Point #3: Earth’s climate has always warmed and cooled, and the current rise in global

temperature is within the bounds of natural temperature fluctuations over the past 3,000 years.

● A basic understanding of the Earth’s energy budget, carbon cycle, and geological Commented [1]: One of the important things to
record, and the chemical and radiative properties of greenhouse gases, helps clarify understand first is that of earths energy budget
some of the key issues in climate science. Earth’s “energy budget” explains how even a
small change in the composition of the planet’s atmosphere could lead to a net warming
or cooling trend, but it also highlights the enormity of the natural processes and their
variability compared to the impacts of the human presence, and therefore the difficulty of
discerning a human “signal” or influence. The carbon cycle minimizes the impact of
human emissions of CO2 by reforming it into other compounds and sequestering it in the
oceans, plants, and rocks. The exact size of any of these reservoirs is unknown, but they Commented [2]: go to Carbon sinks fact
necessarily stay in balance with one another – Le Chatelier’s principle – by exchanging
huge amounts of carbon. According to the IPCC, the residual of the human contribution
of CO2 that remains in the atmosphere after natural processes move the rest to other
reservoirs is as little as 0.53% of the carbon entering the air each year and 0.195% of
the total amount of carbon thought to be in the atmosphere.
● About 50% of the CO2 released by the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities
has already been re-absorbed by the earth’s carbon sinks. Commented [3]: yes CO2 is increasing, BUT more
● From 2002-2011, 26% of human-caused CO2 emissions were absorbed specifically by than 50% of CO2 is being absorbed by the carbon
sinks
the world’s oceans.
● A 2010 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found Commented [4]: by the oceans ALONE, not including
other carbon sinks
evidence that forests are increasing their growth rates in response to elevated levels of
CO2, which will in turn, lower atmospheric CO2 levels in a negative feedback.
● According to an Aug. 2012 study in Nature, the rate of global carbon uptake by the
earth's carbon sinks, such as its forests and oceans, doubled from 1960-2010 and
continues to increase.
● Although the planet has warmed 1-1.4°F over the 20th century, it is within the +/- 5°F
range of the past 3,000 years.
● A 2003 study by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found
that "many records reveal that the 20th century is probably not the warmest nor a
uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium."
● A 2005 study published in Nature found that "high temperatures - similar to those
observed in the twentieth century before 1990 - occurred around AD 1000 to 1100" in
the Northern Hemisphere.
 ● A 2013 study published in Boreas found that summer temperatures during the Roman
Empire and Medieval periods were "consistently higher" than temperatures during the
20th century, which is around when CO2 emissions started to increase significantly.
● According to a 2010 study in the Chinese Science Bulletin, the recent global warming
period of the 20th century is the result of a natural 21-year temperature oscillation, and
will give way to a "new cool period in the 2030s."
● Over the past 10,000 years, solar minima (reduced sun spot activity) have been
"accompanied by sharp climate changes."
● Between 1900 and 2000 solar irradiance increased 0.19%, and correlated with the rise Commented [5]: the output of light energy from the
in US surface temperatures over the 20th century. entire disk of the Sun
● According to a 2007 study published in Energy & Environment, "variations in solar
activity and not the burning of fossil fuels are the direct cause of the observed multiyear
variations in climatic responses."
● In a 2012 study by Willie Soon, PhD, Physicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, a strong correlation between solar radiation and temperatures in the Arctic
over the past 130 years was identified.
● According to a 2012 study published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial
Physics, "up to 70% of the observed post-1850 climate change and warming could be
associated to multiple solar cycles."
● There have been multiple warming periods, and each one seems to have an increased
sea surface temperature than the previous warming period. If you look, the temperature
of the Medieval warming period is higher than that of the Roman warming period
(GRAPH 1). Therefore, it seems natural that the warming period we are in now is
warmer than the previous warming period (GRAPH 2). Commented [6]: save for end and show graphs briefly

Point #8: Science is skewed by politics and diplomacy.

● Media-driven hysteria used so TV companies can continue getting viewers and therefore
money.
● Alarmists are simply using saying climate change is fake to confuse people and cloud
their judgement.
● Greta Thunberg reportedly made $46 million between 2018 and 2019 at only 17-years-
old.
● When running for president in 2000, Al Gore only had $1.7 million, but since he became
a climate change activist, he now has upwards of $200 million.