Anthropogenic Global Warming: The Greatest Fraud in History?
The IR absorbing properties of CO2 have been known since the 1800s. Are you seriously this ill informed?
This is simply false. There was a theory in the 19th century that the atmosphere was just like a greenhouse and that greenhouses were hot because of CO2. However, in the last 19th century, this was disproved using fairly simple experiments. CO2 simply does not have the properties ascribed to it. If it did, we could create small glass boxes filled with CO2 and used them to generate energy.
An even more damning aspect of the AGW theories is that atmospheric concentration of CO2 was measured many times from the early 19th century on. Turns out that the concentration wasn’t much lower than today. Ice core proxy measurements didn’t support this so actual observations were rejected in favor of reconstructed measurements (how ice core measurements are manipulated is so bogus it’s amazing those scientists have any credibility.)
