After a quick trip to some of my favorite blogs, I have read a few different opinions on what effect Baird will have on this file. Most of the left leaning blogs are talking about "hot air" from Baird contributing to the global warming. I have a different opinion though. Being a conservative myself, I applaud this as a major step forward. Bairds cold cold heart will counter act any warming affect that should arise! Baird had this to say today:
Baird said climate change is "a huge priority of Canadians," and one he intends to tackle as soon as he gets up to speed on the scientific and policy issues.
Let me give you a hand in the scientific part of that equation Minister Baird. I suggest you carefully read the findings published in the Dec. 22 edition of the Journal of Science, co-authored by Dr. Jens Herrle a micropaleontology professor at the University of Alberta. I think you may find it very INTERESTING.
"The continuity and length of the data series we gathered and analyzed allowed for unprecedented insights into the complex interactions between external climate forcing, the global carbon cycle and ice sheet oscillations," said Dr. Jens Herrle, co-author of the paper and a micropaleontology professor at the University of Alberta.
The authors also show how simple models of the global carbon cycle, coupled to orbital controls of global temperature and biological activity, are able to reproduce the important changes observed after the world entered an "ice-house" state about 34 million years ago.
In the early half of the 20th century, Serbian physicist Milutin Milankovitch first proposed that cyclical variations in the Earth-Sun geometry can alter the Earth's climate and these changes can be discovered in the Earth's geological archives, which is exactly what this research team, consisting of members from the United Kingdom, the U.S. and Canada, has done.
"This research is not only concerned with the climate many millions-of-years-ago. Researching and understanding 'extreme' climate events from the geological past allows us to better tune climate models to understand present and future events, and the response to major perturbations of Earth's climate and the global carbon cycle, Herrle added.
I am an avid outdoorsman. I love nature in all its splender. I am all for cleaning up the enviroment as long as that change actually helps clean up the mess we humans have created on this planet. I do my part by cleaning up after assholes who use our lakes and forests as their garbage dumps. I have yet to go fishing without coming back to camp with less than a grociery bag full of garbage collected from in the water or waters edge. I have yet to go hiking without having the same results. It is an absolute disgrace. This is something I do so that perhaps some day, maybe, just maybe, my grand children, okay, great grand children, will never see the same things I do when out trying to enjoy the wilderness.
I am not a Kyoto lover though. Hell, I simply think Kyoto is a total joke. The fault with it is the carbon credits. The only thing the former liberal government gave any thought to, to have Canada meet its targets. Pay to have the problem go away. That is not a solution in my books. I want to see a real change here in Canada. Something we can all see and feel. A cleaner country with less polution including green house gases. I make no appologies for my stance. I simply see a bunch of fear mongering going on to transfer wealth elsewhere. Stop the ranting and raving and give me actual results I can see. Thats all I ask.
