Thread: Climategate!

This is how I see it:

Earth is a ball of molten rock, covered in a thin layer of water and gas, hurtling through a vacuum at 20,000mph, whilst spinning, being heated by a giant nuclear reactor. Please tell me how that environment could possibly stay constant?

Now I know that man is burning fossil fuels and I can understand, but disagree with, the view that this is now killing all the polar bears and dooming us to a life underwater. The reason I disagree is that that last ice age happened without any fossil fuels being burnt, it just happened. The reason it happened is because of the "little ball of rock in a vacuum" thing that I mentioned above.

So I dont subscribe to all the BS that we get from politicians about climate change. Its going to happen either way and no amount of taxes is going to stop it.

Basically, the ruling classes have just latched onto "Climate Change" as a new and exciting way to hammer us all with taxes and meddle with our lives.

Dont forget here that the goverments are all in debt up to their eyeballs and need to raise revenues, at a time when tax revenue has fallen due to the recession. Along comes the ogre of global warming and the politicians have their reason for hiking taxes.

"Its not because we're in debt! We're saving the polar bears and protecting the world! You dont want your children to live in a flooded world with no polar bears do you? Good, glad to hear it, that'll be one hundred billion pounds please..."

If the goverment was halfway serious about renewable energy they'd use these "green" taxes to fund renewable energy research, like hydrogen fuel cells. But they dont, they pay lip service to it by building a load of useless wind farms and plugging the budget deficit.

The reason no government is funding research into hydrogen fuel cells is that they wont see the result for 20 years or so, long after they will have been booted out of power. So they chuck money at wind farms, because you can see the result now. "Look, we built 500 windmills this year...!"

The UK currently has over 2000 windmills, and they produce less that 1% of our energy requirement. Money well spent? Dont make me laugh...!

Its a huge con. The government needs money and this is a good way of getting it. You can bet, pennies to pounds, that if green taxes were outlawed this whole global warming thing would be dropped like a hot spud.

Originally Posted by Stubear

This is how I see it:

Earth is a ball of molten rock, covered in a thin layer of water and gas, hurtling through a vacuum at 20,000mph, whilst spinning, being heated by a giant nuclear reactor ...

I pretty much agree with what you say but almost thought you were about to break out into that Monty Python song ...

...

Just, remember that you're standing on a planet thats evolving,
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.

The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
In a galaxy we call the milky way.

...

etc.

Alright. What have you done with Tuco?

Originally Posted by ControlFreak1

Alright. What have you done with Tuco?

Being the coward he is, he has run away.

Full Throttle Ben is on vacation -- bike trip through the Sierras. May or may not be back. His post cards have stopped. Not like him.

I think Lawrence Tierney might have scared them both off.

Originally Posted by Stubear

The reason I disagree is that that last ice age happened without any fossil fuels being burnt, it just happened.

There has never been any such thing as an ice age. It's not in the Book.