All people in America who pay even the slightest attention to the news have heard that the world is warming due to increased carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by humanity. This, we are told, is the scientific consensus. Those who deny the validity of this "fact" are compared to those who say the earth is flat or who deny the Holocaust. So, in that context, let me ask you a question.
What percentage of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in 2011 came from sources attributable to man? Is it
(a) 81%
(b) 58%
(c) 34%
(d) 22%
(e) 3%
The correct answer is (e) 3%. That's right, all human activity results in only 3% of all of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.
This is an astounding number. After years of listening to the global warming crowd talk about human caused climate change, I assumed that the human percentage would be something significant. It is not.
Realize just what this means. If the entire world spent trillions of dollars, cut economic growth dramatically and gave up all sorts of freedoms just to cut human production of carbon dioxide by 25%, it would not slow the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by even 1%.
The principal cause of increasing carbon dioxide, it seems, is release of the gas by the oceans. The water of the oceans has been generally warming for the last 200 years since the end of the so called Little Ice Age that lasted from the 15th century to the start of the 19th century. As the water warmed, it expelled more of the dissolved CO2 each year than the year before. If the trend continues over the next decade, the oceans will release more additional carbon dioxide per year than the entire amount currently being added due to humanity.
Before you become alarmed about the continuing increase of carbon dioxide, you should know that over history, there appears to be no correlation between atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and global temperatures. But that is not the point here. No, the key point is the true cause of the increase in carbon dioxide. It is not man.
What percentage of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in 2011 came from sources attributable to man? Is it
(a) 81%
(b) 58%
(c) 34%
(d) 22%
(e) 3%
The correct answer is (e) 3%. That's right, all human activity results in only 3% of all of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.
This is an astounding number. After years of listening to the global warming crowd talk about human caused climate change, I assumed that the human percentage would be something significant. It is not.
Realize just what this means. If the entire world spent trillions of dollars, cut economic growth dramatically and gave up all sorts of freedoms just to cut human production of carbon dioxide by 25%, it would not slow the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by even 1%.
The principal cause of increasing carbon dioxide, it seems, is release of the gas by the oceans. The water of the oceans has been generally warming for the last 200 years since the end of the so called Little Ice Age that lasted from the 15th century to the start of the 19th century. As the water warmed, it expelled more of the dissolved CO2 each year than the year before. If the trend continues over the next decade, the oceans will release more additional carbon dioxide per year than the entire amount currently being added due to humanity.
Before you become alarmed about the continuing increase of carbon dioxide, you should know that over history, there appears to be no correlation between atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and global temperatures. But that is not the point here. No, the key point is the true cause of the increase in carbon dioxide. It is not man.
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