I just found that climate change report I posted once before. It's
here if anyone wants to read it. It's bad fucking news. By 2030 virtually all the tourism in North Queensland based on coastal activities could be destroyed, and the size of Australia's snowfields could be reduced by 66%! How's that for economic arse-fucking. And this report was released in 2002,
before the last election. Until September 2006, Howard and Costello didn't even believe in climate change and this came from one of their own departments. With all our farms gone and tourism decimated, what sort of economy will we have then?
that is the most exeggerated bullshit I have ever heard. The whole climate change/global warming thing is the most over blown thing ever.
Climate Change Facts:
*Over the last century the temperature has risen 0.6 Celsius
*The temperature rise of 0.6 over the last century is at the bottom of the climate change models suggest should have happened. This leads us to believe that the climate is actually less sensitive to greenhouse gases than previously thought.
*The predictions of a 6 degree rise over the next century as at the absolute maximum of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) range and are based on economic modeling, not science.
*James Hansen, the creator of the greenhouse theory and Richard Lindzen, a renowned climatologist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology both agree that if nothing is done to restrict these gases, the world will only see a global temperature increase of 1 degree in the next 100 years.
*Temperatures taken from the surface only cover a small fraction of the earth. Temperatures taken from satellite and weather balloons show that the atmosphere has warmed a lot less than the greenhouse theory suggests.
*Studies in Antarctica in the mid 90's revealed that the temperature had actually become cooler.
*Research from the Stockholm University reveals that current sea levels are within range of sea level oscillation over the past 300 years and the satellite data shows virtually no rise over the past decade. The earth experienced a sea level rise of .2m over the past 100 years with no noticeable ill effects.
*At the current sea level/ice loss rate of 0.05mm per year it would take 1000 years to raise the global sea level by 5cm! and it would take 20,000 years to raise just one metre!
*Extreme weather has no link with global warming. The devastating floods and droughts are normal when compared against records of the past. To think that extreme weather has been more damaging of late doesn't take into account that mankind is now living in more dangerous areas than ever before.
*Polar bears aren't drowning because ice is disappearing. Canadian biologists reported that of the 13 populations of polar bears, 11 are stable and increasing in number. They are in no danger of going extinct or even appear to be affected.
*The Kyoto protocol will have no effect on temperature increase as it imposes no restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions upon developing countries like China and India. These two countries have refused to accept any restrictions now or in the future. While other countries cut down on emissions, the emissions from India and China will either take their place or create even more emissions. Economic models suggest that the impact from adopting the targets of the Kyoto protocol will have negative impacts on the gross domestic product rates which in turn impacts negatively on employment with massive job losses.
