Carbon Facts
The Australian Government has embarked on a course of developing a carbon trading scheme that will see new taxes levied all carbon producing activities. This government claims that this will provide relief from global warming and protect the environment; unfortunately these claims are not supported by the facts.
1. It is not conclusively proved that carbon is the cause of global warming, or that it is even a significant factor.
2. NASA has shown that warming levels similar to those on Earth are occurring on both Jupiter and Mars and neither of these have a carbon emissions problem.
3. Global temperatures are always highest at solar minimum when the reduced solar wind allows higher cosmic microwave radiation to enter the solar system.
4. Cosmic microwaves have been demonstrated to have a warming effect on upper atmospheric clouds. (See U.S. Govt’s “Living with a star workshop”)
5. The Sun is currently at solar minimum having produced few sunspots in the last three years. This is slightly longer than the average minimum but is not cause for alarm.
6. Carbon is simply a convenient taxable product that governments have selected as a source of additional revenue.
7. Carbon levels are historically high but have been significantly higher at periods in Earth’s history.
Even if, as it appears, carbon is not a serious contributing factor in climate change we should not ignore increases. The more practical method of combating increased carbon levels is to plant more trees and preserve forest areas. Oceans also absorb large amounts of carbon which is utilised by aquatic plants in the same manner as landlocked vegetation; ocean pollution has damaged some aquatic plants reducing the amount of carbon absorbed. None of these problems is being seriously addressed at present.
Governments will no doubt continue on their way to generate extra revenue for themselves and create carbon taxes. We can only hope that when they do they also tackle the hidden carbon emissions such as those involved in importing goods. The Australian Government for example produced a list of those cars that produce the most carbon and at the top of the list were two locally produced vehicles. The fact that thousands of tons of fuel oil have been consumed to bring imported vehicles into the country has been totally ignored and although these imports may use less fuel the carbon emissions generated to import them offsets the emissions associated with the local vehicles.
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1. It is not conclusively proved that carbon is the cause of global warming, or that it is even a significant factor.
2. NASA has shown that warming levels similar to those on Earth are occurring on both Jupiter and Mars and neither of these have a carbon emissions problem.
3. Global temperatures are always highest at solar minimum when the reduced solar wind allows higher cosmic microwave radiation to enter the solar system.
4. Cosmic microwaves have been demonstrated to have a warming effect on upper atmospheric clouds. (See U.S. Govt’s “Living with a star workshop”)
5. The Sun is currently at solar minimum having produced few sunspots in the last three years. This is slightly longer than the average minimum but is not cause for alarm.
6. Carbon is simply a convenient taxable product that governments have selected as a source of additional revenue.
7. Carbon levels are historically high but have been significantly higher at periods in Earth’s history.
Even if, as it appears, carbon is not a serious contributing factor in climate change we should not ignore increases. The more practical method of combating increased carbon levels is to plant more trees and preserve forest areas. Oceans also absorb large amounts of carbon which is utilised by aquatic plants in the same manner as landlocked vegetation; ocean pollution has damaged some aquatic plants reducing the amount of carbon absorbed. None of these problems is being seriously addressed at present.
Governments will no doubt continue on their way to generate extra revenue for themselves and create carbon taxes. We can only hope that when they do they also tackle the hidden carbon emissions such as those involved in importing goods. The Australian Government for example produced a list of those cars that produce the most carbon and at the top of the list were two locally produced vehicles. The fact that thousands of tons of fuel oil have been consumed to bring imported vehicles into the country has been totally ignored and although these imports may use less fuel the carbon emissions generated to import them offsets the emissions associated with the local vehicles.
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