Posted on 05/31/2013 11:44:07 AM PDT by drewh
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) not carbon emissions are the real culprit behind global warming, claims a new study out of the University of Waterloo.
Conventional thinking says that the emission of human-made non-CFC gases such as carbon dioxide has mainly contributed to global warming. But we have observed data going back to the Industrial Revolution that convincingly shows that conventional understanding is wrong, said Qing-Bin Lu, a science professor at the University of Waterloo and author of the study.
In fact, the data shows that CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays caused both the polar ozone hole and global warming, Lu said.
Ads by GoogleLus findings were published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B and analyzed data from 1850 to the present.
Lus study runs counter to the long-standing argument that carbon dioxide emissions were the driving force behind global warming. Recently scientists warned that carbon concentrations were nearing the 400 parts per million level. Scientists say that carbon dioxide levels must be lowered to 350 ppm to avoid the severe impacts of global warming.
The 400-ppm threshold is a sobering milestone and should serve as a wake-up call for all of us to support clean-energy technology and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases before its too late for our children and grandchildren, said Tim Lueker, an oceanographer and carbon cycle researcher who is a member of the Scripps CO2 Group.
Lu notes that data from 1850 to 1970 show carbon emissions increasing due to the Industrial Revolution. However, global temperatures stayed constant.
The conventional warming model of CO2, suggests the temperatures should have risen by 0.6°C over the same period, similar to the period of 1970-2002, reads the studys press release.
CFC's are nontoxic, nonflammable chemicals containing atoms of carbon, chlorine, and fluorine that are used to make aerosol sprays, blowing agents for foams and packing materials, as solvents, and as refrigerants according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
It has to be man caused...
more specifically, American capitalistic lifestyle caused.
Mindless green indoctrination of children
Agenda 21 and Thomas Jefferson
Storms have always been with us, and they had nothing to do with 'polluting the weather'
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Mount Erebus notwithstanding, except that it is still standing, spewing, belching...
The nonsense just goes on and on under the false name of “science.” It’s not just the Medieval Warm Period: temperatures were much higher than now during the previous Interglacial and at many other times in Earth’s history when CO2 was much lower. Unless previous life forms were manufacturing CFCs they weren’t even involved. But it’s part of the current dogma that climate change is caused by humans even though it just isn’t so.
If was them all along?
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And look at this current solar cycle. Peaking at about 60 % of the previous cycle. That is about half what NASA was originally predicting for cycle 24.
We knew all this 10 years ago, they had to find a new coolant for refrigerators and propellant for aerosols!
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) -- not carbon emissions -- are the real culprit...And a couple years ago the "real culprit" was soot, then water vapor, blah blah blah. Anyone not reminded of the public harangue scene in Orwell's "1984" when they start reading the AGW agitprop is brain dead.
Just like politicians, pseudoscientists cannot keep their lies straight.
Are we back to that lie again?
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