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Carbon chatter everywhere and not a drop of commonsense : Comments
By Everald Compton, published 18/5/2011The supercharged emotional nonsense that is currently swamping Australia's carbon debate.
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As you point out, most of us are concerned about "problems with the environment" and want to do something positive about it. The real issue is that there seems to be scanty evidence that CO2 is actually causing problems with the environment.
Eminent climate scientist Roger Pielke Sr argues that man is indeed having an impact, but it is largely land-use factors (deforestation, urbanisation, interference with natural hydrological cycles, industrialised agriculture and the like) that are affecting local and regional climate in many places around the world.
The case against CO2 has not been proven. All we see are unproven assumptions about positive feedbacks in models.
What if Dr Pielke is correct? What if natural factors are the cause of observed changes?
The fact is we don't really know, and it would be foolhardy to seriously disrupt our economy and wellbeing until we do know.