Another voice against the carbon footprint scam
Dr. David Evans in The Australian says there is no evidence that CO2 or other forms of increased atmospheric carbon cause whatever global warming (or recent global cooling) there might be:
I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia’s compliance with the Kyoto Protocol…since 1999 new evidence has seriously weakened the case that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming, and by 2007 the evidence was pretty conclusive that carbon played only a minor role and was not the main cause of the recent global warming…
1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it…
2. There is no evidence to support the idea that carbon emissions cause significant global warming. None…
3. The satellites that measure the world’s temperature all say that the warming trend ended in 2001, and that the temperature has dropped about 0.6C in the past year (to the temperature of 1980)…
4. The new ice cores show that in the past six global warmings over the past half a million years, the temperature rises occurred on average 800 years before the accompanying rise in atmospheric carbon. Which says something important about which was cause and which was effect.
None of these points are controversial. The alarmist scientists agree with them, though they would dispute their relevance…that debate has just consisted of a simple sleight of hand: show evidence of global warming, and while the audience is stunned at the implications, simply assert that it is due to carbon emissions…
If there really was any evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming, don’t you think we would have heard all about it ad nauseam by now? The world has spent $50 billion on global warming since 1990, and we have not found any actual evidence that carbon emissions cause global warming.
Over the last century, CO2 has increased from 300 ppm to 380 ppm. That a minuscule increase of 80 parts per million (or a multiple of that) of a beneficial and common atmospheric gas could produce worldwide devastation is absurd on its face, though there are men in serious jobs who say so. (Question: if 80 ppm is such a big deal, why not look to substances with far greater concentrations in the atmosphere?) No doubt if the now-predicted Global Cooling takes place, carbon will be to blame for that too.
There is one indisputable fact in this global warming and cooling scam. There’s big money in it. Dr. Evans says $50 billion has already been spent. That’s a lot of funding for research papers, a lot of consulting fees and Hollywood movies, and, of course, a lot of parties that government bureaucrats can throw for themselves at the expense of the taxpayers worldwide.