14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore had a chat with a group of United States senators and told them that, as far as he was concerned, global warming was not a man-made phenomenon.
Thus, the Canadian ecologist maintains that, to his knowledge, the fact that greenhouse gas emissions for which human society is to blame are the chief drive between ongoing changes in global weather patterns is yet to be proven by science.
“There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years,” Patrick Moore reportedly told the United States senators.
“If there were such a proof it would be written down for all to see. No actual proof, as it is understood in science, exists,” he went on to argue.
Interestingly enough, Patrick Moore's statements follow the release of a report saying that, out of a total of 2,258 different studies carried out by 9,136 scientists, just one author and their paper made a case against man-made global warming.
One would think that, given the overwhelming number of researchers who agree that greenhouse gas emissions put into the atmosphere by human activities are the main drive behind global warming and climate change, stepping up efforts to reduce pollution should be a no-brainer.
Still, it would appear that Greenpeace co-founder and Canadian ecologist Patrick Moore does not see things quite like this.
According to Daily Mail, Patric Moore went on to argue that, even if the world does indeed become warmer over the course of the following few years, there really is no reason for people to stress themselves over this change.
This is because, all things considered, odds are all forms of life will benefit from the increase in global average temperatures. As he put it, “It is extremely likely that a warmer temperature than today’s would be far better than a cooler one.”
The same source tells us that Patrick Moore was a Greenpeace member between the years 1971 and 1986. He claims that he willingly left the organization because, instead of focusing on environmental issues alone, Greenpeace was becoming increasingly political.
Unlike current members of the organization, the Canadian ecologist thinks that logging is actually quite beneficial, in the sense that is can trigger reforestation, and also believes that nuclear power is an energy source that should not be ignored but taken full advantage of.