CLIMATE CHANGE IS A MYTH!
OK I know I put that in caps, and it's not strictly true as the climate changes all the time.
However, believe the government and we're all doomed if we don't stop polluting the world driving to work.
It's absolute crap, all of it.
Why? Because the planet was warmer 125,000 years ago. And 240,000 years ago. Oh, and about 330,000 years ago... I could go on throughout history.
55.8 million years ago, during the Eocene epoch, alligators frolicked in swamps near the north pole, and Alaska was covered in palm trees. Unsurprisingly, there weren't many people driving back then.
It just so happens that todays climate coincides with our existence. And that's it.
Global temperatures are going through a warm period. We, as humans, are polluting the planet. Some scientists draw their conclusions and hey presto: you have the magic formula for raising taxes.
Back in November last year (2006), Gordon Brown raised petrol duty claiming it to be a green tax. Airlines are charging more thanks to a Green Duty, because planes are supposedly making the world warmer and killing us all. They're using the fear of global destruction by heat as an excuse to get more money by taxing us for something that ultimately has little if no baring on the global temperature.
Our ancient ancestors merrily swung in the trees with temperatures way higher than what they are now, and they didn't have power stations, cars, or even fire.
If the human race is still around in a few thousand years, they'll be worring about how they're going to keep warm as vast glaciers flow on 50% of the worlds oceans.
It's just annoying how we're being shown the facts from the last hundred or so years showing a rise in temperature, when the facts could easily have been from any period in the Earths history. When we're shown the short term, of course it looks bad. But span the global temperatures out a million years and it's plain to see todays temperature is positively chilly in comparison to what it's been like for our ancient ancestors.
However, believe the government and we're all doomed if we don't stop polluting the world driving to work.
It's absolute crap, all of it.
Why? Because the planet was warmer 125,000 years ago. And 240,000 years ago. Oh, and about 330,000 years ago... I could go on throughout history.
55.8 million years ago, during the Eocene epoch, alligators frolicked in swamps near the north pole, and Alaska was covered in palm trees. Unsurprisingly, there weren't many people driving back then.
It just so happens that todays climate coincides with our existence. And that's it.
Global temperatures are going through a warm period. We, as humans, are polluting the planet. Some scientists draw their conclusions and hey presto: you have the magic formula for raising taxes.
Back in November last year (2006), Gordon Brown raised petrol duty claiming it to be a green tax. Airlines are charging more thanks to a Green Duty, because planes are supposedly making the world warmer and killing us all. They're using the fear of global destruction by heat as an excuse to get more money by taxing us for something that ultimately has little if no baring on the global temperature.
Our ancient ancestors merrily swung in the trees with temperatures way higher than what they are now, and they didn't have power stations, cars, or even fire.
If the human race is still around in a few thousand years, they'll be worring about how they're going to keep warm as vast glaciers flow on 50% of the worlds oceans.
It's just annoying how we're being shown the facts from the last hundred or so years showing a rise in temperature, when the facts could easily have been from any period in the Earths history. When we're shown the short term, of course it looks bad. But span the global temperatures out a million years and it's plain to see todays temperature is positively chilly in comparison to what it's been like for our ancient ancestors.
posted by Adam Lee at 12:14 AM
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