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| Subject: Re: "It's become a witch-hunt" | |
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Author: Duncan7 |
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Date Posted: 08:28:25 05/21/07 Mon In reply to: Oropan 's message, ""It's become a witch-hunt"" on 09:47:57 05/20/07 Sun First rule of the witch hunt.. "never limit yourself to just the witches" >Global warming debunked >By ANDREW SWALLOW - The Timaru Herald | Saturday, 19 >May 2007 > >Climate change will be considered a joke in five years >time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting >of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this >week. > >Man's contribution to the greenhouse gases was so >small we couldn't change the climate if we tried, he >maintained. > >"We're all going to survive this. It's all going to be >a joke in five years," he said. > >A combination of misinterpreted and misguided science, >media hype, and political spin had created the current >hysteria and it was time to put a stop to it. > >"It is time to attack the myth of global warming," he >said. > >Water vapour was responsible for 95 per cent of the >greenhouse effect, an effect which was vital to keep >the world warm, he explained. > >"If we didn't have the greenhouse effect the planet >would be at minus 18 deg C but because we do have the >greenhouse effect it is plus 15 deg C, all the time." > >The other greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, >nitrogen dioxide, and various others including CFCs, >contributed only five per cent of the effect, carbon >dioxide being by far the greatest contributor at 3.6 >per cent. > >However, carbon dioxide as a result of man's >activities was only 3.2 per cent of that, hence only >0.12 per cent of the greenhouse gases in total. >Human-related methane, nitrogen dioxide and CFCs etc >made similarly minuscule contributions to the effect: >0.066, 0.047 and 0.046 per cent respectively. > >"That ought to be the end of the argument, there and >then," he said. > >"We couldn't do it (change the climate) even if we >wanted to because water vapour dominates." > >Yet the Greens continued to use phrases such as "The >planet is groaning under the weight of CO2" and >Government policies were about to hit industries such >as farming, he warned. > >"The Greens are really going to go after you because >you put out 49 per cent of the countries emissions. >Does anybody ask 49 per cent of what? Does anybody >know how small that number is? > >"It's become a witch-hunt; a Salem witch-hunt," he >said. > > >href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4064691a6571. >html">http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4064691a6571. >html [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |