Posted to Facebook Global Warming / Climate Change Group on 29/3/2011 at 4:42 PM
email to MTR1377 Bill Crew on climate change / carbon tax discussion
I emailed the following to a radio host Rev Bill Crew at MTR1377. The content has been slightly edited to remove ambiguity and grammatical mistakes.
Bill, you are very arrogant, but I have to agree that many listeners probably do come from outer space!
Academics like a professor, including your guess, can be very one track mind, and it is important to look at global warming / climate change holistically.
I don't deny climate change and global warming. Climate change happens every day, and global warming is real from day one - just refer to the daily temperature fluctuation!
Each year 4 quintillion Joules (4 x 10 to the power of 18 Joules) of solar energy reaches the Earth, but only 300 trillion Joules (3 x 10 to the power 14 Joules) are consumed by the world's population. There is plenty of energy left to warm the Earth.
Do we really expect the planet to get cooled? If so, what cools it and how? Global warming is here to stay, unless human race starts working on a reversal process in cooling the earth, Kyoto Protocol and ETS are just band aid approaches.
Will carbon tax help to cool the Earth? No way, it only makes the temperature of a lot of Australians including myself goes up and get really heated up which leads to further global warming, ha-ha!
Most scientists only concern about carbon dioxide as a green house gas keeping the Earth temperature warm. If carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere, what gases are being replaced? One carbon atom needs two oxygen atoms to form carbon dioxide. Assuming the amount of gases in the atmosphere remain unchanged, oxygen on Earth will diminish. What's the repercussion with reduced amount of oxygen in the atmosphere, and in the meantime, the population is on the increase?
Does increase in carbon dioxide affect the atmospheric pressure? How will increase/decrease in atmospheric pressure affect the weather, living things, including human beings on Earth?
Can you still remember the ozone hole? No one is talking about it now. There was no tax on CFC production, but there was a blanket ban on production and usage of CFC. Are all living life form now safer from cancer causing UV ray?
Look up beyond the upper atmospheres and see how air exchanges can be improved. It’s time, Al Gore, to return your Nobel Prize, and your guess professor read more Chemistry and Physics books rather than just on climate reference material!