Climate change fallacies
Ron Kitching
The claim that 2,500 scientists wrote the IPCC’s Report is wrong. It seems that the 1,190 separate individuals who wrote the scientific part of the IPCC report were not scientists at all, but were political and environmental activists.
So wrote Dr. Ian Plimer in his newly released book titled “Heaven + Earth – Global Warming: The Missing Science.”
While climate change is a fact of the continually evolving planet, the human and other populations are in no danger from warming. Plimer points out that it is the long cold periods which decimate populations and have wiped out past civilisations.
In future, ice ages will almost certainly again occur. What the human population has to do is to prepare for and adapt to them.
The present warm period has seen off the last of the previous ice age and obviously has benefited the human race.
And all of the chatter about carbon dioxide being a pollutant is arrant nonsense. At 385 parts per million of the atmosphere, it is a comparatively low component. People who study these matters say that about 1,500 ppm of CO2 is ideal for humans and plant life thrives in much more, even humans can still thrive on 15,000 ppm.
Those now hysterically anticipating that an increase in CO2 will radically warm the planet, are also political and environmental activists.
