By Jack Dini ——Bio and Archives--February 26, 2024

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Carbon dioxide is a gas that is of fundamental importance to life as we know it. If its concentration in the atmosphere becomes too low, the bulk of the living things on the surface of the earth will die, and the surface will become as barren as the other planets in the solar system. (1)

The carbon dioxide component of the earth's atmosphere is 0.04%, 4/100th of one percent. As an atmospheric gas, CO2 is an insignificant component except for plant life. The really absurd part is that this only 3.2% of that 4/100th of one percent of the atmosphere is man-caused CO2, 96.8% of the CO2 is naturally occurring. This means that human caused CO2 represents 1/28/1000th of one percent of the earth's atmosphere. That's a pretty small number, isn't it? For that reason alone, it is utterly stupid to continue worrying about human caused CO2. (2)

Since atmospheric carbon dioxide is present in extremely low quantities and has a narrow band of wave lengths that it absorbs, it cannot possibly compete in effect with the much larger total solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface. (1)

Past and modern climate change is driven by solar cycle variations and their effect on ocean circulation and heat transport. Climate changes are natural and not driven by atmospheric CO2. (3)

The globe's cities are warming primarily due to declining albedo (a measure of the reflectivity of a surface), not CO2 radiative forcing. (4)

Carbon dioxide fertilization has led to an enhanced greening trend in 72.6 percent of cities across the world since 1985, accelerating to 89.2 percent since 2001. This greening trend is the key factor towering the albedo-reflecting incoming solar radiation in urban areas, amounting to a 2.75 W/m2 increase in solar radiation reaching the surface from 1986 to 2020.

In contrast, the clear sky only trend from CO2 surface forcing only amounts to 0.2W/m2 per decade, or 0.02 W/m2 per year in the 21st century. (This trend only represents the forcing........

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