Kyoto Protocol All Wrong ? Never?!?!

Is it possible that the Kyoto Protocol is wrong? That it is focusing on the wrong compound? What if CO₂ wasn’t the culprit?

The Kyoto Protocol was pushed onto countries of the world by European Nations who had nothing to lose and everything to gain. Disregarding the so called ‘science’ that went into the Kyoto Protocol on still has to wonder about the ethics behind the development of the Kyoto Protocol. Anyways…that is not what I want to talk about.

New research by Vladimir Shaidurov of the Russian Academy of Sciences suggests that the observed increase in global temperatures over the past century may not be a result of carbon dioxide. Remember kids, correlation does not equal causation. Just because CO₂ levels are climbing and temperature is climbing does not mean that they are linked. It is like saying that ‘today I saw a pink car and it rained. Therefore, they are somehow linked.’ Remember….a mechanisms needs to be found as well.

Shaidurov proposes that “ice crystals at high altitude could damage the layer of thin, high altitude clouds found in the mesosphere that reduce the amount of warming solar radiation reaching the earth's surface.” Meaning that, the more ice crystals in the mesosphere, the cooler the earth is. What if….something happened to reduce the amount of ice crystals in the mesosphere thus allowing global temperatures to rise. Shaidurov believes that the Tunguska Event would have been sufficient to affect the mesosphere. In his own words “the Tunguska Event, sometimes known as the Tungus Meteorite is thought to have resulted from an asteroid or comet entering the earth's atmosphere and exploding. The event released as much energy as fifteen one-megaton atomic bombs. As well as blasting an enormous amount of dust into the atmosphere, felling 60 million trees over an area of more than 2000 square kilometres. (he) suggests that this explosion would have caused "considerable stirring of the high layers of atmosphere and change its structure.”

While I don’t know if I wholly accept his research as conclusive that CO₂ cause global warming doesn’t exist, I still find it intriguing. I also feel that perhaps using some of the trillions that will be spent implementing the Kyoto Protocol would be better spent further investigating the mechanism behind global warming, and perhaps even give Shaidurov a little bit of money to further his research.