Hi Richard, Population growth and fossil fuel consumption increased exponentially during the past 50 years while surface temperatures increased linearly. This questions the accuracy of anthropogenic climate change models. Anthropogenic influences include deforestation, but as far as I can tell, climatologists based this “forcing” on a few hard facts and intelligent estimations for unavailable scientific data. According to the latest research from Australia, photosynthesis and bacterial activity in man-made forests is less than a third of what happens in natural rainforests, but we do not have accurate figures for these natural vegetation regions, including crops and grazing for commercial use versus natural bush, grasslands and wetlands. We agree that correlation does not reveal causation. Even if direct correlation between fossil fuel consumption and surface temperatures was found, a third hidden variable could be the real cause and the other two variables only correlated effects. Perhaps biology and botany is not your specialist field but it would be useful to see 50 year historical records graphically depicting loss of natural vegetation. Thanks, Mike
Hi Richard, Population growth and fossil fuel consumption increased exponentially during the past 50 years while surface temperatures increased linearly. This questions the accuracy of anthropogenic climate change models. Anthropogenic influences include deforestation, but as far as I can tell, climatologists based this “forcing” on a few hard facts and intelligent estimations for unavailable scientific data. According to the latest research from Australia, photosynthesis and bacterial activity in man-made forests is less than a third of what happens in natural rainforests, but we do not have accurate figures for these natural vegetation regions, including crops and grazing for commercial use versus natural bush, grasslands and wetlands. We agree that correlation does not reveal causation. Even if direct correlation between fossil fuel consumption and surface temperatures was found, a third hidden variable could be the real cause and the other two variables only correlated effects. Perhaps biology and botany is not your specialist field but it would be useful to see 50 year historical records graphically depicting loss of natural vegetation. Thanks, Mike