Global warming and cooling is natural and has been going on since time began.
Man has little influence over it and of that little we Canadians make just 1.6% of it.
By blindly following the global warming mantra Canada has destroyed its petro industry foolishly led by Liberals and is now about to put punitive taxes on Canadians for NO PROVEN GAINS to the environment.
Have we all gone mad following these Liberal destroyers?
I agree with S. Jones that climate has always been changing as a result of natural events and less as result of man's activities. However, the increasing CO2 levels is ,I believe, a cause for concern much the same as water pollution was in the 1970s. I agree that we should move away from carbon based fuels over the next 50 to 100 years. To do this , Canada needs the wealth provided by our existing oil and gas supplies to fund development of wind and solar. To abandon our oil industry investment and revenues immediately as the Greens suggest,means we'll become poorer, maybe even become a have not nation while Saudi Arabia and the like continue on their merry way supplying the world's current energy needs including Canada's. Also, until the USA, China and India get serious about reducing CO2, Canadian efforts to do so, although symbolically important, are effectively insignificant,
Carbon dioxide is not in any way an atmospheric pollutant, any more than the oxygen that plants exhale is a pollutant! CO2 has some warming potential, but it tails off exponentially as concentration increases. CO2 may intercept a small percentage of upwelling long wave infrared, due to a small quantity of resonant modes, but like any molecule in an excited state, it rapidly returns to its ground state, re-emitting the energy it initially absorbed, eventually emitting most of it into space at the top of the atmosphere. Water vapour is, of course, far more significant in atmospheric thermal dynamics, both warming and cooling by turn...
Global warming and cooling is natural and has been going on since time began.
Man has little influence over it and of that little we Canadians make just 1.6% of it.
By blindly following the global warming mantra Canada has destroyed its petro industry foolishly led by Liberals and is now about to put punitive taxes on Canadians for NO PROVEN GAINS to the environment.
Have we all gone mad following these Liberal destroyers?
I agree with S. Jones that climate has always been changing as a result of natural events and less as result of man's activities. However, the increasing CO2 levels is ,I believe, a cause for concern much the same as water pollution was in the 1970s. I agree that we should move away from carbon based fuels over the next 50 to 100 years. To do this , Canada needs the wealth provided by our existing oil and gas supplies to fund development of wind and solar. To abandon our oil industry investment and revenues immediately as the Greens suggest,means we'll become poorer, maybe even become a have not nation while Saudi Arabia and the like continue on their merry way supplying the world's current energy needs including Canada's. Also, until the USA, China and India get serious about reducing CO2, Canadian efforts to do so, although symbolically important, are effectively insignificant,
Carbon dioxide is not in any way an atmospheric pollutant, any more than the oxygen that plants exhale is a pollutant! CO2 has some warming potential, but it tails off exponentially as concentration increases. CO2 may intercept a small percentage of upwelling long wave infrared, due to a small quantity of resonant modes, but like any molecule in an excited state, it rapidly returns to its ground state, re-emitting the energy it initially absorbed, eventually emitting most of it into space at the top of the atmosphere. Water vapour is, of course, far more significant in atmospheric thermal dynamics, both warming and cooling by turn...