In today’s show we report on the latest climate change news as reported by Australia’s national broadcaster the ABC.
On 11 May the ABC reported:
The world’s longest measure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached 400 parts per million (PPM) for the first time in three million years.
We break down and deconstruct the above statement, and analyse the way in which the ABC script writers and journalists play word games in their attempt to persuade you to accept their predefined agenda. The fact is that the world’s longest measure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has only been going since 1958 – it can tell us nothing about the past 100 years, let alone three million!
The ABC is a serial offender in misrepresenting science to serve political ends and we call them to account for their abuse of the trust and financial support provided by the tax paying Australian public.
We further discuss more unsubstaniated and imprecise allegations contained in the same article.
We challenge the widely held assumption that historical CO2 leves were stable up until the latter half of the 20th century and provide peer reviewed research which shows huge fluctuations in atmospheric CO2 over the past 200 years (see image above).
Related Links
- Is the idea that Carbon dioxide levels used to be both low and stable – another IPCC myth?
- Historic variations in CO2 measurements
