Closed System Dictates NO Manmade Global Warming

Kevin Roeten

With a closed system, there can be no major variation in temperature. With a closed system the amount of carbon is constant; therefore the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) is finite because the O2 is finite. No additional CO2 can be produced other than a specific amount from prior existing carbon and oxygen. Therefore any increasing amounts of CO2 will eventually reverse, and cannot cause manmade warming.


No additional oxygen or carbon can be added to the earth¡¦s system. Whatever exists was there from the beginning of time. Granted, earth might get hit by a rogue planetoid at some time, but its addition of carbon or oxygen is negligible. But CO2 is increasing past the existing 380 parts/million (ppm) that exists in the atmosphere right now.


We know the ecosystem changes continuously. From Dr. Richard Courtney (UN IPCC/ UK-based climate and atmospheric consultant), we know that CO2 levels were 4.7x higher in the Jurassic Period (1800 ppm), about 200 MYA, and 18x higher in the Cambrian Period (7000 ppm).


The only geological periods during the Paleozoic Era when global temperatures were as low as they are today were the Carboniferous and the Ordovician Periods. Paradoxically, for global warming alarmists, the late Ordovician Period was an ice age having CO2 levels almost 12x higher than today (4400ppm). That is a change, but there were no automobiles during any of the above periods.


Obviously, the CO2 produced stays constant over the long haul. Most of it gets used up during the common process of photosynthesis (6CO2 + 6H2O + [photons (light)]„³ C6H12O6 [glucose] + 6H2O). Breathing by animals reverses the process and releases CO2. It seems an Intelligent Designer had this simple process in mind when the earth was created. Most of the remainder of the CO2 is dissolved in the oceans.


All of this can be directly related to the atmosphere of Mars, which is 96.2% CO2 (Encyclopedia of Earth). Mars has no oceans to dissolve CO2, or plants to consume it. But Mars never seems to have a global warming problem.


Since carbon is able to bond with itself, as well as a wide variety of other elements, it forms nearly 10 million known compounds. But the simplest and most stable of the compounds is always CO2. Most of the more complex molecules with carbon include alkanes, such as petroleum or fuels.


Approximately 84% (37 of 42 gallons in a barrel of crude) is extracted as fuels. This includes gasoline, diesel, jet, heating, fuel oils, and LPG. The other 16% is converted into materials such as plastic, and do not go into further breakdown [edinformatics.com]. When fuels are burned, one of the end products is CO2, which is food for all plants in the world.


Because of the specific amount of carbon in the earth¡¦s crust, there can only be a specific amount of CO2 formed. Any CO2 is usually consumed by all the plant life. This is how the ecosystem has survived for hundreds of thousands of years. There will never be an excess of CO2 because there¡¦s a limit to the amount of carbon there is in the earth, and it is consumed continuously by plant life.


This raises a big question of CO2 availability if we are approaching peak oil within the next 20 years. If we consume less oil, less CO2 will be produced. Plants will lessen or possibly die off, meat eaters will have less plant eaters to consume because there will be fewer of them. Human life may be directly affected. Or, less CO2 will be consumed because less will be produced.


However, if abiotic oil exists in conjunction with oil from compression and heating of ancient organic material, then the date of ¡§peak oil¡¨ will be pushed forward into the future, if not completely eliminated. Either way, with a finite amount of carbon and oxygen available in the earth to combine, there will be a finite amount of CO2 produced. And if CO2 produced affects man-made global warming (which does not look to be the case), the net CO2 produced will still be a finite amount.


The Intelligent Designer took more than we imagine into account when producing our ecosystem. It¡¦s pure folly to believe that we as humans, mere passengers on this voyage through space, can alter our climate enough to directly affect life on this planet. Nuclear blasts, asteroid collisions, major earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, plate tectonics, and multiple oil fires have all occurred and temperatures have always returned to steady state life for humans.


We can certainly point to those ¡§naysayers¡¨ who have tried to say our climate is changing for the worse, however.

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Kevin Roeten can be reached at kevin@kevinroeten.us or roetenks@charter.net.

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As a Chemical Engineer, I love politics, and am an orthodox Catholic. I am a "Guest Columnist"('Asheville Citizen-Times'), a regular columnist(North Carolina Conservative), and a contributor to the book "Americans on Politics, Policy, and Pop Culture". Politics are usually covered with a skew from a Catholic perspective.

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