Ian Plimer Takes the Long View on the Global Warming Hoax

by Van Helsing | July 29, 2009 1:16 pm

The drones who choose to believe in the global warming farce take the short view. But not geology professor Ian Plimer of Adelaide University in his book Earth — Global Warming: The Missing Science[1].

Plimer presents the proposition that anthropogenic global warming is little more than a con trick on the public perpetrated by fundamentalist environmentalists and callously adopted by politicians and government officials who love nothing more than an issue that causes public anxiety.

While environmentalists for the most part draw their conclusions based on climate information gathered in the last few hundred years, geologists, Plimer says, have a time frame stretching back many thousands of millions of years.

The dynamic and changing character of the Earth’s climate has always been known by geologists. These changes are cyclical and random, he says. They are not caused or significantly affected by human behaviour.

Polar ice, for example, has been present on the Earth for less than 20 per cent of geological time, Plimer writes. Plus, animal extinctions are an entirely normal part of the Earth’s evolution. …

Plimer gets especially upset about carbon dioxide, its role in Earth’s daily life and the supposed effects on climate of human manufacture of the gas. He says atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at the lowest levels it has been for 500 million years, and that atmospheric carbon dioxide is only 0.001 per cent of the total amount of the chemical held in the oceans, surface rocks, soils and various life forms. Indeed, Plimer says carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, but a plant food. Plants eat carbon dioxide and excrete oxygen. Human activity, he says, contributes only the tiniest fraction to even the atmospheric presence of carbon dioxide.

There is no problem with global warming, Plimer says repeatedly. He points out that for humans periods of global warming have been times of abundance when civilization made leaps forward. Ice ages, in contrast, have been times when human development slowed or even declined.

If only it really were getting warmer — instead of colder[2].

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Recommended reading.

On a tip from mega. Cross-posted at Moonbattery[3].

Endnotes:
  1. Earth — Global Warming: The Missing Science: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Global+warming+religion+First+World+urban+elites/1835847/story.html
  2. colder: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13208
  3. Moonbattery: http://www.moonbattery.com/

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