Carbon Dioxide: no big deal
Nexus|December 2021 - January 2022
Pure physics climate statistics explained in plain terms
Ian Phillips, based on research by David Coe, Walter Fabinski and Gerhard Wiegleb
Carbon Dioxide: no big deal

Introduction

Important new research on climate change has just been published by David Coe, MA (Physics), a retired researcher with a career in industry, specialising for a large part in the measurement of atmospheric gases using infrared absorption spectroscopy.

His paper, co-authored with Walter Fabinski and Gerhard Wiegleb, challenges the prevailing view on climate change. This view is, firstly, that the carbon dioxide resulting from fossil fuel use is the prime cause of the warming of the Earth's atmosphere and, secondly, that we must abandon our use of fossil fuels by 2050, in a policy of Net Zero, or risk an accelerating and eventually uncontrollable overheating of the planet. We are bombarded on a daily basis from almost every section of the media with stories of impending doom, unless we take immediate and decisive action.

The full version of Coe's paper is titled The Impact of CO2, H2O and Other 'Greenhouse Gases' on Equilibrium Earth Temperatures. It is available to read on Paul Homewood's climate blog, Not A Lot of People Know That, dated 31 August, 2021.

His findings show that the popular claims of carbon dioxide's ability to influence the planet's mean temperature have been grossly exaggerated, and are based on unsound science. Net Zero is therefore an overreaction and a misconceived policy.

What follows is a simplified version. – Ian Phillips

The Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity and HITRAN Database

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