By Dr. Tim
Ball
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
How many failed
predictions, discredited assumptions and evidence of incorrect data are
required before an idea loses credibility? CO2 is not causing warming or climate
change. It is not a toxic substance or a pollutant. Despite this President
Elect Obama met with Al Gore on December 9 no doubt to plan a climate change
strategy based on these problems. They make any plan to reduce of CO2
completely unnecessary.
Proponents of
human induced warming and climate change told us that an increase in CO2
precedes and causes temperature increases. They were wrong. They told us the
late 20th century was the warmest on record. They were wrong. They told us,
using the infamous “hockey stick” graph, the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) did not
exist. They were wrong. They told us global temperatures would increase through
2008 as CO2 increased. They were wrong. They told us
In a paper
submitted to the Hearing before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,
and Transportation Professor Zbigniew Jaworowski explains,
The basis of
most of the IPCC conclusions on anthropogenic causes and on projections of
climatic change is the assumption of low level of CO2 in the pre-industrial
atmosphere. This assumption, based on glaciological studies, is false.”
Ice cores
provide the historic record and data
collected at
Most people
don’t know that thousands of direct measures of atmospheric CO2 were made
beginning in 1812. Scientists took the readings with calibrated instruments and
precise measurements as the work of Ernst-Georg Beck has thoroughly documented.
Guy Stewart Callendar was an earlier visitor to these records. He rejected most
of the records including 69% of the 19th century records and only selected
certain records that established the pre-industrial level as 280 ppm. Here is a
plot of the records with those Callendar selections circled.
It is clear how
only low readings were chosen. Also notice how the slope and trend is changed
compared to the entire record.
As Jaworowski
notes,
“The notion
of low pre-industrial CO2 atmospheric level, based on such poor knowledge,
became a widely accepted Holy Grail of climate warming models. The modelers
ignored the evidence from direct measurements of CO2 in atmospheric air
indicating that in 19th century its average concentration was 335 ppmv.”
Beck recently
confirmed Jaworowski’s research. A September 2008 article in Energy and
Environment examined the readings in great detail and validated the 19th
century findings. In a devastating conclusion Beck writes,
Modern
greenhouse hypothesis is based on the work of G.S. Callendar and C.D. Keeling,
following S. Arrhenius, as latterly popularized by the IPCC. Review of
available literature raise the question if these authors have systematically
discarded a large number of valid technical papers and older atmospheric CO2
determinations because they did not fit their hypothesis? Obviously they use
only a few carefully selected values from the older literature, invariably
choosing results that are consistent with the hypothesis of an induced rise of
CO2 in air caused by the burning of fossil fuel.
So the
pre-industrial level is at least 50 ppm higher than the level put into the computer
models that produce all future climate predictions. The models also incorrectly
assume uniform atmospheric global distribution and virtually no variability of
CO2 from year to year.
Beck found, “Since
1812, the CO2 concentration in northern hemispheric air has fluctuated
exhibiting three high level maxima around 1825, 1857 and 1942 the latter
showing more than 400 ppm.” Here is a plot from Beck comparing 19th century
readings with ice core and
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