Dedication

This study is dedicated to Pat Boone of Beverly Hills California for his generous encouragement, support, and financial assistance without which this study could not have been conducted; and to Dr. George V. Chilingar, Professor Emeritus, USC, for dedication to proving that human production of carbon dioxide does not contribute to climate change, as reflected in his book “The Evolution of the Earth’s Climate”.

In November 2021, ClimateCite Corp, a non-profit 501(c)(3) compliant educational and research entity and its sister company EnergyCite, Inc. engaged two Stanford educated Ph.D. physicists, Dr. Shahar Ben-Menahem and Dr. Abraham Ishihara through the research company, MODOC Analytics, to conduct an analysis of the atmospheric reservoir of Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) and the effect the June 15, 1991 volcanic eruption of Pinatubo had on the rate of change of the CO₂ quantity. The project was called the Pinatubo Study.

The first phase of this study used software to determine if we could detect inflection points (defined as changes in sign of established trend) that corresponded to a single major climate event within a data set of daily CO₂ concentration measurements; the event was the 1991 explosive volcanic eruption of Pinatubo in the Philippine Islands. The data set was the daily CO₂ concentrations reported by NOAA Mauna Loa. Hypothetically, if we were able to detect this event with statistical confidence, then we could use the same data set and software to produce evidence that Henry’s Law controls CO₂ atmospheric concentrations due to the solubility of CO₂ gas in the Earth’s hydrosphere. This example would be the first case which then would be expanded by looking at many different types of climate, weather and environmental events, such as human CO₂ emissions which are presumed and widely reported to affect global CO₂ concentration.

The Mauna Loa data set was selected by ClimateCite and its principal scientist, Bud Bromley, because it is widely recognized and reported and widely but not universally assumed to be the gold standard representing the net global average CO₂ gas concentration in the atmosphere. This data set was also selected because the data are readily accessible and have been measured since the 1970s.

Tom Tamarkin and Bud Bromley appeared on Rabbi Avi Schwartz’s podcast “Truth in Our Times” to discuss the Pinatubo Study and the issue of climate change.

A video recording of the podcast is here: The Pinatubo Study – Man Made Climate Change and the Smoking Gun