{"id":980,"date":"2011-10-25T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T04:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climatereview.net\/ChewTheFat\/?p=980"},"modified":"2020-10-21T11:57:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T00:57:02","slug":"global-warming-theory-may-well-be-proven-false-but-it-promotes-carbon-dioxide-reduction-and-thus-can-be-a-useful-proxy-for-our-green-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatereview.net\/ChewTheFat\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Can CO2 reduction policies be an apt proxy for universal, pollution reduction?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global Warming theory may well be proven false.  But, it promotes Carbon Dioxide reduction and thus can be a useful proxy for our Green future?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Global Warming debate is bit like a pantomime at times: “Oh, yes it is.  Oh, no it isn’t. Oh yes…”  What are we punters on the street then meant to believe?  In some ways, potentially, it doesn’t matter either way, true or not.  Irrespective of the effects of Carbon Dioxide on the Greenhouse Effect, isn’t CO2<\/sub> reduction a great way to lead ourselves down a Green future.  CO2<\/sub> is a pollutant and a by-product of many of our modern, industrial, polluting ways.  By cleaning up CO2<\/sub> , surely are we not cleaning up are environment as a whole?  You price CO2<\/sub> , you price all pollution – what a great, simple way to improve our fragile environment?<\/p>\n

This argument, that CO2<\/sub><\/strong> is a useful proxy for industrial pollution, is pretty convincing, perhaps.  I have heard many people involved in the energy industry and the wider Green movement cite this as an ultimate justification for large-scale Emissions Trading Schemes<\/a> (carbon taxes).  For example, in the words of the highly influential Gavin Schmidt<\/a>, a climate modeller at the NASA, who is also the lead writer at one of the foremost, pro-Global Warming, websites, RealClimate<\/a>:<\/p>\n