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Les,
that's probably the closest I have seen yet to the underlying truth behind the current man made climate warming paranoia sweeping the media. I'm pleased to see a lot of good arguments above using the term CO2 and carbon dioxide.
Lets take a look a look at some of the marketing going on here. Consider the terms CARBON trading scheme, CARBON emissions. What immediately comes to mind? Big thick black particles clogging our atmosphere? That's what carbon is right? I'd never heard carbon dioxide abbreviated to carbon until the whole climate change paranoia came about. Now think for a moment what the vast majority of people understand about climate change - its whatever the media tells them... and there are some pretty savvy media people out there.
I think there has been a deliberate attempt to obfuscate the general public about this and the wave of paranoia is only going to be halted by educating people that first of all its a colourless, odourless gas we are talking about and there is conflicting evidence as to the reason why our temperature is changing. Rather than have a scientific debate, leading minds are publicly garotting each other - scientific method thrown out the window..
We need people like Steve Fielding to get to the bottom of this and turn the spending of our hard earned dollars to things that have no doubt as to their benefit to our society. They are our hard earned dollars they are spending right..??
How did I come to an astronomy forum and get tangled up in this?
Rod
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