The ‘settled science’ is all about the human emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels used to power modern industrial civilization. There are those who worry that the buildup of CO2 in the air will cause the planet to overheat making it uninhabitable for humans as ice caps melt, sea levels rise, crops fail due to drought and people die due to the oppressive heat.
CO2 up; temps are flat; there is NO debate about that.
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This unexpected temperature stasis is a problem for the Global Climate Models that are used to produce the scary scenarios of our future climate. The stasis was not foreseen so this invalidates the theory upon which the global climate models are based. The GCMs assume that CO2 is the star of the climate drama and have accorded too much weight to the alleged superpowers of the heat trapping GreenHouse Gas carbon dioxide. But CO2 has been in our atmosphere in much greater quantities in the geologic past than are present today. We are still here which renders moot the idea that CO2 has the power to make the planet unfit for human habitation. It didn’t happen in the past. The experiment has already been conducted in the laboratory of reality.
Throughout most of the last 600 million years CO2 has been at greater concentrations than the 400 ppm we experience today. About 450 mya there was an ice age when CO2 was hovering around 4000 ppm 100 times what we experience. This casts serious doubt on the ability of CO2 to drive dangerous climate change. Other more important factors must be involved that dwarf any contribution from CO2.
Our GCMs are wrong. Mother Nature has demonstrated that for us. We must look elsewhere for the engine of the cyclical climate change that geological history tells us that the planet endures.
The debate about CO2 as the star of the climate drama is over. We must find a new ‘star’ to play the lead role and relegate CO2 to a bit part or perhaps exclude carbon dioxide from the cast altogether.
However, CO2 has a very important role to play in the sustenance of the flora and fauna of the planet.
CO2, an invisible trace gas essential to life on Earth, is plant food. We exhale CO2 and help to feed the flora. In return they slip us oxygen of which we are rather fond in a mutually beneficial and amicable symbiotic relationship. From this evil comes?
Future generations will look back at this time and wonder how so many people could be taken in by the ‘hate fossil fuel’ hysteria. It will be the focus of Phd studies on how people could all for the delusion that CO2 is a toxic pollutant. We exhale it people. It is in your lungs in concentrations approaching 40,000 ppm. How are you feeling? It is in the ambient air at 400 ppm and has been as high as 8000 ppm within the last 570 million years. We are here. There was no tipping point beyond which the planet became uninhabitable.
Plants grow better, stronger, faster because of the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
In concluding, the U.S. research team declares that "from this remarkable 30-year archive of satellite imagery, we thus see evidence of a greening trend," which clearly indicates that the net result of the climatic and physiological effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on Earth's terrestrial plant life has in the mean been decidedly beneficial.
CO2 is clean and green. We need more of it not less. CO2 has been exhaled during the creation of this post. No living thing was harmed. Some even liked it. Let the plants dance.
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