By Jo Nova
Cynics are wondering what, exactly Australia got for spending $1.6 million sending 75 people on a two week junket in Brazil last year?
Australia, of course, got nothing, but this is the bread and butter currency for The Blob. How else can you convince bored bureaucrats to pretend warming causes cooling, and maintain the righteous indignation!
Getting a free trip to Brazil surely ranks pretty high on bragging lists at Saturday night dinners. That shine helps make up for the mental effort of selling your soul and pretending that Sunday night’s pot roast causes floods in Dhaka.
It also provides the inspiration to keep the next generation of Blobocrats focused. The underlings learn that people who shed tears about climate change get rewarded, while the critics don’t. Just one ill advised remark, one careless joke, could compromise the plane tickets.
Australia spends $1.6m sending 75 officials to Brazil for UN climate climate summit
Responses to Senate estimates questions on notice have revealed Department of Climate Change and Energy sent 32 officials, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade sent nine officials, and the Department of Agriculture sent one official to Belém, Brazil in November last year for the UN Conference of the Parties summit.
And the Department of Climate Change budgeted $1.6m for their 32 officials to fly to Brazil, it said.
And this $395,000 (described below)– it’s just an investment for the future. One day a Youth Climate Coalition leader will end up in a heavily edited documentary promoting your Department. Think of this as advertising money and it all makes sense….
The department also revealed it disbursed a $395,000 grant program for other organisations to attend the COP30 summit. This included groups like the Aboriginal Carbon Fund, Australian Youth Climate Coalition, United Nations Youth Australia, and Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia.
Remember, even as the Departments of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture enjoy their tours of the Amazon, that some fishermen, farmers and foresters have lost their jobs in Australia due to whimsical policy changes. Labor has recklessly damaged these industries, while the Departmental Chosen Ones use their tax dollars to party in Latin America. See The Australian detail the $1.5m taxpayer bill for 75 public servants to attend UN climate change summit.
These C.O.P.s are always the same,
The delegates jet off without shame,
As fortnight junkets do appeal,
They delay the big ‘deal’,
Reached late on the last night, they claim.
–Ruairi
A complete waste of time and money and yet so many stupid people want to believe their CC fantasy?
Until they wake up and follow the data Aussies haven’t got a chance.
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The acronym, adopted by an indoor cricket team, 30 odd years ago was along your lines.
WOFTAM.
I’m sure you can work this one out.
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But never paid from their personal funds
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Hypocrites all. It is truly sickening. While many Australian families are struggling to pay the bills, including the ridiculously high electricity charges, politicians and bureaucrats spend like there is no tomorrow. Maybe they realise that there will be no tomorrows if we ever get a decent government.
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Which one took notes?
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Probably AI – it would have been the only form of intelligence there capable of coherent thought and action.
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I was searching for a phone app that supports living forever, I found one website but was blocked by a warning – Access Denied, Robots and AI Only
sarc
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Again , here’s the co2 emissions data since 1988 and annual NON OECD co2 emissions have now increased by 16 billion tons per annum and OECD annual co2 emissions are lower today than in 1988.
I’ve also added Nth America and the EU to try and wake people up.
That’s if we should be worried about co2 emissions. What do you think?
Isn’t co2 emissions reduction a lost cause? Just look at the data since 1988 and think.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=OWID_WRL~Non-OECD+%28GCP%29~OECD+%28GCP%29~AUS~European+Union+%2828%29~OWID_NAM~OWID_ASI
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It wouldn’t be quite so bad if the damage to industry was accidental. The real worry is that the damage is deliberate.
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Murder or Manslaughter – makes little difference to the victim(s).
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UN Official explains real reasons behind warming scare …
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But (and that’s a big butt) it worked!
High summer / peak troppo season / fantastic February* and yet COLD SNOW is forecast for your most-southern state in a few days time followed by MORE COLD SNOW a few days later over here on NZ’s South Island: see, it worked!
We Antipodeans are closer to Antarctica, and hence the South Pole, than we are to equatorial Belem (Baal’m?) in Brazil where it’s hot & humid 24/7/365 and the after-hours nightlife is just as steamy & exotic – compared to penguins on ice. How about holding the next Concerned Captains of Climate Party (CCCP) literally at the coal face, down under on the ‘bottom’ of the world, so these poobahs of sanctity (POS) can come to grips with our southern half and feeeeeeeel the difference (-40°C on the plateau dome yesterday).
* Februa was a Roman holy day celebrated at this time of year where naked young men would run through the streets whipping excitable women (playfully so) with strips of goat leather to ensure a fruitful fecundus forthcoming season… oh for the good old days 😃
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Utter disgrace, the pathetic mob in Canberra has not only deliberately devastated Australia as we knew it but smirk while doing it. None of this is an accident but a willful destroying of our formerly prosperous nation. The so called PM throws our money around like confetti without any sense or restraint. Not only Jo’s story above but six million to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Who knows what else! The PM and foreign minister’s affiliation with Islam gives me the creeps.
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I’d have thought the taliban would have been fairly well cashed-up with all the military hardware left behind by the departing USA forces.
That lot would have fetched a pretty penny on the international arms market, and they’d still have had plenty of toys left to play with themselves.
I really don’t think they need any more of our money.
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Some websites delete revealing comments like this one:- Consider Fabian Society of Marxists established in the UK late 1800s, and later the Australian Fabian Society which is effectively a Labor Club. Consider the far left UK unionists who migrated to Australia around the time of Federation of States 1900 and the many attacks on our nation including world wars sabotage of military equipment and other shipments via the wharves. Communist Party of Australia and infiltration of Australian Labor Party resulting in the 1950s split with the sensible Labor right (centre left) revolting and forming their own party DLP – Democratic Labor Party.
Consider the ACP mentoring of indigenous Australian university student activists around 1960s and introducing the leaders to the Black Panther Movement USA, and the many copycat activities including a “freedom” bus ride around the countryside. The description of “country” as “First Nations”, and so on.
And much more including in government using immigration to recruit new members for the ALP branches and used to be called “ethnic branch stacking”, read Confessions Of A Failed Finance Minister published late 1990s author Peter Walsh (former Labor Finance Minister), including the references to sensible right (centre left) cabinet members meeting with the PM and warning that it would result longer term in social unrest here. Consider 1970s Fraser Coalition Government decision to fly “oppressed minority” Lebanese for asylum in Australia and the programme stopped when Lebanese informants told the Fraser Government that their tormentors were masquerading as oppressed people to gain access to Australia.
Much more could be added.
For now, note that the PM today is a follower of the late Russian revolutionary Marxist Leon Trotsky. We applaud One Nation for offering a conservative side alternative but beware, the badly flawed preferential voting system could deliver Labor another victory in 2028 as the conservative side effectively dilute their parties and chances of victory because of the trickle down preferences voting system. We need to vote for One Nation if that is our choice [ 1 ] primary vote, but carefully select the preferences allocated to ensure that our vote does not flow to Labor, Green or Teal.
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By the way, current affairs and the demonstration outside Sydney CBD Town Hall yesterday following Supreme Court orders upholding the recent legislation of new additional laws regarding restrictions on inflammatory speech and words and disrupting the streets, one of the organisers and court appeal applicant is a Marxist Socialist.
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G’day Dennis,
I sort of agree with you, especially with your “flawed preferential voting system”, but have not found a way to achieve your:
” …select the preferences allocated to ensure that our vote does not flow to Labor, Green or Teal. ” , as I can’t put all 3 last, or 4 if the coalition candidate is a Lino.
Cheers,
Dave B
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Someone must be concerned enough to request a copy of all of the reports obliged to be submitted by these 75 travellers. Until we read first hand of the outcomes, we are tilting at windmills.
At 84, I am getting weary of such action myself.
Some younger people must know about Freedom of Information requests. It does not take much time or effort or cost to submit them. The findings should have a fair chance to expose whether the trips were genuinely beneficial ideas or something that should be stopped.
Just do it. There must be many law graduates keen to exercise their skills. Geoff S
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This link states that 77 Australian delegates attended COP OUT 31. It also lists the overflows for each country- Australia had a further 417 attendees (presumably staff assisting the delegates or freeloaders). Australia punches above its weight when it comes to the number of people attending a grifting convention.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-have-sent-the-most-delegates-to-cop30/
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Congo seems an odd one.
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DRC? If so, they and Nigeria seem to be overrepresented. China sending the 2nd highest number of delegates makes sense. They would have treated it like a sales expo with a view to flogging off renewables infrastructure to clueless Western nations.
There is a certain irony with the climate change/Great Reset dilemma. The link below indicates there is a target to have African countries fully electrified by 2030- the same year many Western countries unrealistically have cited for achieving Net Zero. The UN seeks to suck up money to address poverty purportedly caused by climate change whilst African countries simply don’t have enough power. It’s false pretence.
The fact that the DRC and Nigeria are in the top 5 of attendees for COP OUT 30 seemingly is about an effort to satisfy their energy needs. Why would you go to a conference in large numbers when your so-called carbon footprint is negligible?
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/nigeria-drc-lead-global-ranking-of-countries-with-most-people-without-electricity/tef43n6?op=1
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Sheesh, that should be COP OUT 30 for #8.1. I might have been misplaced by the thought of the infinitely incompetent Chris “Big Wind” Bowen being appointed as the President of Negotiations for this year’s conference. He likely will deliver the most irrelevant keynote speech of all time at the event.
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The last time I discussed law with a young solicitor socially I was told that AI is now widely used for guidance and time saving on research
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I wonder how many bureaucrats kept their heads after the (first) French Revolution broke out.
Sitting comfortably outside the centres of population with a comfortably life**, it may have been a shock to them.
**mostly supported by taxes and charges on the lesser population (and government borrowing to help with the deficit).
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Looks like an AI did the sums for the number sent and the bill. $1.6m for 32 staff, then another $395k for an undisclosed number of other staff (maybe 43?) to go too, then at the end only $1.5m for 75 staff. Does look like the first 32 must have dined well, though.
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75 praise-singing officials and $1.6m.
Pfft. The minimum entry price for Bowen to score the coveted COP 31 President (Negotiations) gig.
Just be thankful he’d didn’t come away with the whole catastrophe.
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Labor PM Rudd had his eyes on a senior UN position after politics and travelled to Copenhagen COP with many more people than the latest junket party
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Yes. What’s everyone on about? It’s only $20,000 each. A bargain for a holiday in Buenos Aires. Did they go Economy and stay at the backpackers?
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Again and I know this may be boring, but even their CSIRO tells us clearly that the NH is a NET SOURCE of co2 and the SH is a NET SINK of co2.
See the last couple of lines of their quote, from the Cape Grim site.
Very simple quote and data, yet they still want the OECD countries to WASTE TRILLIONS more $ for decades into the future and yet we’ll see no change at all?
Again why can’t these silly donkeys understand the simple sums over the last 37 years?
“Seasonal variation”
“Carbon dioxide concentrations show seasonal variations (annual cycles) that vary according to global location and altitude. Several processes contribute to carbon dioxide annual cycles: for example, uptake and release of carbon dioxide by terrestrial plants and the oceans, and the transport of carbon dioxide around the globe from source regions (the Northern Hemisphere is a net source of carbon dioxide, the Southern Hemisphere a net sink)”.
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Here’s their CSIRO link for Cape Grim.
https://capegrim.csiro.au/
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To plagiarise Jethro Tull’s Locomotive Breath:
Their love’s in the gutter
their source in the sink
(too ‘steamy’ for this hour of the morning?).
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That’s Thick as a Brick.
Locomotive Breath applies to Germany and their gas supplier
And the all time winner
has got him by the [naughty bits]
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Australia is already absorbing more CO2 than it produces, so if they were serious about achieving Net Zero they’d be building more coal and gas fired power plants, not shutting them down.
Of course, the long observable problem with politicians and public servants is that the vast majority of them don’t understand maths beyond simple arithmetic, and a lot of them need to take their shoes off to count to 20.
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As Professor Plimer continues to point out
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People need to notice that there is hardly any mention by CSIRO of the most important greenhouse gas – Water Vapour – apart from a brief reference to “humidity”. The problem is that they cant control water vapour in the atmosphere so it is entirely discounted from their alarmist commentary. Roy Spencers atmospheric measurements of temperature by satellite went up by around one degree in the years after Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’pai erupted and raised the water vapour in the atmosphere by around 10% (Milan et al)and the temperature measurements are now coming down dramatically. Where are the comparative measurements of water vapour with temperature? They also need to tell us where they get their steady CO2 etc concentrations from over the last 1000 years – they certainly didnt measure it at Cape Grim until the 1970s. I presume they are estimates from the ice cores – but those dont look anything like a flat line. Its all very obvious spin.
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They went up again last month. Let’s see what you have to say when we get the next El nino.
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only by a very small amount and they regularly fluctuate up and down within the broader context of the downward trend so that’s a meaningless comment. I love a good El Nino!
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About the only good things to come out of COP30 was a nice increase in CO2 thanks to the hundreds of tonnes of jet A1 burned and a few hundred hectares of cleared rainforest.
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I am not a STEM professional, but I reject the concept of GHGs. And if they exist, which they don’t, water vapour is the opposite of a GHG. Humidity is related to maximum T, all other things being equal. Higher humidity equals lower T.
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Humans have been fully evolved for about 300,000 years and the greatest Human flourishing has occurred since Britain started the Industrial Revolution.
Therefore, in the last 0.1% of that 300 K time or since 1800 we’ve created the modern world and added another 7.2 billion healthier and wealthier people to the global population.
So where’s their so called CC CRISIS or EMERGENCY or even silly Biden’s EXISTENTIAL threat?
Surely we only need to follow the data and to understand their infantile fantasies to know we must call a halt to their ongoing lunacy?
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$21,000.00 per delegate for a two week jolly. Did they use champagne to clean their teeth?
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No, that was reserved for relaxing in a bath filled with bubbles
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Brazil: Used to be where the nuts come from. Now it’s where Australia pays $1.6M to export its ‘nuts’.
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Another recent short video from Lee Van Onsolen telling us that China etc are playing the OECD countries for fools.
If you watch just 5 minutes you’ll understand the data and become more annoyed. Sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhlyuDpvu24
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I don’t see it that way.
China and the developing countries are behaving like rational actors trying to build out their energy infrastructure, the same way OECD nations did in the 20th century (with energy-dense fossil fuels). Every responsible country should do this, to provide their citizen with the same quality of life the energy-rich west enjoys.
The OECD countries are playing themselves for fools by acting irrationally and sabotaging their energy infrastructure by loading it up with a bunch of inefficient, intermittent ‘renewables’ while depending on their rickety aging 20th century infrastructure to provide baseload/backup power when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine.
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And Donald Trump business man was right on top of it years before he decided to stand for election to POTUS
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Van Oselen is a fool. I told him he was being scammed by the climate botherer a decade ago and I was banned from further commenting on MacroBusiness.
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There was a woman with that surname working for the Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand and an organiser of a seminar around COVID-19 recovery period advertised as Building Back Better.
It was later cancelled I understand.
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These C.O.P.s are always the same,
The delegates jet off without shame,
As fortnight junkets do appeal,
They delay the big ‘deal’,
Reached late on the last night, they claim.
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Why only 75?
Why not have sent the whole Pepartment there including Blackout and only have given them a single ticket each.
Then, have left them there in the Jungle. They are all Left after all. They could have enjoyed the heat.
And what was their Hydrocarbon feet prints?
Turkey is next.
How many turkeys will get to go next time?
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Just another easy way to expose their dangerous CC BS and nonsense and using GDP per capitata expressed in 2021 $.
This is from OWI Data and you’ll note a near vertical climb in the graph after the 1820s.
Only 1 billion very poor people in 1800 and 8.2 billion much wealthier people today.
BTW the graph was basically flat for the first 1750 years or since 1 AD.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-average-gdp-per-capita-over-the-long-run
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Here’s the World’s GDP per capita from Macrotrends from 1960 to 2023 and easily proves we are much healthier and wealthier today.
This is expressed in US $ and in 1960 just 454 $ and today 13,169 $ or about 29 times higher than 1960 and 5.2 billion MORE people and yet much healthier and wealthier today.
So where’s their so called dangerous CC over the last 63 years? In fact the reverse is true according to the data.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/wld/world/gdp-per-capita
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Blackout has signed up to 5 orders of magnitude higher to Chinese from future generations of Australia than the $1.6M flushed on Brazil.
Barnaby and Pauline are the only ones in parliament trying to find out how much.
The problem is that Blackout has no clue on the cost. He still thinks grid scale WDGs are viable. The Chinese will be paid even if their solar and wind farms produce nothing.
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It was recently reported on Sky News that Federal Government expenditure on so called renewables transition is accounted for off budget so not available for public scrutiny, and even more recently that government watchdogs like Audit Office are frustrated about the restrictions on access to accounting even they are encountering
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It is not off budget. There is an allowance for establishing the contracts.
What you do not see is how it will impact future budgets because that is essentially unknowable now. You could assume the Chinese and other proponents build their farms under the Capacity Investment Scheme and then produce nothing. At minimum, they would expect a 7% return on capital. If proponents spend $60bn on the projects they they could expect about $12bn annual payments over a 20 year life irrespective of electricity revenue..
The money going to batteries under the CIS will probably not be all wasted because it adds value to existing rooftop solar. But building another solar or wind farm is just waste. And building more high cost gas plant is also wasteful but may have some potential to produce revenue.
Australia needs to rapidly pivot back rio new coal fired generation while extracting maximum value from the existing coal fleet.
If the Federal government provided capital guarantees for new coal plants, they would have rapidly rising tax income as the country started to fire again.
It is almost certain Tomago will close this year. I expect that will be a fatal blow for Federal Labor.
Remaining industry could be saved just by altering the scheduling system to require only dispatchable generation. The means the existing coal fleet would operate near their rated capacity; improving efficiency and making big reduction in unit operating cost.
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I am concerned and I am hearing the same concerns from media and others that the present poor state of Coalition affairs and public disagreements resulting in rapidly declining polling results and significant rise for One Nation.
Our flawed preferential voting system could deliver another victory to Albanese Labor, and dont be surprised if they do not decide to call an early election to take advantage of the Coalition weaknesses.
Problem for conservatives being One Nation gaining primary votes but preferences not well considered by voters and flowing to Labor candidates as the trickle down system distributes the preference votes.
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So why were co2 emissions so much higher over the last 600 million years?
Here’s the quote from the co2 Coalition Scientists and during the last full glaciation co2 levels fell to a dangerous 180 ppm.
“Contrary to the oft-repeated mantra that today’s CO2 concentration is unprecedentedly high, our current geologic period, the Quaternary, has seen the lowest average levels of carbon dioxide since the Precambrian. Though CO2 concentrations briefly peaked 320,000 years ago at 300 ppm, the average for the past 800,000 years was 230 ppm (Luthi 2008). The average CO2 concentration in the preceding 600 million years was more than 2,600 ppm, nearly seven times our current amount and 2.5 times the worst case predicted by the IPCC for 2100. Our current geologic period (Quaternary) has the lowest average CO2 concentration in more than 600 million years”.
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Here’s the link to the article and also 600 million years of co2 levels.
https://co2coalition.org/facts/our-current-geologic-period-quaternary-has-the-lowest-average-co2-levels-in-the-last-600-million-years/
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The co2 Coalition Scientists have also produced a new study that shows that the warming effect of co2 decreases significantly as the level increases.
This is called the logarithmic effect and the graph clearly shows this diminishing effect.
“Climate scientists have determined, and both sides agree, that the warming effect of each molecule of CO2 decreases significantly (logarithmically) as its concentration increases. This is one reason why there was no runaway greenhouse warming when the concentration of CO2 was approaching 20 times that of today. This inconvenient fact, important though it is, is kept very well hidden and is rarely mentioned, for it undermines the theory of future catastrophic climate change. Diminishing returns apply”.
Source(s): Wijngaarden-Happer 2025, Greenhouse Gases and Fossil Fuels Climate Science
Source(s)
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Here’s the link to the co2 Coalition article about the diminished warming effect of increased co2 emissions.
https://co2coalition.org/facts/the-warming-effect-of-each-molecule-of-co2-declines-as-its-concentration-increases/
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To save big, buy them one-way tickets.
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