I hope you are able to afford travel, good meals, and warm indoor temperatures over the Christmas holiday.
Such joys may soon be too expensive for most—in large part from regulations to “fight climate change.”
The climate change hypothesis depends on the statement that atmospheric CO2 levels, as measured at Mauna Loa, are constantly increasing, whereas they fluctuated around 280 ppm from 1800 until around 1957. However, more than 90,000 direct measurements of CO2 by textbook chemical methods, described in 380 technical publications, were made between 1812 and 1961. Maxima occurred around 1825, 1857, and 1942, as shown in the graph, with 1942 being around 400 ppm.
As Ernst-Georg Beck wrote in 2007, these early direct measurements have been criticized, except for the ones that agree with the climate-change narrative, and the IPCC now relies exclusively on indirect measures from air trapped in ice cores for values prior to 1957. From his detailed analyses, Beck concludes that: “It is indeed surprising that the quality and accuracy of these historic CO2 measurements has escaped the attention of other researchers.”
Beck observes that the close relationship between CO2 and temperature is consistent with a cause-effect relationship, but does not indicate which is the cause and which the effect. Ice-core data showing that changes in temperature precede the change in CO2 concentration argues that temperature forcing controls the CO2.
The climate-change Grinch aims to control everything, not just Christmas.
Additional information:
- UK Met Office to ditch actual temperature measurements for model predictions.
- NOAA using fabricated temperature data from “ghost stations” closed years ago.
- Ice-core data shows temperatures 2.5 °C warmer in Viking age, 4,000 years ago.