485 Million Years of Non-Correlation! CO2 vs Temperature
Editors’ Note: As we read this, we got to thinking, which we admit is always a dangerous thing to do. The world is spending trillions on carbon capture, carbon trading, new forms of electrical generation, new vehicles, appliances, and social habits, all based on the assumption that C02 levels cause, let alone correlate, with rising temperatures. We are centralizing and regulating our economies not for the classic arguments of socialism but to save the planet. But all the horrors of socialism will befall us, even if for different motivations. What if all this effort is misplaced and the assumptions we are governing under are false? This new study shows there has never been a strong correlation between temperatures and C02 levels. How can one prove causation if one cannot even establish a correlation? Of course, correlation and causation are not the same, but if CO2 were causing temperatures to rise in a process we don’t understand, there at least would be a correlation. If this new study is correct, the lack of correlation is fascinating, if not revolutionary. Increasingly, it looks like this whole push for the past 50 years is a hoax to justify government control of the economy and individuals. That we can get this far without first establishing causation seems to show the power of computer modeling married to “scientists” who are more interested in politics than in science.
How in the world did this new temperature reconstruction get past the Climate Industrial Complex’s censor machine?
The recent publication by Judd et al looked at nearly half-a-billion years of global surface temperatures and found that, rather living in a time of extraordinarily high temperature, we are in a period of near-historic lows. In fact, the global temperature peaked 100 million years ago at about 96.8oF (36oC) which was 37.8oF (21oC) higher than the temperature for 2023 (59oF and (15oC)! The inconvenient fact for the climate alarmists is that Earth’s temperature has been in a 50-million-year decline.
We then compared this data to long-term CO2 data (see below) and found that CO2 and temperature don’t correlate very well at all.
For many years, the scientists at the CO2 Coalition have been educating thought leaders and the public about this fact.
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This article was published by the C02 Coalition and is reproduced with permission.
To read the entire study, click here and go to Science.org.
