Maggie's Farm

feeblemind: CO2 has Zero Impact on Climate Change

The Kubicki study, published in Applications in Engineering Science, is explicitly contradicted by direct observational evidence. See Feldman et al., Observational determination of surface radiative forcing by CO2, Nature, 2015. What Feldman did was observe downwelling radiation in the spectrum of CO2. They found that the downwelling radiation increased at a rate consistent with the rise in the concentration of atmospheric CO2, about 0.2 W m^-2 per decade. If Kubicki were correct, then Feldman would have not observed the increase.

You can see one of their {very cool} spectroscopic instruments here.

feeblemind: Climate change is creating so much global GREENING

Greening is an expected consequence of the increase in atmospheric CO2. That’s why climate scientists have designed, built, launched, and collected evidence from satellites, such as from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board NOAA-20, that make these observations.

By the way, how did you think you knew about the extent of Earth’s greening?

In any case, greening is not sufficient to stop global warming. We know this because the concentration of atmospheric CO2 continues to rise, as does Earth’s mean surface temperature.