PrintOctober 18, 2009
CO2 driven global warming is not supported by the data
CO2 -- many seek to regulate it, legislate it, tax it, capture it, sequester it, cap it, trade it or otherwise control it. And they who do would have us risk nothing less than worldwide economic destruction based on the theory that not doing so will inevitably lead to catastrophic global warming. But one need only study the past two centuries of climate history to conclude that CO2 simply does not drive global warming.Let us start from the data. The plot of the mean global temperature anomaly in deg C for the data from the Hadley Centre from year 1850 to 2008 is shown below.Figure 1. Mean global temperature anomaly in deg C for data from the Hadley Centre.The above graph shows a linear warming trend line given by the following equation.Linear Warming Component of Anomaly in deg C = 0.44(Year-1850)/100 - 0.52Superimposed on this linear warming component of mean global temperature anomaly (linear anomaly), there is an oscillating component of the mean global temperature...(Read Full Article)
