The entire argument about human-caused global warming is based on one central theme: Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are leading to unusual and unprecedented warming. This warming will then be accompanied by a host of catastrophic climate crises.
But is that so? Here are four charts that contradict the claim that CO2 is causing warming. This information and charts come from Gregory Wrightstone’s recently published book “A Very Convenient Warming” (for more information about the issue please read the analysis titled “Years Without Summer” for the Northern Hemisphere” & “Climate Change is Due to the Action of the Sun and Not to Carbon Dioxide Emissions” equally).
- 1st Chart
Human CO2 emissions began to increase in the mid-20th century, but during the same period our planet experienced a drop in temperature, prompting many to predict in the late 1970s that we would enter a new ice age.
- 2nd Chart
The current warming trend began in the late 17th century and ended with the coldest period of the last 10,000 years (Little Ice Age). The first 250 years or so of warming occurred at near-historically low levels of CO2 and extremely low human emissions.
- 3rd Chart
In the last 10,000 years, there have been nine warming periods, all of which were warmer than today and all of which occurred at very low CO2 concentrations.
The current warming trend began in the late 17th century and ended with the coldest period of the last 10,000 years (the Little Ice Age). The first 250 or so years of warming occurred at near-historically low CO2 levels and extremely low human emissions.
- 4th Diagram
The warmest temperatures in the last 100,000 years were measured during the Holocene (Holocene Epoch) 8,000 years ago. Since then, temperatures have fallen, albeit intermittently.
Climate change is a fact, but this change is not due to human intervention. Obviously protecting the environment is a matter of responsibility. However, climate change is largely caused by a complex combination of natural phenomena that we cannot control and that have nothing to do with human intervention or the increase in carbon dioxide.
