Reply To: Questions regarding DPF.

[Brian H]

Be REALLY cautious about taking anything from RealClimate seriously. It was set up explicitly to give a platform for 2 of the Team to promote the GW theory. The ClimateGate emails lay out their intent and editorial approach — minimize the voices of skeptics, and maximize the opportunity of the Team to belittle and refute them.

The geological average CO2 burden in the atmosphere is over 2,000 ppm (0.2%). It has zero correlation over that time with temperature, except insofar as ocean warming seems to raise CO2 levels after a multi-century delay. We would do well, were it only possible, to push CO2 back to those levels, which are what greenhouse operators find is optimum for maximum plant health and growth; it would be a huge boon for agriculture and food supplies world wide.

P.S. To the author of this thread, edit note. It’s “consensus”, not “concensus”.