Feb. 27, 2008 (LPAC) -- A retired civil engineer and former dean of engineering at Monash University in Australia has dramatically demonstrated the close dependence of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on sea surface temperatures.
Prof. Lance Endersbee's curve of the relationship of the measured level of CO2 over the past 21 years to the global ocean surface temperature pretty well blows away the claim, which has been at the center of the genocidal drive to curb industrial development, that human economic activity is responsible for a significant increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. (open a larger graph in a new window)
Competent climatologists who are not on the payroll of the British-run global warming propaganda machine, already know that the Sun, not carbon dioxide, is the driver of climate change. What Endersbee's dramatic graph demonstrates is that the small addition of carbon dioxide contributed by man's economic activity (less than 3 percent per year of the atmospheric content of the gas) is dwarfed by the changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide due to absorption and outgassing by the oceans.
More than two thirds of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans, which serve as the world's largest storehouse for carbon dioxide gas. The cooler the seawater, the more carbon dioxide gas it can absorb. But when the water warms, the absorbed gas is driven back into the atmosphere. Seawater at 59 degrees F and atmospheric pressure, can absorb a volume of CO2 equal to its own volume. At a temperature of 50 degrees F, the sea water can absorb 19% more, while at 68 degrees F it absorbs 12% less than its own volume. In other words, most of the change in atmospheric CO2 level results from changes in the temperature of the ocean.
Comparing satellite temperature data over the past 21 years to the measured level of CO2 at the state-of-the art laboratory at Mauna Loa, Endersbee shows an almost perfect correlation of atmospheric CO2 to sea surface temperature. As the activity of the Sun had caused a warming of the ocean surface over that period, it was no surprise that atmospheric CO2 tended to increase. A period of reduced solar activity, which we appear to be entering, will allow the oceans to cool, causing a reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
However, in either case the CO2 level has nothing to do with the climate. Historical readings from the 19th Century have shown carbon dioxide levels much greater than those we see now. But these and other anomalies were systematically removed from the measurement record, as Dr. Ernst-Georg Beck extensively demonstrated (see "True CO2 Record Buried Under Gore.pdf).
One caveat: Despite the close correlation demonstrated in Professor Endersbee's curve, it is also possible that the levels measured at the Mauna Loa, Hawaii observatory are part of the gigantic global warming fraud. Mauna Loa is the world's largest volcano, and an active one. The measuring apparatus for CO2 is set right by one of the vents where the volcano outgasses. To the north, on the big island, is the world's most active volcano, Kilauea.
