‘What Is Driving Climate Change?’

 

For many – including the MSM, academia, the ‘scientific community’, etc. – the answer to that question is of course human activities like burning hydrocarbons, growing crops, and raising livestock.  All of this releases dangerous levels, in their view, of greenhouse gases (especially carbon dioxide) into the atmosphere, which in turn trap heat from the sun, causing catastrophic global warming/climate change.

But a dispassionate analysis of the data shows that greenhouse gases are not supercharging a rapid, dangerous change of the world’s climate.  A new report illustrates this yet again:

Popular claims that CO2 changes drive temperature changes currently or throughout the distant past “are based on imagination and climate models full of assumptions.”

 

A comprehensive new study details a stochastic assessment determination of the sequencing of CO2 variations versus temperature variations since the 1950s, over the last 2,000 years (the Common Era), and throughout the last 541 million years.

 

The robust conclusion is that the causality direction – with the understanding that causes lead and effects lag – clearly shows the temperature changes lead and CO2 changes lag on yearly, decadal, and centennial/millennial scales. In other words, “the reverse causality direction [CO2]→T should be excluded.”

 

The claim that CO2 increases drive temperature changes is thus a “narrative” only, as the claim that “humans, through their emissions by fossil fuel burning, are responsible for the changes we see in climate” can be regarded as a “non-scientific issue.”

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2024/07/garlington-what-is-driving-climate-change/.

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