http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6559454/Prof-Ian-Plimer-tenets-of-a-climate-change-sceptic.html "Prof Ian Plimer, a geologist at Adelaide University, hit the headlines in Britain on Thursday, giving an interview in which he claimed that "not one great climate change in the past has actually been driven by carbon dioxide". So what are his key thoughts on the issue"? ... "1. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no effect on climate above 50 parts per million (ppm). Prof Plimer rejects the argument that the increased concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere from its pre-industrial (1750AD) level of about 270 ppm to today's level of about 380 ppm, has begun to affect the world's change. "In an interview with ABN Newswire in June he said: "Carbon dioxide has an effect on the atmosphere and it has an effect for the first 50 parts per million and once it's done its job then it's finished and you can double it and quadruple it and it has no effect because we've seen that in the geological past, and we've seen it in times gone by when the carbon dioxide content was 100 times the current content. We didn't have runaway global warming, we actually had glaciation." "2. Extraterrestrial events like solar flares have driven major climate change episodes in the geological past "3. Global warming should be welcomed because humans 'thrive' in a warmer planet "4. Climate change scientists push global warming theory because it is good for their careers "5. A belief in man-made climate change is a 'fundamentalist religion' See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6559454/Prof-Ian-Plimer-tenets-of-a-climate-change-sceptic.html [Plimer sounds like some of those chaps over in alt.global-warming] Other posts:
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