EU's future policy on Climate change

Delivered by Derek Clark on 4 February 2009

Tags: EU's future, Climate change, global warming

Debate - The Future begins today - EU's future policy on Climate change.
A mystique bordering on a religious creed has grown up around alleged global warming. The environmental scientist has had a field day but the natural world obeys the laws of Physics and Chemistry, my teaching subjects for 39 years.

The global warming theory has cast carbon dioxide, a natural constituent of the atmosphere, as a demon gas. So, does it have the claimed effect? You need to draw graphs here, showing how rising CO2 maybe causes global warming.

Is it an Arithmetic graph, I must get technical here, where equal rises in CO2 produce equal increases in warming?

Is it an Exponential, a runaway, where extra CO2 causes warming in ever increasing amounts?

Or is it a Logarithmic, where extra CO2 causes less and less warming, eventually becoming a flat line so that any extra CO2 has no effect?

The Hadley Centre, the UK's leading authority on global warming confirms that it is a Logarithmic. We are almost on the flat line now, if not already there.

There is no problem.

Derek Clark MEP Strasbourg Feb 4th 2009