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"The great global warming swindle"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-m09lKt
This British documentary was not aired in the US.
To this I can add some interesting paleo-climate data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center).
In the last 450,000 years, the mean temperature in Antarctica has fluctuated several times, going up and down by about 10 or 12 degrees Celsius. Right now we are in a phase that has higher temperatures.
My revelation as regards the global warming comes from visiting the glaciers in Iceland. The guide explained that a particular glacier has been melting very slowly but inexorably during the last 200 years or so. The Icelanders have been planning their land development according to how much land is going to be made free by the retreating glacier. Obviously, the climate is getting warmer. And just as obviously, humans have contributed very little to that and can change nothing about it.
PS.
The main point of the documentary is that CO2 output is not a cause of climate change at all. An increase of CO2 levels is a consequence of climate warming, delayed by about 800 years. It is true that CO2 is a "greenhouse" gas, i.e. a gas that affects thermal radiation transfer in the atmosphere and can cause warming. But CO2 is by far not the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. The most important one is water vapor, also known as "clouds". The main driving force of climate change is solar radiation, which changes the amount of cosmic rays reaching Earth, which changes the rate of cloud formation, which in turn changes the temperature.
Another point is that there have been several periods in recent history when climate was significantly warmer than it is today. The last such period was around 1000 AD. There were no catastrophes during that period: no rising of the oceans that would flood all cities, no droughts that would starve the population. During that time, life was relatively good and bountiful: vineyards were common in northern Britain, and many richly decorated cathedrals were built in Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-m09lKt
This British documentary was not aired in the US.
To this I can add some interesting paleo-climate data from the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center).
In the last 450,000 years, the mean temperature in Antarctica has fluctuated several times, going up and down by about 10 or 12 degrees Celsius. Right now we are in a phase that has higher temperatures.
My revelation as regards the global warming comes from visiting the glaciers in Iceland. The guide explained that a particular glacier has been melting very slowly but inexorably during the last 200 years or so. The Icelanders have been planning their land development according to how much land is going to be made free by the retreating glacier. Obviously, the climate is getting warmer. And just as obviously, humans have contributed very little to that and can change nothing about it.
PS.
The main point of the documentary is that CO2 output is not a cause of climate change at all. An increase of CO2 levels is a consequence of climate warming, delayed by about 800 years. It is true that CO2 is a "greenhouse" gas, i.e. a gas that affects thermal radiation transfer in the atmosphere and can cause warming. But CO2 is by far not the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. The most important one is water vapor, also known as "clouds". The main driving force of climate change is solar radiation, which changes the amount of cosmic rays reaching Earth, which changes the rate of cloud formation, which in turn changes the temperature.
Another point is that there have been several periods in recent history when climate was significantly warmer than it is today. The last such period was around 1000 AD. There were no catastrophes during that period: no rising of the oceans that would flood all cities, no droughts that would starve the population. During that time, life was relatively good and bountiful: vineyards were common in northern Britain, and many richly decorated cathedrals were built in Europe.
