CO2 Facts

Summary

The 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

00:00

😀 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.

05:00

😕 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.

10:00

😃 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.

15:02

😊 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.

Keywords

💡CO2

CO2 refers to carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that is emitted when fossil fuels are burned. The video discusses the relationship between CO2 levels and climate change. It argues that historical CO2 levels have been much higher without catastrophic impacts, so the small increase in modern times is unlikely to cause significant warming or problems.

💡climate change

Climate change in this context refers to the theory that human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are causing dangerous global warming. The video challenges this narrative by showing data that warming and climate fluctuations predate rises in CO2.

💡greening

Greening refers to increased vegetation and plant growth, which the video claims is caused by higher CO2 levels. It argues this is beneficial as plants absorb CO2 and provide food for humans and animals.

💡interglacial period

An interglacial period is a warmer period between long cold glacial periods in the Earth's history. The current interglacial began around 11,000 years ago, which the video states means warming is expected as part of natural cycles.

💡natural cycles

Natural cycles like orbital and tilt cycles drive dramatic climate changes over history, dwarfing any impact from human CO2 emissions, according to data shown in the video.

💡warming

The video shows data that warming began in the 1800s, before CO2 levels rose, and has continued at a gradual pace since then. It argues this modern warming is not abnormal compared to past fluctuations.

💡IPCC models

Climate models from the UN's IPCC allegedly run much hotter than real-world temperatures. The video suggests these models are politically biased to show catastrophic warming.

💡glaciers

Melting glaciers are often cited as proof of global warming, but data in the video shows they began retreating starting in the 1800s, before human emissions could have played a role.

💡sea levels

Like glaciers, the video claims rising sea levels clearly predate CO2 increases, again disproving climate change theories.

💡crop yields

Increased CO2 and modest warming is leading to benefits like enhanced crop yields and plant growth, countering climate disaster narratives according to video's data.

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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