Canada like many Nations has been under pressure to cut Carbon Dioxide emissions. This is a scheme dreamed up in the 60’s by the Club of Rome a think tank serving the wealthiest of Europe. Designed to make society feel guilty and falsely lead them into poor choices eroding their Nations from within. Carbon Dioxide or CO2 is plant food or more accurately a building block for sugars and the story is that too much is a bad thing as it creates climate chaos. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The truth is CO2 is a vital, near its dangerous record low and key to all three pillars of life, Photosynthesis, plants making food from the Sun’s energy, and Respiration and Digestion. Intrinsically linked, Oxygen transported to the Cells of all living things including plants so the cell can digest the sugars. Yes, even though plants that can make the sugars require O2 to digest them just like us. So plants require both Oxygen, CO2, H2O and nutrients to grow. O2 is easy its at 22% so it enters the Stomata of plants without a problem, CO2 on the other hand is at low levels, 428 ppm. To receive it plants make more Stomata, holes in their surfaces to let air inside, this makes them more vulnerable to dehydrating. If CO2 levels drop to below 150 ppm most plants will cease, creating havoc for the many creatures that depend on plant life. For the past 800,000 years plants have endured the lowest CO2 levels ever. For context the cradle of life 600 Million years ago had CO2 at about 70 per 10,000 parts in our atmosphere. During the Jurassic the levels were about 40/10K, the compound molecule trends downward over time as Life sequesters it into things like sea shells and they line the bottom of the Ocean creating Limestone. The average from the beginning of life until now is about 16/10K. If it goes below 2/10K plants end in a major way, we have had 3 for 800,000 years now have 4 and Alarmists lament that we have too much. We have just a bit more than not enough, not too much.
You can see by these graphs that plants are doing well, deserts are greening and crop yields are rising, farmers add CO2 to their green houses raising it to about 1500 ppm and they still need to heat their green houses. The Green House Effect is actually properly termed the Atmospheric effect the mystery of missing frequency from space to Earth and back again it was largely figured out in the mid 18th Century using flash bulb experiments. At no time was it alarming. Now called the Green House Effect because Green Houses can become uncomfortably hot during the summer time. The claim is that the glass traps the IR and warms the Green House. This was shown to be incorrect as a Green House was made out of Salt, glass made from salt doesn’t trap IR and that green house warmed just as fast indicating Green Houses warm by the ‘roof’ effect.
The levels of CO2 trend down over time while fluctuating up and down due to Optimums and Minimums Warming and Cooling trends that last for multiple Centuries. We would have run out Millions of years ago if not for Super Volcanoes. Normal Volcanic activity doesn’t add enough, we require eruptions so large most creatures die during the event and in the months to years of climate calamity darkness and acid rains.
We are overdue for a Super Volcano marked by blue triangles on the first graph. That has placed us at a very low level of CO2, notice the last low 178 ppm was only 28 parts above the level of a massive extinction event. You can see on the 3rd graph how Dust levels spike when Co2 is low as plants surrender the soils to wind erosion. Today’s rise in CO2 is a huge benefit to our societies but it isn’t new CO2. Its part of the CO2 Cycle and its being released by the Oceans as they warm. 18,000 years ago we had 2 kms of ice over most of North America. Its much warmer now and just as when you leave a cold glass of water on the counter, bubbles form on the sides of the glass as it warms. When our Interglacial Warm Period ends as all past warming periods have the Oceans will absorb the CO2 causing stress for plant life on land. Humanity is adding new CO2 to the atmosphere and are responsible for about 4% of the rise in CO2. The main concern about the new higher levels of CO2 is that it warms the Earth too much, this is ridiculous. The phrase ‘air cooled’ has huge implication for their story. Try use math the language of science to describe the forces at play on the frost, the Sun taking about 6-8 minutes to melt the frost while the ghg effect manages no change all day. Sunshine + DWIR = 7 minutes to melt, assign values to Sun and Down welling IR from GHG’s. Trivial?
Here we can see Frost under full GHG forcing all day long not melting, indication the entire GHG effect is quite trivial. Water Vapour the dominant GHG until about -55 Celsius is doing 95% of the nothing all day long. Water Vapour is also 100% of Dew Point, the other ‘heat trap’ in the atmosphere phase change is real and when it happens water vapour releases 20 times the energy to the night sky as the GHG effect and its not alarming in any manner. Taken in early October Mt Baker is a fine example of how air pressure defines surface temperature. Same distance from the Sun, same mix of GHG’s, yet its 23.5 Degrees colder at the top. Lapse rate shows air density matters for surface temperatures not the type of molecule present. Finally we see some Climate insanity, to help sell the story Corrupt Corporations and their NGO’s bend over in all kinds of ways to show they are ‘action’ oriented and do many things to sell fear and alarm over the natural trend to longer summers and shorter winters. There we see large quilts placed over snow to save it from the ravishes of the natural trend to longer summers in the name of inferring its humanities folly. Money well spent? The term to describe this trend is Optimum, a Latin word meaning the good times. Minimums are the opposite, to see what living through a multi century shift to shorter summers and longer winters look into how civilization fared during the Dark Ages. Less time to grow food more time depending on food stores. Climate alarmist lie about CO2 roll in climate, it follows, Oceans warm and off gas or cool and uptake in multiple century shifts. Oceans tell the story clearly they don’t worry about their funding.
If Climate was changing dramatically the trends in Oceans rise would deviate from their established trends. They aren’t Ocean fluctuation is trivial and well understood. Shore line structures build 3 times sea level rise for the duration of the life of the infrastructures, this means about half a meter higher than the present high water line, not alarming not threatening our coasts. Below shows the Ocean Conveyor Belt, returning surface waters to the surface about 800 years later and is why we have higher CO2 levels today. Its not your SUV or your Home Heating or Industry, its past warming events, Medieval Warm period, the times that Genghis Khan expanded his empire, the longer summers and milder winters is often a time of conquest. Notice how around the 1:50 minute mark shows a stream of the deep currents rising by Hawaii? That’s where the alarmist Muana Loa observatory records CO2 levels. The source of today’s higher level is the Ocean not mankind.
Because of the lag created by the Ocean Conveyor Belt the rise in CO2 was predictable as its is well established that CO2 follows Ocean temperatures up and down both short term by about half a year from surface waters off gassing and up-taking and long term by about 800 years. Past warming brings levels up, past cooling brings levels down.
Here we see short term fluctuation in co2 levels following seasonal temperature shifts in the Ocean. And more evidence of the 800 year long lag that supplies larger changes both up and down.