I'm an angler, an environmentalist, a conservationist, an heretic and a realist, what can I say.
C02 is not responsible for global warming. That big orange thing in the sky is.
Is the earth getting warmer? Probably. It's cyclic.
Is it due to increased C02 levels? No. The biggest greenhouse gas is water vapour - caused by the sun - not by C02.
So what's caused an increase in water vapour (and cloud)? That big orange thing in the sky!
The climate has been changing since the earth was formed. We've had a couple of ice ages and we were once tropic. The earth will continue changing until the day the sun stops shining.
I don't deny an increase in C02 levels, I haven't run the data. But I accept it's higher, I just don't accept the science behind what's being claimed by paid researchers.
The increase in C02 levels could be due to a number of things such as large scale deforestation and emerging economies burning more carbon fuels than ever before... it is thought to be higher now to when it was during the industrial revolution when we had deep snow and hot summers. But even if you add China into the mix and others, the simple fact remains; C02 does not cause rising temperatures or acidification of our seas which average pH 8.2 - the chemistry simply doesn't add up.
As fishkeepers we know for example that calcium carbonate acts as a buffer and prevents acidification and spikes.
And again, the term 'bleaching' of coral reefs could be due to shifting weather patterns and pollution carried on currents around the globe. I read recently that most reef corals are dying due to pollutants and runoff. The hard coral substrates aren't dissolving in acid as some would have us believe, the life it supports (that is, the live animal) is simply dying - perhaps, due in part to an increase in anaerobic bacteria in direct relation to a decrease in aerobic bacteria in our oceans from pollutants and the efficiency in which removing nitrates and nitrites has become detrimental to a multitude of marine organisms.. The delicate 'balance' that breathes life into living rocks. Deep-sea corals (don't depend on warm water or sunlight) are also said to be dying go figure.
The global warming movement has captured imaginations, earth system computer modelling have wrongly attributed C02 as the primary cause for what is a natural cyclic phenomenon as far as I'm concerned. Remember, those same paid experts in the 70's? they were preparing us for another ice age and now Greta has been put forward as their prodigy child in order to stifle that debate. She's being used by profiteers to further a Globalist agenda - politically driven based on pseudoscience by grant recipients - routinely manipulating data from earth system models (garbage in garbage out) and taxing everyone to pay for their private green vanity projects. Greta is every bit a victim like the rest of us in that respect.
The real concerns we can all reunite around and agree on: habitat destruction, invasive species, plastic pollution, pesticides, GMO's, over-fishing, clearcutting, deforestation, destruction of whole eco systems (dredging), wildlife poaching, fracking, the list goes on..
Merry Christmas to one and all!
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