Temperature changes lead CO2 changes

by Dr. Ed Berry

(editing in process)

Ice core data show temperature changes lead CO2 changes by about 800 years.

More relevant to today’s climate debate is that global temperature changes lead CO2 changes by about 12 months (Humlum and Koutsoyiannis, see references). They proved Assumption (2) is false because an event cannot precede its cause.

Pollard showed that temperature increases in freshwater systems increase their CO2 emissions.

Ferenc Miskolczi found how cloud cover and water vapor adjust to compensate for CO2 changes in a way that keeps the Earth’s average “optical depth” constant as the CO2 level changes, proving Assumption (2) is false.

Proof that Assumption (2) is false.

Other scientists have proved Assumption (2) is false. These proofs show:

1. Annual human CO2 emissions do not correlate with annual increases in the CO2 level,
2. changes in global temperature precede changes in the CO2 level by an average of about 12 months,
3. changes in solar radiation and the Earth’s albedo (reflection of sunlight) set the global temperature,
4. water vapor in the atmosphere adjusts to compensate for CO2 changes, thereby keeping the Earth’s radiation to space constant, and
5. planetary global temperature increases with the total mass of the atmosphere rather than with the CO2 or GHG level.

Proofs (a) and (b) are also evidence that Assumption (1) is false.

The key point is that Assumption (2) is also false.