Dear Simon,
RE: REQUEST FOR AN UPDATE (Your Ref. 095807)
Please note that we are still awaiting the response for Daily Express, its editor and Professor Ian Plimer to provide the disclosure of their scientific sources stating that the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have been 1,000 times higher than the present 386 p.p.m. in the past, somewhere between 300,000-400,000 parts per million.
As the entire front page covering article and the continuation on page 4 and also the Editorial refers to this scientific source, the newspaper is taking now a surprisingly long to discover the source for their front cover story, page 4 and the Editorial were built on.
It is my understanding that in the fax to yourselves, Daily Express have acknowledged the receipt of your query and informs that their lawyers wished to review the PCC paperwork and promised their response to the Press Complaints Commission by Monday, 21.12.2009, but by now have missed this deadline by a wide margin to supply the scientific sources that state carbon dioxide having been 1,000 times higher in the past than it is at present.
I reiterate my view that the given statistics are thoroughly fabricated. It is extremely unlikely Daily Express will cite a scientific, or indeed, any sources where carbon dioxide has been 38% (or ~30-40%) of the air. Therefore, the size of the atmosphere as near-infinite carbon dioxide sink is grossly misrepresented by the statistics Professor Ian Plimer provides whose integrity, despite his high academic title, must seriously be questioned by the PCC.
Professor Ian Plimer states that the carbon dioxide concentrations have been 1,000 times the present CO2 level at 38% of atmospheric concentration or 386,000 parts per million which is total nonsense: If all atmospheric oxygen is burned up, this amounts only to 210,000 parts per million of 21% of the air. Already, at 1,000 parts per million (= 0.1%) carbon dioxide affects the "powers of concentration" according to the Workplace Health and Safety Authority guides. Furthermore, it is an "ages old practise" to rush children outdoors in schools and ventilate the classrooms during breaks between the classes to prevent the air in the room getting putrefied by the carbon dioxide exceeding 1,000 ppm.
The Press Complaints Commission must not bury its head on sand over this like ostrich, the matter is vitally important as Professor Ian Plimer being backed up by self-created media statements was presenting himself favourably as an expert in climate change and as a delegate in Copenhagen, some of the Excellencies like the President of South Africa believing him and then becoming obstructive to emissions cuts in negotiations. There are real damage being done by these statements which the PCC simply cannot ignore or delay.
The climate change denialists act like people who think that the air has infinite space for radio waves, but in reality there is a limit how much stuff you can fill in air before all radio space gets clogged up. The same applies to the atmospheric carbon dioxide carrying capacity: we as humans are treating the ocean and atmosphere as if they were infinite sinks that can take any amount of pollution we dump in them. But this is not the case.
The melting Arctic permafrost, sea and sea beds now release carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides and water vapour that have tampered with Russia's hard winter. Had Adolf Hitler in 1942 or Napoleon Bonaparte before him in 1805 had a grass green in a mid winter to welcome them at the gates of Moscow, our history would have been different. But in 2009 our "friend-turned-into-enemy", carbon dioxide emissions, prop up the temperatures where Moscow and Siberian permafrost melts and decays, releasing all its thousands, if not, millions of years old carbon dioxide and methane back to air, the initial trigger being the human releases that have caused the sea and grounds to melt in the first place.
In addition, of the 2,500,000 biological organisms, it is probabilistically very unlikely that the human beings, who start feeling the toxicity of carbon dioxide at 1,000 parts per million, are the most sensitive biological organism to feel its toxic effects. It is quite conceivable, therefore, that we already see the effects of the ocean acidification killing of the organisms with calcium carbonate exoskeletons.
Your acknowledgement expected with an explanation why Daily Express is not responding to any queries made over this matter to reveal their odd scientific sources behind their chief news story that was put out on the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Conference.
Yours sincerely,
Veli Albert Kallio, FRGS
HH Plenipotentiary Scientific Ambassador,
the Global Environmental Parliament Group
UNGA101292 Complaint Handler on Climate Change
The Group of First Nations of North America under
the auspices of World Indigenous Nation's Summit
(United Nations' General Assembly)
International Guru Nanak Peace Prize Nominee for 2008;
sea level rise risk for global security & economic stability
Co-inventor of novel particle detector with Professor Gerd Binnig,
the 1986 Physics Nobel Prize Winner
Frozen Isthmuses' Protection Campaign
of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans
Fellow of Royal Geographical Society, London
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