100 Reasons

Natural. Like gravity.

HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:

1) There is “no real scientific proof” that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from man’s activity.

Taxes don't need proof.

2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history.

Then it must be from cow flatulence.

3) Warmer periods of the Earth’s history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.

CO2 was always the slowest kid in class.

4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, too.

5) Throughout the Earth’s history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher – more than ten times as high.

History is so yesterday. Live in the now.

6) Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time.

Climate changes because no one will accept it for who it really is.

7) The 0.7C increase in the average global temperature over the last hundred years is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate trends.

The earth has never been into fads.

8) The IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers not the 4,000 usually cited.

The other 3,940 are all of Al Gore's imaginary friends.

9) Leaked e-mails from British climate scientists – in a scandal known as “Climate-gate” - suggest that that has been manipulated to exaggerate global warming.

When they said "hide the decline", they were talking about Oprah's viewing audience.

10) A large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred years.

So tax the Sun and leave the rest of us alone.

More tomorrow!