It all depends on your point of view
The London Express lists a number of reasons to be skeptical of AGW. Feel free to accept them or reject them as you like:
2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history.
3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.
4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940…
15) Professor Plimer, Professor of Geology and Earth Sciences at the University of Adelaide, stated that the idea of taking a single trace gas in the atmosphere, accusing it and finding it guilty of total responsibility for climate change, is an “absurdity”
16) A Harvard University astrophysicist and geophysicist, Willie Soon, said he is “embarrassed and puzzled” by the shallow science in papers that support the proposition that the earth faces a climate crisis caused by global warming…
18) Despite activist concerns over CO2 levels, CO2 is a minor greenhouse gas, unlike water vapour which is tied to climate concerns, and which we can’t even pretend to control
Meanwhille, via Reuters: “The Copenhagen climate talks will generate more carbon emissions than any previous climate conference, equivalent to the annual output of over half a million Ethiopians.” Now that’s news you can use.
December 17th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Perhaps the 0.00022 percent is a fact. But consider that the Holocene is only 10.000 years young… So mankinds history acounts for only 0.00022 percent of Earth geological history. Since serious burning of fossil fuels only started about 250 years ago, this puts the 0.00022 percent man-made carbon dioxide emissions in a whole other light.
Funny, the author of the Express article didn’t quote any references and did not even put his or her name on this piece of paper.
And, as always, deniers rely on the usual cast of compromised idiots:
During the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 [COP15 ], Professor Plimer (a director of three Australian mining companies) spoke at a rival conference in Copenhagen for sceptics, called the Copenhagen Climate Challenge, which was organised by an Exxon-funded lobby group called Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. While COP15 attracted 33,200 delegates, the rival sceptic conference was attended by 60 people (15 journalists, 18 speakers, 27 audience). According to Lenore Taylor of The Australian, the attendees had an average age “well over 60″. In closing his speech, Plimer stated that “They’ve got us outnumbered, but we’ve got them outgunned, and that’s with the truth.” Plimer also stated that “It’s been freezing in Perth and bucketing down”. In fact, Perth had below average rainfall in 2009, and temperatures of 38 °C (100 °F).
“The study by Willie Soon and Baliunas was funded in part by the American Petroleum Institute, receiving a total of $53,000 from them. At the time Soon and Baliunas were also paid consultants of the Marshall Institute.”
December 17th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Steve, what do you think about the Colts chances in the Superbowl?