The Myth of Humans Causing Global Warming Is Shattered
If you wondered whether human activity really contributes to global warming, wonder no more.
Buried inside editions of the Washington Post and a few other newspapers last month were stories reporting that despite sharp declines in carbon emissions during the COVID-19 pandemic, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere remained virtually unchanged.
Reporting on carbon dioxide measurements by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s observatory in Mauna Loa, Hawaii, the June 7 Washington Post story said, “Economies worldwide nearly ground to a halt over the 15 months of the coronavirus pandemic, leading to a startling drop in global greenhouse gas emissions.”
“But the idle airplanes, boarded-up stores and quiet highways barely made a dent in the steady accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday had reached the highest levels since accurate measurements began 63 years ago,” the Post story said.
The message could not be clearer: Drastic, unprecedented cutbacks in carbon dioxide emissions from human activity will do nothing to combat what has been an increase of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit in average global temperature since before the Industrial Revolution. And the corollary to that is that President Biden’s entire climate agenda that would add trillions to the U.S. government budget is based on a myth.
To be sure, scientists who subscribe to the climate change agenda have tried to explain away the startling findings.
“People may be surprised to hear that the response to the coronavirus outbreak hasn’t done more to influence CO2 levels,” said Ralph Keeling, a geochemist who runs the Scripps Oceanography CO2 program, according to a June 4, 2020 New York Times story reporting virtually no change in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels during the pandemic.
“But the buildup of CO2 is a bit like trash in a landfill,” he said. “As we keep emitting, it keeps piling up. The crisis has slowed emissions, but not enough to show up perceptibly at Mauna Loa.”
As emissions initially began to drop sharply last year during the pandemic, Scripps scientists offered another explanation for the failure to see a significant change in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
They said in a news release that even a sharp drop in emissions from human activity “is overshadowed by natural variability in carbon emissions from vegetation and soil in response to seasonal changes in temperature and soil moisture.”
Natural variability.
In other words, scientists have no idea why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere remained virtually unchanged when the world’s economies were on lock-down, completely exposing the rationale for limiting burning of fossil fuels as a fraud.
Not to worry. Jason Bordoff, founding director of Columbia University’s global energy center, offered yet another way to obfuscate the findings. The problem, he said, is we have not reduced carbon emissions the right way.
“Shutting down economic activity is not a viable or desirable way to reduce emissions, and as economies open back up, it’s not surprising emissions are rising because we still have not put in place the changes needed for the overall system of how we produce and consume energy,” Bordoff said.
Even climate extremists admit that no one knows just how much human activity may be responsible for the increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
Now we do know.
For all the speculation, the fact is that when auto traffic sharply declined, factories shut down, restaurants were shuttered, airplane flights became almost non-existent, borders were closed, and schools and offices were locked down worldwide, the atmosphere remained virtually unchanged. Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide peaked in May, reaching a monthly average of 419 parts per million, almost unchanged from the level of 417 parts per million in May 2020 and up from the May 2019 record level of 414.7 parts per million.
Yet no one could have said better than Biden himself how foolish his climate agenda that he wants to impose on the United States is. Departing from his prepared remarks, in a comment almost totally ignored by the media, the president said during his State of the Union address:
“The United States accounts, as all of you know, for less than 15 percent of carbon emissions. The rest of the world accounts for 85 percent. That’s why I kept my commitment to rejoin the Paris Accord, because if we do everything perfectly, it’s not going to matter.”
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MattH
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Which leaves electricity generation!
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Alan
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The myth was shattered in 2014 when the statement that Al Gore made when he received his Nobel Prize failed to materialise – no ice in the Arctic by 2014. We are still waiting with no sign of it happening. This is just one of endless predications made by climate alarmists that have all been wrong.
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Andy
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I did see a figure of how many of the predictions of climatic doom have come true, it was something like 0 and 41. Would you support a team with an 0 & 41 record 🙂
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Randy
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What are you talking about?
Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming
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Andy
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What rubbish, climate models ALL predict much more warming than is occuring.
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Chris
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hahahaha, some people will believe anything. CO2 doesn’t cause heating. They have been nothing but wrong.
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T. C. Clark
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I check a local TV station weather every morning…I notice that the 7 day and 10 day weather predictions don’t match very often in regard to rain possible…it is almost always the 7 day has like 20% and the 10 day has like 30%….they don’t go beyond 10 days…guess their computer model is sort of different from that model used by such luminaries as Hansen and Mann and Gore….they know climate….they can tell you the temp 50 years from now….if they would only help the weather man.
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Cj
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Computer models say whatever they are programmed to say. What about their predicted ice age from the 70s?
https://web.archive.org/web/20090224075929/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914-1,00.html
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Alan:
Ever since 1969 we have been on our last ten years to catastrophe every ten years. Years ago all the coastal areas and cities were supposed to be under the water. They have been checking the sea level at Stockholm Harbor for about 500 years now. No change.
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Randy
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Emissions only dipped 5.8% during the plandemic. Oceans are a carbon sink until saturation and then they emit C02 to the atmosphere at a steady rate.
This highly simplistic narrow view doesnt “prove” anything. Damn there is a lot of bad science on this site.
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Andy
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Oh is that right.
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Carbon Bigfoot
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Randy you are a TROLL and don’t know SHIT FROM SHINOLA.
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Squidly
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I don’t really care what happens to CO2 as long as it remains in plentiful supply for plants (1500-1700ppm is ideal). NO GAS CAN CAUSE HEATING!! … PERIOD!
Talk about “bad science” .. you wouldn’t understand physical laws of our universe if they ripped your face off.
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chris
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There is another myth that was stated here and was found to be totally false, that is that co2 has caused 1.8 degF in temp increase. As has been shown by the 2 bottles experiment in order for co2 to cause a 1 degC, 1.8 degF, increase in atmospheric temp the atmosphere would have to be 50% co2. So all of the human population would be extinct.
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Mark Tapley
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There are many things (fortunately) out of man’s control. God has set the universe in motion with infinite precision. That does not prevent the elite from using the fraud and deception of invisible and imaginary crises to gain more power over the whole world.
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Tom
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Well, if we survive the mRNA poison injections, then we can look forward to the earth melting by 2030. In any event. according to the idiots running the planet, we are doomed.
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