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GF was just pondering the some of the recent pronouncements on climate change... and while he's still allowed to exercise his free speech (He's sure that deniers of Carbon Dioxide's influence will soon be denounced and imprisoned), he would just like to remind you of a few facts.

Encarta tells us

"Atmosphere, mixture of gases surrounding any celestial object that has a gravitational field strong enough to prevent the gases from escaping; especially the gaseous envelope of Earth. The principal constituents of the atmosphere of Earth are nitrogen (78 percent) and oxygen (21 percent). The atmospheric gases in the remaining 1 percent are argon (0.9 percent), carbon dioxide (0.03 percent), varying amounts of water vapor, and trace amounts of hydrogen, ozone, methane, carbon monoxide, helium, neon, krypton, and xenon."

We also learn today that the list of scientists referenced in the recent IPCC report for the UN included those who disagreed with the findings.

The Fourth Assessment Report) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the fourth in a series of reports on climate change.

So far only the Working Group 1 - Summary for Policy Makers has been published.

In the Daily Mail we find that

"Dr Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute in Paris said it was a "sham" given the inclusion of scientist who disagreed with the findings... his name was only removed when he threatened legal action".

Oh dear! If the wheel comes off the CO2 bandwagon, where are the new excuses for taxes going to come from.

This Thursday will see a TV programme on Channel 4 "The Great Global Warming Swindle"... you can guess the furore that will cause and the spin doctors are probably sharpening their pencils already. Any guesses?

• "It was paid for by the oil companies"
• "It goes against the scientific concensus" (GF would remind you that science isn't democracy).
  

Now, GF does not deny that climate change is happening. The climate is a dynamic system and will continually change, but he does dispute the hysteria over CO2 (remember it's only 0.036% of the atmospheric system) when water vapour (3%-4%) and solar activity are far more likely agents of change (.

(By the way humans can only claim to be responsible for about 3.6% of all of the CO2 emitted annually - IPCC, Woods Hole)