Props to Joel Smalley who recently posted a YT video talking about the top five climate change lies. It’s an interesting video but the authors top five don’t really align with what I think they are.
Before we even start at lie #1, there is lie #0 (kind of like the zeroth law of thermodynamics). There was always lie #1 and then global warming was changed to climate change, so this name change is now lie #0. It is GLOBAL WARMING, not climate change. Climate change is, as usual, just the Orwellian game of changing the language. Words matter and the people who hate us realize this. We should not submit to using their revised language.
Onto lie #1 - CO2 is the Earth’s temperature control knob. To the extent that there is any correlation between CO2 and temperature, it’s the opposite of what is chanted by the people worshiping at the altar of global warming - rising temperatures create CO2 from out gassing of the oceans. And no, this out gassing of CO2 does not put us into some doomsday feedback loop where more CO2 = higher temperatures = more CO2 = higher temperatures, etc.
A simple demonstration of this out gassing (fun to do with kids) is to take 2 bottles of a carbonated beverage (I recommend club soda). One is at room temperature and the other is refrigerated. Put a balloon over the top of both bottles and open them. Keep the room temperature bottle at room temperature and put the refrigerated bottle back in the fridge. After 5 minutes (or 10, 15, 30 minutes) see which balloon is larger, which one has more CO2. It’s going to be the room temperature balloon, because warmer liquid will hold less CO2, just like our oceans.
The longest term data we have is paleo climate data from ice core samples. The accuracy of this is dubious but the tools we have available show us that CO2 has been much higher in the past and also shows zero correlation between CO2 and temperature - long term. There is room for a very wide margin of error here, so even if this data is close it tells a convincing story.
You can really get into the weeds and study the physics and chemistry involved in the CO2 claim and understand that it’s all bunk - it’s nonsense from the start. If you don’t want to or cannot invest that amount of time, at least understand that CO2 makes up .04% of our atmosphere. Logically, there is no way that a trace gas could be the “temperature control knob” for our planet…that should not even make it past the smell test.
I’ve done many deep dives into this topic. My initial deep dive was many years ago after I’d bought an electric car. I bought the car because it was really fun to drive and the maintenance was practically nil. This was before Tesla rolled out the Model 3 and EV’s were everywhere, mine was a novelty when I got it. I found that random people would come up to me and tell me that I was saving the planet and so on, “good for yoooouuu”. I never sniffed my own farts.
I had always just assumed that the global warming thing was true but I didn’t pay too much attention to it, I didn’t really think about it and it didn’t influence the way I had been living. But these people made me want to look, part of that being because I’m very skeptical about public opinion and the public in general. Anyway, there was a big surprise under every rock I turned over. And each rock I turned over motivated me to turn over more rocks. Underneath each one there was rotten lie - literally EVERYTHING the MSM and “science” had told me about global warming was a complete and utter lie. EVERYTHING! Even the basis for the argument, a total lie and a total fraud.
Below is the best playlist I have found on the topic of CO2 and temperature without finding a non-woke University and enrolling in some chemistry classes. There are 61 videos, but most of them are under 5 minutes. I think the best strategy is to watch 3 or 4 per day and give it 2 or 3 weeks. Some of the videos are tedious and some will have you asking yourself, “why am I watching this again?” But push through them, they are all very good and it starts coming together later and the earlier videos will be handy.
So this is my climate lie #1. Technically CO2 does have some bearing on the temperature of Earth, but we are well past the point in terms of CO2 concentration that it matters.