Researcher Questions Extent of Carbon Dioxide’s Climate Effect
A Sept. 18 paper in the journal Climate Dynamics claims that the climate’s long-range sensitivity to carbon dioxide could be remarkably low.
In an Oct. 4 interview with The Epoch Times, the study’s author, Nicola Scafetta, noted that models assuming that our climate system is quite sensitive to carbon dioxide are “more alarming” than those assuming it is less sensitive.
“This alarm–this ‘climate emergency,’ in my opinion, does not exist,” Scafetta said.
Scafetta is an associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, Environment and Georesources at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy.
It’s crucial to work out our atmosphere’s actual equilibrium climate sensitivity, or ECS. (In plain language, ECS means the temperature change that can ultimately be expected from a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.)…