CBC informed us that Canada will give $2.65 billion to the international climate fund to help Third World countries meet their carbon neutral requirements. This is on top of Alberta’s oil sands production being all but destroyed lately because it was said to be dirty.
All of this is based on Al Gore’s theory that our CO2 emissions have increased the level of CO2 in our atmosphere and the resulting greenhouse effect is causing climate changes we are experiencing.
But Gore is not a scientist. He is a politician.
The $2.65 billion and Alberta’s economy are, no doubt, only the beginning. Shouldn’t we be very sure of the basis for our actions before committing?
It’s true, Earth has a greenhouse, It would be too cold to be habitable without it, but the most active ingredient in that greenhouse is water vapour, not carbon.
Atmospheric CO2 has increased along with atmospheric temperature but by noting the time correlation during quantity increase-decrease reversals, it can be seen that changes in CO2 content follow rather lead temperature changes. Therefore, carbon is not the driver.
An international team of scientists has been working since 1957 at Lake Vostok, Antarctica, drilling ice cores in the Antarctic ice cap. Reports of the analysis of their efforts are available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station and there you can see graphs of the earth’s atmospheric temperature for the last 420,000 years. Displayed are four complete cycles of warming spikes interleaved by glacial periods over the last 420,000 years.
Included also are charts of CO2, CH4 (marsh gas) and atmospheric temperature.
Our latest warming spike started about 20,000 years ago, long before any industrial revolution. It is difficult to imagine how man could have caused it, especially since it is much the same as previous spikes that occurred before man, in his current form, existed.
In summary, climate change has been happening long before humans came into existence. Stopping all CO2 emissions would not stop climate change.
Ocean levels will likely continue to rise until this warming spice abates, so we should focus our efforts on salvaging our ocean frontage rather than anything so ludicrous as CO2 emissions.
Al Johnson
Vernon
