Button up Your Overcoat

American Thinker ^ | 25 Aug, 2023 | Tom Anderson

[MtnClimber]

The idea that carbon dioxide (CO2) drives global warming or “climate change” now enjoys unquestioned authority and near universal approval. As burgeoning public policy, nationally and in some states, it is seeping into what once were private matters of choice (e.g., light bulbs, kitchen cooktops). Many scientists, primarily physicists, consider the belief pure supposition, however, and colossally off track.

SNIP

Usually omitted from the discussion, too, is a study in 1971 by two NASA scientists on whether burning fossil fuels for more CO2 could stave off a then perceived ice age threat. They concluded, no. First, warming by CO2, if any, would be offset by the more familiar product of burning fossil-fuel -- smoke and airborne soot -- aerosols.

These tiny particles cool the atmosphere by screening out solar energy (sunlight) and reflecting it back to space, and providing nucleides for water vapor to condense on to make cooling fog and clouds. People contribute about 30% of aerosols to the air annually.

The NASA scientists advised against using fossil fuels to warm the planet in 1971 because they were “atmospheric coolants” with a potential, alarmists claimed, for triggering an ice age. They are still coolants.

Also, while aerosols from combustion cool in direct proportion to their increase, CO2’s warmer (but still tardy) emission bands would quickly “saturate,” damping off any temperature increase. All later studies and the IPCC agree on this, and it means no “runaway warming.”

Recent research shows more critically that, because CO2 concentrations follow temperature change on all time scales their rise or fall is an effect not cause of temperature change.

[MtnClimber]

For a very good evaluation of CO2 and other "greenhouse gas" impacts on warming, see the writeup on Brian Griffin's FR home page here. I thought it was very comprehensive.

[Red Badger]

It’s going to be 101° here today!......................

[Bob434]

[[The idea that carbon dioxide (CO2) drives global warming or “climate change” now enjoys unquestioned authority and near universal approval]]

Even when the scie tific records refute the claim. Temperatures always rise first, then 800 or so years later, co2 rises. Deep Ice core samples prove this. Co2 does NOT drive temperatures. Sadly the world has chosen to beleive the lie over the scientific facts

[MuttTheHoople]

CO2 is what plants use to breathe. You lower CO2, you lower the vegetation, which kills off animals, which leads to famine and death for humans.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

The sun is causing climate change. We could be nice and cold without the racist, pro-white light sun.

I hate the sun.

[minnesota_bound]

Plants take in CO2 and give off oxygen and we humans breath out CO2. Cycle repeats.
The sun gives off energy that changes the weather here on earth and thru-out the solar system. A minor increase or decrease changes the weather here for better or worse.
Add in the planets tilt and wobble and volcanoes and shifting continents and meteor strikes.
Man is not in control. We are just along for the ride.

[oldtech]

That’s really laughable when someone says that CO2 driven global warming enjoys unquestioned authority. Science knows it does no such thing. I guess it must be some of that “unquestioned authority” that believes climate change is responsible for everything that happens.