Climate change - The facts and an important Plea

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1) Introduction

A change in our climate can already be experienced. In the news the number of articles or reports of innundations, storms, stronger taifun/hurricans/cyclones, snow and sand storms, drinking water problems ect. is increasing. Every week there is at least somewhere in the world where there is a catastrophe of some sort related to nature.

Also on a personnal level one can experience the change. So for example the famous city of Venice in Italy, was inundated this year with a record high water level. I caught a "Red backed" spider in my bathroom, a spider which comes from Australia and is lightly poisonous, which indicates that these spiders start to feel comfortable in Europe where the temperatures are normally to low for it to adapt. During my vacation in Morocco a record thunderstorm broke out and inundated areas as well as provoking massive mud slides or stone avalanches. The guides told us that this is a first timer. Also in the south of Japan since a few years the first tornadoes appeared. Now some might say that because of the cameras and cell phones today these incidents are better reported and thus taken into account in the statistics. This is however not true as happenings always get forwarded by mouth or they got written down, especially if it is about natural catastrophes or things that can not be explained. The famous volcanic eruption of Pompey got written down by the romans for example, and in Asia the writing art existed already longer than in the west. Also persons of the Maldives or other islands as well as persons in Brazil report an unusal increase in the frequency of these happenings. In New York the record temperatures of 20°C were measured a few days ago, in December ! Also the strong winter in the US and Europe, of 2009-2010, is a consequence of the climate change. So it is not only the media or a campaign running to promote climate change, but also concerns are forwarded by humans who have nothing to do with media or the politics.

However as the majority of humans are living in big cities where there is concrete and steel everywhere, the small signs of change, like for example the appearance of new insects, animals, or the change in rainfall or sun hours, can't be seen or experienced personnaly anymore, also because there is too much diversion (TV, cinema, restaurants, theater, opera, ect.) or because of the stressful job one has to carry out nowadays. That is why so many humans are forced to "believe", wether the side of the "climate-sceptics" or the one of those who think that climate change is real.

2) The facts behind

I will not repeat here the whole climatology science, which can be found in good books, and which is written by scientists of that field.

Everyone knows that when she/he turns on her/his car without opening the door of the garage, one can suffocate because the CO2 displaced the oxygen which is essential for our survival. So the same effect a gas has in the closed garage, it will also have in the atmosphere, only that there is not only one car but very soon over one billion cars shooting their gases in the atmosphere. To this, one has to add the industries of all kind and the households as well. Also the power plants have to be added that are still producing electricity with coal. Just imagine the huge amount of things blown in the atmosphere by the cars, military, households, industries and power plants.

The oil and hydrocarbures that were produced over millions of years would still be underground if we would not extract them to burn them and thus the climate gases it contains and which is bound in organic material, would never come to surface again. Of course volcanoes when they erupt have emissions of CO2 and other gases which have an impact on climate, but they would never spew out all the oil because most of the oil sources are far away from magma chambers and the fire belt or the middle oceanic ridges. The oceans are a big reservoir for climate gases and absorb CO2 for example, but they reached their limit, because the pH of the oceans is declining and thus becoming more acidic, which will prevent corals, with their calcium skeleton, to grow and thus a whole ecosystem will disappear which will have again an effect on the climate of earth. Without the coral reefs many animals will have no home anymore or breeding habitat, where they can lay their eggs. This will have an effect on the fish populations and other species that eat algae and plankton. To this, scientists recently found out that this acidification of the oceans also inhibits the plankton growth, which is the most important nutrient to the majority of sea animals. So these two factors caused by acidification of the oceans will decrease the fish population drastically. Also it is a fact that the permafrost soils are unfreezing, which liberates lots of Methane in the atmosphere. Methane is a gas which has a greenhouse effect which is 21 times stronger than the one of CO2. Which means that this gas can retain 21 times more heat than carbon dioxide.

If one thinks logically it can’t be denied anymore that we as a human race are messing up with nature, because we bring again substances/gases in the atmosphere, that should remain underground if everything would have gone it’s natural way. I mean without the human sucking out all liquid oil and gases as well as minerals out of the earth like a fat mosquito on a tigers skin. So here we are perturbating the structure of our earth by creating huge empty holes which create earthquakes, which can be seen with the coal mines for example and the atmosphere by bringing in gases that should normally remain sealed by nature.

Some give the excuse and say just because we had now a very hard winter that the climate change is only a fraud. This however is not true because the "apparent" heating and the displacement of the earth rotation (axial tilt) because of the atomic bombing tests, create a real climate change which has different effects on different areas. It has also an effect on the oceanic currents, and it was already scientifically proven that the "conveyor beld" system is changing, as the golf stream is apparentaly loosing its strength.

3) Conclusion

Considering the facts that climate is changing and bringing huge fluctuations between extremely warm and dry summers in some regions of earth and on others extremely strong winters. Also tornados are appearing on areas where there were none before, as well as long thunder storms that can last a whole week. These signs are undeniable signs that something is changing, and this happens also because of the earth citizens.

Some make money with the CO2 Hysteria, like companies with the new trend of "eco friendly" products. Other sell it with books, like doomsday in the christian religion. Others on the other hand deny it completely because they want to continue to sell their oil and coal. By denial many energy companies made a lot of money and preserved their suprematie of "power" also in politics.

One has to look between these two extremes to see the real picture.

An important plea to the responsibles of the governments.

The reason why i put this text also on this Homepage can be found in my worries concerning all the prophecised about the environmental catastrophes and the climate change by <Billy> Eduard Albert Meier, since the 50's. The spectacular inundation in Pakistan, the fires in Russia, the inundations in Germany and in India, because of the increasing monsoon,..... all this is only the beginning. There you can already see what the overpopulaion and the climate change can do. Now the prices for crops and milk products as well as the price of meat will rise because of the drought in Russia and the different inundatins which destroy many hectares of farming and arable land.

We arrived now at a state where the "warming up" of the catastrophes will come slowly to an end, and the magnitude of it all will increase. The oil spill in the gulf of mexico is a new factor which has to be taken into account for the models of the climate change calculations as it will change the climate patterns again to the disadvantage of us humans living on this planet. (This can be read in the new FIGU Bulletin Nr.51 on the FIGU Homepage, which will be translated). At least that is what my eyes see and which in my logic of a scientist in environmental matters will occur.

I ask, no i beg, all the responsible ones of the different governments who are reading this homepage, or those who, out of "controling" or "monitoring" purposes for the different governments, to tell their politicians that the time of making big talks is over. Please stop with this ridicule nonsense of raising the taxes, then decreasing them again. Stop with this Kyoto protokoll nonsense, and increasing the alternative energy only to 10 - 20% until the years 2020 or 2050. Stop with this raising the taxes and saying this is against the climate change. Stop with this being worried about your rentes after work, if it continues like this, you will have other problems than enjoying your rent with the age of 70............ - Be honest, we all know this is for the dogs.

Do not believe that all this will occur only in the far future, no you will feel it already in this life and then you will be full of shame for having done this to your kids and grand children.

Please listen to the words of BEAM and do not throw them in the wind, because also your future will depend on this.

Thank you for your attention and with sincere respect.

Weis Nicolas 11.8.2010