With regards to the carbon tax legislation presently before parliament,
I believe the science that is used to justify this tax is fraudulent.
The percentage of CO2 in the air is just 0.038%. Man made CO2 is just 3% of that or 0.001% of the atmosphere. Australia’s contribution of CO2 is 1% of the 0.001% so our percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere is 0.00001%.
Or to put it another way, imagine the atmosphere of the earth as a line that is one kilometre in length. Now let’s walk along the line and examine what makes up the atmosphere. The first 770 metres are Nitrogen. The next 210 metres are Oxygen. That’s 980 metres of the 1 kilometre. The next 10 metres are water vapour. Of the last 10 metres, 9 metres are argon. Just 1 more metre.
A few gases make up the first bit of that last metre.
The last 38 centimetres of the kilometre — that’s carbon dioxide. A bit over one foot.
97% of that is produced by Mother Nature. It’s natural.
Out of our journey of one kilometre, there are just 12 millimetres left. About half an inch. That’s the amount of carbon dioxide that global human activity puts into the atmosphere.
And of those 12 millimetres Australia puts in .18 of a millimetre.
Less than the thickness of a hair. Out of a kilometre.
We have been grossly misled to think there is tens of thousands of times as much CO2 as there is!
How can such a minor trace gas create such catastrophic disasters as some ‘experts’ predict?
CO2 is a harmless, trace gas. It is as necessary for life – just as oxygen and nitrogen are. It is a natural gas that is clear, tasteless and odourless. It is in no way a pollutant. Plant growth depends on this gas & there is overwhelming evidence that increasing CO2 in glasshouses/controlled studies increases plant growth.
Space does not permit many other scientific facts e.g. volcanic activity that dwarfs man made CO2, that place the whole global warming theory into the realms of fantasy.
The science behind global warming is far from settled. Unfortunately, Australians are about to have a tax based on theory that will reduce us to a shell of our capacity & potential.
I urge readers to press their MP to vote against the proposed carbon tax legislation package.
John Doecke
Dalby QLD
