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10 <br /> However, work continues in skeptical climate circles to understand how a number of gases with warming <br /> properties behave in a chaotic, non-linear atmosphere. Two recently-published papers found that doubling CO2 in <br /> the atmosphere led to minimal temperature increases. The calculated figures can be considered to be in margin of <br /> error territory and on past observational evidence they pose no threat to the climate on Earth. They also destroy <br /> the shaky scientific foundation upon which Net Zero rests. <br /> Eight Taiwanese scientists led by Professor Peng-Sheng Wei found that the sensitivity of the climate to a <br /> rise in CO2 atmospheric levels from 100 to 400 parts per million (ppm)was "negligibly small" at 0.3°C. The <br /> paper is complex and examines heat transfers as a function of longitude, latitude and altitude "as well as <br /> diffuse radiation determined by absorption bands based on wavelength, temperature and the <br /> concentration or pressure of carbon dioxide vapour." <br /> What the scientists are looking at here is the narrow absorption bands within the infrared (IR) spectrum <br /> that allow `greenhouse' gases to trap heat and warm the planet. Many argue that after a certain level the <br /> gases `saturate' and lose most of their warming properties. One simple way to understand this is to <br /> observe that doubling insulation in a loft will not trap twice as much heat. <br /> The saturation hypothesis would appear to explain how CO2 has been 10-15 times higher in the past without <br /> runaway temperatures,while the anthropogenic warming opinion does little more than provide scientific cover for a <br /> dodgy but fashionable extreme eco scare. <br /> The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims a climate sensitivity number based on doubling CO2 <br /> levels of around 3°C. But many climate models ramp up mass public hysteria by using 'pathways'with much larger <br /> and highly improbable estimates. The latter form the basis of numerous'scientists say'stories faithfully reported by <br /> unquestioning mainstream media. The Taiwanese scientists found that ground temperature warming of 0.3°C <br /> was associated with the increase from 100 ppm to 350 ppm and there was no additional warming at all as <br /> CO2 rose further from 350 ppm to 400 ppm. The current level of CO2 in the atmosphere is 420 ppm. <br /> Seven Austrian scientists have also recently concentrated on CO2 and the infrared spectrum, noting that a <br /> future doubling of the gas up to 800 ppm "shows no increase in the IR absorption for the 15 u-central <br /> peak". It is concluded that this can lead to 0.5°C warming at most. The scientists argue that climate <br /> models and their CO2 influences should be revised. Much more experimental evidence about IR radiation <br /> should be collected "before appointing current warming trends and climate change mechanisms <br /> monocausal to greenhouse gas theories." <br /> The recent papers on CO2 saturation are not the only ones to have been published lately. Earlier this year a <br /> group of Polish scientists led by Dr. Jan Kubicki supplied three papers arguing that above 400 ppm, "the <br /> CO2 concentration can no longer cause any increase in temperature." In 2023, three scientists including <br /> Atmospheric Professor Yi Huang of McGill University stated that: "in the CO2 band centre is unchanged by <br /> increased CO2 as the absorption is already saturated." In Chen et al. 2023, it is reported that CO2 had a <br /> severely reduced warming effect past pre-industrial concentrations. It was also noted that water vapour <br /> and cloud influences overlap and thus dominate absorption in the CO2 IR band. In 2022, the German <br /> Physics Professor Dieter Schildnecht set the CO2 saturation level at lust 300 ppm. <br /> The CO2 Coalition is an educational foundation that says it provides facts, resources and information about the <br /> "vital role" CO2 plays in the environment. It recently published a detailed paper that accepted humans had <br /> contributed most of the CO2 that has entered the atmosphere in industrial times. The paper is sub-titled: "How <br />
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