Tim Yeo, Esq., MP.,
Environment Audit Committee,
House of Commons, LONDON, SW1A 0AA.
8 July 2008
Dear Mr Yeo,
RE: CORRELATION BETWEEN CARBON DIOXIDE AND TEMPERATURES
Following on from your Committee’s warning to the British Government regarding the need to show greater commitment to tackling Climate Change, please inform me what evidence your Committee has for carbon dioxide increases raising temperatures.
The graph above which is based on official data
shows that while CO2 has risen dramatically over the last ten years world temperatures have decreased. Since there is no Global Warming arising from increased CO2 then there can be no Climate Change consequent on that supposed Global Warming.
Please explain on what evidence you base your recommendations.
Yours sincerely,
Piers Corbyn
Astrophysicist and Long-range weather forecaster, Director
WeatherAction. The Long Range Forecasters
Information on the graph showing world Temperatures falling while CO2 keeps rising over the last ten years.
The up-dated temperature measurements have been released by the
NASA’s Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) [1] as well as by the UK’s Hadley Climate Research Unit (Temperature v. 3, variance adjusted - Hadley CRUT3v) [2]. In parallel, readings of atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have been released by the MaunaLoa Observatory in Hawaii [3]. They have been combined in graphical form by Joe D’Aleo [4].
These latest temperature readings represent averages of records obtained from standardized meteorological stations from around the planet, located in both urban as well as rural settings. They are augmented by satellite data, now generally accepted as ultimately authoritative, since they have a global footprint and are not easily vulnerable to manipulation nor observer error. What is also clear from the graphs is that average global temperatures have been in stasis for almost a decade and may now even be falling.
1.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/msu.html
2.
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature
3.
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
4.
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/experts Joseph D’Aleo, Certified Consultant Meteorologist, Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), Executive Director Icecap.us The graph is also contained in a letter sent to the UN’s Climate Change Committee (the IPCC) and available on the UNCAPSA site:
http://www.uncapsa.org/Topics/IPCC_letter_14April08-1.pdf
