CONFUSION OVER CLIMATE CHANGE

There is much confusion over climate change with those committed to the view that coal fires are destroying the planet.

The story of Superman and destruction of the planet Krypton seems like a Nostradamus type allegory.

Students are gathering on the streets with banners about carbon dioxide destroying the world.

The Great Barrier Reef is dying, so we are told from James Cook University. No it is not so we are told. 

Go deeper says Professor Ridd. Why does he not go for a dive with the Vice/Chancellor and a gaggle of lecturers?

I have decided to go back over available physics and biology textbooks. All are vague in covering what is not known.

All fossil fires produce carbon dioxide. Cars and cigarettes produce poisonous carbon monoxide.

But coal fires also burn carbon monoxide. Does carbon monoxide cause damage in the atmosphere?

Carbon dioxide lifts to produce a blanket that gives rise to global warming.

One text reminds us that carbon dioxide is used to make dry ice. Is it possible that this is the cause of high atmosphere snow falls?

Does this mean that snow falls across the world are a symptom of global warming?

One book tells us that carbon dioxide is caused by breathing of living  creatures, emissions from wood fires and some is absorbed by the ocean.

We are told by the media that Adani and Gallilee Basin coal is clean burning. Other coals in the world are not. What does this mean?

Is it that this coal emits carbon monoxide while others burn carbon dioxide? Surely the clean coal burns some emissions.

There is fear for the global emissions from the hundreds of thousands of wood burning fires in India and China.

We blame left wing teachers for making students afraid. But the issue is not clear cut.

If I were teaching Biology today, I would focus on enough issues that would make students afraid. And I am a middle Australian teacher not a leftist looney.