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No matter what is said for and against climate change one thing is certain the world will be ruled by polititions who will do anything to keep their positions.
CLIMATE CHANGE
The Earth’s climate has been continually changing since its assumed creation 4.5 billion years ago without any influence of man who is presumed to have only been around for the past 50000 years.
Earth’s position in the solar system oscillates about a position approximately 91 million miles from the Sun due to an eccentric orbit. The median range of climate is also affected by the Sun that also oscillates about a range of activity. These two factors govern the mean temperature of the Earth and will vary over quite a few degrees.
Without an atmosphere the temperatures would be extremely hot by day and extremely cold by night. However the atmosphere of Earth composed mainly of nitrogen and oxygen along with water vapour regulates the extremes to keep the temperature range at a level that supports life as well as filtering harmful radiation and space dust.
Life commenced on earth with the arrival of vegetation. This slowly removed the carbon from the carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere with the help of the Sun, water and a catalyst called chlorophyll, creating the carbohydrates of vegetation and liberating oxygen in the process. When the level of CO2 was reduced to a very low level animal life arrived. Animal life requires oxygen to burn the fuel that gives it energy, creating CO2. This is the Carbon Cycle that has been maintained for millions of years. The vegetation over time decayed into coal etc. and has been stored underground.
Over the millions of years Earth’s climate has moved through cycles of warm, dry, humid and freezing periods creating lush growth in areas that are now desert and probably creating lush growth in areas that were once desert. Earth’s movement and Sun activity circulating the atmosphere that keeps life going have brought about these changes.
In our modern society we have found that our climate is changing with vast areas becoming hotter and drier with others becoming wetter or colder. This has been blamed on human activity for no other reason than statistics. These statistics can be manipulated to produce any result that the manipulators require. There are very few scientific facts that support this theory.
Yes we are pouring large amounts of pollution into the atmosphere and sea and that must be addressed but CO2 is not a pollutant. It is a building block of life! We have also had massive land clearances in some areas of the Earth and the proliferation of high-rise buildings that significantly change the air currents that regulate our climate.
Calling CO2 a “Greenhouse” gas is without scientific fact and besides making up less than four ten-thousandths part of the atmosphere it would have no effect if it were. The biggest factor in the so-called “Greenhouse” effect is water vapour mainly in the form of clouds.
The increase in CO2 is be being blamed for the warming of the planet because statistically the level in the atmosphere has increased by 30% over the last 50 years whereas other factors have varied by quite insignificant percentages. The climate change lobby blames combustion of fossil fuels, mainly carboniferous, for the increase in CO2. They have failed to take note of the fact that the sea has great amounts of CO2 dissolved in it and if the temperature of the water were raised by 1 degree it would liberate sufficient CO2 to have caused the rise in CO2 percentage level.
We can’t change the climate but what we can do is learn to make the most of it. We can reduce pollution by turning the Sun’s energy directly into electricity or hydrogen fuel. We can make better use of our rivers to conserve water. We can use the oceans and wind to produce energy. We can improve our agriculture by using our land to grow sustainable crops where there are limited means and the most controversial subject of overpopulation must be addressed.
Barry
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