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 Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:33 am Post subject: Monckton Warns Wong, You>re Steering Labor To Doom |
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A Disaster Built On A Fallacy
August 1 2008
Christopher Monckton warns Climate Change Minister Penny Wong that the
Rudd Government>s mad plans to cut "carbon pollution" is a disaster
built on a fallacy:
If you introduce an emissions-trading scheme, when it transpires that
the scheme and its associated economic damage had never been necessary -
and it will, and sooner than you think - you and your party will be
flung from office, perhaps forever.
This is Labor>s New Age Khemlani moment, in fact. The full email from
Lord Monckton to Wong:
Dear Senator Wong,
Greetings from Scotland! One of your constituents, Mr. John Cribbes, has
asked me to drop you a short email about emissions trading and "global
warming".
I have recently conducted some detailed research into the mathematics
behind the conclusions of the UN climate panel on the single question
that matters in the climate debate - by how much will the world warm in
response to adding CO2 to the atmosphere?
My research, published in Physics and Society, a technical newsletter of
the American Physical Society this month, demonstratres that the IPCC>s
values for the three key parameters whose product is climate sensitivity
are based on only four papers - not the 2,500 that are often mentioned.
Those four papers are unrepresentative of the literature, in which a low
and harmless climate sensitivity is now the consensus. Therefore I
should recommend extreme caution before any emissions-trading scheme is
put in place. Such schemes will damage Australia>s competitiveness,
perhaps fatally; they are prone to corruption in that they incentivize
over-claiming by both parties to each trade and by the regulator; they
are addressing a non-problem; and, even if the problem were real (as a
few largely-politicized scientists persist in maintaining), adaptation
as and if necessary would be orders of magnitude cheaper than emissions
trading or any other attempt at mitigating the quantities of carbon
dioxide that we are (harmlessly) adding to the atmosphere.
Therefore I strongly urge you to reconsider your support for this or any
emissions-trading scheme. I have read the Australian Government>s paper
on the proposed scheme, and the science in it is, alas, largely
nonsense.
Politically, of course, the fatal damage that emissions trading will do
to the Australian economy will greatly favour the enemies of the free
West, which is why I, as an ally, have locus standi to approach you.
Climatically, your emissions-trading scheme will not make any
significant difference. There are many other environmental problems that
are real: I recommend that the Australian Government should tackle
those.
As for the climate, it is a non-problem, and the correct policy approach
to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing. Similar warnings
are being sent to other legislators worldwide by those of us - now
probably in the majority among the scientific community, not that one
should do science by head-count - who have studied climate sensitivity
and have found the UN>s analysis lamentably wanting.
The UN>s predictions are already being falsified by events: global
temperatures have been falling for seven years, and not one of the
climate models relied upon so heavily and so unwisely by the IPCC
predicted that turn of events. If you introduce an emissions-trading
scheme, when it transpires that the scheme and its associated economic
damage had never been necessary - and it will, and sooner than you
think - you and your party will be flung from office, perhaps forever.
It is, therefore, in the long-term vested interest of your party to
think again.
Monckton of Brenchley
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/monckton_warns_wong_youre_steering_labor_to_doom/
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"In scientific circles, C02 is referred to as a `trace gas' that, for
hundreds of thousands of years, has remained at or below five
ten-thousandths of the atmosphere by volume. Even among the so-called
`greenhouse gases' (GHG), C02 accounts for less than 4%, with water
vapour being by far the most significant GHG. C02 is clearly a
miniscule component of the massive mechanisms that create climate and
cause climate change."
Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project
(NRSP.com), Former Professor Of Climatology, University of Winnipeg |
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