Tuesday, July 22, 2014

About all that carbon dioxide in the air ...

It's said (by Science™) that we've gone from 300 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in pre-industrial times to 400 ppm today.  The implication is that industrialization is the cause of the increase.  But is it?

New paper: only 15 ppm (i.e. 15% of the increase) is from fossil fuels.  Hey, you don't want to be a Science Denier, do you?

3 comments:

Old NFO said...

It's all Bush's fault... er...

Dorsai said...

I call bullshit. If the increase in CO2 isn't from burning fossil fuels, then where is it coming from?

Borepatch said...

Dorsai, the largest component is from oceanic outgassing.