I love it!!!
Are you ready for this:
Patrick Moore delivers the 2015 Annual GWPF Lecture. Full PDF
www.thegwpf.org
I don't know if Patrick is just genuinely confused about a whole lot, or he's purposely misunderstanding to sell books and collect speaking fees. Being a contrarian is fun, but you have to make sure your head doesn't go up your own ass.
The ex-Greenpeacer claims his new book is science-based. It’s gaining traction. But when contacted, researchers he cites said he got their work wrong.
thetyee.ca
He's partially right. Co2 emissions have been helpful to the climate, to a point. Because based on natural causes alone, we should be sliding into another ice age. Instead, the mass release of Co2 is warming the atmosphere. It's preventing another ice age. But at a certain point, you can overwhelm the system and fuck up the climate.
The basics of climate change are pretty easy to understand. Co2 is absolutely a greenhouse gas. We know that for sure. That's why Venus is hotter than Mercury, despite being farther from the sun. It has a Co2 rich atmosphere that traps heat.
We know we're releasing billions of tonnes of Co2 into earth's atmosphere every month. We know a lot of that is sticking around in the air because atmospheric Co2 concentrations are higher today than they were 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago. So at a certain point, that's obviously going to start warming the atmosphere.
The only debate/skepticism is around when we'll reach a point where warming starts causing draughts, famines, deadly heatwaves, sea level rise etc. Based on the behavior, not the words, of every world government, I can tell you what the global consensus is: hope for a miracle.
Basically we're all just hoping that either new energy sources are discovered, or carbon capture technology becomes feasible
before we release enough co2 into the atmosphere to totally derange human civilization. Seems sort of like an insane plan to me, but what can ya do?
