[jambutty]

I have no doubt that global warming is a fact. Why is the debatable issue. I also have no doubt that our government is using global warming as an excuse to impose more taxes on us.

More so today than ever before the scientists who subscribe to the ‘global warming’ theory present their case that is biased in their favour. Likewise those people with an opposing view do the same. Who is right? I have no idea.

However you do not need a string of ologies to realise that something adverse is happening to this planet.

For a number of years satellites have been probing and measuring the polar ice caps and have produce indisputable evidence that the ice caps are shrinking more and more with each passing year. The snow lines on mountains do not come quite as far down as in previous years.

It is an established fact that the ozone layer is thinner than it used to be 50 years ago with actual gigantic holes appearing at both poles. It is the ozone layer that filters out much of the UV rays and it is they that warm things up. 40 to 50 years ago I spent a lot of time in countries where it was hot, very hot but neither I nor anyone else ever even considered a sun screen. In fact I doubt if the sun screen had been invented then. Today we are continually bombarded with advice on using sun screen when going out in the sun with the factor thing being higher and higher than it used to be.

We have been burning fossil fuels for centuries and those fossil fuels were formed millions of years ago from the flora of the day for millions of years.

That flora absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere and locked it up in coal, oil and gas for millions of years and now it is being released into the atmosphere because we are burning those fuels.

It is also an established fact that trees, in particular, absorb CO2 and give out oxygen. More so in recent times, we have been hacking down squillions of trees and not replacing them so there is less CO2 absorption than there used to be. We are pumping billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere whilst at the same time we have squillions fewer trees to absorb it. So where is all this extra CO2? It is in the atmosphere and once again it is an established fact that this CO2 keeps the sun heat around the planet rather than allowing some of it to escape into space. Ergo we are getting warmer. It may well be because of the suns activity but it is compounded by more CO2 in the atmosphere and the ozone depletion.

Just as a tiny aside – if CO2 is carbon dioxide and C2O is carbon monoxide, what is CO COA?