The Betrayal

by DefendUSx

By Andrew Walden
Problems in the collection of atmospheric CO2 data parallel other absurdities in the global warming fraud. The Climategate scandal is exposing the massive and systematic fraud behind the fabrication of the worldwide temperature record necessary to make the case for global warming. But what about the record of atmospheric CO2?

The U.S. NOAA openly admits to producing a CO2 record which “contains no actual data.” NOAA temperature stations sited in ways that artificially inflate temperatures have been exposed over the past two years. CO2 observatories have similar flaws. Two of the five NOAA “baseline” stations are downwind from erupting volcanoes. All five are subject to localized or regional CO2 sources.

For some reason, they fail to mention the erupting volcano next door.

• During the 1969-74 Mauna Ulu eruption, also in Kilauea’s East Rift, Mauna Loa set two records for CO2 increase.

• Kilauea’s East Rift again erupted in 1977, expelling 32 million cubic meters of magma — and the 1977 rate of increase at Mauna Loa Observatory set another  record.

• In seven of the 25 years of continuous eruption since 1983, annual CO2 growth rates measured at Mauna Loa exceeded those of all previous years.

• Average CO2 concentration increase for the 17 non-eruption years is 1.00 ppm.

• Average CO2 concentration increase for the 33 eruption years is 1.62 ppm.

• Trinidad Head Observatory is on a Northern California peninsula jutting into the Pacific about twenty miles north of Eureka, CA. Like Samoa, Trinidad Head is subject to substantial vegetation-driven changes in CO2 levels from the surrounding temperate forests and wetlands. The prevailing winds come in off the Pacific, which are influenced by coal-happy China.

• The South Pole Observatory is just yards away from a power plant which burns jet fuel 365 days a year to provide electricity and heat for Amundsen Station. (Researchers claim that prevailing winds come from the opposite direction.) It is also about 800 miles from Antarctica’s Mt. Erebus volcano, which has continuously erupted since 1972. Because the atmosphere’s ability to carry water vapor is cut approximately in half by every ten-degree-C drop in temperature, the extremely low temperatures at the South Pole mean that only trace amounts of water vapor are in the atmosphere. CO2 mixes with water vapor in the atmosphere to form H2CO3 (carbonic acid), giving rainfall a slightly acidic pH and washing CO2 from the air. The uniquely dry and cold conditions of the South Pole prevent this from occurring, thus altering the natural atmospheric carbon elimination process and magnifying the effect of CO2 sources. Amundsen Station personnel and emissions from the 12,000-foot Mt. Erebus volcano are also implicated in the 1990s ozone hole scam.

• The Observatory at Point Barrow, Alaska is about 170 miles downwind from the Prudhoe Bay headquarters of the North Slope oil industry. It is therefore subject to a localized increase in man-made air pollution, including CO2 emissions. Coincidentally, of course, the Barrow Observatory was established in 1973 — just before construction began on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Barrow is also annually subject to several months of “Arctic haze,” which University of Alaska Geophysicist Ned Rozell indicates is from ex-Soviet and new Chinese “iron, nickel and copper smelters and inefficient coal-burning plants.”

CO2 produced by China’s massive and growing reliance on coal is being used to justify CO2 controls on the U.S. and Europe. The Pacific bias of these five “baseline” locations is hard to miss. If one were seeking CO2 increases, downwind of China would be the place to go find them.

The NOAA’s preference for warm maritime CO2 collection sites on ocean waters between 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south — including many reached only by boat — means that “flask network” collections are primarily conducted in highly humid areas. When the flasks are returned to Mauna Loa, the water vapor is removed by heating. This process breaks H2O out of the carbolic acid, leaving behind the CO2 to be measured in the dry air sample. Besides the South Pole, few CO2 flasks are sent to low-humidity desert areas with less airborne carbolic acid to measure as CO2. All of these variables create the opportunity for mischief.

Local CO2 consumption by photosynthesis can produce a profound daylight decline and nighttime increase in CO2 concentrations. Calculations to account for these and other local or regional fluctuations create a lot of room for “hiding the decline,” “fudge factors,” and the other CRU-style techniques characteristic of politically-driven “post-normal” science.

As the Copenhagen talks approach, the November 23 AP headline blares: “Mauna Loa Observatory’s carbon dioxide readings near worst-case scenario.” In the midst of the Climategate revelations, the AP replicates global warming front-man Geoff Jenkins’ 1996 Climategate scam by releasing “projected” CO2 concentrations of 390 ppm early — the “highest for the past million years” — “for the silly season.”

In 2008, Mauna Loa readings of 387 ppm were supposed to be “The highest in 650,000 years,” according to the U.K.’s Guardian. Can’t they make up their minds?

Of course, neither the AP nor the Guardian makes note of the fact that the latest CO2 increases come in the midst of a climatic cooling cycle. Nor are the “paleo”-records of CO2 “for the past million years” questioned, even as “paleo”-temperature records are completely discredited as being the fraudulent work of politically motivated hacks at the East Anglia CRU.

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) boldly announces the methodology behind its worldwide CO2 chart created from these “Flask Network” readings:

In case readers don’t get the point, the NOAA also explains (emphasis in original):

Processed, smoothed, interpolated, and extrapolated? Data extension? Data integration? No actual data? Making atmospheric measurements that will facilitate a predetermined conclusion?

Tags: Climate-Gate, climate fraud //