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A New Study Turns Climate Science on its Ear

For the last 40+ years all we’ve heard from the climate change folks is carbon dioxide (CO2) kills.  Fossil fuels produce CO2 and, therefore, they kill.  Cow farts kill.

And, we can’t ignore the fact that humans exhale CO2 with every breath.  That’s why you have scientists, politicians and even the United Nations calling for fewer children to be born so the climate will not get warmer.

So, CO2 causes global warming, right?  It’s “settled science” right?

Well, not so fast sparky.

A new peer-reviewed study, “Climatic consequences of the process of saturation of radiation absorption in gases,” turns climate science on its ear.

Please don’t click on that link.  Your eyes will glaze over and you’ll pull a Rumpelstiltskin.  I read it so you don’t have to.

Here’s the message from these scientists: their research, conducted at the Military University of Technology in Poland, suggests that the impact of additional CO2 emissions on global temperatures may be far less significant than commonly portrayed.

In fact, what they have determined is that our atmosphere is saturated with CO2 - as much as ten times what the atmosphere should hold.  This means that there’s so much CO2 in the atmosphere that it can’t accept much more.

An example of saturation is when you open a bottle of carbonated soda.  The bubbles are CO2 (BTW, I’m surprised the climate fanatics haven’t tried to ban Coke!) which is injected into the water/syrup mix.  Because the soda is under pressure, the CO2 stays hidden in the liquid – the liquid is saturated with CO2.  The CO2 isn’t released until the pressure is removed.  Those fizzy bubbles are the CO2 escaping from the water/syrup mix.

So, what the study’s authors are saying is that basically, if we do nothing more, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will reach a limit.

Based on the law of diminishing returns, all the world’s climate change efforts will yield a smaller and smaller impact on CO2.  Most of our tax dollars will be wasted trying to decrease CO2 when increases are already naturally slowing.  (But the politicians will say they did it!)

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There’s another aspect of CO2 in the atmosphere that climate change proponents seem to ignore is that plant life on earth consumes CO2.

The Polish study dovetails nicely with other climate work.  Independent researcher Randall Carlson has argued that the climate impact of CO2 has been overstated while its benefits are often ignored.  In his essay "The Redemption of the Beast: The Carbon Cycle and the Demonization of CO2," Carlson contends that rising CO2 levels are having an overall positive effect on the biosphere.

Carlson’s research shows that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 increased agricultural yields by an average of 33%.   Furthermore, he points to evidence of global greening in recent decades, with satellite data showing an 8% increase in vegetation cover in Australia from 1981-2006 and increased foliage cover across Earth's warm, arid environments in proportion to rising CO2 levels.  Some studies attribute 70% of observed greening to the CO2 fertilization effect.

The Polish study adds weight to Carlson's argument that the prevailing narrative around CO2 and climate change may be overly simplistic and alarmist.  The researchers conclude: "This unequivocally suggests that the officially presented impact of anthropogenic CO2 increase on Earth's climate is merely a hypothesis rather than a substantiated fact."

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There is also a growing body of evidence that our planet heals itself.  In the article “Microbial Mats: The Immortal Living Blueprint for Planetary Self-Regulation,” the authors describe sedimentary layers that blanket our planet.  These untold trillions of creatures help maintain and regulate the Earth’s ecosystem, including after the many disasters our planet has suffered over the millennia. 

The article asks, “what cataclysms might have been weathered this way over the mats' vast lifespan?  Their very antiquity testifies to fortitude.  In ocean shallows circumscribing early continents, mats likely served as [refuge] during meteoric bombardment, sustaining habitats between sterilizing strikes.”

In other words, these microbes will flourish when excess CO2 exists, thereby decreasing excess CO2.

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Climate science is not simple, nor is it “settled.”  True scientists are always questioning scientific results and thereby increasing the body of knowledge.

To listen to our corporate media and certain politicians, eliminating fossil fuels and cows is the only way to fight climate change.

What it’s not politically advantageous to acknowledge is that the Earth has a significant role in regulating itself and that the flyspeck of man is powerless to alter the climate to either degrade it or repair it.