{"id":6342,"date":"2023-02-13T09:32:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T08:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/?p=6342"},"modified":"2024-06-20T21:39:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:39:54","slug":"humankind-and-carbon-dioxide-are-responsible-for-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seecheck.org\/index.php\/2023\/02\/13\/humankind-and-carbon-dioxide-are-responsible-for-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Humankind and carbon dioxide are responsible for global warming<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Original article<\/a> (in Slovenian) was published on 03\/01\/2023<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u017diga Zaplotnik from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, explained for Razkrinkavanje.si that humankind is responsible for growing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because we are burning fossil fuels and changing land use.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCarbon dioxide, let alone man, has no impact on warming,\u201d claims the moderator of a video by the \u201cInternational Online Forum\u201d that the creators of the project Creative Society published<\/a> on their Facebook on 8 December. In December the video was shared<\/a> by more than 600 other users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clip is an excerpt of a longer video by the International Online Forum that Creative Society published on their website<\/a> on 12 November. The website states that this is \u201ca project of all humanity that provides the opportunity to bring our civilization peacefully to a new stage of evolutionary development in the shortest possible time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video voiceover states that global warming is the result of \u201cEarth\u2019s natural cycle\u201d and not of humankind\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data by Berkeley Earth<\/a>, an American non-profit, show that the average annual temperature last year was 1.21 degrees Celsius higher than between 1850 and 1900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in last year\u2019s climate report that the main cause of global warming is growing concentrations<\/a> of greenhouse gasses, which are the result of human activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses affect warming was explained by \u017diga Zaplotnik, Toma\u017e Zwitter and Gregor Skok of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Tja\u0161a Poga\u010dar of the Biotechnical Faculty and Matja\u017e Li\u010der of the National Institute of Biology in September in response<\/a> to the claim by Rafael Mihali\u010d, a professor of power systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, that carbon dioxide does not affect global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors explained that molecules of greenhouse gasses interact with long-wave radiation of the Earth\u2019s surface and lower layers of the atmosphere, which is why the Earth radiates less heat back into space than it absorbs, hence the warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mihali\u010d\u2019s claim that \u201cthe trend of global temperatures has not been on a warming trajectory for 17 years\u201d had also been fact-checked by the Razkrinkavanje.si team in September to conclude that global temperatures have been increasing in the last 17 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u017diga Zaplotnik, a lecturer of dynamic meteorology at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics and one of the authors of the retort to Mihali\u010d\u2019s claims, confirmed for Razkrinkavanje.si that human activity alone is the cause of growing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He cited the global report<\/a> on the carbon budget for 2021 published in Earth Systems Science Data, a scientific journal, in which researchers from 80 universities and institutes found that before the start of the industrial age, prior to 1750, the concentration of carbon dioxide had been about 278 parts per billion; by 2021 it increased to 414 parts per million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zaplotnik explained that the amount of carbon is increasing due to humankind\u2019s impact, in particular land use changes and the burning of fossil fuels. The altered ratio between two isotopes of carbon in the atmosphere \u2013 the relative share of a specific isotope of carbon that is created when fossil fuels are burned \u2013 is proof that the extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the result of human action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just under half of man-made carbon remains in the atmosphere, whereas the rest is absorbed by soil and the oceans, which \u201care to a large extent saving us from carbon concentrations growing too fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zaplotnik confirmed that the Earth has natural warming and cooling cycles about once every 100,000 years. Based on these cycles we should currently be in a warm period with a slight cooling trend, but the pace of Earth\u2019s natural cooling is about a hundred times slower than the current pace of warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climatologist Gregor Vrta\u010dnik of the Environment Agency told Razkrinkavanje.si that over the last three million years the Earth has indeed transitioned<\/a> from cooler to warmer epochs and vice versa, but these factors \u201ccannot be the cause of the current global warming since natural climate change is much slower than anthropogenic warming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verta\u010dnik likewise confirmed that higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are the consequence of humankind\u2019s activities given that the share of the carbon isotope which is created when fossil fuels are burned is growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creative Society\u2019s forum\u2019s on global warmings are claimed to be simultaneously translated from English into 150 languages. A recording of the forum has been uploaded by Creative Society members to the project\u2019s YouTube channel and the platform moderators flagged it with the warning that the content is not appropriate for certain audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The claim that humankind and carbon dioxide are not responsible for global warming is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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