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The rats are starting to abandon ship:
CO2 Has Almost No Effect on Global Temperature, Says Leading Climate Scientist
Forget âsettledâ science or âconsensusâ â that is a political construct designed to quash debate in the interests of promoting a command-and-control Net Zero agenda. One of the great drivers of continual changes in the climate is heat exchange within both the atmosphere and the Earthâs surface. Current understanding of the entire picture is limited, and it seems the opportunity has been taken to fill this gap by blaming carbon dioxide almost entirely for the recent gentle warming. A new paper on the so-called âgreenhouseâ effect highlights the vital role played by oceans and water vapour flows. CO2 is said to have âminimal effectâ on the Earthâs temperature and climate.
The paper has been published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) and is written by meteorologist William Kininmonth, a former consultant to the World Meteorological Organisationâs Commission for Climatology and former head of the Australian Governmentâs National Climate Centre. Kininmonth argues that the oceans are the âvital inertial and thermal flywheelsâ of the climate system. If one wants to control climate, it will be necessary to control the oceans, he argues. âEfforts to decarbonise in the hope of affecting global temperatures will be in vain,â he adds.
In Kininmonthâs view, the recent warming is âprobably simply the result of fluctuations in the ever-changing ocean circulationâ. CO2 âmust be recognisedâ as a very minor contributor to the observed warming, and one that is unlikely to prolong the warming trend beyond the peak generated by the natural oceanic oscillations, he notes. He explains that the main driver of global temperature is the movement of energy in water, both in the oceans and the atmosphere after evaporation.
As COâ concentration increases from 0 to 600 parts per million (green bars), the total strength of the greenhouse effect, measured as the energy the greenhouse gases radiate to the Earthâs surface, barely changes (orange line). Source: Kininmonth 2022