Dr. Bob Carter
Posted on 05/24/2012 10:15:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Full Title at WUWT:
Special to Financial Post May 23, 2012
Dr. Bob Carter
By Dr. Bob Carter
Over the last 18 months, policymakers in Canada, the U.S. and Japan have quietly abandoned the illusory goal of preventing global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Instead, an alternative view has emerged regarding the most cost-effective way in which to deal with the undoubted hazards of climate change.
This view points toward setting a policy of preparation for, and adaptation to, climatic events and change as they occur, which is distinctly different from the former emphasis given by most Western parliaments to the mitigation of global warming by curbing carbon dioxide emissions.
Ultimately, the rationale for choosing between policies of mitigation or adaptation must lie with an analysis of the underlying scientific evidence about climate change. Yet the vigorous public debate over possibly dangerous human-caused global warming is bedeviled by two things.
First, an inadequacy of the historical temperature measurements that are used to reconstruct the average global temperature statistic.
And, second, fueled by lobbyists and media interests, an unfortunate tribal emotionalism that has arisen between groups of persons who are depicted as either climate “alarmists” or climate “deniers.”
In reality, the great majority of working scientists fit into neither category. All competent scientists accept, first, that global climate has always changed, and always will; second, that human activities (not just carbon dioxide emissions) definitely affect local climate, and have the potential, summed, to measurably affect global climate; and, third, that carbon dioxide is a mild greenhouse gas.
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
Might tie in with an interesting happening in California With CARB.
Interesting comments at WUWT on this article.
CA: Air Resources Board to make webcast on ‘black carbon and other “short-lived” greenhouse gases. ‘
Now the trick is to get the Alphabets, CNN, and the likes to interview such people. I won’t hold my breath. Do have a great upcoming day Ernest. Time for me to hit the rack.
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In addition, the recently quiet Sun, and the lack of warming over at least the last 15 years — and that despite a 10% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide level, which represents 34% of all post-industrial emissions — indicates that the alarmist global warming hypothesis is wrong and that cooling may be the greatest climate hazard over coming decades.
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Despite an estimated spend of well over $100-billion since 1990 looking for a human global temperature signal, assessed against geological reality no compelling empirical evidence yet exists for a measurable, let alone worrisome, human impact on global temperature.
That's still a complete waste of money. They can't say whether the climate will warm, cool or stay the same. They don't know whether warming would be good or bad for mankind or whether cooling would be good or bad. Most importantly individuals making their own decisions and having their needs met by private enterprise would be and always is more efficient than committee-made plans from the government.
We Will see if any politicians in power lister to what he says.
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