Rex J Fleming
Global Aerospace LLC, USA
Title: An updated review on carbon dioxide and climate change
Biography
Biography: Rex J Fleming
Abstract
This manuscript will review the essence of the role of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere. The logic of CO2 involvement in changing the climate will be investigated from every perspective: reviewing the historical data record, examining in further detail the 20th century data record, and evaluating the radiation role of CO2 in the atmosphere -- calculating and integrating the Schwarzschild radiation equation with a full complement of CO2 absorption coefficients. A review of the new theory of climate change – due to the Sun’s magnetic field interacting with cosmic rays is provided. The application of this new theory is applied to climate-change events within the latter part of the Earth’s interglacial period. The application of the new theory to the Earth’s Ice Ages is summarized along with a brief discussion of the role of cosmic rays in creating significant lower layer clouds which increase the albedo of the Earth. The results of this review point to the extreme value of CO2 to all life forms, but no role of CO2 in any significant change of the Earth’s climate.