Climate Change in Perspective The Right Climate Stuff

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Climate Change in Perspective The Right Climate Stuff Research Team 1

Climate Change in Perspective The Right Climate Stuff Research Team 1

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) – retired NASA engineers/scientists • Natural variation plays a much more significant role in climate change • Over millennia, changes in Earth’s orbit, tilt, and wobble control climate. • The rise in CO 2 has caused a greening of the earth • CO 2 fertilization has greatly enhanced the production of food. • Increased CO 2 is not causing weather or sea level extremes! • CO 2 is safe, good and not a pollutant! • Human-produced CO 2 causing catastrophic climate change is purely political! • The public should be made aware of the facts. 2

Ex-NASA Scientists’ Assessment • Over 7 Years Of Extensive Climate Study. • A Team

Ex-NASA Scientists’ Assessment • Over 7 Years Of Extensive Climate Study. • A Team Whose Motto Is; “In God We Trust”, All Others Bring Data!” • Physicists, Chemists, Engineers, Astrophysicists, Physician, Mathematicians, Geologists and Meteorologist's; Many Ph. D’s, An Unusually Objective, Interdisciplinary Team. • Retired, So Not Beholden To NASA or The Administration. • All Non-Paid Volunteers & Not Working For “Big Oil”, Big Anything. • Willing To Risk Impeccable Reputations. • Non-Political. • A Team That Invites Input From Experts On All Sides Of The Issues. 3 • Website Address: therightclimatestuff. com

Conclusions of TRCS Research Team 1. Human-produced CO 2 is not leading to Catastrophic

Conclusions of TRCS Research Team 1. Human-produced CO 2 is not leading to Catastrophic Global Warming (CAGW) 2. IPCC conclusions are not based on empirical data, but on faulty models of unrealistic scenarios. [Garbage in Garbage Out] 3. The Green New Deal justifies policy and legislation based these faulty scenarios 4

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) – retired NASA engineers/scientists 5

3 2, 8 2, 6 2, 4 2, 2 2 1, 8 1, 6

3 2, 8 2, 6 2, 4 2, 2 2 1, 8 1, 6 1, 4 1, 2 1 0, 8 0, 6 0, 4 0, 2 0 -0, 2 -0, 4 -0, 6 -0, 8 Upper limit from bounding analysis. 1850 700 600 500 CO 2 400 1. 0 300 Upper Bound from 2 X CO 2 & Other GHG From measured temperatures 1900 1950 Year 2000 2050 200 100 0 2100 6 CO 2 Concentration, ppm Had. CRUT 4 Temp Anomaly. deg C Warming Projection from Greenhouse Gases

Tropical (20 S-20 N) Mid-Troposphere Temp. Trend Average of 102 Model Runs in 24

Tropical (20 S-20 N) Mid-Troposphere Temp. Trend Average of 102 Model Runs in 24 Groupings Balloons John Christy, University of Alabama, Huntsville Satellites

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) – retired NASA engineers/scientists • Natural variation plays a much more significant role in climate change 8

Paleoclimate Proxy Temperature From Loehle 2008 18 non-tree ring proxies around the globe Roy

Paleoclimate Proxy Temperature From Loehle 2008 18 non-tree ring proxies around the globe Roy Spencer, 2008 9

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) – retired NASA engineers/scientists • Natural variation plays a much more significant role in climate change • Over millennia, changes in Earth’s orbit, tilt, and wobble control climate. 10

EPICA Vostock Polar Bear Sub-species

EPICA Vostock Polar Bear Sub-species

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OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) – retired NASA engineers/scientists • Natural variation plays a much more significant role in climate change • Over millennia, changes in Earth’s orbit, tilt, and wobble control climate. • The rise in CO 2 has caused a greening of the earth 13

Change in Leaf Area (1982 -2015) https: //www. nasa. gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth

Change in Leaf Area (1982 -2015) https: //www. nasa. gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth

Dr. Sherwood Idso, Research Physicist with the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Research service

Dr. Sherwood Idso, Research Physicist with the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Research service at the U. S. Water Conservation Service laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, holding ambient and CO 2 enrichment signs above Eldarica Pines. Imagine Earth’s forests in a CO 2 enriched future. [numbers are parts per million] 15

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) – retired NASA engineers/scientists • Natural variation plays a much more significant role in climate change • Over millennia, changes in Earth’s orbit, tilt, and wobble control climate. • The rise in CO 2 has caused a greening of the earth • CO 2 fertilization has greatly enhanced the production of food. 16

Kg / Hectare USA Cereal Crop Yield ü Fertilizers ü GMO ü CO 2

Kg / Hectare USA Cereal Crop Yield ü Fertilizers ü GMO ü CO 2 (~12% of gain) 318 ppm CO 2 407 ppm CO 2

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) – retired NASA engineers/scientists • Natural variation plays a much more significant role in climate change • Over millennia, changes in Earth’s orbit, tilt, and wobble control climate. • The rise in CO 2 has caused a greening of the earth • CO 2 fertilization has greatly enhanced the production of food. • Increased CO 2 is not causing weather or sea level extremes! 18

Tropical Cyclone Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) 24 -month Running Sums – Dr. Ryan N.

Tropical Cyclone Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) 24 -month Running Sums – Dr. Ryan N. Maue – Updated October 31, 2018 Global Northern Hemisphere

Violent Tornados in the U. S. Since 1950

Violent Tornados in the U. S. Since 1950

* *Contiguous 48 States

* *Contiguous 48 States

“in summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence

“in summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale. ”

No Trends in Floods in USA 23

No Trends in Floods in USA 23

Federal online statistics only beg 1 n 1960 US Forest Area Burned 1926 -2017

Federal online statistics only beg 1 n 1960 US Forest Area Burned 1926 -2017 24

US Forest Area Burned 1926 -2017 Federal online statistics only beg 1 n 1960

US Forest Area Burned 1926 -2017 Federal online statistics only beg 1 n 1960 The 2019 US Climate Assessment only reported data from 1983. 25

Over the last 60 years, the top 2000 meters of ocean have warmed an

Over the last 60 years, the top 2000 meters of ocean have warmed an insignificant tenth of one OC.

No Significant Change in the last 6, 000 years! ~14 mm/year Image from Global.

No Significant Change in the last 6, 000 years! ~14 mm/year Image from Global. Warming. Art. com

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. . The Right Climate

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. . The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) – retired NASA engineers/scientists • Natural variation plays a much more significant role in climate change • Over millennia, changes in Earth’s orbit, tilt, and wobble control climate. • The rise in CO 2 has caused a greening of the earth • CO 2 fertilization has greatly enhanced the production of food. • Increased CO 2 is not causing weather or sea level extremes! • CO 2 is safe, good and not a pollutant! 29

Minimum Requirement for Plant Growth Agriculture Hot House Conditioning 30 Hal Doiron

Minimum Requirement for Plant Growth Agriculture Hot House Conditioning 30 Hal Doiron

Human Prosperity does not take a benign climate and make it dangerous. It takes

Human Prosperity does not take a benign climate and make it dangerous. It takes a dangerous climate and makes it safe. Paraphrasing Alex Epstein.

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) – retired NASA engineers/scientists • Natural variation plays a much more significant role in climate change • Over millennia, changes in Earth’s orbit, tilt, and wobble control climate. • The rise in CO 2 has caused a greening of the earth • CO 2 fertilization has greatly enhanced the production of food. • Increased CO 2 is not causing weather or sea level extremes! • CO 2 is safe, good and not a pollutant! • Human-produced CO 2 causing catastrophic climate change is purely political! 32

Who Could Be Motivated To Promote Man-Made Global Warming? • Progressives – One world

Who Could Be Motivated To Promote Man-Made Global Warming? • Progressives – One world society and redistribution of wealth. • Foreign Countries – Financial aide to reduce CO 2. • Wall Street – $ Billions In Commissions • Green Industries - $ Billions In Profits • Academia – Funded with grants to prove AGW. • Environmental Extremists Groups – It’s a religion. • Media – The public “buys” catastrophic stories. • Virtue Signaling – Corporations trying to show their green side to mitigate criticism. 33

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff

OVERVIEW • Human-produced CO 2 contributes insignificantly to global warming. The Right Climate Stuff (TRCS) – retired NASA engineers/scientists • Natural variation plays a much more significant role in climate change • Over millennia, changes in Earth’s orbit, tilt, and wobble control climate. • The rise in CO 2 has caused a greening of the earth • CO 2 fertilization has greatly enhanced the production of food. • Increased CO 2 is not causing weather or sea level extremes! • CO 2 is safe, good and not a pollutant! • Human-produced CO 2 causing catastrophic climate change is purely political! • The public should be made aware of these facts. 34