CO2 The Facts!

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• CO2 The Facts!
• L CO2 - 0.03 of air - is a minor greenhouse
  gas. Water vapour is at least twice as important.
  Methane, Ozone Nitrous oxide are also important
  Greenhouse gases. The total effect of all
  greenhouse gases is about 30degC.
• Man plays a minor part in CO2 changes.
• CO2 is being absorbed expelled from the
  biosphere/sea all the time. Mans contribution
  to this flux is only 4. CO2 is less than ¼ of
  the total greenhouse effect.
• L The Kyoto protocols are about reducing the 4
  flux of the CO2 fraction by a another fraction
  say 10. 10 of 4 of ¼ is 0.1 - worth about
  0.03 deg C. Even the top level most drastic (60)
  reductions of man-made C02 (which would ruin the
  world economy) could only reduce world
  temperatures by 0.2 degC
• How many matches must you burn in a large room
  to give the EXTRA CO2 concentration equivalent
  to the input of ALL the cars in the world in one
  year into the whole atmosphere?

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INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF SWT FORECASTS (1)
From Denis Wheeler (University of Sunderland)
Independent Report produced for consortium of
Insurance Companies - main findings published in
Journal of Atmospheric Solar-Terrestrial
Physics 63 (2001) p 29-34

• Weather Action long range forecasts reveal a
  remarkable capacity
• to predict periods when major storm, flood and
  freezing insurance
• claims are likely to occur.
• The forecasting system shows skill in predicting
  the severest, and
• most expensive, of gale events. All five major
  storms for the two
• year period were successfully predicted.
• The majority of major insurance claim episodes
  (around 55 per
• cent) for storm, flood and freezing damage
  during the survey
• period were predicted by Weather Action.

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