Global Warming Cause

It’s no wonder that scepticism regarding global warming and climate change is on the increase. Those that would have us believe that all forms of civilisation and modern living are fundamentally evil and killing the Earth rely on the imposition of guilt to further an often hysterical and irrational agenda.

Guilt has been used throughout human history as a method for correcting or altering human behaviour. Catholicism is probably the most overt example of this in practice. However, in modern westernised world, freedom of the press and the anti-oppressive culture mean that application of guilt is harder to make stick.

With regard to climate change is causes a backflip response into scepticism and denial. Though it is right to question every imposed view point that comes our way, it is also important to separate the emotive hysterical voices from those that are reasonable and based on substance.

Another huge area of guilt misappropriation is that of pollution from the aviation industry. It is widely believed that if we choose to fly that we are virtually gassing the planet to death. Again, the truth is quite different. Aviation currently account for 2% of global climate emissions – relatively little, and certainly less that than the combined affects of human population and livestock production. It could also be the case that access to locations around the world drives tourism and interaction between cultures that creates national wealth and peace.

The current aspiration by a growing green mob is to convert the aviation industry to biofuels. This is itself could be one of the most anti-green and anti human acts that we could undertake. Such a move would require huge tracts of land given over to growing the sources of these fuels. In a time when we are facing potential growing food shortages, such a move would be catastrophic.

The aviation industry is an obvious target because it has engines, uses polluting fuels and we are constantly reminded of it when we look up in the sky. It not only looks bad, it feels bad. But is it?

There is scientific evidence now that a by-product of aviation is something called ‘global dimming’. This means that the particles deposited in the atmosphere actually stop the full strength of the suns rays and thus stop the Earth from heating up even more than it would be. It can be compared to the affects of large-scale volcanic eruptions that pump so much gas and “pollution” into the atmosphere that they block the suns rays and can cause climate cooling. In fact, a serious volcanic eruption that was big enough to fill the atmosphere with volcanic ash could still reverse the effects of global warming.

The reality is that the aviation industry is targeted by greens and yet the actual affect on our climate is not only overplayed but possibly beneficial. Flying has become a guilt ridden mode of transport, whilst the over production of livestock and food waste get a relatively light handed treatment.

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