Life on earth is a mechanism that converts carbon dioxide to biological matter by absorbing solar energy. This means that the total amount of biomass on earth is an increasing function of time. We are a product of this process. The ocean acts as a reservoir of carbon dioxide and makes it possible for this process to continue. Additional carbon dioxide added into the carbon cycle of life by fossil fuels simply returns the fossils, that were once biomass, back to biomass. It is not possible for it to accumulate in the atmosphere. The carbon cycle cannot distinguish fossil fuel carbon dioxide from life’s carbon dioxide. Part of your body weight used to be fossil fuels.
The equilibrium level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is only a function of the solubility of carbon dioxide in ocean water and this amount reflects the equilibrium partial pressure of carbon dioxide on water at any given temperature. It follows that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide content are caused by changes in ocean temperature.
The Gore hypothesis of global warming assumes this causality in reverse. The ice core data going back 650,000 years that he cites to support his hypothesis does show a remarkable correlation between atmospheric carbon dioxide and temperature but they also show that carbon dioxide lags temperature. This aspect of the data has not been widely disseminated.
The results of scientific studies on climate change that are being widely disseminated are products of a perverse research program. Funding for these studies is only available to researchers who support the Gore hypothesis. The mission of of such research is not to determine whether Mr Gore is correct but to accumulate further evidence that he is.
Cha-am Jamal
Thailand
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