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The danger of climate change evangelism

By Murray Hunter - posted Thursday, 10 September 2015


Some scientists are even claiming the world is heading into another ice age right at this moment.

Carbon dioxide (CO2)only exists within the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts, at around 401.4ppm. It is an important nutrient for flora, a building block for all life on earth. CO2 being a gas in trace amounts is conductive of thermal heat within the earth's atmosphere. Water vapour is the most abundant greenhouse gas, which primarily evaporates from the oceans and is responsible for both reflecting and trapping heat within the atmosphere.

Carbon dioxide is not a poisonous gas, and higher concentrations are actually beneficial to plant life on this planet.

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The global warming issue is full of opinions, as we don't know the facts today.

We also live in the fallacy that humankind has the power to fix any global warming problem. This is in the light of the success the world had in limiting chlorofluorocarbons in refrigerants and aerosols, in eliminating the hole in the ozone layer back in the 1980s. This belief that we as humans can control the environment is arrogance in the extreme.

The proponents of global warming would have the world belief that it controls its own destiny in terms of being able to control the environment. Is this living in true reality?

When we connect morality with truth, inquisitions, purges, and clampdowns on the unbelievers usually occur. This is where the global warming evangelists can take us, back to the 'dark ages' of science and understanding, to where the earth was once flat.

Perhaps the last words of this article should be left to the Canadian limnologist David Schindler, who said:

To a patient scientist, the unfolding greenhouse mystery is far more exciting than the plot of the best mystery novel. But it is slow reading, with new clues sometimes not appearing for several years. Impatience increases when one realizes that it is not the fate of some fictional character, but of our planet and species, which hangs in the balance as the great carbon mystery unfolds at a seemingly glacial pace.

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Murray Hunter is an associate professor at the University Malaysia Perlis. He blogs at Murray Hunter.

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