What anniversary? <Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the mass hysteria phenomenon known as global warming. >
It was 24 years ago that I was discussing the "problem" of CO2 emissions with my boss, Nelson Cull, in BP Oil New Zealand. I suggested it would be easily handled by a carbon tax, with countervailing tax cuts on other things which don't have a public cost [such as cyberspace, not that I used the word cyberspace, but I was pushing the line of electronic communications instead of mountains of paper].
The public was already discussing CO2 and the Greenhouse Effect as a problem to be sorted out. It wasn't to dogma levels with excommunication of the unbelievers, heresy trials and accusations of "holocaust denial". But it was definitely an issue.
By 1988 I was helping our 12 year old son with a school project in which our theory was the reflection of sunlight from deserts, clouds and snow and absorption by plants and water. Climate oscillates as deserts, snow and plants take turns at having victories. There is also the stripping of carbon and its long term burial in limestone, coal, shale, bitumens, oil and gas meaning a long term trend to freezing as the atmosphere thins. Hence the risk to worry about is ice age, not warming.
With CO2 at historically low levels, we are still well within the ice age realm. Therefore, more CO2 is a GOOD thing, not a bad thing. Just because it's human activity, doesn't mean it's bad. Nature is NOT designed to be "in balance" and nor is it designed to be good for humans or life in general. Mass or total extinction is something Gaia is quite happy with. If Gaia has a mind at all, it's a suicidal one with Earth on a one-way path from a hot ball of recycled sun, to a frozen ball of ice.
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