Reasons to Doubt MMCC

🔺Below are some reasons to doubt the validity of the claim that human emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels are responsible for the late 20th century warming.

Many of these are explained here.

1. There is no ‘hot spot’. Hot air rises but the cold upper troposphere eats the heat.
2. There is no acceleration of warming
3. There is no acceleration of sea level rise
4. Antarctic ice sheets are expanding not disappearing
5. Arctic sea ice fluctuates and is driven by wind and oceans NOT CO2. Arctic trend in sea ice area has not changed in a decade.
6. Some glaciers are receding and some are advancing How can CO2 be responsible for both. Is CO2 bipolar?
7. Extreme weather is not getting more frequent or more intense
8. Hansen’s model Scenario ‘C’ is higher than experienced global warming
9. The IPCC CO2 centric models run ‘hot’ compared to recent temperature history
10. As human emissions of CO2 have accelerated over the last 60+ years the rate of growth of CO2 in the atmosphere over the same time period has not.
11. When we compare the last 60 years of warming with the previous 60 years we find less warming per ppm of CO2 despite the rapid increase in CO2.
12. It has been hotter and colder in the past at levels of CO2 far greater than what we currently experience therefore CO2 cannot be the driver of past climate change
13. The Ice Ages and warmer interglacials of the last 800,000 years occurred at levels of CO2 lower than the current 400 ppm thus CO2 could NOT have been responsible.
14. CO2 has been at higher concentrations throughout most of the last 600 million years. There was no tipping point, no runaway global warming. We are here.
15. At various places around the world sunshine is known to have increased and cloud cover to have decreased in the late 20th century both of which could account for the modest rise in temperature experienced during this period.
16. Mountaintops are not warming.
17. UHI has contributed to the rise of temperatures and no effort has been made to discount that bias in the official temperature records.
18. NOAA debunked the 400 ppm CO2 panic in 2013  “The last time the worldwide carbon level probably hit 400 ppm was about 2 million years ago, said Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.That was during the Pleistocene Era. "It was much warmer than it is today," Tans said. "There were forests in Greenland. Sea level was higher, between 33 to 66 feet." Well, we have 400 ppm CO2 in the air again so how come it isn’t that warm now with coastal cities under water?
19. The data is being adjusted and that is man made global warming

Any one of these should be enough to dispel the notion that CO2 controls the temperature of the planet. Where does hot air go to cool off? Upper troposphere. Heatwaves do not last. Eventually, they wave bye bye. Heat does not accumulate in our atmosphere. It only moves from one place to another. Our atmosphere is a whirling, twirling, swirling mass of molecules in kinetic frenzy. Why should we expect anything but variable weather and changing climate to emerge from this potpourri of gaseous turmoil?

Contrary to the superstitious beliefs of some climatologists the human ability to control the immediate outdoor climate has not advanced past the technology of the shaman with his chanting and invocations to the imagined secret powers of the universe available only through him.

However, humans are very good at controlling the climate within our buildings and vehicles. This is how we keep ourselves comfortable and iron out the natural fluctuations in our climate during our annual trek around the sun. Instances of extreme weather like hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and drought will always overwhelm our best efforts to avoid the destruction of these weather vagaries. It is the price of living on our planet. Instances of extreme weather are local not global. Do we conclude that CO2 causes a ruckus in one place but not another? How can it do that? What sets it off? What causes the change from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde? Why is CO2 behaving itself where I live but destroying lives elsewhere? Are there terrorist CO2 molecules?

Are you beginning to see how nonsensical it is to say that CO2 controls the climate?

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