Global warming? Oh please

11 November 2015 - 03:18 By Ken Irwin, Tokai

You have presented a centrespread of global-warming propaganda intended to frighten people prior to the Paris climate conference. Such unscientific garbage surfaces before every conference and the scientifically gullible press corps swallows it every time.There is no scientific evidence behind any of what you presented. The alarmist IPCC is predicting a sea-level rise of only 300mm to 500mm and even that would require the melting of all floating ice, glaciers and small grounded ice caps.The prophesied "catastrophe" can come about only if the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps melt - between them they hold 99% of the world's ice.However, the average temperature of both these ice caps (-55°C and -30°C respectively) is so far below the apocalyptic temperature rise predicted by the alarmists that they are in no danger of melting.We came out of the last Ice Age with an unprecedented 14C per century rate of change (currently less than 1C) when much of North America and Europe were under 3000m-thick ice caps, which started to melt rapidly. Even then the seas rose at less than 1m per century.The ice caps have stubbornly refused to obey the prophecies of the high priests of climate alarmism, achieving consecutive record highs last year and this.The alarmist idiocy continues partly because of the scientifically illiterate press. ..

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