CO2 Is Life — Welcome It

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The basic assumptions of those who claim a catastrophic effect of increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are so questionable that I do not understand how such theories can become dominant in modern times. CO2 has never driven climate, why should it now? I am not even convinced that higher concentrations are due to humans, who still contribute only a minute part to overall CO2 emissions.

The greenhouse effect is a misnomer, as the planet's atmospheric system is an open environment, unlike human contrived greenhouses, so the claim of analogous effects is misconceived. 

There is mounting evidence that climate change, a normal occurrence, is affected by complicated processes of natural variability, in which CO2 plays no significant part, and certainly not in the way suggested by the alarmed alarmists.

More than 90% of all creatures live in the warmer parts of the earth. It is good to be warm. But I am afraid there is no global warming going on, let alone one driven by CO2. Regrettably.

We have not even got our act together in terms of making sure temperature measurements are properly vetted, consistent, and sufficiently representative of "the world's temperature". The latter being another problematic notion. There are long term temperature changes that affect the entire planet, no doubt. But within these natural developments there is tremendous local variability. Most of the warming of the last 150 years has manifested itself in lesser cold in the cold parts of the world, rather than in a heating up of the warm regions. And what is the fuss about just a few tenth of a degree of warming over a period of 100 years, at a time when the planet is still recovering from an ice age?

If people had a genuine concern for climate change, in the age of the internet, even layman — without sacrificing much of their leisure time — could make use of ample opportunities to become well-versed in the true state of the scientific debate, which provides masses of papers and findings calling the simplistic alarmist story into question. But most people relate to the issue in their capacity as passive political consumers or adepts of the church of green alarmism. 

They become serious participants only when their dearest personal interests are affected (as opposed to a politically correct general disposition, something to signal that one is a good person, like going to Church on Sunday in more religious times), as when a wind turbine suddenly casts its shadow over their property, and quickly learn how nonsensical (even in terms of the objectives of the alarmists) and damaging the intrusion is. If people were genuinely engaged in the issue they would welcome any indication that the problem might not be such a big deal after all, instead they spit fury at those who make that reassuring claim.

To be bon ton, Germans get very angry at connoisseurs of foie gras, but they do not see the millions of birds and bats gruesomely crippled and slaughtered by the rotating abattoirs (i.e. wind mills) that deface Germany`s landscape.

It is ironic and telling that the so called greens battle the greening of our planet.

CO2 is life — welcome it.

See also Climate Data Credible? and Historical CO2 Levels.