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Will the solutions to global climate change actually work?
I’m doing a case study about global climate change, and need some opinions of people who know what they are talking about.
Although there are some common (but faulty) assumptions lurking behind the question, I’ll try to shed some light on the subject. The first assumption is that climate change requires a solution. The only known changes to the climate are:
1) An 1° F increase in average global temperature over a period of over 100 years,
2) An 100 ppm increase in CO2 concentration, cause unknown. Since a rise in CO2 concentration is known to more often follow a temperature increase than cause one, the correlation of increased CO2 with an industrialized society is more likely coincidental than causal. Higher CO2 now could very well be the result of warming out of the MWP; but even if human activity has contributed to higher CO2, most scientists think it is only a very small percentage of the total increase.
3) Some ice melt in the Arctic – not insignificant, but not unprecedented either.
Further, there are benefits to a warmer globe with higher CO2, namely most plant and animal species thrive in those conditions. This means more food production, and a greener earth. This seems to be one aspect of global warming that the eco-ideologues are in denial about.
The second false assumption is that CO2 is the cause of GW. This has been refuted repeatedly by genuine science, despite what the alarmists, some politicized scientists, or special interest groups with a political agenda try to pawn off as “fact.”
http://www.rocketscientistsjournal.com/2006/10/co2_acquittal.html
Thus controlling CO2 cannot make any change in climate – although it will certainly make a huge change in the economy as trillions are wasted on cap/trade systems spawned as the result of “carbon hysteria.” Or maybe cap and trade is just a money grab for the government?
The third faulty assumption is that climate change can, or needs to be controlled. In fact the cost of trying to stop it is prohibitive. Kyoto will cost at least $20 trillion, and the results are not anticipated to make any discernable change in our lifetime. Realistically, there is no discernable change other than the aforementioned ice melt anyway.
http://webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com/news/story.jsp?floc=DC-headline&sc=1501&idq=/ff/story/0001/20080130/1726245305.htm
And again, the entire premise of Kyoto is based in the faulty assumption that CO2 is the cause. But when we look at Milankovitch cycles, solar cycles, and oceanic cycles we find they are all far better fits to the data as far as being causal is concerned. None of these are controllable of course, which leaves humanity as hapless victims of nature – the way it has always been.
So now I’m going to make an assumption – that you have read the science from both sides in order to reach an informed conclusion. I notice you were careful to use the words “climate change” instead of “global warming” which is prudent since I’m assuming you are aware that global temperatures have not increased for over ten years (beyond the 1998 high). So I have to ask, if we are no longer warming, and humans are not likely the cause, what solutions need to be implemented?
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