Posted on 11/14/2006 9:52:45 AM PST by Clive
Two percent.
That's how much of the world's man-made CO2 Canada produces. Most Canadians don't know that. We are, as the saying goes, the proverbial "drop in the bucket."
So, now that you know the truth, consider this: What would happen if Canada were never to produce another man-made CO2 molecule ever again?
If every man, woman and child never exhaled again and therefore never produced anymore hated CO2, what would be the effect?
What would happen if all Canadians just disappeared and therefore all that hated machinery and technology that makes survival through a Canadian winter possible, just sat idle? No cars driving around, no need to heat homes or turn on lights. No more plants and factories. What would the effect on the global climate be?
Absolutely nothing at all.
The world's climate "would not change at all," says Dr. Tim Ball, a retired professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg for 28 years and the current chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project.
Just to be sure, I called Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
"This is my opinion, not the Center's," he says, "but if all of Canadian man-made CO2 was removed, the effect on the Earth's temperature would be minuscule -- immeasurable."
Yesterday, thanks in large part to Canada's opposition MPs bad-mouthing their own country at the UN climate change conference in Kenya, Canada received the "fossil of the day" award along with Australia for ranking low on an environmental group's list for efforts to combat global warming.
"The majority of Canadians are firmly and strongly behind living up to our Kyoto obligations," said John Godfrey, the Liberal environment critic. Did he blush? It didn't say in The Canadian Press story, but he should have, since during the last 12 years of Liberal rule, CO2 emissions increased in Canada by about 30% and the Liberals' plan to combat greenhouse gas wasn't released until their last year in power. For shame. Not that it would have done anything to the world's climate anyway had they got cracking in the early '90s.
Both Drs. Ball and Soon went into long and scientific reasons why they believe there is no link between rising CO2 levels and rising Earth temperatures, even forwarding complicated scientific articles and papers for me to read.
Both men agree since 1680, the tail-end of the Little Ice Age, the world has been warming, but they attribute most of the warming to sun cycles, not CO2 -- which makes up less than 4% of the atmosphere.
Indeed, ice-core data show when CO2 levels were 16 times higher than they are today, the world was covered in ice!
"The world has actually been cooling since 1998 even though man-made CO2 levels have increased," said Ball, from his home in Victoria, "but I bet that's not going to be mentioned in Nairobi."
Call it an "inconvenient truth."
"If their theory is correct, that increased CO2 levels causes warming, then the temperatures should be going up all the time, but they're not," pointed out Ball.
Dr. Soon gets more poetic. "Looking for the climate impact of CO2 is really like searching for a needle in the haystack.
"The idea that you have a CO2 knob that you can adjust up and down just to get an optimal climate is a great flaw in the non-scientific discussion of global warming," added Soon.
For Canadians who don't believe the facts in this column, here's a suggestion: Turn off your furnace, walk or cycle to work and stop breathing. The rest of you, feel free to exhale.
-
Like I've always said... there is a simple solution to the world's greenhouse gas problem: Simply eliminate 75% of the world's people, and problem solved.
That should be "less than 0.4% of the atmosphere".
Both are shams.
Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.
At less than 400 ppm, it's less than 0.04%.
Hey! Something we agree on! ;^)
haha, good one.
You're right. I thought the author made an egregious mistake. Then I did the same thing. :^)
Any way, I'm subjected to all the teasers for the CTV national news. The global warming numbers were "embarassing for
the [conservative] government", according to some group or another. Details were at 11.
Last Spring, during a Montreal followup to Kyoto, a CBC science show had a guy on that said the US was
cutting its emissions, while Canada's were going up, in spite of the their "Save a ton [of carbon]" campaign under Chretien.
Clive: Thanks for the article.
ERF: Another good reason for you to just calm down. This quote:
"...Indeed, ice-core data show when CO2 levels were 16 times higher than they are today, the world was covered in ice!..."
shows there is no need for you to be in such a panic regarding CO2 "concentrations".
Or for your children. Or for their children. Or for their children. U.s.w.
Looks like the muzzies are fixin to do just that...
by thermo nuclear liquidation...
When they get the ball rollin it will roll right over them..
Um...(hastily consulting pocket medical guide)...they'd all be dead?
France wants to tax Australian goods because Australia hasn't signed Kyoto.
;-)
Would you believe that in the past the arrogant French have conducted atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific. Naturally, Australia and New Zealand objected but this meant nothing to the French. In two world wars Australians have died protecting this arrogant and ungracious lot.
The last of the tests was in the spring of '95, wasn't it?
AFAIC, if the French want to test their nuclear weapons, they should do it in France.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.