FTA: "While rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the air can be beneficial for plants, it is also the chief culprit of climate change."
Lying bar stewards!
Climate Change: Definition
The popular but false belief that climatic factors (temperature, wind, rain, ice formation) are achieving more extreme peaks and troughs than in pre-industrial times. Includes the false belief that Carbon Dioxide levels have a major influence on global temperatures. (Actually, the effect is insignificant compared with that of sun, clouds and volcanic ash.) Includes the false belief that sea levels are rising significantly because of melting ice caps and will continue to do so.
The other issue is that rising temperatures can cause more CO2 to leave the oceans - where most of it lives - and move into the atmosphere. So, CO2 causes warming and warming causes CO2.
What does the data say? Well if we take a close look at the Vostok Ice Core data - that is the graph that Al Gore showed in his Inconvenient Truth film - the part with the cherry-picker, we see that warming always happens BEFORE the CO2 increase. That was already known when Gore made his film.
The implies to me that the temperature creates the CO2 change we see in nature and not the other way round. Also, it is not "just" before but several centuries before.
FTA: "While rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the air can be beneficial for plants, it is also the chief culprit of climate change."
Lying bar stewards!
Climate Change: Definition
The popular but false belief that climatic factors (temperature, wind, rain, ice formation) are achieving more extreme peaks and troughs than in pre-industrial times. Includes the false belief that Carbon Dioxide levels have a major influence on global temperatures. (Actually, the effect is insignificant compared with that of sun, clouds and volcanic ash.) Includes the false belief that sea levels are rising significantly because of melting ice caps and will continue to do so.
The other issue is that rising temperatures can cause more CO2 to leave the oceans - where most of it lives - and move into the atmosphere. So, CO2 causes warming and warming causes CO2.
What does the data say? Well if we take a close look at the Vostok Ice Core data - that is the graph that Al Gore showed in his Inconvenient Truth film - the part with the cherry-picker, we see that warming always happens BEFORE the CO2 increase. That was already known when Gore made his film.
The implies to me that the temperature creates the CO2 change we see in nature and not the other way round. Also, it is not "just" before but several centuries before.