Climax
Now the term war on climate change has finally been coined can any more of you see that it is just an arrogant fantasy. No, it's still just me isn't it?
"The War on climate change" or "you're all arses" for short is simply a way for Gordon Brown and the tax fiends to bugger the fuck out of the earning man by stealing all his hard earned.
Every response to global warming / environmental terror/ shock horror quake I have heard so far is a tax on us or a barrier to freedom of movement. Petrol Taxes, taxes on rubbish, plastic bag taxes (Eire), taxes on flying, taxes on bigger cars, taxes on road use, taxes on industry, taxes on whatever, is that all we can do? If it really is so scary then taxing everything is a waste of time, we'll all be under water/dehydrated or frozen to death in a matter of months, taxing is another way of simply rationing life's pleasures for the rich while Rome burns (to mix a few metaphors).
When the scientists couldn't convince us that global warming was a result of burning said misappropriated oil, good old Gordon gets an economist to convince us. Sterns' report is about as scientific as a Doctor Who plot.
The correlation between rising CO2 levels and the earths temperature does not fit and because it is only based on our ability to record current temperatures cannilly avoids reference to previous changes in global temperature including both major and minor ice ages and much more temperate times as recent as the 16th century.
We have devised an explanation to fit the outcome of an experiment where we do not know what the inputs are. It is, at best a guess, and our panicking over it is generating an excuse to take more money off us for a supposedly virtuous cause.
Science does not support the facts and only weak trends are evidenced by a relationship between CO2 and temperature. Other correlations include increased sun spot activity, no doubt due to us eating mars bars or cattle farting, world weather cycles over generations and decades rather than years, fluctuations in the earths core temperature etc etc. Ask a scientist if CO2 levels in the earths atmosphere have ever been higher? They will say ooh yes, actually 40% higher in the Pleistocene era or whatever- did the world end, no, thought not. Was the change the result of some cataclismic happening dont know err- Ask them about ice ages and when will the next one be- We don't know, were we hit by a comet? We don't know but we do know that driving a car makes the worlds temperature rise preceptibly don't we- err no actually we don't.
Arrogance. Now that we can measure the weather and fly to the moon we can explain everything. Man, particularly English man, is obsessed with the weather. Now we think we understand it , we can explain away the geophysical changes in our climate and our planet and not only can we explain it but we can take responsibility for it, its our fault through our pathetic actions on this two million year old rock of which we have only a vague understinding. Come on get real. Pigs farting have a greater impact on CO2 than we do. OK so we grow the cows and pigs ... yes thank you to the veggies, that all lays at my door too - perhaps we should tax meat more...
So come on show me, give me the real deal, not that the weather is changing or the earth is warming, I can see that stupid. Show me that it is down to us with incontrovertible scientific evidence.
Show me:-
a) that it is mans fault that the worlds temperature is rising;
b) that you can protect my children from my accelerating consumerism;
c) that if I deny myself the pleasures of travel etc that it will make a difference; and
d) that the UK was more pleasant when it was cold and we had crap summers.
"The War on climate change" or "you're all arses" for short is simply a way for Gordon Brown and the tax fiends to bugger the fuck out of the earning man by stealing all his hard earned.
Every response to global warming / environmental terror/ shock horror quake I have heard so far is a tax on us or a barrier to freedom of movement. Petrol Taxes, taxes on rubbish, plastic bag taxes (Eire), taxes on flying, taxes on bigger cars, taxes on road use, taxes on industry, taxes on whatever, is that all we can do? If it really is so scary then taxing everything is a waste of time, we'll all be under water/dehydrated or frozen to death in a matter of months, taxing is another way of simply rationing life's pleasures for the rich while Rome burns (to mix a few metaphors).
When the scientists couldn't convince us that global warming was a result of burning said misappropriated oil, good old Gordon gets an economist to convince us. Sterns' report is about as scientific as a Doctor Who plot.
The correlation between rising CO2 levels and the earths temperature does not fit and because it is only based on our ability to record current temperatures cannilly avoids reference to previous changes in global temperature including both major and minor ice ages and much more temperate times as recent as the 16th century.
We have devised an explanation to fit the outcome of an experiment where we do not know what the inputs are. It is, at best a guess, and our panicking over it is generating an excuse to take more money off us for a supposedly virtuous cause.
Science does not support the facts and only weak trends are evidenced by a relationship between CO2 and temperature. Other correlations include increased sun spot activity, no doubt due to us eating mars bars or cattle farting, world weather cycles over generations and decades rather than years, fluctuations in the earths core temperature etc etc. Ask a scientist if CO2 levels in the earths atmosphere have ever been higher? They will say ooh yes, actually 40% higher in the Pleistocene era or whatever- did the world end, no, thought not. Was the change the result of some cataclismic happening dont know err- Ask them about ice ages and when will the next one be- We don't know, were we hit by a comet? We don't know but we do know that driving a car makes the worlds temperature rise preceptibly don't we- err no actually we don't.
Arrogance. Now that we can measure the weather and fly to the moon we can explain everything. Man, particularly English man, is obsessed with the weather. Now we think we understand it , we can explain away the geophysical changes in our climate and our planet and not only can we explain it but we can take responsibility for it, its our fault through our pathetic actions on this two million year old rock of which we have only a vague understinding. Come on get real. Pigs farting have a greater impact on CO2 than we do. OK so we grow the cows and pigs ... yes thank you to the veggies, that all lays at my door too - perhaps we should tax meat more...
So come on show me, give me the real deal, not that the weather is changing or the earth is warming, I can see that stupid. Show me that it is down to us with incontrovertible scientific evidence.
Show me:-
a) that it is mans fault that the worlds temperature is rising;
b) that you can protect my children from my accelerating consumerism;
c) that if I deny myself the pleasures of travel etc that it will make a difference; and
d) that the UK was more pleasant when it was cold and we had crap summers.
posted by Toomuchgrief at 3:09 PM
1 Comments:
Sympathy towards Islam, disagreement with the climate doomsayers. Interesting demographic you are carving out for yourself (though the "I pay too much tax" thing is maybe a bit commonplace).
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