Mover Mike

ScienceDaily starts off with this headline, Increasing Carbon Dioxide Threatens Tropical Coral Reefs. Then in the first paragraph we read

Tropical coral reefs could be directly threatened by the buildup of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)

and some reefs may already be declining

That’s a whole lot of “ifs, ands or buts”. In the fourth paragraph the article states

Carbon dioxide is an important greenhouse gas produced by fossil-fuel use.

The article doesn’t say that 75% of the earth is covered by water and that the oceans are the the dominant source and sink for CO2. To reach their conclusions, the scientists make an assumption that CO2 ppm doubles by the year 2065. Keep in mind, as I’ve written many times, scientists aren’t very good with their hurricane frequency predictions one to two years out or the weather two weeks out. The authors don’t tell you that

there is now documentation…of an 850,000-year global-temperature sequence, showing that the temperature is oscillating with a period of 100,000 years, and with an amplitude that has risen, in that time, from about 5 °F at the start to about 10 °F “today” (meaning the latest 100,000-year period) (2). We are currently in a rise that started 25,000 years ago and, reasonably, can be expected to peak “very shortly”.

If, CO2 doesn’t lead temperature, but temperature leads CO2 levels, what drives temperature?

Robert H. Essenhigh, the E. G. Bailey Professor of Energy Conversion in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University, argues that “Arctic Ocean” model is the driver.

According to this model, the temperature variations are driven by an oscillating ice cap in the northern polar regions. The crucial element in the conceptual formulation of this mechanism was the realization that such a massive ice cap could not have developed, and then continued to expand through that development, unless there was a major source of moisture close by to supply, maintain, and extend the cap. The only possible moisture source was then identified as the Arctic Ocean, which, therefore, had to be open—not frozen over—during the development of the ice ages. It then closed again, interrupting the moisture supply by freezing over.

The rest of the article is concerned with the Impact of industrialization

Returning to the IPCC data…fossil fuel combustion cannot be expected to have any significant influence on the system …

In his conclusions, he states

the absorption coefficients for the CO2 bands at a concentration of 400 ppm are 1 to 2 orders of magnitude too small to be significant even if the CO2 concentrations were doubled.

Again, climate change is natural and ongoing. The impact of CO2 is miniscule as is man’s. The Global Warming, sky is falling fanatics, are selling you on a bill of goods that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. It’s a hoax!

Global Warming Robert H. Essenhigh Mover Mike

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