It is effectively a Met Office report suggesting that we're more likely to see global cooling than warming over the next few years - obviously a report, like the last one in which the Met office admitted there had been no actual increase in the planet's temperature for the past 15 years, which was sneaked out online rather than given any kind of media push. So what was all the fuss about then?
But that wasn't what made me really cross. It was the comment by Peter Stott, one of the Met Office's 'experts' that the effects of a cooling sun would have much less of an impact on global temperature than the that of man-made greenhouse gasses.
So, let me get this straight: If the sun - you know that object without which we would be dark, cold and non-existant, and which almost single-handedly creates the temperature we experience here on earth - cools significantly, it will not offset the warming impact of a rise in CO2 levels which we ourselves have created.
And those levels - just a point of order, if I may, without CO2 we would also not be here as it is one of the fundamental building blocks of life and food on the planet - are currently estimated at around 383 parts per million in our atmosphere. That means that currently CO2 accounts for 0.000383% of our atmosphere. And in the past it has risen, and fallen as a percentage of our atmosphere to levels far above where they are now and also far below. But currently the concern is that they could grow as a percentage by as much as 10%. Cripes.
That's not 10% of the atmosphere on the planet you understand, but as a percentage of the current figure so it might account for an additional 38.3 parts per million, taking the atmospheric percentage up from 0.000383% to a whopping 0.0004213%. And if it gets to those kind of levels, what then for the world?
According to Mr Stott, this kind of difference will far outweigh any cooling effect from the Sun (which is entering a cooling phase at the moment in the cyclic way that it does and has done forever). And you can see why that would be the case can't you? You know the sun, big fuck-off star made almost entirely of energy and heat as opposed to a possible CO2 increase of 0.0000383% of the atmosphere we have here on earth. Why, my good man it's obviously a no-contest.
You can't see that logic? Me neither.
You've got to hand it to these scientists (because essentially they're paid by our taxes so you have no choice) who have made significant money out of this; and to Governments who have been able to raise massive amounts of additional 'green taxes' on the back of this global warming thing - described by Tony Blair as 'the biggest threat facing our planet today'. Essentially what they're saying is that if CO2 rises from its current levels of the square route of fuck all of our atmosphere, by 10% (and no-one is really predicting that high a figure; even the wildest of scare-mongers) to the point where it will still be the square route of fuck all as a percentage of our atmosphere, the world will effectively scorch and dry up and we'll all starve and everywhere will be under water.
Will it bollocks.
Ten years ago these scaremongers predicted that by now (2012), there would be 10million climate refugees in the world, because of climate change and man-made global warming. So where are they?
The world, even according to the Met Office (one starts to get worried when the Met Office is getting things right for a change - drought, hosepipe ban etc) has not been warming since 1997. If anything, even NASA is now predicting a period of cooling. What odds will you give me that the likes of Al Gore will start trying to make money out of that naturally cycling phenomenon in due course?
It is all a scam, has been from the start - a 'widget' with which to make money: a way for scientists to be funded by tax-payers and, more fundamentally important, for Governments around the world to generate higher taxes from their citizens in order to pay for this (non-existant) catastrophe facing the planet.
Our own dear BBC has stated that 'the science is settled' and will not therefore enter into any debate about it, even now when it looks like the science is not only not settled, but completely bogus.
AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming/Man-made climate change) is almost certainly the biggest scam in history: It has cost the world's taxpayers, including some of the poorest people on earth, more money than any other single issue in history and yet no-one seems to be undertaking the research into how we have all been scammed by Al Gore, Mr Stott and his millions of colleagues in the scientific community and world Governments. I really cannot understand why not. If the biggest scam in history is not a story worth investigating, then I don't know what is. A royal baby perhaps? Bah.
Anyway thanks for reading - get your skates on - you'll probably need them to cross the Thames in a couple of years. Toodle pip.
