Obsession about Carbon Dioxide

 This is an attempt to show how little carbon dioxide contributes to the atmosphere because it is difficult to visualise big numbers. For instance, trillions of dollars will be spent on the infrastructure for so-called green energy. So if one dollar time-wise equates to one second, one trillion seconds is 31,709 years!

Obsession about Carbon Dioxide

 

The sun is travelling through the Milky Way at 720 000 kilometres an hour. Earth is spinning at roughly 1000 kilometres per hour and its rotation or orbit around the sun it is travelling at 107 000 kilometres an hour and the orbit is elliptical. Yet we are told that carbon dioxide has the most impact on our climate. I asked a few friends what percent of the atmosphere might be carbon dioxide, and the consensus was around 25%. What do you reckon… before we go any further, write your estimate down. 

 

Here’s a practical experiment. Say the total atmosphere is one dollar; lay out one hundred one cent pieces, so that, one cent represents 1% of the atmosphere. 78 cents represent the amount of nitrogen and 21 cents represent the amount of oxygen, so move them aside, which leaves one cent or 1% of the atmosphere. Take the one cent coin and cut it into ten, each tenth of the coin represents 0.1% of the atmosphere. Now take one of those tiny one tenth of a percent piece and again cut it into ten pieces each to represent one thousandth of the atmosphere 0.001%. Four of those pieces equals 0.004% are the equivalent of the total carbon dioxide in the atmosphere… but wait, 95% of those four tiny pieces together is natural carbon dioxide. If it were possible to cut these 4 tiny bits into one hundred equal parts, four of them are equal to the amount of carbon dioxide released from fossil fuels. 0.00016%. You might agree that’s a very tiny amount.

 

There’s no doubt that the climate changes in cycles, but also there are anomalies and random weather events unassociated with normal weather patterns. There’s also no question that our planet has warmed since 1850, how else would an ice age end? (Little Ice Age 1330-1850). Therefore, it’s fair to say that any warming is mostly due to natural variability… but what about carbon dioxide? As we’ve seen, ninety five percent of atmospheric CO2 occurs naturally, and less than four percent of it is due to burning fossil fuels, so if CO2 is causing warming, how do we know which CO2 is causing it? It’s unlikely that plants spit out the CO2 from fossil fuels, and when we plant trees ‘to mitigate climate change’, how do we know which CO2 they are converting to carbon?

 

Simply put, the sun, orbits, water (solid, liquid and gas), and natural cycles are the drivers of climate, not a piddling amount of CO2. Anyway, our planet has always been a hostile, dangerous place due mainly to volcanism and the forces that make our geology so beautiful and dynamic. The good thing about carbon dioxide is that it supports the biosphere, and the little extra since 1850 has actually greened an area the size of the United States of America, which is significant because it increases biodiversity and therefore increases habitat.