'Spike' is an anonymous climate denier who has to deny any and all evidence that climate change is happening, to generally intelligent and informed people who know full well that it is. Does it every time. Oh well.



On Monday, September 14, 2020 at 12:27:07 PM UTC+1, Spike wrote:
On 14/09/2020 11:01, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Monday, September 14, 2020 at 11:35:27 AM UTC+1, Keith Harris wrote:
On Monday, 14 September 2020 11:28:45 UTC+1, Spike wrote:
On 14/09/2020 08:28, Graham Easterling wrote:

it's been allowed to continue. It was always going to be difficult to get Countries to reduce carbon emissions. The economic crash of 2008 made an attempt but of course, governments were having none of that. Important steps were taken to boost car production & get CO2 emissions back on track.

In a recent BBC R4 news programme, it was claimed that CO2 levels are
higher now than than at any time in the last 3 million years. What was
not said was that the planet has for a significant part of that time
span swung in cycles of 100,000 years from being an ice-ball for 80,000
years and a desert for 20,000 years. At the present time we are about
half-way through a warm part of the cycle. So why is there all this
concern about CO2?
No one denies that, it is the speed of change that is alarmingly out of control that will screw us up, the planet will survive, but in what form and what will be left?
Indeed.

Spike was selective in the part of my post he quotes. Most of what I said concerned rainforest destruction, which I would have thought most people would be against for a whole host of reasons.
Spike responded to your remark about CO2. With respect, if you didn't
want it followed up, then it might have been better not to mention it.

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Spike