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  Did Jesus Cause Climate Change? Arguments against claims that climate change is caused by human activities NE - NAKEDEMPEROR.SUBSTACK.COM Look at the graph above. It shows the temperature in Greenland over the last 8,000 years. Between 8,000 and 5,000 years ago the temperature was around 2 degrees warmer than it is today. After that it drops around 2.5 degrees over the next 3,000 years. But look what happens around 2,000 years ago, temperatures spike up 1.5 degrees. What happened around 2,000 years ago? Jesus was born. Did Jesus cause climate change and the spike in global temperatures? No, of course not. I was being facetious. But it is the type of argument you would encounter from the cult of Net Zero. They see a spike in temperature and try to blame it on the latest zeitgeist without exploring all hypotheses. The graph comes from an old video in which Professor Jorgen Peder Steffensen from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen discusses ice core data. He and...

Greenland’s climate changes are remarkably uncorrelated with climate model expectations and changes in atmospheric CO2 When CO2 levels were in the mid-200s parts per million (11.7 to 4.5 thousand years ago) the Arctic and northern Greenland were 2-4°C warmer than now, ice margins were 80 km behind today’s, ice-free open water conditions prevailed, and Greenland warmed 10°C in just 60 years ( Elnegaard Hansen et al., 2022 ) In the last two decades, as atmospheric CO2 has increased by 25 ppm, Greenland warming “is not evident” ( Matsumura et al., 2022 ). Instead, temperature stations document cooling trends. Image Source:  Matsumura et al., 2022 Past interglacial CO2 levels of only 280 ppm were associated with a “nearly ice free” Greenland and the presence of flora and fauna in subarctic terrestrial environments 1000 km northwards of where they can survive today, implying “at least 5°C higher temperatures” ( Bennike and Böcher, 2021 ). Summer sea water temperatures were as much as “7...