CO2 Facts
Summary
TLDRThe video analyzes empirical climate data to argue rising CO2 levels are not causing catastrophic warming. It cites studies showing CO2 is plant food, so increased levels boost crop yields. Historical data shows wide temperature swings as Earth's orbit and tilt change over millennia. The present warming began before CO2 spiked. Models predicting disaster contradict real-world data showing positives. The site shared has more supporting data.
Takeaways
- 😊 CO2 levels have been decreasing over 140 million years, reaching dangerously low levels around 200 ppm
- ❄️ Adding more CO2 has diminishing warming effects at higher concentrations
- 🌱 Higher CO2 levels increase plant growth and food production
- ❄️ In past glacial periods, CO2 levels were dangerously low
- 🚗 Human CO2 emissions began accelerating in the mid 20th century
- 🌍 Current CO2 levels are among the lowest in Earth's history
- 🌱 More CO2 enables more plant growth and higher crop yields
- 🥗 Increased CO2 helps feed more people worldwide
- 🌡️ Modern warming began over 300 years ago, before CO2 increases
- 🚗 IPCC models have overstated warming compared to actual observations
Q & A
What is the overall perspective of the video on rising CO2 levels?
-The video argues that rising CO2 levels are not necessarily catastrophic or unusual, as CO2 levels have been much higher in the past. It states that more CO2 is actually beneficial for plant growth.
What evidence does the video provide that rising CO2 levels do not cause major temperature increases?
-It states that the warming effect of each additional CO2 molecule declines as concentration increases. So adding more CO2 has a diminishing warming effect.
How does the video characterize current CO2 levels relative to history?
-It states that current CO2 levels are near record lows for Earth's history. Levels were much higher in the Cambrian and Jurassic periods.
What does the video say about the relationship between CO2 and plant growth?
-It emphasizes that CO2 is plant food, so more CO2 means more plant growth and helps feed more people worldwide.
What does the video argue about the IPCC climate models?
-It claims the IPCC models have overstated warming by up to 3 times compared to actual temperature measurements.
How does the video portray the Medieval Warm Period?
-It shows data indicating temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period were comparable or warmer than current temperatures.
What does the video say about ideal temperatures?
-It argues that warmer temperatures are better for human advancement and health than colder temperatures.
What causes the glacial/interglacial cycles according to the video?
-Variations in Earth's orbit and tilt, known as Milankovitch cycles, drive these long-term climate changes.
What evidence does the video provide that modern warming preceded CO2 increases?
-Melting glaciers and rising sea levels started increasing around 1800, before CO2 emissions rose substantially.
How does the video portray current drought trends?
-It cites data showing droughts are not increasing globally or in the U.S. according to NOAA statistics.
Outlines
😀 Introduction to climate change debate and CO2 facts
The narrator introduces the video as discussing facts related to CO2 and climate change. He leverages experts in compiling data showing CO2 is not causing catastrophic global warming. He will present top 10 climate facts from co2coalition.org to allow viewers to draw their own conclusions.
😕 Diminishing warming effects of added CO2 molecules
The warming effect of each added CO2 molecule declines as concentration increases. The first 100ppm causes more warming than subsequent additions. We're at 400ppm, adding a few hundred more has negligible warming effect, since CO2 is only 0.04% of atmosphere.
😃 CO2 benefits - plant food and coming out of dangerous lows
CO2 is plant food, so more CO2 increases plant growth. In past glacial advances, CO2 fell dangerously low nearly eliminating life. Recent rise to 400ppm has slightly redressed that balance.
😊 Warming and rising sea levels preceded CO2 increases
Melting glaciers and rising sea levels occurring since the 1800s, before CO2 started rising, confirm modern warming is part of ongoing natural cycles not caused by humans.
🌡️ Expect ongoing natural temperature fluctuations
Temperatures fluctuated dramatically in the past 10,000 years due to natural phenomena. Our interglacial period is nearing its expected end in the ongoing glacial cycle. The current warming trend is not unusual in Earth's history.
😎 Previous interglacials were warmer than now
The last interglacial 120K years ago was 8°C warmer than now - polar bears and Greenland ice sheet survived. Current warming is not unprecedented.
🔭 Earth's orbit and tilt drive climate change
Earth's orbit eccentricity, axial tilt and precession drive glacial/interglacial cycles by influencing solar energy received. CO2 changes have negligible impact relative to these astronomical forcings.
❄️ Among the coldest periods in Earth's history
Current climatic epoch for past 2.6M years has had the lowest average CO2 levels in Earth's history. For most of history, temperatures were 10°C warmer than now.
📉 IPCC models overstate warming
John Christy's data shows IPCC climate models have overstated warming by 3X since 1990s. Models show catastrophe but real world data shows moderate warming trend.
😎 Warmer is better for human advancement
For human progress, warmer is better than colder - crop failures and disease decrease. With today's technology, warmer presents no catastrophe as models claim.
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Keywords
💡CO2
💡climate change
💡greening
💡interglacial period
💡natural cycles
💡warming
💡IPCC models
💡glaciers
💡sea levels
💡crop yields
Highlights
CO2 levels have been decreasing over 140 million years, dangerously close to vegetative elimination levels
The warming effect of CO2 declines as its concentration increases - physics fact
Increasing CO2 from 150 to 450 PPM causes much more plant growth - a benefit
In the last 4 glacial advances, CO2 levels were dangerously low
Current CO2 levels are near record lows in Earth's history
More CO2 means more plant growth and ability to feed more people
Modern warming began over 300 years ago, before CO2 increases
Melting glaciers and rising sea levels confirm warming predates CO2 increases
Earth's orbit and tilt drive glacial/interglacial changes, not CO2
We are living in one of the coldest periods in Earth's history
IPCC models have overstated warming up to 3 times higher than reality
Warmer is better than colder for human advancement and reducing climate impacts
More CO2 enhances corn production - a good thing IPCC has to obscure
150 years ago had more crop failures, pestilence - we're better off now
More CO2 means moister soil, plants and better growth
Transcripts
hey all welcome to the home of hard
science as always and every now and then
I do a compilation of facts that
illustrate a current issue of great
importance to ourselves the world our
children and one of those is C2 and
climate and the current theories that
are going around and laws being enacted
uh which have quite horrific uh
implications so I have been looking into
this area for the last few months and
being a chemical engineer I don't find
it too difficult In fairness not being
arrogant but I also leverage experts in
the field like professor John Christie
of Alabama and many many others and I've
leveraged all the work they've done over
40 years in this to not have to do it
all myself from the ground up uh so I
think I know where I am now pretty much
and here I'm going to go through a whole
bunch of facts at top 10 if you will
from the CO2 coalition.org I'll put the
website on on the screen and they have
put together a fantastic series of
actual climate and CO2 facts right
indisputable and no one has countered
them and when you put them all together
and I'll explain a little context I
think you'll be able to form your own
opinions and have much better
conversations with others about this
important topic uh so please do
subscribe and share this and I'll put a
link down below to all of the graphs
which you will Now understand after I've
gone through them you'll have them fully
internalized so here we go so here's the
website CO2 coalition.org and you can go
to the about and see all the great
professors and professionals involved
and forward slfs is what I'm going to go
through today it's an incredible
resource so the first Fact one we have
140 million year trend of decreasing CO2
dangerously You could argue because if
we got down to 200 PPM then you'd have
elimination of vegetative life on the
planet so this means no animals no
vegetation in extremes if you go well
below 200 so we're heading to a
dangerous place and luckily we got down
to around 200 and something and we bump
back up to around 400 based on fossil
fuel being burnt so we've slightly
redressed the balance that's one way of
looking at it Fact Two the warming
effect of each molecule of CO2 declines
as its concentration increases this is
really important any engineer seeing
this and hopefully many late people will
understand its massive import so the
first 100 PPM of CO2 in the atmosphere
does have X warming effect right but
when you add another 100 PPM of CO2 you
get much less extra warming effect than
you did for the first 100 and when you
get up to 300 or 400 where we are now
adding hundreds really adds very little
warming effect
so happy physics Happy Days for all of
us anyone can see that going up a few
more hundred adds booger all extra
warming effect and it's already a tiny
percentage of the warming effect on the
planet in the first case remember CO2 is
at 400 PPM which is 4 hunds of 1% of the
atmosphere and as you add more it has a
diminishing Vanishing effect on any
warming this is it very important fact
too
fact three first and foremost CO2 is
plant food and all the hiners say oh
you're overemphasizing that but it
should be emphasized if you increase CO2
from 150 PPM in the greenhous up to 300
and up to 450 which is where we are now
in the world with a greening world uh
you get much more plant growth so it's a
huge benefit for plants and we depend on
Plants because plants feed the animals
that we eat and and we eat the plants so
this is all beneficial very important
fact three fact four in the last four
glacial advances the CO2 level was
dangerously low and that's absolutely
true so you can see over the last
400,000 years we've got a cycle that's
repeatable of glacial events and it's
based on a cycle that we'll explain in a
lower fact down the list uh but you can
see this dramatic Sawtooth pattern and
at the end of each glacial cycle you
head towards a very dangerous low in CO2
for plant life but luckily nature and
physics steps in and it goes back up to
a healthier level so yes we've added
more than normal so this graph is true
we've added quite a bit nearly 200 PPM
in the last 50 years or so but the big
question is not this it's what relevance
has that got so this is a very important
fact four and fact five CO2 emissions
began accelerating in mid 20th century
and that's just shown here on the graph
but the question is what's the relevance
of that things change all the time but
what's the relevance so we'll get into
that fact six our current geologic
period quaternary has the lowest average
CO2 levels in the history of the earth
and here it is we're down on the floor
so in the tertiary Cretaceous and even
in the Jurassic where you had all the
dinosaurs and super manels going across
the planet full of forests and booming
life you know that was up at 2,000 PPM
and The Next Century we're not going to
get anywhere within a mile of that uh
but the whole planet was booming and way
back in the Cambrian explosion where all
the kind of animal and all the life
exploded on the earth it was up at
around 6,000 and that's when life
exploded so come on don't be taking the
Mickey here don't be trying to come out
with nonsense and tell us that this is
catastrophic down here H it's absurd so
I really love fact six fact seven
current CO2 levels are near record lows
we are CO2 improver and there's a bit of
kind of redundancy here but here shows
again 600 million years you can see the
Cambrian here in different data it was
actually up near 8,000 that's when life
exploded out of the earth and they've
got the Jurassic as well and it was up
at 2 3,000 when the planet was just
bursting with foliage and uh big
dinosaurs and stuff yeah and here we are
down here on the very Flor of CO2 so
anyone even suggesting CO2 going up and
down in this tiny band is going to make
a difference uh they've got a lot of
explaining to do and they should start
by explaining their modeling because
it's modeling that's used right that
might sound familiar to people who went
through Co modeling was used it's always
used fact eight more CO2 means more
plant growth and again this is a repeat
but it's just some figures here showing
the various plants beans tubers Etc uh
that get massive increase in growth and
this is commercial data and you get a
huge payback by increasing uh just a few
hundred PPM of CO2 so this is great for
everyone right especially with those who
have a plant-based diet H but animal
eaters too fact nine more CO2 helps to
feed more people worldwide and this kind
of follows on from the last one and
grain production is breaking records
NASA have published that the Earth is
Greening a hugely because the CO2 is
rising a little uh with what we're
putting in there so this is all a good
news story in fact nine where's the bad
news I'm not sure I think we have to go
and check the models of the UN right the
ipcc who are all funded from certain
individuals and we won't get into that
fact 10 modern warming began more than
300 years ago this is an important fact
so you can see here back in the 16 1700s
they had thermometers and it's been
going along and Rising right
particularly you could say since the
1800s but this trend broadly speaking
any engineer who claimed that the CO2
going up was causing this would be
laughed out of class uh but
unfortunately we don't have enough
critics out there these
days fact 11 melting glaciers confirm
modern warming predated increases of CO2
and we know we're coming out at the last
ice age so the glacier shortening begins
around 1800s and then it continues
and this has happened again and again
over the past tens and hundreds of
thousands of years we showed that
graphed earlier so here you are well
before the CO2 here's where the CO2 is
increasing and the vector has not
changed fact 12 rising sea levels
confirm modern warming predat increas of
CO2 and here we can see back in the
1800s with natural cycles and there's
geological movement of the plates as
well there's Myriad factors but they
ain't CO2
so here it is rising from way back here
they natural cycles fact 13 temperatures
changed dramatically during the past
10,000 years even never mind 200,000 or
400 right here's the temperature plot
for the last 10,000 alone and it's all
over the shop because there's Myriad
different natural phenomena occurring
and CO2 is the least of them so this is
only up to 20,7 by the way and it as we
showed earlier continues up as professor
John Christie in a recent interview I
link below fantastic he spent 40 to 50
years mapping data and he's published
papers and developed a NASA satellite
atmospheric temperature system and he
said the last 50 years we've gone up 0.5
and also we've gone up 1.3 since the
late 1800s and all we've got from that
is more Prosperity hugely increased life
expectancy a 90 plus reduction in
climate events and and we''ve pulled out
billions of people out of poverty and
our GDP has gone up massively so all the
good stuff has happened with 1.3 degrees
and what we're saying another. five or
one degree in the coming 60 70 years is
suddenly going to blow everything up
come on pull the other one fact 14
interglacials usually last 10,000 to
15,000 years ours is 11,000 years old so
we're at the tail end of an
interglacial and we can see here we're
coming out of it and we came out of it
way back on 50,000 years ago and we shot
up out of it in temperature 250,000
years ago and 350,000 years ago so this
pattern is clear as Crystal and we'll go
through the malanovic cycles which kind
of largely drive this but to say that
our temperature here is to do it us you
better show us the models the blackbox
model that buried within us is the magic
you show us your magic phones so fact 15
the last interglacial was 8° warmer than
than today polar bears survived
Greenland didn't melt and in Jurassic
even more so and again they just the
data here here's the modering warming
right starting around 10,000 years ago
primarily we've showed these graphs at
many different scales and here's the
emium warming back here and it was
higher temperature actually and uh
nothing bad happened fact 16 the current
warming trend is neither unusual nor
unprecedented absolutely and we've kind
of showed this already so here's various
kind of points in time and we can see
here that we're heading up now but again
we're following the chaotic cycle of
Nature and this is a 10,000 year graph
of course and that was from the
Greenland ice core data by the way some
of these are from Ice cor data some of
them going back to 1600 I showed you
earlier are actually using thermometers
Fact 17 and don't worry we're nearly
finished the current warming trend is
neither unusual nor unprecedented part
two
and here we have a th000 up to 2,000 ad
and basically you can see little Ice Age
here goes up again you know this is
moving along its own natural cycles and
and that's it and it was warmer back
here in the medieval warm period And
this is from I don't see the rest there
this is from Ice course as well also I
would guess fact 18 earth orbit and tilt
Drive glacial inter racial changes and
these are the minkovich cycles and these
are crucial so the Earth's orbit the
eccentricity the procession and the tilt
of the Earth all interact together to
influence how much energy comes from the
Sun to Earth and it's the Sun that
provides all the heat guys right so as
we change orbits and tilts moving
through the solar system and around the
sun we get these huge changes and the
CO2 is just trivial in the face of these
massive cyclic
shifts fact 19 we are living one the
coldest periods in all of Earth's
history believe it or not that's a fact
you know and again I showed you the
Jurassic earlier and Cretaceous and
tertiary you know we're down in the cold
space and even if we go up a bit more as
is naturally occurring now the question
is the proof the onus of proof is that
that will be a problem but all we've got
are begins with n models yes
models fact 20 for most Earth's history
is around 10° Celsius warmer than it was
today and again similar graph it's just
making that point you know that's just
the way it is in fact it shot up the
temperature and then we had the Cambrian
and life exploded so here we are down
here come on come on fact 21 ipcc models
have overstated warming up to three
times too much and yes uh professor John
Christie this may be his data he shows
multiple balloon satellite and other
reanalyses and here's what actually
happened but since the '90s in the ipcc
which comes from un which kind of comes
from Rockefeller I told that story
elsewhere and the League of Nations and
Club of Rome and all these groups since
the funding of the scientists towards
catastrophe came in the models all show
catastrophe but we know the real world
data say say that the models are
nonsense and the real world data shows
this steadily warming Trend and we'll
see it continue up but again no reason
to expect a major problem in fact
probably benefits as I've pointed
out fact 22 for human advancement warmer
is better than colder and there's no
question about this so we have 90
something per reduction in catastrophic
weather impacts since the 1930s this is
published and one reason is technology
we are in a nice warmer place now and
we're happier and we have technology to
not have floods cause major damage Etc
but on the fires uh the vast majority
are set by humans and lack of proper
forestation management has caused more
of those to begin to come up but they're
human driven not CO2 they're driven
directly by human policies and arson to
be quite honest so here we are at this
temperature and another thing to point
out don't think it's in the facts but I
would point out that around 10 times
more people die from cold conditions
than from too warm so we're already
stacked heavily towards wanting a little
more warmth not
less fact 23 and we'll stop at 25 CO2
increases enhancing corn production a
lot so this is on the record 2016
published so we're getting more food and
that again is UN fortunately for ipcc a
good thing so they have to kind of
dissemble and obfuscate even more in the
light of this fact 24 an ideal
temperature is not that of 150 years ago
and again we kind of touched this
already so crop failures pestilence and
all is what happened when temperatures
were colder so we're actually better off
now and better off even probably if
we're a little higher like 0.5 or 1
degree more H I'll take
it fact 25 more CO2 means moiser soil
moiser plants and better plant growth so
when plants get a little more CO2 they
actually use less moisture that's why
we're seeing deserts un desertify if
that's a word NASA has validated this
around the world so again all these
great effects until you go to the
modeling that shows disaster you can't
find any disaster you can only find
positives so real life data it's all
positive and the blackbox models it's a
disaster go figure tag 26 ideal
temperature is not that of 150 years
yeah we've kind of been through that one
and I said I'd stop at 25 but I'll just
have a quick look yeah this is
interesting after World War II CO2 of
course rolls massively temperatures
actually fell depending on the data set
Etc you're talking fractions of a degree
so you could argue what's the difference
and any anything else I want to show you
no droughts are not increasing in the US
from NOAA so that's important and also
the 2021 ipcc official report clearly
calls out around the page 160 uh that
there is no credible evidence linking
man-made climate change to any natural
occurrences like floods and droughts Etc
so the ipcc themselves quietly say that
but the head of the UN gero said say now
that the planet is boiling not warming
anymore it's boiling the seas are
boiling so again political geopolitical
nothing to do with science and dares for
droughts from NOA they're not
increasing and uh globally droughts are
actually kind of in Decline as I think I
mentioned earlier so that's it that's
the summary of the data I'm going to
finish and show you again the website
and I'll link it below and I gather
these graphs together in an easy format
in PowerPoint for you
at CO2 coalition.org
slfa and do take the climate quiz as
well and if you answer according to the
way I've been interpreting this uh
you'll probably get a high score I would
guess and rightly based on hard science
and empirical real world data well there
we have it folks so the facts as always
tend to speak for themselves I would
suggest and again we leverage experts
all the way and the CO2 coalition.org
headed up by a Princeton professor in
the appropriate Fields physics and
molecular interactions transmission of
energy Etc so it's perfect and huge uh
quantity of other professors doctors in
the field uh who are also with them in
the CO2 Alliance so I think it's a great
resource the links down below and also
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