The Supreme Court Finds CO2 Guilty as Charged

The Supreme Court apparently wants the EPA to suppress human CO₂ emissions so they won’t overheat our planet or inundate the coast of Massachusetts. The Court essentially ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency offered no valid excuse for not regulating CO₂ in American skies as a pollutant. Ultimately, this might well mean you won’t get electricity for your home or gasoline for your car.

Never mind that the evidence exonerates CO_2. Seventy percent of the heating came before 1940, while 80 percent of the man-made greenhouse gases came after 1940. The earth has warmed, probably by 0.7 degrees C since 1850. But human-emitted greenhouses gases didn’t have the opportunity to commit that “crime.”

The Supreme Court looked only at circumstantial evidence against CO_2. The Justices didn’t know that the Massachusetts attorney general was hiding the real culprit outside the courtroom—a big, violent fellow with a known fiery temper called The Sun.

Your honors, if we graph the global thermometer records since 1860, they show a jaggedly erratic pattern: 1) a strong warming from 1916 to 1940; 2) a moderate cooling from 1940 to 1975; 3) another strong warming from 1976 to 1998—and then 4) no warming from 1998 to the present despite soaring human CO₂ emissions.

The record of human-emitted CO₂ shows only a graceful upward curve that doesn’t align with the world’s temperature history until 1976! Even the 1976 to1998 alignment looks like a coincidence—circumstantial evidence. After 1998 the temperature stops rising while the CO₂ levels keep climbing. No correlation.

In rebuttal, we offer the sunspot records, the trail of evidence that leads directly to The Sun. The sunspot numbers and cycles accurately mirror virtually every bump and dip in the global temperature record. Any member of the jury who looks at the temperature-sunspot correlation will immediately vote to find The Sun guilty. You can look it up yourselves: search the internet “images” “tim patterson tcsdaily sunspots.”

The Sun has been more active recently than at any time since the beginning of the Medieval Warming more than 1,000 years ago. That’s why the Earth has been warming for the past 150 years since the end of the Little Ice Age.. We call as witnesses to The Sun’s power a) the Roman Warming, which ended about 600 AD; and b) the Medieval Warming, which ended in 1300 AD. They say there were no CO₂ variations to trigger their temperature shifts either. The Sun was guilty then, too. The Greenland and Antarctic ice cores testify that The Sun has committed at least 600 such cycles, going back at least a million years.

At worst, the court should find CO₂ a mere accomplice after the fact. Humans might have added 0.1 degree C warming—half of the post-1940 temperature increase. That’s not even a felony, let alone life imprisonment—without energy—in the Kyoto Protocol.

The Supreme Court has spoken, however. America must reduce its greenhouse emissions by 90 percent, or the global CO₂ levels will keep rising. Not that this will have much impact on the temperatures; they’ll continue to dance to The Sun’s tune.

It’s too late for evidence. The EPA’s bailiffs have their nightsticks at the ready.