In article <part1of1.1.fcbpkI9zc3ye#***@ue.ph>, ***@orcon.net.nz
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According to professor Plimer nobody has shown that the 97% of emissions that
are natural do not affect climate change.
There is a challenge for the climate emergency believers.
Yes, natural emissions affect the climate - it would be absurd to claim
otherwise. CO2 and methane absorb infrared radiation - this has been
known for well over a century and is easily proven. The more of these
gasses in the air, the less heat is radiated into space. This is why
Venus is hotter than Mercury despite being further from the Sun.
The thing he either doesn't know or more likely given his
qualifications, is intentionally leaving out is that natural emissions
aren't *adding* new carbon to the environment. The amount of carbon in
the carbon cycle is largely constant. The carbon in any plant or animal
around us was previously in some other plant or animal. Volcanoes do add
a bit of "new" carbon to the environment, but oceans, swamps, and the
weathering of rock also take a similar amount of carbon back out of the
environment.
Now we've gone and dug up a vast quantity of carbon that has lain buried
for tens to hundreds of millions of years, and we've thrown it all up
into the atmosphere all at once. This will of course have an effect
because as we know CO2 absorbs infrared radiation and there is now a
whole lot more of it in the atmosphere than there otherwise naturally
would have been.
If natural carbon emissions give us one climate, then natural carbon
emissions plus all the ancient carbon we've added will give us a
different climate.