Evening, there was talk and people bring up the left on the right than do liberals and conservatives. I wanted to say from my own heart and say that, during the course of this debate, i have run across and made friends with, shared opinions with folks on all sides of the political spectrum. Skeptics whocalled are liberals, who were socialists, you name it, are on the political spectrum. There are socalled alarmists who are generally conservative on other issues, whatever. My personal opinion that come up or you find more conservatives being skeptics, is because the prescriptions reading being advocated involved big government, more money and power to government, infringing upon peoples rights to choose. So we will have an initial skepticism. But we need to make sure it is justified. Lets make sure we are destroying the planet before we start destroying our economy and our way of living. We certainly respect and welcome all perspectives and that should be the case on all sides of the debate. It is not just left and right. It is interesting how so many folks that are Global Warming skeptics come from environmental activist brack grounds background. I consider myself an environmentalist. I do travel quite a bit and every chance i get, when i travel, i want to go out. I want to see the lay of the land. I want to go hiking through the forest. I want to experience the beauty we have in this country and make sure we are good stewards of it. However, it does not mean we will just jump on board for every asserted environmental crisis. Like i mentioned earlier, we want to see the proof in the pudding before we jump on board. It takes courage if you are concerned about the environment to critically examine some of the assertions, some of the empire mental activist assertions. Sometimes you the environmental activist assertions. I am going to stand up for the truth. I am proud and honored to introduce a man who has done that throughout his life and continues today. Dr. Patrick moore has been a leader in the International Environmental field for over 30 years. He is a Founding Member of greenpeace and served for nine in greenpeace canada, seven years of director greenpeace international. As the leader of many campaigns, dr. Moore was a driving force, shaping policy and direction while greenpeace became the largest environmental activist organization. , he has worked on consensusbuilding. As chair of the sustainable for theet committee, he leads process of developing the principles of sustainable for street which have been advocated by a majority of the industry. It is my pleasure to introduce to you dr. Patrick moore. [applause] thank you. Good morning everyone. Thank you for inviting me here to give my opinion on the subject of Climate Change. This was my home for my first 14 years, a small logging camp on the northwest tip of an Hoover Island on the rainforest by the pacific. I did not know how lucky i was. I was sent off to vancouver for theding school and then to university of British Columbia to study life sciences. In 1960, before the world was known to the general public, i discover the science of ecology, how all things are interrelated and how people are related to them. Heightmid1960s, at the of the vietnam war, the height of the cold war, and the threat of allout nuclear war and the growing concern for the environment, i was transformed into a radical environmental activist. [laughter] i cant seem to get it to go that way anymore. A churchyself in basement with a Likeminded Group planning a protest voyage against u. S. Hydrogen bomb testing in alaska. We proved that is somewhat ragtag group could sail an old halibut boat across the pacific, help galvanize of the composition, and change the course of history. That turned out to be the last Hydrogen Bond the United States ever detonated. President nixon canceled the remaining test in the series due to the overwhelming opposition we had spearheaded. On our way back from alaska, we were welcomed into the big house near my northern Vancouver Island home where they made us brothers of the tribe. This began for greenpeace the position of the warriors of the rainbow. It is after a cree legend that says, one day, when the birds are poisoned, people of the world will join together to save the people of europe. We named our ship the Rainbow Warrior and i spent the next 15 years on the front lines of the movement around the world. Next, we took on French Nuclear testing in the south pacific. Detonatingstill Hydrogen Atomic bombs in the air in the 1970s, sending radiation around the world. It took some years to drive these Nuclear Tests underground. French as 1985, commandos bombed and sank to the Rainbow Warrior killing our photographer. 1970s,ck again to the here i am driving a small rubber boat into the First Encounter with these soviet factory whaling fleet in the North Pacific in 1975. We confronted the whalers, putting ourselves in front of their happens their harpoons to protect the fleeing whales. That got us on television, bringing save the whales to everyones living room for the first time. Just four years later, whaling was banned in the North Pacific. Here i am sitting on a baby seal off the coast of newfoundland to protect it from the hunters clubs. I was arrested and hauled off to jail. The seal was clogged and skinned. But this picture was in newspapers all around the world the next morning. This eventually brought changes to the way canada manages its seal herds. By the mid1980s, we had drawn from a Church Basement to a group of 100 million a year coming in and in 120 countries around the world. For me, it was time to make a change. I had been against at least three or four things every day of my life for 15 years. I decided it was time to figure out what i was in favor of for a change. I made the transition from the politics of confrontation, which is basically about telling people what they should stop doing, to the politics of trying to find consensus on what we should do instead. There is no escaping the fact that 7 billion people wake up every morning on this planet with real needs for food, energy, and materials. Sustainability, which for me was the next logical step after environmental activism, is partly about continuing to provide for those needs. Maybe even getting a little more food and energy for people in the developing world while at the same time consolation revving to reduce the negative impact caused by getting the food, energy and material from the earths environment. I could go on forever but that is my story from the early years. [applause] why did i leave greenpeace. Had ae started, we humanitarian mission to stop nuclear war. By the time i left 15 years later, greenpeace had drifted into a position along with the rest of the movement as eric rising humans as the anime is of the earth and that was not for me of characterizing humans as the enemy of the earth and that was not for me. Van chlorine worldwide became one of the slogans. I was trying to convince them that chlorine was one of the most important moments for Public Health and medicine. 75 of our synthetic pharmaceuticals are chlorinebased chemistry. Anyway, i had to leave because of that. Look at them today in the philippines with a mask on in a parade that could help 2 million kids dying each year and they are associated with the death. That is where greenpeace went and i didnt want to go there. About just tell you forests for one second because it is the most important thing and it has a lot to do with climate. Most Important Renewable Energy in the world and sequester carbon in the greenpeace is against four straight. They are against the most important renewable resource in the world. We should be growing more trees and using more would. More wood. [applause] bey activists say we should cutting fewer trees and using less would. Here is what the ipc says. They are actually correct on this except it takes them 38 bureaucratic words to say it. In the long term, rent is maintained at maintaining our foreign carbon stock that is what they called trees [laughter] will generate the largest sustained mitigation benefit. That means the best thing to do. , they areords saying use trees instead of using steel and concrete wherever you can and you will be using something renewable. Sayspeace says the ip ct the easiest and cheapest way to to prevent Climate Change is to stop cutting trees. That is not true. Ipct is just saying grow more trees, use more words. Six words. [laughter] [applause] sorry, howpcc did i get there . Read the second one worse. Extremely likely does it make it more likely to put the word extremely in front of it . They say yes. That means 99 because very likely is 90 . So they put percent along with adjectives to go with likely. What it turns out is that this is not a scientific word at all, likely. Report, theypcc say it is an expert judgment. That is not a fact. That is an opinion. This was an opinion. So let them have their opinion. But they should make it clear that it is an opinion. Sorry, back up your. Back up here. Whoa. Ok, start over again. Went too far back. This is not even an internationalist so so much for your consensus. I put my faith in the late Michael Creighton who said i am certain there is too much urgency in the world. [laughter] [applause] that you arey certain you are right when someone in authority says that it is extremely likely. That is not certainty. I will show you what i always show people. You honestly know this. First, yes, co2 is increasing in the global atmosphere. But lets look at the last billion years of global Climate Change. I chose the most recent billion years. There is 3 billion more years before this. But we know pretty clear that this is what has happened over the last elliott. It last of billion. It has generally been warmer than it is today. There have been 4. 5 ice ages during this period of time where temperature plummets on average down to 12 degrees, even 10 degrees celsius global average. Today, it is 14. 5 degrees celsius. We are in an ice age. That is why both polls are covered in ice. People dont understand that we are in an ice age now. This is an interlace your interglacial period. It is generally a cold time in terms of the earths history. Why are there 300 Million People in the United States and only 30 Million People in canada . One word. Cold. [laughter] sometimes i think that is why they let us have it. [laughter] you saw this graph yesterday in a different format. It is the most recent. 600 million years since modern life emerged during the cambrian explosion. It shows is laid that there is no lockstep correlation between co2 and global temperatures. At times, they seem to be moving in similar direction. There seems to be correlations sometimes, but as you know, correlation does not prove causation. And you need to see more of a lockstep relationship. Temperatures bounded on the top and the bottom probably got a lot of feedback forces that are creating a maximum and minimum and we are in one of those minimums right now. It shows right there, for example. Now it is 14. 5. Co2 is about 400. The average over the last 600 million years has been around 2000, which coincidentally, is the optimum co2 level for plant growth. Four to five times higher than it is today. That is why greenhouse growers quickly put the exhaust from their gas and wood haters into the greenhouse. So we can look forward to increase in productivity in agriculture from increased co2. This to me is the grass. If you accept this is true, which is probably Something Like true because it has been warming for the last hundred years or says we have been the dominant cause since the mid20th century. That is 1950. In other words, they do not ascribe the rise in temperature between 1910 and 1940 to human caused emissions because we want him getting much back then. They only say it is the part between 1970 and the year 2000 that was caused by humans. Rise int caused the temperature between 1910 and 1940 . It is identical induration and size. 4 degrees over four years. They are both the same. It is not logical to be the secondikely that one is caused by us and the first one in is caused by something else. [laughter] this to me demonstrates the logical fallacy in explaining that we are the dominant cause for Global Warming. [applause] there has been no increase in global temperature for 10 months and running. The temperature has declined by a significant amount. The polar vortex had something to do with this, i think. I forgot, that was warming. [laughter] thats right. I shouldnt make that mistake again. And here of course is the Arctic Sea Ice that right now is nearly a million square bloggers below its average since 1979 when we first started measuring it from a satellite. We have no idea what the extent of Arctic Sea Ice was before then. But somehow someone got through their with a wooden boat and 1904. Who knows what it was like back then during the heat wave of the 1930s into the 1940s. Oceans the southern where, if you take the difference between the antarctic and the art that, there is now nearly one million square miles more sea ice than the average since we started measuring it in 1979. This is the sum total of our knowledge of sea ice. Supposedly this is also due to Global Warming whereas the the decreasing extent is also due to Global Warming. So i get it. Everything is due to Global Warming. [laughter] [applause] our children are not taught logic. They are not taught what the Scientific Method is. Carbon isre told that soot. It has been a slow gradual rise. The pole melts a little more, too. This is tropical rain energy. Al gore knows about this and he continues to say that it will be a devastation of the earth from message from massive hurricanes. No such things. Right now today is the longest period we have known since the last category of three or category of four. They say there is no evidence of an increase in extreme weather events related to the warming that has occurred. And al goreibben and the whole bunch of them perpetuate the idea that every extreme weather event is because of us. This is why we will never be able to predict the future of other than about three days out as john coleman who is coming up soon will probably tell you he knows. [laughter] it is because of clouds. Importanthe most Greenhouse Gas and is the only in both liquids and gaseous phase. And they behave in completely different ways with regard to solar energy. Clouds can reflect the sun back. They can hold the heat in depending on where they are and how they they are and what computer model can predict the pattern of clouds in the world . Its impossible. That is why we will never be able to predict the future of climate and clouds are the wildcard and many people believe that, as the earth warms and more water evaporates off the seat, it will be cloud or he the sea, it will be cloudier and wetter and there will be negative feedback against the effects of co2 and that is as laws of the layup of the seas as the fry and help hypothesis that we keep getting from the alarmists. As a matter of fact, it is probably more plausible. Co2 is the most important nutrient for all life on earth. Please teach the children this. [applause] mating co2,ted in it was down to about 260 ppm. Now it is at 400. If it had gone down by the same amount as we have caused it to go up, plants would have started dying because plants start dying at 150 ppm. One of the reasons that co2 has fluctuated during the iglesia nation we have had in the last 2. 5 million years is, because when plans start dying, they email the co2 that they email it the co2 that they emit the co2 that they hold. James lovelock was a pessimist about climate and said that humans are a rogue species. Gia is onethat, if great organism, maybe we are doing her bidding. Its like carlin said. The reason people came into existence is because the earth wants [indiscernible] the reason the bull came to existence is because the atmosphere wants a little more Carbon Dioxide for the plants. Who knows . Of world energy especially to people concerned about humancaused Climate Change, energy is the flipside of the coin and Durable Energy policies what they want to get their hands on, as if there is some kind of guile you can turn somewhere that is going to change the climate. Ofy want to stop this 88 Energy Produced by fossil fuels, especially the part where oil is involved where there are not really many substitutes because that is transportation, getting the food into the stores. Is the mostc effective cause of affordable energy. They are against it. About 85 of all the Renewable Energy in the world and they are against it even though it is reliable, etc. Costeffective, etc. We buy enough flatscreen tvs that they can afford to build it without the world bank and they did. [laughter] it replaces 40 coalfired power plants if youre worried about emissions from coal plants. It stops floods from killing nuns of people downstream. And it allows them to irrigate twice as much land. This is a sustainable development. [applause] get 60 of our energy from hydro. When the oil and coal and gas become scarce, this is what we will have to use. There is no question of that in my mind. [applause] 21 countries producing 15 , this used nuclear food they want to dump in nevada is one of our most important future energy resources. The russians have two of them running on their caspian sea. They just sold two to china last year. But weve got lots of oil and oil and gas