Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Temperature and CO2 in Equilibrium, Not Feedback

One of the basic assumptions in the greenhouse/ climate change/ global warming hysteria hypothesis is that as CO2 levels in the atmosphere rise then overall temperature rises. This is sometimes called a runaway greenhouse effect or positive feedback.

Given the amount of information that scientists have been able to gather over recent decades about really long term temperature and CO2 measurements from Antarctic ice cores etc then it should be quite simple to test the hypothesis.

Here is the summary of one such survey:

In summary, the Vostok record indicates that CO2 is in lagged equilibrium with T and that, for the range of T in Vostok, the dependency of CO2 on T is essentially linear. Unnaturally high CO2 for the last 5,000 years has had no apparent effect on T.

This empirical evidence supports a conclusion that there cannot be any significant feedback between CO2 and T. Such feedback
would cause predicted T and CO2 to show fundamental disagreement with the lag, spectrum and amplitudes evident in the Vostok record.



In plain English, the temperature and CO2 work together in such a way as to keep each other more or less in balance.

You would never have guessed that a God who was clever enough to make everything with just a word could have factored in the effect of human industry.

Full article

No comments:

Post a Comment