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Professor Ian Plimer

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The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

About 500 million years ago, when we had an explosion of life, we had 0.7% carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

It's gone down to 0.04%.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

Where's it gone?

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

It's gone into the rocks, into sediments.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

Now, during that 500 million years, we've had a couple, three major ice ages, yet carbon dioxide has been going down over time.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

So there's no relationship between temperature and carbon dioxide.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

Well, you used the word believe, and that's a word of religion and politics.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

It's not a word of science.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

And they believe it because that's the way of putting bread on the table.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

Now, I've had these people in various departments that I've run.

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The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

And these people are mainly mathematical modelers.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

They're eminently unemployable.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

They are able to get grants from governments by scaring people witless, and the government throws them a few shackles to keep them alive.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

And they base their life on a model, looking at what might happen in the future, and if something goes wrong, they'll redo the model.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

Now, we've had 40 years of models now, and of the 102 major models we have, not one of them

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

has told us what we've measured over the last 40 years.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

So they don't work because they make one assumption, which is invalid, and that is that carbon dioxide drives temperature.

TRIGGERnometry
The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

Now, there's not one scientific paper out there, and this is a big call, but you can check it out.

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The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

There's not one scientific paper there that demonstrates that human emissions drive global warming.

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The Climate Crisis is a Scam - Professor Ian Plimer

If there were, you'd never hear the end of it.