Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies. He has published 130 scientific papers, six books and edited the Encyclopedia of Geology.
PLIMER: "Okay, here's the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland . Since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet - all of you.
Of course, you know about this evil
carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress - it’s that vital chemical
compound that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into
oxygen for us humans and all animal life.
I know....it's very disheartening to
realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while
suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric
grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kids "The Green
Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning
supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your
toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home
instead of abroad, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all
of your 50 cent light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs.....well, all of those
things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.
The volcanic ash emitted into the
Earth's atmosphere in just four days - yes, FOUR DAYS - by that volcano in
Iceland has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil
beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing
out this crud at any one time - EVERY DAY.
I don't really want to rain on your
parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo erupted
in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in all its years on earth.
Yes, folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for
over
One Year - think about
it.
Of course, I shouldn't spoil this
'touchy-feely tree-hugging' moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic
activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle,
which keeps happening despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect
climate change.
And I do wish I had a silver lining to
this volcanic ash cloud, but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire
season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your
efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it
happens every year.
Just remember that your government
just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you, on the basis of the bogus
'human-caused' climate-change scenario.
Hey, isn’t it interesting how they
don’t mention 'Global Warming' anymore, but just 'Climate Change' - you know why? It’s because the
planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global
warming bull artists got caught with their pants down.
And, just keep in mind that you might
yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme - that whopping new tax - imposed on you
that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer. It won’t stop any
volcanoes from erupting, that’s for sure.
CO2 change makes no significant difference.
ReplyDeleteDiscover the cause of the warming, the end of it, why temperatures are headed down and what to expect.
There are only two primary drivers of average global temperature change. They very accurately explain the reported up and down measurements since before 1900 with R2>0.9 (correlation coefficient = 0.95) and provide credible estimates back to the low temperatures of the Little Ice Age (1610).
CO2 change is NOT one of the drivers.
The drivers are given at
http://agwunveiled.blogspot.com/