Sequester enough CO2 and you starve plant life, cut down on oxygen and CO2, and freeze the planet. We will then need to burn the furniture to keep warm which could tip over into burning the remaining oxygen while we all choke in the cold. Sound incredible? It is.

CO2 has come out of the planet during 4.5 billion years of volcanic activity. Plants use CO2 to produce carbohydrates,water vapour and oxygen. Free oxygen is not produced by volcanoes.

CO2 has the property of inverse solubility. Global warming from the sun forces CO2 out of the ocean in increasing quantities like warming beer. CO2 is the effect, not the cause of the warming.

The absorption wavelength for CO2 in the spectrum is filled. CO2 will not contribute any more heating. The analogy is adding a second Venetian blind to your window may not make the room any darker.

The planet has evolved mechanisms over geological time (4.5 billion years of trial and error) to protect itself. Earth’s climate varies for a lot of extraterrestrial reasons. The shortest periodicity has to do with the interplay of solar activity and cosmic radiation from the Milky Way. During quiet periods of solar activity, like now, cosmic radiation penetrates the atmosphere and creates clouds where conditions permit. Over long periods this cools the earth.

Most of the time however, sun’s magnetic activity induces earth’s geomagnetic field. The geomagnetic shields are up during most of the 11 year sun spot cycle. Earth’s cooling (1940-1965) and earth’s heating (balance of the 20th century) is 95% correlated to sunspot peak frequency. Short cycles induce cooling and long cycles induce warming. This is a magnificently balanced system because the total solar irradiance varies very little. The subtlety is the correlation with sunspot peak frequency.

Sea level is rising at 2 – 3 mm a year. Since the Pleistocene it has risen 125 metres and all the coastal tribes of the earth have a Noah. The coral reefs of the oceans have kept pace because of a symbiotic relationship with algae that keep them thriving in the sunlit surface of the sea no matter how fast sea level rises.

Modern coal-fired power plants produce electricity, water vapour and CO2; plant food not pollution.

Good post on C02. Unfortunately it makes far to much sense for todays lockstep liberal mind. The irony of which can be entertaining at times. The sky is falling type stories sell more than the truth.

If only it didn't fly in the face of what almost all climatologists believe to be true. Rampant CO₂ production is clearly a threat to the survival of the world. This sort of thinking is something like saying that humans need salt to survive, therefore eating a pound of salt every day would be good for you.  Or that pouring fertilizer on a plant continuously will be good for it.

Steve Hanson

Uppity Wisconsin