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““A CoolA Cool Look at Global Warmingat Global Warming””
Presentation to theChatswood Rotary Club
Philip R. Wood
Managing Director & CEO, Intec Ltd
11 February 2009 Roseville RSL Memorial Club
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There is no opinion, however absurd,which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to theconviction that it is generally adopted.
(Schopenhauer, Die Kunst Recht zu Behalten )
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Facts that we can all agree upon:
(global warming advocates and sceptics alike)
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Carbon Dioxide (CO2 ) is:
1. Naturally occurring
2. Invisible
3. Odourless
4. Non-toxic
5. Necessary for all plant life (photosynthesis)
6. Emitted by all animal life (breathing etc.)
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So why is CO2 called a “pollutant”?
Answer:
Because it is a “greenhouse gas” - eventhough greenhouse gases make PlanetEarth liveable(+14°C average globaltemperature, rather than -19°C otherwise)
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Greenhouse gases, in order of importance, comprise:
1%Methane, N2O, etc.
2%Carbon Dioxide
97%Water vapour
So along with your exhaled breath, fluffy clouds and cow
belches are also villainous “pollutants”!
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Water: Main greenhouse gas
& driver of CO2
Water: Main greenhouse gas
& driver of CO2
100%100%
80%80%
60%60%
40%40%
20%20%
0%0%
WaterVapourWaterVapour CO2CO2 MethaneMethane N2ON2O MiscGasesMiscGases
0.117%0.117% 0.066%0.066% 0.047%0.047% 0.047%0.047%
0.001%0.001% Man madeMan madeNaturalNatural
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Humankind currently contributes 3%
of the Earth’s annual emissions ofCO2 into the atmosphere.
The 97% balance of emissions issplit between vegetation and soils(53%) and the oceans (44%).
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Carbon Dioxide in a Cooling World
Annual Carbon Flux between the Oceans, Vegetation and
Soils, Humankind and the Atmosphere
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Australia contributes 1.5% of global
anthropogenic emissions.The Rudd Government’s EmissionsTrading Scheme plans to reduce
Australia’s emissions by 5% by2020.
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The Australian Government’s“Carbon Pollution Reduction
Scheme” will therefore have thefollowing impact on the world’s
greenhouse effect:100% x 2% x 3% x 1.5% x 5% = 0.000045 %
or about a 2.2 millionth!(Equal to one footstep in a walk around the equator!)
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So, to justify this huge nationaleffort for effectively nil outcome,
carbon dioxide must be the realvillain of ‘catastrophic’ Global
Warming:
Right?
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Wrong!
Temperatures, CO2 and sea levels for the last 20,000 years
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Temperatures for the last 2,000 years
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Globally averaged temperature variations between 1850 and 2007 showthe emergence from the “Little Ice Age” in the early 1900’s, slight cooling
in the 1940’s to the 1970’s, and then warming again since the 1970’s,followed by cooling since 1998.
1850 - 2007
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1979 - 2009
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World Temperatures Falling Whilst CO2 Keeps Rising
1998 - 2008
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Correlation can exist without causation,
but causation cannot exist without correlation.
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Atmospheric Temperature and Carbon Dioxide Content overthe Ages.
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Seas are not rising
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Ice is not melting
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Cyclones are not increasing
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Everything presented so far has been indisputable empirically observed data.
Global warming advocates have no choice but to agree, even if they are reluctant to be open with us all on these matters.
The difference comes when modelling the future: “bulldust in, bulldust out”!
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It really began with the IPCC.
Set up in 1988 under UN auspices
Does not carry out research or monitor climate
Assimilates available information to inform governments of theworld
Global quasi-monopoly of official scientific advice
Has mutated into a politically correct alarmist pressure group
Notorious “hockey stick” quietly dropped from latest 2007Report
Joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize!
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“Hockey Stick”
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IPCC Projections for 2100Temperature – increase of <3°C
N.B. Current world average 14°C (Helsinki 5°C, Singapore 27°C)
Sea Levels – 18-59cm higher
N.B. Average twice-daily tide ~200cm (Al Gore’s movie – 700cm)
+ Diseases (e.g. malaria), floods, droughts, hurricanes, etc.
Of course, no benefits from warming!
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Leading Global Warming Advocates
Al Gore – Joint Nobel Peace Prizewinner for “An Inconvenient Truth”
Tim Flannery – 2007 Australian of the Year for “The Weather Makers”
Sir Nicholas Stern – Author of the U.K. Government’s Stern Review
Ross Garnaut – Author of the Australian Government’s Garnaut Report
Australian Politicians - Kevin Rudd, Penny Wong, Peter Garrett,
Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Brown, etc.
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Leading Australian Sceptics
Ray Evans (Lavoisier Group)
Viv Forbes (Carbon Sense Coalition)Max Rheese (Australian Climate Science Coalition)Leon Ashby (Climate Sceptics Party)
Lobbyists
Cardinal George PellArchbishops!
Andrew Bolt, Miranda Devine, Terry McCrann,
Christopher Pearson, Piers Akerman, Alan Jones
Journalists
Bob Carter, Ian Plimer, Bill Kininmoth, David EvansScientists
Martin Ferguson, Cory Bernardi, Barnaby Joyce,Michael Costa, Peter Walsh, Ron Boswell
Politicians
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Australia’s Proposed Emissions Trading Scheme
Multi-billion dollar per annum carbon tax by another name
Creates massive distortions in our economy
Directly reduces international competitiveness
Produces grinding bureaucratic intervention to redistributeimpact for political expediency
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20% Renewable Energy Target by 2020
Most renewable energy is presently hydro (little scope for
increase)
Wind and solar do not produce baseload power (thereforerequire ~85% baseload back-up)
Geothermal ‘hot rocks’ too isolated
Uranium (ruled out politically – why?)
Carbon Geo-Sequestration (expensive and unproven)
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Acknowledgement
From the opening title to the concludingillustration, my presentation has been the
hurried compilation of a “magpie patchworkplagiarist”. If it contains any errors, they are
likely to be mine.
However I acknowledge and thank the manyunattributed contributors, confident that they
would want this message to be spread aswidely as possible.
-Philip R. Wood
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Philip R. Wood
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer Intec Ltd
philip@intec.com.au
PO Box 1507North Sydney NSW 2059
Level 3, 2 Elizabeth PlazaNorth Sydney NSW 2060
Phone: (02) 9925 8170
Facsimile: (02) 9925 8110
www.intec.com.au
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