In 1972 NASA Knew That CO2 Would Not Lead to Global Warming - Granite Grok

In 1972 NASA Knew That CO2 Would Not Lead to Global Warming

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It is chemically impossible for CO2 to warm the earth to any degree prophesied by three decades of left-wing alarmism. So, is it a bigger crime that NASA admitted as much back in 1972?

Scientists at Goddard Institute for Space Studies say the amount of carbon dioxide would have to increase ten times to achieve a 2.5-degree rise in temperature. More carob dioxide wouldn’t raise the temperature any further because the gas would have reached its absorption limit the scientists report.

The left has been all-in on CO2 as the culprit. We’ve long since demonstrated how solar cycles and water vapor are the primary drivers of warming and cooling cycles. Liberal urban heat-islands create more “warming” than CO2 ever will. But they insist we all live in them and bow to their urban “walkability” gods.

As for CO

Most of the impact of CO2 was reached by the time it hit 100 ppm, and the effect rapidly decreased since then. Going from 0 to 100 resulted in 18 w/m^2 downward forcing, going from 100 to 200 resulted in an additional 4 w/m^2, and going from 200 to 300 ppm adds another 2 w/m^2. The point being the slope is rapidly flattening, and even doubling CO2 from 400 ppm to 800 ppm will only result in a minor change in the new downward forcing.

There’s only so much warming it can cause, which NASA pegged at roughly 2.5 degrees nearly 40-years ago. Hardly a global problem. That amount of warming is inconsequential and would prove more beneficial than not. And,

Mother nature isn’t stupid. She isn’t going to create a natural doomsday bomb. CO2 has varied from over 7,000 ppm to as low as 180 ppm, and never caused catastrophic warming. The reason is the natural “off switch” in CO2 which is the logarithmic relationship.

Democrats, however, are convinced that you are stupid. They are lying to scare you into an economic system. Instilling fear in our children in case you refuse to buy into their catalyst for socialist economic redistribution.

It is important to continually challenge them, especially when the climate record – the science before it became politics – demonstrates the truth.

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