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November 26 2008
"The important thing is not to stop questioning" Albert Einstein
One of ABC television's remaining links to a more intelligent era, The
Einstein Factor, ended its season on Sunday, closing with its signature
quote from the great physicist: "The important thing is not to stop
questioning."
From his blinkered approach to the question of climate change, it is
patently clear that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is no Einstein. Not even an
apprentice Einstein.
Far from questioning climate change, Rudd, aided and abetted by a largely
compliant CSIRO and a plethora of pandering academics eager to receive
government funding, has all but shut down discussion on the issue.
For Labor, particularly, there is no science to discuss. It is settled.
Further, Rudd encourages his fawning acolytes to denigrate those who follow
Einstein's approach to science as "deniers", and says of them: "To stay in
denial as the climate change sceptics and some members opposite would have
us do, is reckless and irresponsible."
Unfortunately for Rudd, his climate change minister Senator Penny Wong and
his faddist spinmeister Dr Ross Garnaut, the science is far from settled.
Further, the complete span of scientific evidence supports those on the side
of those sceptics and deniers and not Rudd or his claque, his beloved United
Nations and its political tool, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change.
With the study of science in Australian schools at a critically low ebb, and
Green fundamentalism on the rise, particularly within your ABC and the
Fairfax media, the global warming mantra has become dogma to many.
The science has been ignored in the Green religious fervour.
Professor Ian Plimer, a professor of geology at the University of Adelaide
and former head of the school of earth sciences at the University of
Melbourne, is an Einsteinian scientist.
Unlike the narrow-minded, he relishes the big questions.
In a new book to be titled Heaven and Earth, which will be available early
next year, he points out that the IPCC modelling upon which the global
warming apocalyptists base their catastrophic scenarios overlook some basic
facts, including the actual history of the planet.
Earth's climate, he notes, has always been cyclical. It has warmer periods
and cooler periods.
Since the Pleistocene Ice Age (110,000-14,700 years ago) was followed by the
Bolling (14,700-13,900 years ago), the cycles have seen the Older Dryas
followed by the Allerod, the Younger Dryas by the Holocene warming, the
Egyptian cooling by the Holocene warming, the Akkadian cooling by the Minoan
warming, the Bronze Age cooling by the Roman warming, the Dark Ages by the
Mediaeval warming, and the Little Ice Age (1300 AD-1850) by the present.
Further, atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, currently demonised, have in
the past been many time higher while Earth was actually cooler than it is
now.
Professor Plimer asks why this science is ignored. He would also like to
know why the IPCC's models, used by Rudd and Garnaut to justify policies, do
not include the heat and C02 emissions from 85 per cent of the world's
volcanoes, those under the oceans lying along 64,000km of mid-ocean ridges?
He says volcanoes on the floor of the Arctic Ocean heat the Arctic waters,
that subglacial volcanoes in Antarctica erupt and exhale heat beneath the
ice from hot gas vents and hot springs, but we don't hear about them or the
subglacial lakes and river systems in Antarctica.
"If human emissions, as is claimed, have given us global warming," Professor
Plimer asks, "how can we have cooling as shown by the Hadley Centre since
2003, concurrent with a rise in CO2?
"How can the Mediaeval Warming, Roman Warming, Minoan Warming and Holocene
maximum be explained? There were no CO2 emitting industries yet the global
temperature and sea level were higher than now."
Professor Plimer and other scientists believe that the flaws in the
so-called science upon which so many decisions are being made should be
resolved before major commitments are locked in.
Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan are hell-bent on penalising Australians for
what are no more than natural climate changes.
Worse, while talking down the economy, Rudd has also said that human-induced
climate change is the greatest moral issue we face.
But if Australia changes its emissions of a trace atmospheric gas, how will
this change the world?
The output of CO2 from the greatest bio-mass, bacteria, is alone of such a
colossal magnitude that it renders the contribution humans make
insignificant.
It's time scientists, not cultists, were heard before our economy is
sacrificed to this new religion.
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
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