Climate Science Made Real Simple

Are you pissed off by the climate change boondoggle, that CO2 is a polluting gas that must be curbed when, as anyone with half a brain knows, CO2 is a life-giving nutrient for plants?

Here's a theory of climate that will knock your socks off, from Jack Cashill at American Thinker. "Figuring out the lack of connection between CO2 and ice ages." It explains the whole procedure.

It's a great article and I suggest you read it yourself. But here is my take.

1. Ice ages are provoked by a cooling stage in the Milankovitch orbital cycles that are about 22,000 years per cycle.
2. But ice ages typically go on for 100,000 years. What gives?
3. Once big ice sheets have formed in the northern hemisphere the high albedo of the ice sheets -- reflecting the sun's rays and heat back into space -- prevents natural warming.
4. But the cold is bad for CO2 as the oceans absorb more and more CO2. And the low CO2 level is bad for plants, because CO2 is plant food. 
5. When the CO2 level gets down to about 180 ppm, C3 photosynthesis stops, especially at higher elevations, and that creates deserts in e.g., the Gobi desert.
6. Desert plus wind equals dust storms. You could call it Global Dusting. And dust on ice sheets lowers their albedo, absorbing the sun's heat and allowing the climate to heat up.
7. End of ice age and beginning of interglacial.
8. Return to Step 1.

For me there is one big "thing I didn't know" here.

I knew about the CO2 concentration going down to 180 ppm during ice ages. But it had never occurred to me that the result of that would be deserts and dust storms.

But when you think about it, of course it does! Sahara desert. Dust storms. Why, I read all about that in Biggles Sweeps the Desert as a young'un. In Biggles Sweeps the Desert there is a big dust storm -- "the dreaded haboob of the African deserts" -- in the Western Desert west of Egypt. Biggles and Ginger are caught in the storm while driving a German armored car in the desert.

Of course! And when you get the CO2 level down to 180 ppm and the whole of the northern hemisphere is a bloody dust storm that ends up polluting the sacred ice sheets with dirty black desert dust, well, what you get is runaway Global Warming, a climate change from the frigid Ice Age into a nice cozy interglacial until the next Milankovitch cycle plunges you back into the Ice Age again.

To be continued. They say, however, that we are about 4,000 years from the end of the present interglacial. So that's all right. Plenty of time to stamp out systemic racism before it's too late.