Where do they keep finding these people with PhD’s? Global warming is not our fault … it’s nature By Jenny Haworth
DR JIM Buckee says he feels like a heretic, persecuted for his views and treated like an outcast. His crime? Being a climate change sceptic.
Next week the former chief executive of the oil and gas firm Talisman, who has a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Oxford, will try to convince others that climate change has nothing to do with human activity.
During a lecture at the University of Aberdeen he will argue that, far from warming, the Earth is set to enter a 20-year cooling period. (click photo for full size)
What I would like to know, when I read about a coming cooling period, are we talking about times like the 70’s, when all the media was worried about a coming ice age, or, like during the Little Ice Age?
Dr Buckee believes human behaviour has no effect on the climate and the vast sums spent by governments trying to promote renewable energy to cut greenhouse gas emissions are being wasted.
I’ve written before that I believe Man has some small effect, particularly from agriculture and landfills, not to mention changes in the micro-climate, such as the Urban Island Affect and the clearcutting around Mt. Kilamanjaro. And, to repeat a constant refrain, if the people who believe Man is primarily or solely responsible actually believed that, they would change their own behavior.
Instead of human activities being responsible for the warming climate over the past 100 years, Dr Buckee insists there is a natural explanation, based on the activity of the Sun.
Solar activity can affect the cosmic rays that reach the Earth’s atmosphere, and this in turn affects the climate, he says.
There is probably a bit more then just the Sun, but, it is the primary force for climate. Then you add things like gravity, the moon, volcano’s, and living things.
But, then we get such scaremongering reports such as
- “Birds seem to be heading farther north because of climate change“
- Climate change suspected in loss of salamanders
- Audubon study ties bird migration shift to climate change
- Birds move north; global warming cited
And what they all mean is AGW, not the primarily natural global warming, with the lower case g and w.
