Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was a Swedish scientist who first claimed that the burning of hydrocarbons like coal, oil, gas, peat, and wood may cause global warming.
In 1895, he calculated (incorrectly) that a doubling of the atmospheric CO2 concentration would lead to a 4-5o C rise in global temperature.
However, Arrhenius suggested that this increase could be beneficial, making the various climates on Earth “more equable” and stimulating plant growth and food production.
Then a showman/politician, Al Gore, gave life to the theory that extra carbon dioxide due to human activities will cause dangerous global warming.
But temperatures refused to obey the alarmist computer model forecasts. So they switched to the universal boogieman — climate-change, where every bit of bad weather was blamed on Western Industry.
But this did not scare enough people, so it morphed into climate emergency, which allows coal, oil, gas, cars, and cattle to be blamed for everything bad — floods and droughts, snowstorms and heatwaves, bushfires, coral bleaching, species extinction, and pollution anywhere.
But the carbon dioxide scare is proving false — it’s time for some climate sense.
Human activity can never control atmospheric CO2 or global temperature. Much bigger forces are at work — solar system cycles, earth orbital changes, volcanic activity (especially on the seafloor), El Nino episodes, declining magnetic field and magnetic pole reversals, variable cosmic rays and cloud cover, and absorption/expulsion of CO2 by the mighty oceans.
Geological records show that today’s CO2 levels are very low — so low that plants grow slower and need more water.
Moreover, the ice core records from Antarctica and Greenland show clearly that atmospheric temperature always rises before CO2 levels rise. So rising CO2 is the effect of rising temperature, not the cause.
Warming oceans are like warming beer — they both expel bubbles of CO2 into the atmosphere. When oceans cool, they take it back.
The dense plant and animal populations in equatorial regions show that humans need not fear global warming – in fact, the Russian president has welcomed the possibility of warming for his cold land.
We live in a natural warm interlude but we are past the warming peak. There will still be fluctuations and extreme weather events but the next big move will be global cooling — the 11th freeze-up in about a million years.
All it needs are oceans heated by submarine volcanoes, and skies made cold by volcanic ash that blocks incoming solar energy. This will trigger the evaporation of water from the oceans and heavy snowfalls on land.
Once the summer sun fails to melt all the winter snow, glaciers and ice sheets will advance again. The increased albedo from the snow and ice will cause further cooling.
Ice ages have been a periodic threat to much of life on Earth. As the ice sheets spread from the North Pole there will be massive depopulation and survivors will need to relearn hunter-gatherer skills or have access to reliable energy.
Wind turbines and solar panels will not work in snowy conditions and many hydro-energy supplies will also freeze up. Even the Great Niagara Falls froze in 1848 during the Little Ice Age.
But the UN climate bureaucracy will probably still collect climate taxes and organize well-fed conferences in places with a warm climate and reliable power.
Alarmism over climate is the great gravy train for academics, bureaucrats, speculators, globalists, and politicians seeking excuses for more power and more taxes.
“Climate emergency” is an exercise in global politics, not science. The plan is to scare us into transferring money and power from western nations to the UN — a fake answer to an invented problem.
Viv Forbes is a scientist with long experience in geologic history, cycles, computer modeling, industry economics and management of cattle and sheep on natural pastures.
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Geological records show that today’s CO2 levels are very low — so low that plants grow slower and need more water.
https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
https://skepticalscience.com/co2-levels-airborne-fraction-increasing.htm
Any one can write awesome articles, it’s all about putting some real facts with storytelling.
The climate scientist are on the Gravy train??? Wow thats a stretch, but thats what you would expect to come from someone who has worked his entire life in coal industry, and is a director of a coal mine https://www.desmogblog.com/viv-forbes
pretty sure internationally governments invest more in subsiding fossil fuel industry than what they spend on alleviating climate change https://reneweconomy.com.au/global-fossil-fuel-subsidies-reach-5-2-trillion-and-29-billion-in-australia-91592/
Well that article is long on rhetoric and short on facts. The UN convened the panel on climate change but it is up to individual governments and companies to address the issues. It is fact that the climate is warming, sea levels are rising, rainfall patterns are being disrupted and lives are being impacted as evidence see what is happening in Australia right now. And for the record the world will save itself despite America it its self righteous attitudes.
Climate change, a simple religion for the simple minded.
How come the author didn’t mention that greta thurnberg, climate change fearmonger, is a direct descendant from mr Arrhenius?
How about weather modification? Granted , human caused warming is an issue, but the number 1 cause is climate engineering. http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org
BTW, it was 62 degrees in the Chicago area on December 25th
i do believe in climate change….its been going on for billions of years, my biggest fear is like the meteor the size of 6 footy fields that recently missed earth by only 60k miles or so, like a bullet passing through the shirt sleve but missing the skin, and it was only detected after it passed our planet….some thing to put up climate change activists asses huh !
do you know whether a pot of hot water cools faster with something other than water in the pot, or does it cool slower?
have you ever thought about it?
now ask yourselves, how can the oceans we have cool off with so much garbage floating in it?
keeping in mind how much water there is in the oceans
won’t the oceans build up more & more heat in them?– heating up the air around us?– helping melt the ice sheets around the world?
then we have underwater volcanoes heating up the waters, adding to the problem, yet no one talks about them– whether there are more or less of them, their activity’s
everything has to be man’s use of fossil fuels?, the amount of farting cows do?– but never the amount of garbage put into the oceans?– or mother nature’s effect on anything
ever watch a politician make promises?– how any did they keep?
yet we are supposed to believe the garbage they feed us about things that get them bigger political donations?– that blames AMERICA for everything– puts the problem solving squarely on the shoulders of the AMERICAN TAXPAYERS?– allowing the rest of the world to do anything they want, for as long as they want?
THAT’S STUPIDITY — showing us what politicians think about our intelligence
In Ireland we pay carbon taxes, too!
Well put Viv Forbes .
You would think even the MSM could understand the explanation .
That’s a Christmas Wish !
The earth is in a natural warming cycle so it is unlikely that we will enter the positive feed back of an ice age event. This is when there is more ice left over from the previous year. This ice reflects sun light back into space better than the ground it covers. This causes further cooling and then more ice. We are always saying on this web site that controlling the weather is beyond human control. The above cooling feed back example may be an exception. All man has to do is put a fine layer of soot on the ice. This would absorb sun light and melt the ice. The soot can be such a fine layer that the human eye wouldn’t notice it.