Eleventh International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

A study of the water temperature of eight bodies of water recorded for up to 89 years compared to the quantity of CO2 concentrations recorded during the latter 58 years of this period, conclusively shows that carbon dioxide has no proportional effect on the change in water temperature. Water temperature data for the study included Lake Erie 30 foot depth water temperature 1927 through 2015; the five Great Lakes water temperature 1955 through 2014; Charleston Harbor highest and lowest water temperatures per year 1950 through 2011 and the Keswick Power Plant Dam, California 1950 through 1964. Recorded CO2 concentrations in micro-mol per mole (ppm) from 1958 through 2015 were graphed. Also, an exponential curve of the total U. S. BTU energy consumption from wood, coal, natural gas and petroleum from 1775 through 2009 was created. Exponential curves for the above fossil products were compared to recorded 1958 through 2016 CO2 ppm concentration data. From this a comparative exponential curve of the CO2 concentration from 1828 through 2016 was created. When comparing the CO2 concentration and fossil fuel usage exponential curves with the gradual linear water temperature increase curves from 1850 (when coal use in the U.S began in earnest) through 2016 (166 years) it is abundantly clear that the relatively flat linear water temperature increase as graphed for the eight bodies of water has no correlation with the recorded exponential increase of fossil fuel usage and CO2 concentration for the 166 year time period.