by Professor Hermann Harde, Experimental Physics and Materials Science, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg, Germany

Abstract: (link to full paper below. Published June 12, 2019)

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assumes that the inclining atmospheric CO₂ concentration over recent years was almost exclusively determined by anthropogenic emissions, and this increase is made responsible for the rising temperature over the Industrial Era. Due to the far reaching consequences of this assertion, in this contribution we critically scrutinize different carbon cycle models and compare them with observations. We further contrast them with an alternative concept, which also includes temperature dependent natural emission and absorption with an uptake rate scaling proportional with the CO₂ concentration. We show that this approach is in agreement with all observations, and under this premise not really human activities are responsible for the observed CO₂ increase and the expected temperature rise in the atmosphere, but just opposite the temperature itself dominantly controls the CO₂ increase. Therefore, not CO₂ but primarily native impacts are responsible for any observed climate changes.

Hermann Harde, What Humans Contribute to Atmospheric CO₂: Comparison of Carbon Cycle Models with Observations, Earth Sciences. Vol. 8, No. 3, 2019, pp. 139-159. doi: 10.11648/j.earth.20190803.13

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