I have been seeking out this relationship for decades. So far all I have found is an assumption based upon another assumption. There is no empirical data that defines the amount that CO2 affects the Earth’s temperature (all the models make a guess at this value, but as we have seen, these guesses are wrong). There is no empirical data that shows that man’s contribution to the CO2 in the atmosphere is not adequately countered by nature.

We do know, however, that historically CO2 increases follow temperature increases, as is happening with the end of the Little Ice Age. We also know that the earth, the soil, releases CO2 with increasing temperatures, which could explain why this pattern happens and is happening now. There is not yet empirical data that shows this portion of nature’s contribution to the CO2 in the atmosphere.

There is a large number of natural contributors to CO2, man adds a mere 2% to that value, and we do have empirical data that shows this. There are a large number of natural contributors to other greenhouse gases, and we have empirical data for some of this, too.

Other factors, perhaps less obvious, also are in play. I worked on an experiment on a satellite that measured energy input to the Earth through electrons following the magnetic field to the poles and measured the amount of energy that went back into space via the X-rays produced by the resulting auroras. Several other instruments also took measurements of other natural factors that affect the upper atmosphere. The net gains in energy are yet additional natural contributors to the Earth’s temperature.

There are studies that show that the plant and animal life in forests and jungles emit so much H2O that they also increase the temperature in those areas, increasing the average over the planet. Yet another aspect of global warming and climate change.

Global warming, the coming ice age, and climate change are complex processes that we have no handle on at all. What you may think you know, you don’t. Someone fed you BS, and you took the bait hook, line, and sinker, and now you are caught on their hook. If you are interested, I encourage you to seek out knowledge about the other aspects, processes, and natural impacts to climate. Climates are constantly changing and have since long before man was man.

After all, the Little Ice Age ended when man contributed to the air little more than his breath, the breaths of his draft animals, and his cook fires. What do you suppose caused that end? It wasn’t man. He didn’t truly industrialize until after WWI, the war to end all wars, and the Little Ice Age peaked a quarter millennium earlier.

Yes, reality (the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them). As always, I encourage anyone interested in learning about the climate and anthropogenic impacts to seek out that knowledge. Perhaps one day Mr. Zimmerman will as well.

Your takeaway from those two videos was the opposite of what they said. Long term prediction of the system is done every day. It is why we can make airplanes fly despite the turbulent flow that quickly develops in the boundary layer. It is why we can predict the wind drag on a car despite the turbulent flow at the back window. It is why turbulent flow is induced on golf balls, making their trajectories predictable.

What we cannot do is predict where any given molecule or “cell” will go next in a turbulent flow. We don’t have to in order to understand the long term macro-flow of the air. This same applies to long term solar cycles. When there were few sunspots over decades (long term), temperatures were lower than during a regular cycle of sunspots. We cannot predict the daily temperature from the number of sunspots, but we may be able to predict Little Ice Ages or maybe even the onset of the glacial periods of the current ice age.

But we need more data and information before we know whether the solar cycle truly is causal. The empirical evidence, so far, suggests it is.

The point is that because of its inherent chaotic and sensitivity to even small perturbations turbulence makes long term predictions of turbulent systems impossible. Not difficult, impossible. At least with today’s physics and computational technologies. Look at the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, a persistent vortex that has been observed for centuries and which in the last 20 years or so diminished in size by about 50%. No one predicted that, nor could they. And the same goes for the turbulent fluid dynamics of Sol which makes predicting sunspot activity a fool’s errand as well.

My 2 cents anyway.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PMerSm2ToFY&pp=ygUUdmFuIGdvdWdoIHR1cmJ1bGVuY2U%3D

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S3i6tJ4XNqA

I was going to parody AC/DC’s ‘TNT’ (Scott/Young/Young Albert 1975) referencing your comment on CO2, then realized, the second verse of the song pretty much works as written:

“I’m dirty, mean and mighty unclean
I’m a wanted man
Public enemy number one
Understand
So lock up your daughter
Lock up your wife
Lock up your back door
And run for your life
The man is back in town
Don’t you mess me ’round”

Blackwing1: It is obviously a coke bottle caught in some gear that is causing the ping.

https://x.com/SpaceBasedFox/status/1830180273130242223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1830180273130242223%7Ctwgr%5E0691139e1547ae6fbf992e1706eebb94da4d348b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F670248%2F

Most comments are saying it’s alien lifeforms, a lot are saying it’s ghosts. I think that they left the screen door unlatched and it’s banging open and shut in the solar wind.

But wait…

We hit -38°F on the back deck in January. It must have been anthropogenic climate change.

Warming. Cooling. Drought. Rain. Snow. Is there nothing CO2 can’t do?