Now soficrow, perhaps you would remember that in the past i have posted many threads about global warming, and up to about 7 months ago or so i also
thought that human activities had a hand in global warming and climate change, but the more research i did, the more i realised that global warming is
being blamed on mankind for an agenda which has nothing to do with saving the environment.
It is true that releasing gases and chemicals in the atmosphere and the oceans does affect the environment, but that doesn't mean that human
activities are the main cause behind global warming.
Now, i have mentioned some of the inconsistencies found in the geological records, the ice core base system, and the leaf base system, let me add
another of the inconsistencies which you won't hear or read from "most environmentalists".
The consensus among many environmentalists is that about 3 decades ago mankind activities began to affect the climate with the "sharp" increase of
CO2 in the atmosphere.
The following is one of the graphs that "many environmentalists" show as proof to back their claims.
Note that i took that graph from a site in which they claim human activity is the main cause for global warming, since if I would have given some
other thread I would have been accused of "working for the oil industry" and making up the facts or some other nonsense ..
Now, notice in that graph what happens beginning around 1940.
Does anyone remember what happened around 1940?... I'll give you a hint, WWII. Do you know what happened to factories around the world, mostly but
including in the U.S. during that time? There was an "increase in production for years", yet the graph shows that in the 1940s temperatures dropped
for over a decade despite some of the things that happened back then.
Coal is the highest producer of CO2 emissions by far, yet coal was used a lot more during the 1940s than now and yet during the 1940s and for over a
decade global air temperatures did not increase, but in fact decreased.
Coal emissions were so bad during those times that there were some events like the "black fog event" which killed more than 4,000 people in London
in 1956, and because of that event coal burning was banned in London since.
During the earlier 1960s there was a small increase in global air temperatures, yet some years later the temperature decreased again for 5 years
before slowly rising once again.
The United States stopped building coal plants, to replace them with the "cleaner natural gas plants" in the late 1980s, yet it was at this time
when there was a sharp increase in temperatures around the world which have continued until today.
Now did you all know that electricity produced in the United States from coal is around 50% yet countries like China and India produce their
electricity from coal at 75%, yet the Kyoto protocol, which is brought up time and again by "environmentalists" would have allowed China and India
not to reduce their emissions and they could even increase them?....
Yet who is being blamed, depite other countries using more coal, and not using gasification plants which clean coal before burning it?... Talk about
double standards.
[edit on 21-9-2006 by Muaddib]