Humans contribute just 4% of the carbon dioxide that enters the Earth’s atmosphere each year but the ‘settled’ science of anthropogenic climate change states that this has caused a 50% rise in the trace gas since pre-industrial times. In fact, this arguable statement can be tested using carbon isotope data and the results are in from a detailed mathematical paper just published by a leading climate scientist (sceptic branch) Dr Willie Soon. His bombshell conclusion is that fossil fuels are not responsible for the recent increase in atmospheric CO2. This is despite the widespread scientific conclusion to the contrary that has the added advantage of backing the political Net Zero fantasy.
Needless to say, mainstream media and science will try to ignore this sensational finding from Dr Soon and his fellow author Jonathan Cohler. If it is true, or accepted as a reasonable proposition, it will destroy the main scientific basis for Net Zero. Although atmospheric CO2 remains at denuded levels compared to the past at around 425 parts per million, activists have latched onto the recent healthy rise at a time of a 1°C bounce back in global temperature from a mini ice age to spin politicised poppycock about fireball Earth.
Examining the different isotope signatures of CO2 derived from fossil fuels and other forms of the gas released naturally into the atmosphere, the authors calculated that hydrocarbons could account for between zero and 26% of the recent increase.
The scientists also introduce a second piece of evidence to back up their finding. Five hundred years of growth layers on a Caribbean marine sponge show the various CO2 isotope signatures remaining remarkably constant despite an enormous expansion in the use and burning of fossil fuels. From all this, the authors state that virtually all the recent increase in atmospheric CO2 comes from natural sources, rather than the accumulation of fossil fuel emissions. The paper’s central conclusion is that the contribution of fossil fuel use is effectively zero.
