ERIC Alexander and his fellow ‘warmists’ overlook Ice Core evidence which holds the key to present-day global warming.
Fig.2-V of The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution’s 22nd Report ‘Energy – the Changing Climate’ – which you previously published – shows: (a) that since the carbon dioxide variations during the past 400,000 pre-biblical years occurred decades after the corresponding temperature changes, they were clearly not the prime cause of the 13 Deg.C. range of global warming shown, but were – in fact – the result of it; and (b) that because of the extremely asymmetrical form of both of these graphs, the main cause of these variations could not have been the Earth’s cyclical orbital and attitudinal changes, as the IPCC claims.
Instead, the only possible cause is an intrinsic variation in solar radiation, either through natural oscillations caused by thermo-nuclear fusion in the Sun’s core, or else by rhythmical ingestion of interstellar hydrogen, as in the case of hydrogen-accreting variable stars. In other words, the Sun isn’t a completely steady source of radiation but a variable star with a 99,000-year periodicity.
Changes in the Earth’s greenhouse effect by human action are trivial in comparison, as straightforward engineering thermodynamics show. A doubling of the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide concentration – a highly doubtful feat even with the combined efforts of the ‘BRIC’ nations – would add barely half a Deg.C. to global mean surface temperature. We are already close to the absolute limit imposed by this effect within a breathable atmosphere.
So, unless Mr Alexander and his fellow alarmists can fault the logic of my argument, we must accept the fact that Nature holds the whip hand in controlling our climate, with mankind’s presumed aberrations being trivial by comparison.
The arrogant pretensions of our rulers to be able to control global warming by ‘carbon footprint’ reductions are thus ridiculous at best, and evil in practice, buoyed up only by the highly-inaccurate statistical calculations of the politically-motivated IPCC.
Roderick Taylor, Abbotsbrook, Bourne End
