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2021-02-05 a
CLIMATE OF FEAR - Answering Questions
“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”
- Richard Feynman (Nobel laureate)

CO2 does not drive temperature.
CO2 does not drive temperature.
CO2 does not drive temperature.
CO2 does not drive temperature.
CO2 does not drive temperature.

CO2 does not drive temperature. The First Law of Thermodynamics unequivocally demonstrates that fact. And facts still matter.

I know the media shills, ignorant politicians, ass kissing losers, the "scientists" whose grants and tenuous tenure track depend on demonizing CO2 state otherwise. They are wrong, and not just because their fairy tale violates the First Law of Thermodynamics.

CO2 does not drive temperature. Regardless of the time frame selected, it does not drive temperature.

On this planet, changes in temperature always have happened in advance of changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Always.

On this planet, high atmospheric CO2 concentrations in the geologic record have not been correlated with high temperatures.

During the latter stages of the Neoproterozoic Era and into the Cambrian, the atmospheric CO2 concentration was between 6,000 and 7,000 ppm (parts per million). This includes part of the Cryogenian period that had the most extensive glaciation in the geologic record of this planet. Ice sheets reached the equator! Evidence of those extraordinary ice sheets is visible as the Great Unconformity (stratigraphic discontinuity) in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. Millions of years of strata below the Tapeats Sandstone were scoured by those massive ice sheets.

Compared to 7,000 ppm, the current 400 ppm of CO2 is insignificant. Are we to believe that the 999,600 parts per million of other gases have no effect? 400 divided by 999.600 = 0.000400 . Is that what is supposedly going to make this planet uninhabitable? That is not science. That is fiction, fantasy, fable.

Even when CO2 was at 7,000 ppm, it was still no more than a trace molecule in our atmosphere. There were then 993,000 parts per million of other gases in the air: primarily nitrogen, oxygen and water vapor.

CO2 is not the villain. It is the heroic molecule.

Without CO2, there can be no photosynthesis. Without photosynthesis, there can be no multi-cellular life.

In fact, photosynthesis cannot take place below 180 ppm of CO2. Our current 400 ppm of CO2 is not even optimal for photosynthesis. Commercial greenhouses maintain CO2 at 800 ppm to 1,200 ppm for optimal photosynthesis. That means the ancestors of our food crops likely evolved when CO2 occurred at 800 ppm to 1,200 ppm. Think about that.

Most of the carbon on earth is permanently sequestered in carbonate rocks and coal measures. We are keeping this planet alive by burning fossil fuels. It has been estimated that humans have released enough CO2 in the last 2,000 years to add five million years of life to planet Earth.

However, humans are no more than a secondary source of CO2 emissions. Volcanoes do an amazing job. The Katla Volcano on Iceland releases 20,000 metric tonnes of CO2 daily. Remember that next time you eat a salad or eat a steak that a cow grew from grass. Thank the volcanoes.

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