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Our climate change 'nonsense flu'

By John McRobert - posted Wednesday, 17 June 2009


We live on a planet of plenty. Coal reserves are mind-bogglingly huge, and Old King Coal has given the human race breathing space to develop other energy sources which will be more efficient and which will be developed - provided we don't tax ourselves into subsistence living before these objectives are met.

Nature will continue to control climate change despite all the charlatans seeking money to govern our lives in the pretence that THEY can command the tide. The Laki eruption in Iceland in 1783 sent an acidic haze across the northern hemisphere. There were mass extinctions that went unrecorded, but humans did record what happened to their animals - half the horses and cattle, and three quarters of the sheep in Iceland died horrible deaths from the acids raining from the sky. The extreme cold resulting from the Laki haze destroyed the rice crop in Japan where 1 million people died from the resulting famine. “By January 1785 one sixth of Egypt's population had perished or fled”. The Economist (December 22, 2007) offers more on this natural event.

Mount Tambora in Indonesia burped 80 cubic kilometres of garbage high into the atmosphere in 1815 causing “the year without a summer” across the world in 1816 when crops failed and many, who had no access to energy to keep them warm, sheltered and fed, died.

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Not one cent of donations or taxes to any human organisation or government could have stopped those climate change events, and it's about time we concentrated on removing obstacles to accessing cheap and continuously available energy to provide resources to meet the challenges which will continue to be thrown at us by nature.


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John McRobert BE (Civ) is the Managing Director of CopyRight Publishing. He is the author of A Diet of 2%.

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