There has never been
any real science
behind the 60+ year old
claim that a climate crisis
is coming from adding
CO2 to the atmosphere.
The only real science
took place in a lab,
where artificially dried
air was used, in a
closed system,
to prove CO2 is one of
the greenhouse gases.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas
that somewhat overlaps
the effects of the primary
greenhouse gas:
water vapor.
That's why CO2 should
have its greatest effect
in places with dry air,
such as the northern
half of the Northern
Hemisphere, during
the coldest months
of the year.
And, in fact, the greatest
global warming has been
in the northern half of the
Northern Hemisphere,
during the coldest
six months of the year,
and at night --
locations and timing
that made the actual warming
GOOD NEWS, not bad news !
The southern half of the
Southern Hemisphere
has NOT had much warming,
which is also good news,
because melting Antarctica
ice would accelerate sea
level rise, and that could become
a problem in several centuries.
While sea level has been rising
for 20,000 years, there was no
acceleration of sea level rise
in the 20th century that
could be blamed on adding
CO2 to the atmosphere.
CO2 lab experiments
suggested mild,
harmless global
warming from CO2,
but do not prove
what actually happens
in the atmosphere.
There was a rise of
CO2 levels from burning
fossil fuels after 1940,
( with no other logical
explanation for the
CO2 level increasing. )
But no actual global
warming from
1940 to 1975 --
actually -0.3 degrees C.
global cooling. reported
during those 35 years
... a trend that annoyed
climate alarmists.
Since they "own"
the global temperature
data, they decided to
gradually "adjust"
those historical data,
until the cooling trend
"disappeared".
The last time I looked
at the various compilations
of surface temperature
"data", the 1940 to 1975
period had the cooling trend
reduced to between -0.15
degrees C. global cooling,
to no global cooling at all !
It's comical, and sad
at the same time, that
historical temperatures
have been changing for
over 30 years, due to
arbitrary "adjustments",
while the future climate
never changes !
Every year we are told
the future climate will be
a global warming crisis,
based on a "formula"
from the late 1970s,
that never changes,
even though it causes
climate models to
over-predict global
warming by 2x to 3x.
I got interested in
climate science in
1997, while working
in product development
of an auto manufacturer.
I'd read that our products
were "polluting" the
atmosphere with CO2.
I'd started using the internet
at work on 1996, so finding
the climate science website
www.SEPP.org was easy.
It just happened to be
a skeptic website, but
any climate science
website would have
told me the same thing
in my first hour of reading:
The coming global warming
crisis was based on climate
model predictions for the
next 100 years. (and still is ! )
After one hour or reading,
I was very skeptical that
a climate crisis was coming,
based on computer models.
Or if a global warming crisis
WAS coming, it would be
a surprise crisis, and NOT
predicted by any computer
models ... which had been
developed from models
that struggled to predict
local weather just one
week in the future.
Today I view climate
change over the past
20,000 years rather
than just the period
when humans began
adding lots of CO2
to the air:
(1)
20,000 years ago
to roughly 8,000
years ago -- there
was enough global
warming to melt
huge ice glaciers
on land, with the melt
water increasing sea
levels by about 400 feet.
( 120 meters )
No man made CO2
caused that warming.
(2)
Almost all proxy studies
claim that the global
average temperature was
slightly warmer than today
4,000 to 8.000 years ago.
or at least just as warm
as today.
After that warm period,
called the Holocene Optimum,
there were mild cooling
and warming periods, until
the late 1600s.
(3)
From the late 1600s to today,
we have had intermittent, mild
global warming -- up at least
+2 degrees C.
With at least half of that warming
BEFORE the 20th century,
so man made CO2 could
NOT have been the cause.
(4)
The global warming after
1975 could be blamed on
man made CO2, and has
been, in spite of the fact
that Earth's climate
had previously changed
-- cooling and warming --
without man made CO2
emissions being the cause.
In fact there were
4.5 billion years
of climate change
from natural causes.
With the last 45 years
of warming blamed on CO2,
that implies all natural causes
of climate change died off
in 1975, and the CO2 level
magically became the ONLY
"climate control knob".
When asked how that could
have happened, and for proof
that the past 45 years
of global warming
had NO natural causes,
government bureaucrat
climate alarmist "scientists"
will respond with ridicule
and character attacks,
and then proclaim "the
science is settled" and
"science deniers" are not
worthy of any debate.
So there is no debate.
Those harsh responses
to questions make it
very obvious that
climate alarmism
is based only on
junk science
-- wild guess,
always wrong,
predictions of a
coming climate crisis
that started in the late
1950s ... and continued
since then.
Meanwhile, we have been
waiting for over 60 years
for that crisis to arrive !
The climate alarmists
are still predicting a crisis,
and getting more and more
hysterical, in their effort
to scare the general public
... and then control them !
They had me scared
before I started reading
about climate science
in 1997.
Wild guesses about the
future climate, that are
always wrong, are not
real science.
Real science requires
a thorough understanding
of climate change physics
that leads to accurate
climate predictions --
both do not yet exist !