Topic category: Climate/Climate Change/Weather
CO2 CANNOT Be A Climate Change Force
The "climate change" fearmongering of the past 4-5 decades is primarily built upon the oft-repeated claim that recent decades of growing atmospheric carbon dioxide are responsible for climate warming. Yet the clear evidence found in Earth's geologic history of climate and atmospheric CO2 change is sufficient to dispel any doubt that the claimed relationship is valid.
It is worth nothing that CO2 is NOT reactive to the vast majority of wavelengths of IR given off by Earth as it attempts to cool. This important scientific reality is ignored by those who either wish to mislead the public or are ignorant of the science.
Whether examining half a billion years of Earth's climate and atmospheric history or the recent 130 years of the best available records for changes in global temperature and global atmospheric carbon dioxide, the only possible conclusion yielded by the evidence is that the theory that climate change is caused by changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide is completely invalid and little more than pseudo-scientific nonsense.
The 500-million-year geologic evidence (increments of 25-million-year change):
The 130-year recorded evidence (yearly increments):
The 130-year contemporary evidence yields a correlation coefficient of 0.12 between changes in atmospheric CO2 and changes in global climate (temperature).
The clear evidence contradicting climate alarmist claims is the lack of causation between changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and global average surface temperatures. Causation cannot exist between observations that are uncorrelated.
Conclusion: The belief that fossil fuels contribute to climate change is unsustained by the evidence that informs us neither science nor evidence supports climate alarmist beliefs.
Bob Webster
WEBCommentary (Editor, Publisher)
Biography - Bob Webster
Author of "Looking Out the Window", an evidence-based examination of the "climate change" issue, Bob Webster, is a 12th-generation descendent of both the Darte family (Connecticut, 1630s) and the Webster family (Massachusetts, 1630s). He is a descendant of Daniel Webster's father, Revolutionary War patriot Ebenezer Webster, who served with General Washington. Bob has always had a strong interest in early American history, our Constitution, U.S. politics, and law. Politically he is a constitutional republican with objectivist and libertarian roots. He has faith in the ultimate triumph of truth and reason over deception and emotion. He is a strong believer in our Constitution as written and views the abandonment of constitutional restraint by the regressive Progressive movement as a great danger to our Republic. His favorite novel is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and believes it should be required reading for all high school students so they can appreciate the cost of tolerating the growth of unconstitutional crushingly powerful central government. He strongly believes, as our Constitution enshrines, that the interests of the individual should be held superior to the interests of the state.
A lifelong interest in meteorology and climatology spurred his strong interest in science. Bob earned his degree in Mathematics at Virginia Tech, graduating in 1964.