The Andy May Paper on Climate Change (2)

Image credit

(No German translation of this post.)

Continued from here.

Another thought-provoking gem from the first post of Andy May's readable two-part series (second post here).

… 99.9 percent of the Earth’s surface heat capacity is in the oceans and less than 0.1 percent is in the atmosphere. Further, CO₂ is only 0.04 percent of the atmosphere. 

It beggars belief that a trace gas (CO₂), in an atmosphere that itself contains only a trace amount of the total thermal energy on the surface of the Earth, can control the climate of the Earth. 

This is not the tail wagging the dog, this is a flea on the tail of the dog wagging the dog. 

Extraordinary evidence is needed to convince us of this hypothesis. Since the impact of man-made CO₂ on climate has never been measured and is only crudely estimated with unvalidated models, the jury is still out on this idea.

The source.