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  • Guess what chaps, this is alarmist bullshit.

    CO2 is not a fucking pollutant. it is the very stuff of life. Without it there would be no plant life. And without plant life there would be no animal life. The more CO2 there is the more plants there will be to absorb it. Rebranding CO2 it as "nasty poisonous carbon" is a marketing move designed to sell taxation to the guilt-ridden developed world whilst simutaneously preventing the developing world from actually developing.

    You are confusing governments and the scientific community. It's true governments are using climate change (cc) for a tax but the scientific community has been on about cc for 30 years. It is well established. Your point about C02 not being a pollutant shows a lack of understanding. It is perfectly possible for something to be beneficial at low levels and detrimental at higher levels. The earths ecosystem is a complex dynamical system.

    The Earth is an ecosystem and we as humans are a tiny stupid pointless insignificant blip on that ecosystem. Geologically we are less than a microsecond. It is nothing but hubris and self-obsession to assume we have a cat in hell's chance of affecting the climate of this planet in any meaningful way. The earth will look after itself, and if we remain viable as a species we will adapt.

    Geologically we are insignificant but that has nothing to do with the argument in hand. We have had a massive effect on the earth in a short time. That is point. There have been changes in the climate before but none so severe on such a small time scale. Rate of the change is important. We have effected the climate the fact that you are denying that again shows no knowledge of the evidence.

    Coal, oil, gas, it's all exactly the same natural fuel as wood, just a hell of a lot older. We are not creating "carbon". At a simple level we are merely moving CO2 it from under the sea to above it. .

    Again lack of understanding of the carbon cycle.

    Releasing what was once a tree into the ecosystem so that it may be a new tree. It doesn't matter how much coal the developing world burns. Or oil. Because we all know for a fact how much oil and coal and gas humans are going to use. All of it. Every last drop.

    I'll agree with you here because of human nature.

    And it won't make the slightest bit of difference to mother earth. We, like King Canute, are conceited in the extreme to think that the changing the climate has ever been something in our power, or indeed that preventing climate change will ever be.

    Now cheer up.

    I know that I have just wasted my time tying this reply really as if you can not be convinced by a large group of scientist over a wide area of subjects who are world experts in their fields no one can convince you.

    I'm sure you have gone on to type similar post blowing apart the climate change arguments with questions that are so original they have not already been thought of by any of the people researching climate change. You truly are one of the most original thinkers of this century.

    The only reason people deny something with it's vast amount of scientific evidence over 30+ years of researching, using techniques and understanding of the underlying mechanisms which go back hundreds of years, is because they are a religious nut, or excepting the truth may result in them having to make sacrifices / changes them self, and noone likes to make sacrifices.

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