Professor Ian Plimer

Some facts:

The rate and amount of modern climate change is well within past variability. The current rate of sea level rise is low, changing sea levels is normal, sea levels can over geological time change by up to 600 metres.

The atmospheric CO2 content at present is the lowest for millions of years. CO2 levels have been up to 25 times higher than at present yet, during the history of the planet, CO2 has not created acid oceans. Natural processes capture and store CO2.

Planet Earth is a warm wet greenhouse planet that has had ice for only 20% of geological time. Extinction of life on Earth is normal and life is most commonly stressed by cold climates. Temperature is buffered by the water cycle.

Supernoval eruptions, the Sun, the Earth's orbit, tectonics and the water cycle are the primary drivers of climate. In the past, CO2 changes have followed temperature changes.

The hypothesis that humans change climate is not in accord with history, archaeology, geology, chemistry, physics and astronomy, and is rejected.

Conserving energy might be a jolly good idea, but until there is a workable energy policy in Australia, then fundamental errors of policy can only decrease the standard of living and quality of life.

All this and a lot more science explained to ask in capital letters -

"Why bother with Emissions Trading?"

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