[cryptome] The Greenhouse Effect: Was Re: Re: Cryptome is Back: BBC Monitoring Service.
- From: doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:10:13 +0100
Hi Neal,
I remember when I was a kid, my grandfather telling me that the ground
was so hot, that he used to burn his feet on the pavement on the way to
school. It turned out that he had no shoes.
When I were a kid, I remember learning at school that we were heading
for the next Ice Age and it was going to get colder and colder.
When I were an adult and first became involved in the "Green" movement
after reading a book on it in the 1960's, I was told that by now, the
planet would have run out of oil, gas, and would be so polluted and so
full of people as to make life impossible.
When I was middle aged, along came a man called Tony Blair and started
taxing me so as to protect the environment and then gave all the money
to large companies to produce more "green" energy like wind turbines and
solar panels. I am not opposed to such things, but it is funny how
defence expenditure and the waste of resources and energy created by the
defence industry, is somehow immune from criticism.
Nowadays I take a much more dubious and conservative approach. I have
little doubt that CO2 is on the increase, whether it is due to mankinds
activities on the planet or for some other reason, I don't know. And
whether the increase in CO2 is causing the planet to heat up, and I do
believe that it is heating up, but whether it will continue to do so, I
haven't a clue, but I have my doubts as to the cause, or whether we can
do anything about it. I do have concerns about the holes in the ozone
layer which we are now trying to patch up. And I have always advocated
that we should use energy efficient forms of production and
manufacturing and protect and care for our environment, learn to recycle
more, conserve and grow more trees in a sustainable way and try and
minimise the effect on the environment which human activity does have.
I am also conscious that change of the global environment, from such
things as sunspot activity, volcanic eruption, thunder and lightning can
release a lot more heat and radiation in a day, than the energy produced
in the whole of human history.
It is interesting to note that as carbon dioxide increases in the
atmosphere, then certain plants and trees will be encouraged to grow and
take it up.
I also tend to go along with the views of Lovelock, in that if such
climate change is taking place, there is nuffink or little we can do
about it...Objective, evidence based science these days has a lot of
lobbyists acting on its behalf in the competition for resources...
Maybe I am just stupid for thinking all those thoughts, and really
should go and pull up my trowsis and sit in the dunces chair...
ATB
Dougie.
On 28/06/14 16:30, Neal Lamb wrote:
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/co2.htm
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