More Than Dog doo-doo!

Al Gore, superstar of the "save the planet" movement had this to say in an interview with The Sun.

"When politicains walk down the pavement, four or five of every ten people they meet ask, 'What are you doing to solve the climate crisis?' If you ask people their opinion, more than two thirds will say, 'It's a very serious issue, we're responsible for it. We need to take action'. But then if you give them a list of 25 or 30 issues and ask them to rank them in order of seriousenss, climate change comes at the bottom or near the bottom. I remember one poll where it came under dog litter. People are more likely to respond to problems that can be felt - terrorism, traffic jams, anything that activates the responses in an immediate way."

The writing is on the wall, but Gore cannot see it. It is politically correct to say that global warming is a critical issue and something must be done (change a light bulb, plant a tree). But when you come back to the real world of people's lives they are more concerned with the dog doo-doo on the sidewalk. This is far beneath Gore's expectations, but what can he expect? Remember, the global warming issue is built on myth and junk science.

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After 7-8 years of terrible drought...

in Australia - the 100 year/1000 year drought - Aussies began to look for answers in the environment - climate change and global warming were mentioned as causes. Cyclical weather changes were also mentioned. Just a few months ago the drought broke, the skies fell in, the rain poured, the floods came, and as Elly mentioned, Queensland turned green again.Perhaps it was just cyclical weather changed after all?

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It is my understanding that

there are cyclical weather changes throughout history and those are documented. And I think "began to look for answers in the environment" is fine. But that is where scientists need to stick to the facts, and not be politicized into creative guessing.

I would even concede that we may be in a cycle of global warming. That has happened before and it will likely happen again. What is not clear at all is whether man is having any measurable impact on the issue, or if it is caused by other factors.

It is a huge leap to say that man is the cause. The next huge leap is to say that carbon dioxide is the essential problem, and if we can control carbon emissions we will make a difference.

(skipping some other big leaps)

The last big leap I'll mention here is the premise that my government creating new taxes is going to have any impact on the entire issue. The system is such that government can tax the people because of global warming and the people have no say in the matter. The icing on the cake is that government has no responsibility to guarantee the environmental benefit will justify the tax, or even that they have adhered to the best available scientific data.

Don't get me started!

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Certainly there were heavy rains and floods

in some parts of Australia, but much of it is still in drought - even my home city did not get the usual summer rains. I have read interesting material that suggests it is not "global warming" but in fact "global cooling" and that in parts it is so much colder that we might be moving to the ice again. Yeeks.

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It was just

30 some years ago that the alarm was sounding about another ice age. That's not much time in terms of global climate trends.

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Possibly the hardest

science experiment to undertake is understanding global atmospheric chemistry. To evaluate climate change you need accurate scientific data gathered from around the globe and accumulated over a long period of time. It is then necessary to have careful review of that data to understand the variables and to see if there are any definite conclusions or are there only more questions. When there are observable changes in the data, then one needs to look for trends and determine if a trend is normal or abnormal change.

There is no room in the lab for politicians looking for a cause (reason to tax) or financial institutions drooling over the billions to made on carbon credits.

Years ago the Montreal treaty was signed by about 170 countries as a means to address the 'ozone hole' in the atmosphere. Scientists believed they had properly understood that problem as well. Now there is new evidence that they might have been wrong and the problem is not solved.

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The giant ozone hole...

in the southern hemisphere above NZ is popular reading every summer.

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You are right in one way ...

when looking at priorities of issues. Climate change is important, but obviously doesn't rank as high as the economy, health, employment etc. But as far as the climate change issue goes, there are a lot more facts to emerge and a lot of discussion to come as well.

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