Was the Climate ‘Better’ During the Age of the Dinosaurs? (More Climate “Facts” Bite the dust.)
PLEASE NOTE: 1) Every time I show a photo of a cement plant belching out carbon dioxide, people write comments saying that the photo is ‘wrong’ because that thick white smoke is not CO2. Thanks, it’s not, but the CO2 is still there. It’s just that you can’t see it. Cement plants are among the biggest CO2 emitters on the planet.
I’m sure this won’t be read by at least one person who’ll post a message saying the photo is somehow an ‘error.’ If you’ve read this far before posting, at least it won’t be you.2) “Taking the mickey” is a British-Irish expression meaning to make fun of someone or (in this context) to treat someone as an idiot and try to fool him with an absurd claim. Similar to ‘take the piss,’ ‘extract the Michael’ or ‘pull my leg.’
It probably comes from ‘Mickey Bliss,’ cockney rhyming slang for ‘piss.’ Cockney rhyming slang is… well, that will take way too long to explain!SOURCES
Ivor Cummins video
YouTubeCO2 coalition
https://thefatemperor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/25-Top-Climate-FACTS-CO2-from-Co2Coalition.org-resource.pdfLibrary of Congress showing link between CO2 Coalition and George C. Marshall Inst.
https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0002405/Marshall admission of funding by Exxon:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020913050409/http://www.marshall.org/funding.htmExxon annual donations:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150907045825/http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=36CO2 at 180ppm acc Coalition:
https://co2coalition.org/facts/dangerously-low-co2-last-four-glacial-advances/
(Taken from Historical Carbon Dioxide Record from the Vostok Ice Core (417,160 - 2,342 years BP – Barnola 2003))Pleistoicene CO2 below 180ppm:
https://www.thefosterlab.org/mptCO2 levels during Permian from:
“CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation” — Montañez et al, 2006CO2 levels during Permian
The Siberian Traps and the End-Permian mass extinction: A critical review – Saunders et al 2009
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Estimated-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-during-the-Permian-shown-as-parts-per_fig5_225378751“could increase it to more than 2000 parts per million by volume (ppmv) as accessible fossil fuel reservoirs are exhausted (3).”
“CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation” — Montañez, 2007“15 Pa (below Pleistocene minimum), 27 Pa (pre-industrial), 35 Pa (current) and 70 Pa (predicted future). After 35 days of growth, CO 2 had no effect on the relative growth rate, total biomass or partitioning of biomass in the C 4 species. However, the C 3 species had greater biomass accumulation with increasing CO 2 partial pressure.”
“Strain Effects of low and elevated CO 2 on C 3 and C 4 annuals”
Oecologia (1995) Dippery et al.
At a concentration of about 150 ppm or less, many plants die of CO2 starvation.
https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Carbon-Dioxide-Benefits-the-World-2.pdf
“Effects of low and elevated CO 2 on C 3 and C 4 annuals I1. Photosynthesis and leaf biochemistry” – Tissue et al 1995“Plant responses to low [CO2] of the past”
Gerhart and ward 2010
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03441.xJurassic map from:
“A new marattiaceous fern from the Lower Jurassic of Patagonia (Argentina): The renaissance of Marattiopsis”
Escapa et al. 2014“Palaeo-wildfires in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Western and Central Europe – Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental significance”
— Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments Dieter Uhl 2012Oxygen levels
Berner et al., 2007 http://www.sciencemag.org /content/316/5824/557.summarySolar luminocity reconstruction:
https://environmental-geology-dev.pressbooks.tru.ca/chapter/changes-in-solar-output-and-in-the-earths-atmosphere/Carboniferous map:
“Carboniferous macrofloral biostratigraphy: an overview”
Oplustil et al 2021
Publication: Geological Society, London, Special PublicationsOxygen levels from:
“Oxygen and Evolution” – Berner et al. 2007
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1140273See also:
Late Triassic and Early Jurassic palaeogeography of the world
Jan Golonka - 2007Jurassic deserts:
“Earliest Jurassic U-Pb ages from carbonate deposits in the Navajo Sandstone, southeastern Utah, USA” - Parrish 2019