Tony At 10: CARBON SCAM PART ONE; BLOG # 2034; MAY 27, 2016

OK OK I MADE IT ALL UP

THE MESSAGE:

Hey Tony, tell everyone they don't need to worry about kids playing with matches anymore.- Lizzie May

CARBON EMISSION FIGURES PER THOUSAND TONNE

AREA	EMISSION PER KT	%
World	35,669,000,000	100%
China	10,540,000,000	29.5%
United States	5,334,000,000	14.95%
European Union	3,415,000,000	9.57%
India	2,341,000,000	6.56%
Russia	1,766,000,000	4.95%
Japan	1,278,000,000	3.58%
Germany	767,000,000	2.15%
International Shipping	624,000,000	1.75%
Iran	618,000,000	1.73%
South Korea	610,000,000	1.71%
Canada	601,000,000	1.68%

DOES THIS ADD UP?

"The average Canadian emits 9.1 tonnes of CO2 annually. If everyone worked to reduce their personal ecological footprint, the need for carbon capture and storage would be greatly reduced."

Toronto-based company Zerofootprint centres its organization on this premise. It aims to help people recognize their personal impact on the environment by calculating their own carbon footprint — a measure of the CO2 emissions produced by an individual’s actions.

CHANGING FOOTPRINTS?

Zerofootprint considers a variety of ways in which individuals release greenhouse gases. Prepackaged food, gas mileage, meat intake, clothes and food from afar all affect footprint size. Making simple decisions, such as replacing one 19 kilometre car ride a week with a bike ride for a year, cuts approximately a half tonne of greenhouse gas emissions. There are many ways to change your footprint:

Fly less
Avoid idling your car
Use public transportation or walk
Buy hybrid vehicles
Keep car tires properly inflated

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NOTES:

A carbon sink is defined as anything absorbing more carbon than it releases.
Canada has approximately 990,000,000 acres of mature forests. I refer to them as one of our carbon sinks. Wetlands and Farmlands are other sinks.
Mature trees absorb approximately 2.6 tonnes per acre per year.
Using only the mature forests in Canada, ((990.000,000 acres x 2.6 tonnes per acre = 2.574,000,000 tonnes of absorption)).
World emissions are approximately 36,000,000,000 tonnes.
Canada emits approximately 1.68 % of the world total which amounts to 601,000,000 tonnes

THIS MEANS THAT CANADA EMITS ABOUT 1/4 OF WHAT OUR COUNTRY ABSORBS!

Mr Trudeau and Premiere Wynne

Why should Canadians be taxed on Carbon emission? The rest of the world owes us compensation! It is time to call a spade an effing shovel and pile the environmental hypocrisy up high on the doorsteps of China and the USA.

MORE SEUDO-SCIENCE CRAP:

Scientists have been warning for decades that climate change is a threat to the immense tracts of forest that ring the Northern Hemisphere, with rising temperatures, drying trees and earlier melting of snow contributing to a growing number of wildfires. Whatever happened to Smokey the Bear?

BLAME IT ON THE BUGS!

Some claim that the destruction of patches of this forest by fire, as well as invasions by insects surviving warmer winters, has occurred throughout the hemisphere.

EMERITUS BULLSHITIUS

Dr. Swetnam’s research focuses on understanding forest disturbances and dynamics, and how they are influenced by climate and humans. He uses tree-rings and documentary sources to reconstruct disturbance histories of forest fires, insect outbreaks and tree demographics.

"It’s clear that the warming temperatures and extraordinary drought are major players here,” said Thomas W. Swetnam, an emeritus scientist at the University of Arizona who studies the ecology and history of wildfires. “We probably wouldn’t be seeing the scale of some of these fires if it weren’t for those factors.”

THE OCEAN IS CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING.

The weather pattern known as El Niño has been pumping a huge amount of heat from the ocean and into the atmosphere for more than a year, and scientists say that could also have played a role in setting the conditions for this year’s fires. How did mankind manage to get Mr El Niño to help warm the atmosphere?

The 'Chicken Littles' of the world, including the Green Party's' Lizzie May, are always using words such as "probably or could or it's clear".

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

SCIENTIST SAYS "LET ME SEE"

A RECENT EVENT

Canada has indeed experienced a disastrous wild fire in Northern Alberta this month; however, it's forests will continue to be a valuable resource for absorbing more carbon than the entire country produces.

THOMAS KUHN

In his celebrated Structure of Scientific Revolutions he demonstrated, perhaps more convincingly than anyone before him, that a scientific theory was adopted not because it had been ‘proved’ to be true on the basis of some serious objective test (assuming that there can be such a test) but because it fitted in with that pattern of scientific ‘wisdom’ on the subject. The “paradigm” as he referred to it, that happened to be in vogue at the time.

The more credible epistemologists of the last decades, such as Imre Lakatos, Paul Feyerabend and Harold Brown, have largely accepted this thesis and have generally come to agree that scientific knowledge has no special status – contrary to what logical positivists and many scientists still maintain – that distinguishes it from common or garden knowledge.

THE QUESTION:

Is man so vain to think that, even collectively, he can control nature's climate cycles?

THE LEMON:

POST-MORTEM AWARD

Vulcan was a planet that nineteenth century scientists believed to exist somewhere between Mercury and the Sun. The mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier first proposed its existence after he and many other scientists were unable to explain certain peculiarities about Mercury’s orbit. Scientists like Le Verrier argued that this had to be caused by some object, like a small planet or moon, acting as a gravitational force. La Verrier called his hypothetical planet Vulcan. His theory was eventually shown to be wrong!