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Ten basic truths that fly in the face of the man-made global warming & climate change narrative Russ Babcock September 1, 2019 1. Since the 1920’s, trends in extreme weather events show neither higher frequency nor higher severity. Yes, they cause more damage and are more costly because we’ve put more infrastructure in their way in the last 100 years. Well kept records actually show (not just ‘indicate’) that frequency and severity are both down a bit from decadal averages of the last century. 2. The average global temperature over the last 100+ years has risen by only 0.9 degrees centigrade. At least half of that rise occurred BEFORE our ubiquitous use of motorized vehicles, planes, machinery, etc. and BEFORE we were harvesting and using copious amounts of hydrocarbons (aka fossil fuels) to meet our energy needs. Roughly the same temperature rise before and after the declared ‘cause’ existed. 3. The oceans are not rising any faster than they have been for at least the last 300 years or so - since the beginning of the end of the “little ice age”, well before anthropogenic generation of CO2. Oceans have risen about 19 centimeters in all of the last century. 4. Whatever the capacity for CO2 to trap heat, that impact diminishes on a logarithmic scale, because the infrared wavelengths (heat) that CO2 absorbs is essentially at saturation levels already. It is scientifically reasonable then to expect the worst impact should occur at the early stages of increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The impact that increasing CO2 has thus far had on global temperatures has at worst been very small, and real-world physics tells us that future impacts will be even smaller. I say at worst, because no one, not even our brightest meteorologists and physicists, can definitively quantify the relationship between CO2 and atmospheric temperature.
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