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Report: CO2 Not Responsible For Global Warming
Daily Caller ^ | 11:03 PM 05/30/2013 | Michael Bastasch

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 GoogleLu’s findings were published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B and analyzed data from 1850 to the present.

Lu’s 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 it’s 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 study’s 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.


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KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; co2; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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To: CedarDave

It has to be man caused...

more specifically, American capitalistic lifestyle caused.


21 posted on 05/31/2013 12:49:48 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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22 posted on 05/31/2013 12:54:52 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drag Me From Hell!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Everything old is new again


23 posted on 05/31/2013 12:58:19 PM PDT by xp38
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To: drewh

Mount Erebus notwithstanding, except that it is still standing, spewing, belching...


24 posted on 05/31/2013 1:01:59 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: KarlInOhio

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.


25 posted on 05/31/2013 1:04:11 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: drewh
You mean the stuff we worried about in the 80s, so we took all the CFC out of aerosol cans to save the world, that wasn't saved because carbon alone was the culprit??

If was them all along?

26 posted on 05/31/2013 1:28:56 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: drewh
There is no global warming.

French ski resorts open for June skiing – First time ever

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.


27 posted on 05/31/2013 2:15:22 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: drewh

We knew all this 10 years ago, they had to find a new coolant for refrigerators and propellant for aerosols!


28 posted on 05/31/2013 2:16:15 PM PDT by davemac.439
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks drewh.
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.


29 posted on 05/31/2013 7:18:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: drewh

Just like politicians, pseudoscientists cannot keep their lies straight.


30 posted on 06/08/2013 3:56:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: drewh

Are we back to that lie again?


31 posted on 06/08/2013 4:00:01 PM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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