Contradictory Contrarian Claims, Part 1: CO2 is Both Starved and Saturated
How Increasing CO2 Affects Radiative Forcings and GMST If you pay enough attention to contrarian climate influencers, you may begin to notice how frequently they affirm conflicting opinions and/or flat out contradict themselves. I think they hope that as long as they are careful to word contradictory claims in sufficiently different ways without saying both within the same minute or so, you won't notice the conflict. So I thought it might helpful to expose some of these contradictory claims. I'll start with my personal favorite: CO2 is both low/starved and high/saturated. This contradiction appears to be particularly common among those who speak for the CO2 Coalition , like William Happer, John Shewchuk and Gregory Wrightstone. You can find these influencers saying both of the following: CO2 concentrations are so how that the planet is starved of CO2. We're in a "CO2 famine." CO2 concentrations are so high that its effect is "saturated" in the atmospher...