on 20-10-2014 12:17 PM
Humans are NOT to blame for global warming, says Greenpeace co-founder, as he insists there is 'no scientific proof' climate change is manmade
There is no scientific proof of man-made global warming and a hotter earth would be ‘beneficial for humans and the majority of other species’, according to a founding member of environmental campaign group Greenpeace.
The assertion was made by Canadian ecologist Patrick Moore, a member of Greenpeace from 1971 to 1986, to U.S senators on Tuesday.
He told The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: ‘There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years.
If there were such a proof it would be written down for all to see. No actual proof, as it is understood in science, exists.’
Moore pointed out that there was an Ice Age 450million years ago when CO2 was 10 times higher
He said: ‘There is some correlation, but little evidence, to support a direct causal relationship between CO2 and global temperature through the millennia.
The fact that we had both higher temperatures and an ice age at a time when CO2 emissions were 10 times higher than they are today fundamentally contradicts the certainty that human-caused CO2 emissions are the main cause of global warming.’
Even if the earth does warm up, Moore claims that it will be to the advantage of humans and other forms of life, as ‘humans are a tropical species’.
He said: ‘It is extremely likely that a warmer temperature than today’s would be far better than a cooler one.’
Humans, he added, just aren’t capable of predicting global temperature changes.
Moore said that he left Greenpeace because it ‘took a sharp turn to the political left’.
on 20-10-2014 05:42 PM
He was NOT a founder of Greenpeace.
on 20-10-2014 05:55 PM
@bluecat*dancing wrote:He was NOT a founder of Greenpeace.
Yes your right Bluecat......and he is an industry lobbyist, hahahahahahahahahaha.....must be time to feed those unicorns
http://www.desmogblog.com/patrick-moore
According to a statement by Greenpeace, “Patrick Moore frequently portrays himself as a founder or co-founder of Greenpeace, and many news outlets have repeated this characterization. Although Mr. Moore played a significant role in Greenpeace Canada for several years, he did not found Greenpeace.” [4]
After he left Greenpeace, Moore began work with the Nuclear Energy Institute front group, the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition. He has also worked for the mining industry, the logging industry, PVC manufacturers, the nuclear industry, and in defense of biotechnology. In October 2008, Greenpeace issued a statement distancing itself from Moore, saying he “exploits long gone ties with Greenpeace to sell himself as a speaker and pro-corporate spokesperson, usually taking positions that Greenpeace opposes.”[5]
on 20-10-2014 06:09 PM
Not another one quoting desmogblog.....lol.
on 20-10-2014 06:16 PM
Now this is FUNNY.
Very true as well
on 21-10-2014 06:21 AM
The way I understand it, While it's true global warming and climate change would happen without human involvment, We people are contributing and speeding it along thereby cheating a number of future generations of humans and animals out of the benifits of a clean and safe earth.
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9yb88fa4MA
Humans are late entries in the whole history of earth, we haven't been here near as long as many other spices that came and went or are still here, and the the past 100 years or so, we put this planet at the edge of it's abilities to replininish itself. Meaning if things get worse, it will be irreversable in the course of human evolution.
Lyrics:
Go on don't do well.
Where I feed the living hearts.
I got a torch to light.
Feel these melting fires burn.
I don't care what they say.
I don't care.
I'll do what I want.
I am by your side.
Tell me you think what to do.
No way. I don't fear and slow down.
Your following in my grave.
I don't care what they say.
I don't care.
I'll do what I want.
Your ways I despise.
Your thoughts, "Get with your own kind."
We've got fumes to behold.
Setting, one size of fortune
Farewell to great friends
These will face the burning sun.
Tattooed shadows lifted.
Fear not, light the burning plague.
I don't care what they say.
I don't care.
I'll do what I want.
Bright lights sear his face.
Pitfalls twisting.
Call me far from cause
I survived through all this hell.
on 21-10-2014 07:03 AM
What is speeding up?....... lol.
on 21-10-2014 07:10 AM
on 21-10-2014 08:07 AM
What global warming?.......global temperatures haven't increased for nearly two decades.....
on 21-10-2014 08:10 AM
It's not right that they say he is the co-founder of Greenpeace in Canada if he isn't BUT the guy worked there for, how long was it? 15 years? So the real question here imo, Is there any merit in what he is saying?
on 21-10-2014 08:59 AM
What global warming?.......global temperatures haven't increased for nearly two decades.
I suppose the polar ice caps are not melting causing the oceans to rise. Or the ozone (earth's atmosphere) isn't decaying causing air alearts warning those with breathing problems to stay inside. Maybe all those documentaries I watched are lying to me, it's possible I suppose.
If or not you agree with global warming aside, Can you deny that mankind is poluting the planet?, the air, oceans, soil? Would you at least agree that we should be doing all we can to stop or slow polution down and at least make some effort to clean it up? Then at least try to hold corprate intrests accountable for the mass polution they put out?