Here is Why CO2 Cannot Be Blamed for Man-made Climate Change
There is no such thing as a ‘global climate’ that can be adjusted with a single dial, i.e. CO₂. The heartbeat of the planet was in reality being set by the (Milutin) Milanković Cycles, not CO₂.
The foundational driver of our current era isn’t a single trace gas (CO₂) – it’s structural. Long-term cooling since the Eocene ended (56 to 33.9 million years ago) is actually a story of Earth’s plumbing, which began to readjust after the isolation of Antarctica 34 million years ago.
This opened up Drake Passage creating the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, thermally isolating the south pole and initiating the growth of ice sheets. In parallel events, the closure of the Isthmus of Panama and the drifting of continents interrupted the equatorial ‘warm belt’ flow.
This redirected warm currents toward the poles and fundamentally altered the ocean’s conveyor belt (the Thermohaline Circulation). Another vast factor was the massive uplift of the Tibetan Plateau due to the impact of the Indian subcontinent (55 mya).
This didn’t just change wind patterns, it created a geological vacuum where weathering has been sucking CO₂ out of the atmosphere for millions of years. This is why we see the extent of ‘CO₂ starvation’ during the current Quaternary glaciation (from 2.58 mya) These are the real factors driving our world’s global ‘climate’.
Within this cooling tectonic global framework, the heartbeat of the planet was in reality being set by the (Milutin) Milanković Cycles, not CO₂. These orbital cycle anomalies dictate the distribution of solar energy through changes in Earth’s eccentricity, axial tilt (obliquity) and precession. They are the primary cause of the glacial-interglacial ‘yo-yo’ effect of the last 2.6 million years (the Quaternary).
Human CO₂ is only a footnote in a colossal planetary system that can move miles of ice across continents based purely on orbital mechanics and oceanic inertia.
The focus on climate is just an abstraction. What really matters is regional and global reality. There is no such thing as a ‘global climate’ that can be adjusted with a single dial, i.e. CO₂.
There is only the aggregation of regional weather patterns everywhere on the planet; the monsoons of India, the El Niño of the Pacific and the Arctic oscillation. By treating ‘climate’ as a singular, globally encompassing entity, centralised institutions (like the UN) are creating a ‘manageable target’.
In reality, they are trying to regulate the thermal output of a 38,000-gigatonne ocean system by focusing on a 420-ppm atmospheric trace gas. If CO₂ is a symptom of recovery from the Glacial Maximum (26,000-20,000ya) then the human contribution is being temporally smoothed into a much larger re-balancing act.
The greening of the mid-tropics and the expansion of plant biomass suggest the planet is digesting the available carbon to return to the more lush, carbon-rich environments, seen before the Cenozoic cooling and dessication of mainly equatorial plants. What is labeled a ‘crisis’ from a geological perspective is a minor thaw from a remarkably cold and carbon-depleted era.
This outline directly supports a glaring belief gap. The hardline climate narrative requires a simple, controllable model (blaming CO₂). But the tectonic and orbital reality is an infinitely more complex, uncontrollable aggregation. It makes bureaucratic management of something as massive as a planetary biosphere look like King Canute trying to command the tides.
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About the author: Peter D Clack is an award-winning Australian journalist and author of Firestorm Trial by Fire, providing crucial revelations into the causes of a bushfire that destroyed 500 Canberra homes in 2003.
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