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  • Cause and Effect

    That CO2 and temperature correlate  - rose together  - over millenia does not make CO2 the cause.  Temperature rising prior to CO2 increasing may indicate causation but is not proof.  CO2 has the property of inverse solubility; don't drop your Guinness.  

    However, there is an alternative hypothesis.  Sunspot peak frequency corrrelates 95% with temperatiure rise and coupled with the Danish CLOUD experiment, there is a case to stop the bandwagon of anthropogenic global warming before it destroys our economy.  

    The effect of implimenting Kyoto would be disaster for you and yours. This is a case of needing to treat symptoms of global warming as they occur, if they are serious enough, without invoking Big Brother government to attack complex causes.  The extremist model is not the only hypothesis.  There are serious scientific questions.  The spectal line of CO2 that is active in absorption is saturated.  Additional CO2 cannot cause more warming.  

    Francis T. Manns, Ph.D., P.Geo. (Ontario)

    On 'CO2 doesn't lead, it lags'--Turns out CO2 rise is both a cause and an effect of warming posted 2 years, 11 months ago 43 Responses

  • Global Warming

    Not much doubt on the warming, but there is another hypothesis available to think about.  The Danish National Space Centre has published experimental evidence in the Royal Society of London (A) showing that during sunspot minima (about now) the earth's geomagnetic shield is down and cosmic rays (particles) from deep space enter our atmosphere and nucleate clouds.  The paper is available from me if anyone wants to read it.  

    The second piece is this.  A paper in Science by Friis-Christianson and Lassen (1991) demonstrated a 95% correlation between sun spot peak frequency and warming.  Correlation is not causation, but in combination the two papers indicate that 95% of global warming is actually solar in origin.  

    Without considering error dispersion, lets say 5% is anthropogenic and the conservative temperature rise is 0.7 degrees C, the increment of global warming that might be anthropogenic is 5% of 0.7 degrees or Sweet FA.

    It's been unseasonally rainy here in the Great Lakes basin.  I attribute it anecdotally to the sun spot minimum.  "The shields are down Scotty!"  It's also been warming and the last sun spot cycle was a statistically short 10 years.

    Francis T. Manns, Ph.D., P.Geo. (Ontario)

    On 'Historically, CO2 never caused temperature change'--Not so posted 2 years, 11 months ago 19 Responses