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Climate Change 'Fraud'
By John Ingham
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2 Dec 09 - (Excerpts) - The scientific consensus that mankind has
caused climate change was rocked yesterday as a leading academic called
it a “load of hot air underpinned by fraud”.
Professor Ian Plimer condemned the climate change lobby as “climate comrades” keeping the "gravy train" going.
Prof Plimer said Governments were treating the public like “fools” and using climate change to increase taxes.
He said carbon dioxide has had no impact on temperature and that recent warming was part of the natural cycle of climate stretching over billions of years.
Prof Plimer - author of Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, The Missing Science - said climate change was caused by natural events such as volcanic eruptions, the shifting of the Earth’s orbit and cosmic radiation. He said: “Carbon dioxide levels have been up to 1,000 times higher in the past. CO2 cannot be driving global warming now."
“In the past we have had rapid and significant climate change with temperature changes greater than anything we are measuring today. They are driven by processes that have been going on since the beginning of time.”
And he predicted that the next phase would cool the planet.
The talks at Copenhagen are expected to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally.
But Professor Plimer, of Adelaide and Melbourne Universities, said that to stop climate change Governments should find ways to prevent changes to the Earth’s orbit and ocean currents and avoid explosions of supernovae in space.
Professor Plimer suggested many scientists had a vested interest in promoting climate change because it helped secure more funding for research.
See entire great article:
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/143573/Climate-change-fraud-
Thanks to Emma Corry for this link