{"id":358601,"date":"2024-12-25T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T07:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=358601"},"modified":"2024-12-25T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T07:29:12","slug":"science-shock-co2-is-good-for-the-planet-peer-reviewed-studies-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=358601","title":{"rendered":"Science Shock: CO2 is Good for the Planet, Peer-Reviewed Studies Suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dramatic evidence has been published in a number of recent science papers that carbon dioxide levels are already\u00a0\u2018saturated\u2019, meaning little or no further warming is to be expected, and rising CO2<\/sub>\u00a0levels are all beneficial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Half of human emissions are being quickly pushed back into the biosphere, the scientists say, causing substantial, famine-busting plant growth, while the rest is entering a \u2018saturated\u2019 atmosphere and having a minimal effect on global temperatures. One of the papers accepting the human involvement in rising CO2<\/sub> is published by the CO2<\/sub> Coalition, which notes<\/a>: \u201cWe like CO2<\/sub>, so should you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of this work will be reported in the mainstream since it disrupts a \u2018settled\u2019 climate science narrative tied to the political Net Zero fantasy. But the opinion that humans control the climate thermostat by releasing CO2<\/sub>, leading to runaway temperatures, belongs to a dark period in science when it was captured to promote political aims. However, work continues in sceptical climate circles to understand how a number of gases with warming properties behave in a chaotic, non-linear atmosphere. Two recently published papers found that doubling CO2<\/sub>\u00a0in the atmosphere led to minimal temperature increases. The calculated figures can be considered to be in margin of error territory and on past observational evidence they pose no threat to the climate on Earth. They also destroy the shaky scientific foundation upon which Net Zero rests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eight Taiwanese scientists led by Professor Peng-Sheng Wei found that the sensitivity of the climate to a rise in CO2<\/sub> atmospheric levels from 100 to 400 parts per million (ppm) was \u201cnegligibly small<\/a>\u201d at 0.3\u00b0C. The paper is complex and examines heat transfers as a function of longitude, latitude and altitude \u201cas well as diffuse radiation determined by absorption bands based on wavelength, temperature and the concentration or pressure of carbon dioxide vapour\u201d. What the scientists are looking at here is the narrow absorption bands within the infrared (IR) spectrum that allow \u2018greenhouse\u2019 gases to trap heat and warm the planet. Many argue that after a certain level the gases \u2018saturate\u2019 and lose most of their warming properties. One simple way to understand this is to observe that doubling insulation in a loft will not trap twice as much heat. The saturation hypothesis would appear to explain how CO2<\/sub> has been 10-15 times higher in the past without runaway temperatures, while the anthropogenic warming opinion does little more than provide scientific cover for a dodgy but fashionable extreme eco scare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims a climate sensitivity number based on doubling CO2<\/sub> levels of around 3\u00b0C. But many climate models ramp up mass public hysteria by using \u2018pathways\u2019 with much larger and highly improbably estimates. The latter form the basis of numerous \u2018scientists say\u2019 stories faithfully reported by unquestioning mainstream media. The Taiwanese scientists found that ground temperature warming of 0.3\u00b0C was associated with the increase from 100 ppm to 350 ppm and there was no additional warming at all as CO2 <\/sub>rose further from 350 ppm to 400 ppm. The current level of CO2<\/sub> in the atmosphere is 420 ppm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven Austrian scientists have also recently concentrated on CO2<\/sub>\u00a0and the infrared spectrum, noting that a future doubling of the gas up to 800 ppm \u201cshows no increase in the IR absorption for the 15 u-central peaks\u201d. It is concluded that this can lead to\u00a00.5\u00b0C warming at most<\/a>. The scientists argue that climate models and their CO2\u00a0<\/sub>influences should be revised. Much more experimental evidence about IR radiation should be collected \u201cbefore appointing current warming trends and climate change mechanisms monocausal to greenhouse gas theories\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent papers on CO2<\/sub> saturation are not the only ones to have been published lately. Earlier this year a group of Polish scientists led by Dr. Jan Kubicki supplied three papers<\/a> arguing that above 400 ppm, \u201cthe CO2 <\/sub>concentration can no longer cause any increase in temperature\u201d. In 2023, three scientists including Atmospheric Professor Yi Huang of McGill University stated that: \u201cTransmission in the CO2<\/sub> band centre is unchanged by increased CO2<\/sub> as the absorption is already saturated<\/a>.\u201d In Chen et al.<\/em> 2023, it is reported that CO2<\/sub> had a severely reduced warming effect past pre-industrial concentrations. It was also noted that water vapour and cloud influences overlap and thus dominate absorption in the CO2<\/sub> IR band. In 2022, the German Physics Professor Dieter Schildnecht set the CO2<\/sub> saturation level at just 300 ppm<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CO2 <\/sub>Coalition is an educational foundation that says it provides facts, resources and information about the \u201cvital role\u201d CO2<\/sub> plays in the environment. It recently published a detailed paper<\/a> that accepted humans had contributed most of the CO2<\/sub> that has entered the atmosphere in industrial times. The paper is sub-titled: \u201cHow human emissions are restoring vital atmospheric CO2<\/sub>.\u201d The coalition has long promoted the role that saturation plays in tempering the effect of a number of gases with warming properties. Attention is often drawn in its work to the part played by water vapour that makes up around 4% of the atmosphere and contributes as much as 80% of the Earth\u2019s vital warming. It saturates over large parts of the IR spectrum, reducing the effect of other gases in their own specific bands. The coalition\u2019s board includes the distinguished Professor William Happer, who has long argued the merits of the saturation hypothesis, and it was recently joined by the 2022 Nobel Physics Laureate Dr. John Clauser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levels of CO2<\/sub> have been much higher in the past, with evidence of vibrant animal and plant life. Many plants evolved to thrive with higher levels than they feed on today, a period some scientists argue is one of CO2<\/sub> denudation. In its recently published paper, the coalition observes that the higher the CO2<\/sub> content in the atmosphere, the greater the pressure from physical processes to drive CO2<\/sub> into the oceans and vegetation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is borne out by considerable evidence, although the recent substantial \u2018greening\u2019 of the planet is largely hidden from readers reliant on mainstream media. In fact, the new \u2018green revolution\u2019 is feeding the world. The authors of a recent science paper,\u00a0Charles Taylor and Wolfram Schlenker<\/a>, state: \u201cWe consistently find a large fertilisation effect; a 1 ppm increase in CO2<\/sub>\u00a0equates to a 0.4%, 0.6%, 1% yield increase for corn, soybean and wheat respectively.\u201d The heavy greening of the Earth can be seen in a map first published in\u00a0Donohue\/CSIRO 2015<\/em>\u00a0and republished in another\u00a0recent paper<\/a>\u00a0from the CO2<\/sub>\u00a0Coalition. This examined the nutritive value of plants growing in enhanced CO2<\/sub>\u00a0concentrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The map was produced from satellite leaf data and shows that greening between 1982-2012 grew by 20-30% in India, West Australia, the Sahel and the Anatolian highlands. A more recent paper Chen et al.<\/em> 2024<\/a> found that greening had actually accelerated in the last two decades. The increase in CO2<\/sub> was found to be the dominant driver of the positive trend of the Leaf Area Index over most of the global land surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Daily Sceptic\u2019s<\/em> Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dramatic evidence has been published in a number of recent science papers that carbon dioxide levels are already\u00a0\u2018saturated\u2019, meaning little or no further warming is to be expected, and rising CO2\u00a0levels are all beneficial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":358602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691829997,691819134,691826523,691822252,691818154,691820151],"class_list":{"0":"post-358601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-carbon-dioxide-co","9":"tag-climate-alarmism","10":"tag-co2-coalition","11":"tag-global-greening","12":"tag-net-zero","13":"tag-the-science","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Screenshot-2024-12-23-202651.jpeg?fit=1559%2C919&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1vhT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":323585,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=323585","url_meta":{"origin":358601,"position":0},"title":"New Scientific Evidence That CO2 Emissions Can\u2019t Warm Atmosphere Because it is \u201cSaturated\u201d Published in Peer-Reviewed Journal","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"26\/04\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Further scientific evidence has emerged to suggest that the Earth\u2019s atmosphere is \u2018saturated\u2019 with carbon dioxide, meaning that at higher levels the \u2018greenhouse\u2019 gas will not cause temperatures to rise. A group of Polish scientists led by Dr. Jan Kubicki have published three papers recently, and according to the science\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Carbon dioxide\"","block_context":{"text":"Carbon dioxide","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/075062-space-Earth-Sun-stars.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/075062-space-Earth-Sun-stars.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/075062-space-Earth-Sun-stars.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/075062-space-Earth-Sun-stars.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/075062-space-Earth-Sun-stars.jpg?fit=1200%2C750&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":324091,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=324091","url_meta":{"origin":358601,"position":1},"title":"Climate Scientists Hail Boost to Global Plant Growth From Higher CO2","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"27\/04\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Both the quantity and nutritional value of plants is growing around the planet due to recent increases in carbon dioxide, claim the authors of an\u00a0important new science paper. The recent rise in carbon dioxide during modern industrial times, from a period of dangerous denudation, is at the centre of worldwide\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Carbon dioxide\"","block_context":{"text":"Carbon dioxide","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Global_greening_map1.png?fit=1200%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Global_greening_map1.png?fit=1200%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Global_greening_map1.png?fit=1200%2C480&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Global_greening_map1.png?fit=1200%2C480&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/0Global_greening_map1.png?fit=1200%2C480&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":362427,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=362427","url_meta":{"origin":358601,"position":2},"title":"The Saturation effect questions the prevailing narrative on CO2","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"16\/01\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The assertion that carbon dioxide is a \"pollutant\" has been the centerpiece of public policy on climate for the developed world in recent years.","rel":"","context":"In \"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)\"","block_context":{"text":"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide-co%e2%82%82"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0CO2-green-plants.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0CO2-green-plants.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0CO2-green-plants.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0CO2-green-plants.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0CO2-green-plants.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":322648,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=322648","url_meta":{"origin":358601,"position":3},"title":"\u00a03 Physicists Use Experimental Evidence To Show CO2\u2019s Capacity To Absorb Radiation Has Saturated","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"25\/04\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Adding CO2 to the atmosphere can have no significant climatic effect when rising above the threshold of about 300 ppm. Due to saturation, higher and higher concentrations do not lead to any further absorption of radiation.","rel":"","context":"In \"absorption of radiation\"","block_context":{"text":"absorption of radiation","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=absorption-of-radiation"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/00iStock-976912100.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/00iStock-976912100.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/00iStock-976912100.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/00iStock-976912100.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/00iStock-976912100.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":362000,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=362000","url_meta":{"origin":358601,"position":4},"title":"Paper Showing Earth\u2019s Atmosphere Has Become \u2018Saturated\u2019 With Carbon Dioxide and More Carbon Emissions Won\u2019t Make Any Difference Is Retracted Following Positive Coverage in the Daily Sceptic","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"14\/01\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Another important paper taking issue with the \u2018settled\u2019 climate narrative\u00a0has been cancelled\u00a0following a report in the\u00a0Daily Sceptic\u00a0and subsequent reposts that went viral across social media. The paper discussed the atmospheric \u2018saturation\u2019 of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and argued that higher levels will not cause temperatures to rise. The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)\"","block_context":{"text":"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide-co%e2%82%82"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0greennewdeal.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0greennewdeal.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0greennewdeal.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0greennewdeal.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0greennewdeal.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":357155,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=357155","url_meta":{"origin":358601,"position":5},"title":"Another Climate Sensitivity Study Finds Doubling CO2 Leads To 0.5\u00b0C Warming at Most","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"21\/12\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In a\u00a0new study, seven Viennese researchers provide more evidence the CO2 absorption band is already saturated at today\u2019s concentrations (over 400 ppm). Rising CO2 levels thus cannot drive significant global warming.","rel":"","context":"In \"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)\"","block_context":{"text":"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide-co%e2%82%82"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0clouds-over-ocean-wc.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0clouds-over-ocean-wc.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0clouds-over-ocean-wc.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0clouds-over-ocean-wc.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0clouds-over-ocean-wc.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358607,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358601\/revisions\/358607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/358602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}