Of course climate change is real, nobody denies that it happens. But the causative factors do NOT include “rising” carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide cannot claim that honor. Water vapor, which is from thirty to a hundred times as plentiful in the atmosphere, is a MUCH larger factor in climate change, and it serves mostly to keep the average temperatures moderated to within a relatively narrow range. Look up something called “thermodynamics” for a more complete explanation of the physics involved.
Doesn’t matter. Issues, real or not , will be used.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
No smoking hot spot1. The greenhouse signature is missing. We have been looking and measuring for years, and cannot find it.
Each possible cause of global warming has a different pattern of where in the planet the warming occurs first and the most. The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics. We have been measuring the atmosphere for decades using radiosondes: weather balloons with thermometers that radio back the temperature as the balloon ascends through the atmosphere. They show no hot spot. Whatsoever.
If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming. If we had found the greenhouse signature then I would be an alarmist again.
IF the planet is warming it isn't from Greenhouse gasses.
Climate changes during the 24-hour daily cycle as well but man does not make the sun rise.
Earth's surface chemistry is also heavily buffered by the 100 tons of diverse living biomass per human. If the chemistry shifts just a little, such as CO2 increasing 0.01% over 100 years, slight increases in plant growth will beat it back down.