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The CO2 canard is coming apart at the seams
American Thinker ^ | 22 Jan, 2025 | John M. Contino

Posted on 01/22/2025 4:40:27 AM PST by MtnClimber

In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping emissions (methane, nitrous oxide, and some other stuff) are pollutants under the Clean Air Act and that the government has the authority to curb them.

Since then, the world has been subjected to numerous climate-related laws and treaties, along with assorted governmental, academic, and corporate pressures — all serving to hype the “existential threat” that is climate change. The number-one culprit all along has been atmospheric carbon dioxide.

There is nothing inherently wrong with qualitative versus quantitative statements, but there has been an inordinate amount of hand-waving to explain away the failure over the last 50 years of global temperatures to rise nearly as fast as predicted by the climate alarmists.

“Watts Up With That” claims to be the “world’s most viewed site on global warming and climate change,” for which Collister Johnson recently wrote a short but powerful article with an unassuming title: “The saturation effect questions the prevailing narrative on CO2.”

Over that last decade, several pedigreed scientists have performed qualitative analyses and experiments to disprove the assumption that “increases in atmospheric CO2 will cause a linear and dangerous increase in global temperatures.”

William Happer and William van Wijngaarden are both “accomplished and renowned physicists with over 500 published papers to their credit.”

They applied highly detailed mathematical analytics to the physics of CO2 in the atmosphere and raised serious doubts about CO2’s ability to absorb heat after becoming “saturated” at current levels of 400 parts per million, and therefore unable to absorb significantly more heat from the Sun. Thus, any further increases in atmospheric CO2 — even doubling that amount to 800 parts per million — would only result in minimal increases in atmospheric temperature of 0.5C, or 1degree Fahrenheit. [snip]

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: c02; carbondioxide; co2; conjob; fraud; globalwarming; ripoff; scam
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To: Pres Raygun
FWIW, I found a link to the 2024 paper by "Viennese researchers" mentioned without reference in the subject blog post.

The paper experimentally validated Profs Happer and van Wijngaarden's work.

41 posted on 01/27/2025 10:41:03 AM PST by SiGeek
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To: SiGeek

Thanks SiGeek!


42 posted on 01/27/2025 12:54:24 PM PST by Pres Raygun (Repent America)
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To: joshua c
a communist revolution without firing a shot

“The Revolution won't happen with guns,
rather it will happen incrementally,
year by year, generation by generation.
We will gradually infiltrate their
educational institutions and their
political offices, transforming them
slowly into Marxist entities as we
move towards universal egalitarianism.”
- - - - - - - - - - - - - Max Horkheimer

43 posted on 03/26/2025 3:08:40 AM PDT by StACase ("The Climate Crisis" is a text book example of "The Big Lie")
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