WHETHER ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING IS CONTROLLED BY CO2?

Abstract

An overwhelming majority of people the world over believe that the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is directly controlled by CO₂ emissions for which we, the human beings, are largely responsible. This dogma needs to be questioned, particularly from an earth science perspective, because the data set that the modern scientists employ and display is disproportionately small compared to the age of the Earth, which has been here for a good 4.6 billion years and the life itself is about 3.8 billion years old. Compared to the scales the earth has been operative on, the datasets environmental scientists work with are ridiculously insignificant for deriving any long term conclusions. We have tried to demonstrate that if the problem is addressed on geological scale by comparing the CO₂ variations vis a vis the temperature variations through the geological past, it is apparent that no relationship between the two can be established. In turn it is argued that only and only if, had there been a causal relationship between the rise and fall of CO₂ levels and the changes in Earth’s temperature in the geological past, it would have been reasonable to predict any global temperature changes for the future, which is not the case.