Climate change is not a new phenomenon. It has always been with us (for the last 4 billion years) and always will be with us. We are fortunate to live on this dynamic planet, the Earth. Human beings have only been around in any quantity for the last few thousand years! No amount of draconian Government policies involving “carbon trading schemes” or “carbon taxes” now proposed will make the slightest difference to climate change or global warming because these are a natural phenomenon, like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes. In other words, don’t blame increases in atmospheric CO2 for natural events over which we puny human beings have no control, for Nature rules the world!

Can we stop global warming? Is it leading us to an over heated world and a global environmental catastrophe? Sorry NO, on both counts and witchcraft won’t work!

Global warming also, is not a new phenomenon, and together with global cooling is part of climate change. It has always happened. Scientific observations to date indicate that global warming at present is not happening (not in the last decade, and only 0.7 C in the last 100 years). It is not caused by man-made CO2 emissions or results from the observed increase in atmospheric CO2 levels, rather the opposite i.e., significant global warming, when it has occurred in the past, causes an “out-gassing” of the oceans and soils resulting in an increase in atmospheric CO2, with a time lag of some 500 to 800 years (1). So much for Al Gore’s unscientific and alarmist documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” which received a 2007 Academy Award and together with the IPCC resulted in the award of the Nobel Peace Prize. What a travesty of the original award system