Im never one to trust any snivelling little bastard politician who tells me to do as he says, not as he does. Especially when he tells me that its going to cost more to drive my car or take a plane trip.
So I decided to have a look at global temperatures over the last few hundred years. As you can see from the graph below, it makes for interesting reading...
It would indeed seem to indicate that temperatures are rising (well at least in central England anyway)
On closer inspection, it seems that the 5 year mean temperature has shot up, but look at the fluctuations of the annual mean.
So, what caused the Little Ice Age? Imagine if that happened now...politicians would be screaming for us to burn more fossil fuels! And judging by this graph, the world has had heat waves before some cad built an internal combustion engine, or had even thought about a coal fired power station.
Why was it so cold after the industrial revolution, when you would imagine there would be much more pollution than there is today, which you would have expected to be in the atmosphere trapping all the heat inside (just like they reckon happens now)
I'll tell you what I think. The graph points out that the global warming scare started in the late 80's. Since this time, a hell of a lot of the rain forests had been cut down, which in turn reduced the worlds biggest CO2 sink. This in turn has lead to the atmosphere having to deal with more green house gasses, which has lead to a bit of a warming up.
However, the politicians see this has a fab opportunity to tax us even more for flights, cars etc. I wonder if Blair's final farewell tour around the world was 'carbon neutral'
Do as he says, people, not as he does....
1 comment:
cant agree more. i have heard more shit spoken lately about global warming and this new "buzz phrase" carbon footprint, its making me sick, all it is is a chance to collect more taxes off us, no matter how much recycling and cutting down on our "carbon footprint" we do this is just a futile effort. as it seems it is only us doing it and china and america the two worst offenders are spewing out more into the atmosphere than we could ever hope to combat, china are opening two coal fired power stations a week, so us putting cans and bottles into seperate bins etc. wont really help will it, i heard today something about carbon trading, dont really understand how it works but sounded summat like if one place is not using much to harm the atmosphere we can swap our amounts with them. i might be wrong on this (probably am) but it sounded a bit hypocritical to me.
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