to have their names removed from the report. Scientists who were invited to participate in the IPCC report expose the fundamental flaws contained throughout the document."
Gelukkig is dit soort tegenhangers niet politiek gedreven: het is de zuivere economie die dat soort dingen financiert. Bedrijven zoals Exxon Mobil ed. die zelf niet creatief om kunnen gaan met nieuwe kansen, uitdagingen en problemen in hun markt.
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