James Doogue

I've picked up fossilised rocks with tropical fern imprints on the rocky beaches in Antarctica, (and then replaced them where found as required under the treaty). On a continent where not even grass grows now, it's quite amazing to imagine rainforests once existed.

Continental drift, poles flipping, axis tilting, Earth's orbital shifts, gravitational pull of the solar system and far off galaxies continually adjusting, volcanic activity, volcanic warming including subsea volcanic activity, vents and cracks in the crust, the Sun's solar activity varying dramatically, cosmic radiation from close and deep space continually altering ozone layer and cloud formation, deep sea ocean currents, el nino, la nina, Arctic oscillations, all of these things impact global and regional climate.

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can have a small effect on climate, but hundreds of thousands of years of Antarctic ice core data prove that global atmospheric CO2 levels lag global temperatures.

Atmospheric CO2 is not the cause of global temperature change, it is mostly a reaction to global temperature. As temperatures increase, more CO2 is released from the Earth's oceans. As the globe cools, atmospheric CO2 can decrease as it is dissolved into the oceans.

That has not always been the case during the Earth's evolution over billions of years because the chemical make up of the atmosphere and oceans was still evolving. But that's the scientific fact over recent hundreds of thousands of years.

What we also know for sure is that the Earth's most common state over recent millions of years is long cold periods of 'ice ages', interspersed with relatively short periods of warmth, like the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods, and today's Modern Warm Period.

During warm periods, all life thrives. Animals, plants and human. Cold periods are disasterous for most life on the planet.

The idea the world's scientific community and politician's, at least in the West, are focussed on human CO2 emissions is preposterous.

CO2 represents just 0.04% of the Earth's atmosphere, or just 400 parts per million. Human CO2 emissions represent less than 10% of total CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. CO2 is extracted from the atmosphere naturally into the oceans, into rocks and by plants through photosynthesis. The latter has been responsible for an increased greening of the planet in recent decades.

Despite all of this, the useful idiots determined to de-industrialis e Western economies and cause a dramatic increase in poverty, would have us believe human CO2 emissions will catastrophic climate change.

It's sad that this narrative has been not only accepted by major mainstream and social media outlets, it is now being enforced through omission, fake fact-checking, and outright censorship of any dissenting views.

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