One of the first uni newspapers I read was suggesting that coal use be rationed so that future generations would be able to use it in say 1000 years. I thought this was sensible. This idea though has evolved into the dead end world of the green......
We only have coal because ancient bacteria was not able to digest dead plants which just piled up on top of each other. CO2 levels entered the Carboniferous period at 4000 ppm but they ended up near today's levels when all that vegetation had sucked most of the CO2 out of the atmosphere. Plants grow a lot faster with higher CO2 despite what hoaxers claim. After all plants evolved when CO2 was a lot higher than today.
Jumping forward to today. Why not put your thermometers near bitumen carparks or even airports. Then claim that you have the ability to correct the island effect caused by the black desert next to your thermometers. After all they are these guys are 97% infallible.
So a more likely effect of industrialisation is the unknown effect of clearing more than 10 million sq kms of forest to allow food production to feed the population explosion. One tree on its own is negligible. Trillions though have a combined cooling effect which may be measurable.
The Danish economists Bjorn Lomborg believes in the hoax but wants to allocate funds away from dictators and their cronies onto food research and pro active mitigation projects. The cronies will howl this guy down as they see their future riches being threatened.
Nuclear would provide sufficient breathing space for researchers to produce renewables that actually match their utopian claims. After all if their stuff was as super efficient as they claim then why do they need massive subsidies.
