Warm Up Your Below-Rudimenatary "Flood/Killfile" Filter, swill - Physicist William Happer: "There Is NO Climate Emergency" - Part 5

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Part 5

C'mon... let's hear it... bu bu bu but AllllleeeeeyyyyCaaaaatttt.... Happer's
not a cliiiimmmmatttte scientist!

Go ahead... piss, moan, cry and whine... just remember, your credentials are
Kindergarten-level compared to this guys. Oh... yeah... you can piss and moan
about them not having "climatology" degrees, but a PHYSICS degree encompasses
pretty much ALL, INCLUDING climate, so piss off.

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Here is another comparison of models and observations.

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The red curve here on the bottom is the year. It starts in 1975. It goes
through 2025 because model predictions are included. The top curve is
predictions by the international climate-alarm establishment, and the bottom
blue and green curves are observations.

The blue circles summarize temperatures measured with balloons. You probably
know that every day thousands of balloons are launched around the world in
North America, Europe, Asia, and the southern hemisphere. They measure the
temperature as they rise up to the stratosphere. So, we know what the
temperature of the atmosphere has been from these really good balloon records.
The warming observed from balloons is about a third of the warming that has
been predicted by models.

Nobody knows how much of the warming observed over the past 50 years is due to
CO2. There is good reason to that think much of it, perhaps most of it, would
be there even without an increase in CO2 because we are coming out of the
Little Ice Age. We have been coming out of that since the early 1800s, before
which the weather was much colder than now.

The green curve (in the chart above) is measurements from satellites, very much
like the measurements of a temporal scanning thermometer. You can look down
from a satellite and measure the temperature of the atmosphere. The satellites
and balloons agree with each other, and they do not agree with the computer
models. This is very nice work by John Christie at the University of Alabama-
Huntsville.

The alleged harm from CO2 is from warming, and the warming observed is much,
much less than predictions. In fact, warming is almost certainly beneficial -
it gives slightly longer growing seasons. You can ripen crops a little bit
further north than you could before. But there is even better news (to
increasing atmospheric CO2): by standards of geological history, plants have
been living in a CO2 famine during our current geological period.

This is a picture of our best estimate of past levels of CO2:

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The vertical scale, RCO2, is the amount of CO2 in the past that was greater
than it is today.

You can see on that scale that over most of the past, CO2 levels have been five
times, ten times. even twenty times greater than today. This period,
approximately the past 540 million year since the Cambrian Period, is the
Phanerozoic Eon, when we have good fossil records of life on Earth. So, we know
pretty well what life was doing during that time from the sediments.

During all of this period, with much higher CO2 levels, life flourished on
Earth. In general, it flourished better when there was more CO2. Plants really
would prefer to have two, three, four times more CO2 than we have today, and
you can see plants already responding to our currently increasing CO2 levels.

Let me show you an example:

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This is the greening of the Earth measured from satellites.

This picture shows areas of the Earth that are getting greener over the 20-year
period.

What you notice is that everywhere, especially in arid areas of Sahel (you can
see that just south of the Sahara) it is greening dramatically. The western
United States is greening, western Australia is greening, western India is
greening. This is almost certainly due to CO2, and the reason this happens is
that CO2 allows plants to grow where 50 years ago it was too dry.

Plants are now needing less water to grow than they did 50 or 100 years before.

Let me show you another example of what more CO2 does in terms of making plants
grow better:

This is a picture of Dr. Sherwood Idso, and it was actually an experiment done
here in Phoenix back in the 1980s.

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This pine tree, I believe, is a Mediterranean variety, the Eldarica pine. On
the left is a pine tree growing in the current CO2 level at that time, which
was about 380 parts per million, and on the right are pine trees growing in
higher and higher CO2 concentrations.

You can see that the more CO2 the pine trees have available, the faster they
grow. You can do this with almost any plant: corn, wheat, cotton-they all grow
better with more CO2.

This is the so-called pollutant that you hear about in connection with "the
climate "emergency."


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