The Carbon Ratio
Conclusion:
It is not possible for humans to continue to burn fossil fuels, and thus disrupt the Carbon Ratio, and expect our civilization, and even our species, to continue.
The amount of carbon human activity has put back in the atmosphere, divided by the amount photosynthesis has removed and converted to fossil fuels, will determine the Carbon Ratio. Disrupt this ratio sufficiently and agriculture, and our civilization, can no longer continue.
The facts supporting the Carbon Ratio and climate change are obvious and easy to understand.
The number of carbon molecules on the planet is exactly the same today as when the earth was first formed. All that has changed is the location of the carbon (i.e. the Carbon Ratio).
Carbon in the atmosphere is what heats the earth. Oxygen, Nitrogen and Argon do not absorb long wave thermal radiation and therefore do not heat the earth.
The carbon that is taken out of the atmosphere by photosynthesis, and sequestered in the earth as fossil fuels, is no longer in the Carbon Cycle. It can no longer heat the earth.
The ratio of carbon put back in the atmosphere by human activity, divided by the amount of carbon naturally removed by photosynthesis and converted to fossil fuels, is the Carbon Ratio. This ratio, times the temperature differential, determines what the Earth’s temperature will eventually be.
The Earth Ship Program is a cost-effective way to use corporate dollars to tell the public the truth about the Carbon Ratio and climate change.
The Science Behind the Carbon Ratio
There Is No Counter Argument To Science
It was a scientist who, in August of 1988, first explained global warming to the US Congress – and the world. He did it by explaining the statistical variations in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events; things like increased floods, droughts, storms, and melting ice, etc. It is for this reason that the public still thinks of climate change in terms of weather events. Extreme weather events are the symptoms of a changing climate. They are not the cause.
The Earth’s climate changes based on the amount of thermal energy in the atmosphere. This can be determined by the Carbon Ratio®. This is the ratio of the amount of carbon human activity has put back in the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (the numerator of the Carbon Ratio®), divided by the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere before the Earth began to cool (the denominator of the Carbon Ratio®).
If we multiple the Carbon Ratio® times the temperature differential, that’s the difference between the Earth’s ambient temperature before the Earth began to cool, minus the Earth’s ambient temperature prior to the Industrial Revolution, the result will be exactly how hot the Earth will become due to human activity. This is demonstrated in the below figure.
The Carbon Ration in 2019 was therefore 1.21. In other words, in 100 years, human activity has put back in the atmosphere 121% of the carbon photosynthesis removed – and converted to fossil fuels – in 50 million years.
In 2019 there was already enough carbon in the atmosphere to increase the Earth’s ambient temperature to 81.4 F. This should be of concern to us all since scientists estimate that our species (never mind our civilization) will have difficulty surviving when the Earth’s temperature reaches just 64 F. (We are now at 59.1 F.)
