Have you noticed lately there's been a rather big shift in attitudes towards climate change?
Two years ago, there was a huge groundswell of support for the theory that global Warming equals climate change. It's been a time when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change almost unanimously agreed climate change is happening and humans are making a significant contribution.
But there have been a lot of opposing views from equally credible sources, so for a lot of us it's become very confusing. Who and what do we believe?
One thing is for sure, climate change is nothing new. It's been going on since time began and this is yet another spanner in the works.
A good example happened in our own backyard not that long ago. In 1991, Mt Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted and created a sulphuric acid haze that reached into the stratosphere.
Immediately, it spread further through the atmosphere and within two months, the ash was affecting most of the world.
It actually impacted Australia, with more vivid and dramatic sunsets and sunrises. That happens when light from the sun passes through the atmosphere and scatters off the added particles, creating brighter colours.
But the real impact was felt over a much larger area. It's thought for two years after the Mt Pinatubo eruption, the world's climate actually cooled, because the large ash clouds refected heat back into space.
So in theory, the climate changed, but unlike the current thinking, it was without any human intervention.
History has many similar tales to tell. In 1783, Benjamin Franklin noticed after a vocanic eruption in Iceland, sunlight directed through a magnifying glass no longer set fire to a piece of paper.
In 1815, after a huge eruption near Borneo, they went through a period known as "the year without summer", again because of the cooling affect of the volcanic ash.
So the debate goes on, but in many ways a lot of this is certainly nothing new.
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Climate change is a political con. I was told 23 years ago that I had to build my house up a metre as the seas would rise metre in 50 yrs. The coastal house where I live backs onto a creek which is at sea level. In 23 years theres been no rise at all. It should be up at least a half a metre by now. I should be able to go water skiing there by now. No such luck. So will the lying scientifice big heads heads shut up. They are all full of taxpayer funded hot air.
Feb 4 09:53 amekka 1234, right on , mate; But there are numerous prophesies in old and new testaments, which many priests are unwilling to discuss, which say that the earth shall go into torment with floods, fires, drought, freezing, dormant and extinct volcanic eruptions, heavy meteorite showers etc: ALL Because the people who mouth that they follow GOD - do NOT. Politicians ensconced in Law the anti-God bill of Abortion on demand, support Homosexuals etc.
Feb 9 06:35 amSo, until we stop supporting politicians whose only claim to fame is that they abused God's trust (while they pretended to ask His guidance in Parliament) and made Laws AGAINST God's will. For this we have to suffer increasingly disastrous fires, droughts, floods, earthquakes, and possibly Tsunamis and yet more in Australia... after all we also have extinct Volcanoes here. Then also the other prophesies which fit the now... economic woes, wars, disease (a worse form of AIDS etc. to come
Feb 9 06:49 amEvidence? So pollution dirties the snow and makes it black which absorbs heat and causes the ice to melt which floods the islands and the black snow causes the ice to melt which stops the cooling effect of the planet which causes the planet to get hotter which dries the air and absorbs water from trees and grass which burn............................... ...........
Feb 9 12:28 pmEvidence? Pollution fills the air which travels to the poles and causes the snow to be dirty which absorbs the heat from the Sun and then melts much faster which causes fresh water to inundate the oceans which cause weather pattern changes which break up the ice in the poles which melt faster which stops the cooling effect on the planet which becomes hotter which dries the grass and trees which then burn...................
Feb 9 12:32 pm