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Historically, there is no correlation between CO2 and temperature.

Historically, there is no correlation between CO2 and temperature.
The cover image is taken from Lake Scientist

By derimot*no - Einar R. Bordewich - July 18, 2025

Evidence that CO2 does not control temperature or climate. The IPCC camp and our governments are running a hard-line consensus that our CO2 emissions are driving the temperature of the Earth which is then inflicting on us a man-made climate crisis.

They are spending billions of kroner to get us to Net-Zero via their climate policies which are in reality a total overhaul of the entire planet's energy system in just one generation. All of this is based on the belief that CO2 is  the control knob for our climate.

In this presentation , Javier Vinós  presents evidence that CO 2  and temperature have never followed each other as a cause or effect, but are both driven by several 3rd factors. By presenting known data on a scale to show correlation ( scatterplot ), we get the complete opposite of current assumptions. There is in fact no correlation in our historical data that shows that one follows the other as a cause.

Those of you who have been following a little will probably protest now, because the ice core samples from Vostok very definitely show a correlation and covariation between CO 2  and temperature as we see from the figure below. Many have interpreted this graph to mean that changes in temperature cause changes in CO 2  , or as the IPCC claims that CO 2  causes changes in temperature. But it turns out that neither of those is true. There is a third factor that affects both.

Covariation yes, but no causal relationships .

If you make a scatterplot with the historical data and today's CO 2  , the evidence becomes clear. Below you see a scatterplot of the historical temperature and CO 2  compared, and now today CO 2 is  skyrocketing without the temperature following. The small natural increase we have had of about 1.5 degrees since the 1800s is therefore completely insignificant. This one chart tells in a clear scientific way that the covariation that we have seen in Antarctica from the Vostok data has no relevance to today's CO 2  changes or today's temperature.

Scatterplot of CO2 and temperature from Antarctica and today's CO2 and temperature. No relationship.

By analyzing data from earlier periods, we also find no correlation as this graph shows for the last 50 million years. Here we find periods where CO2 changes  extremely quickly and a lot without temperature following, as well as periods with rapid and large temperature changes without CO2 changing  .

Scatterplot of covariation between CO2 and temperature over the last 50 million years. No correlation found. On the contrary, this is also evidence that there are no causal effects between them.

You can find the full presentation by Javier Vinós below, published in collaboration with  Clintel  and  ICSF .

CLINTEL VIDEO

Einar R. Bordewich

The post is taken from the website  Fakta360  which was run by Einar R. Bordewich.

Previously published on Derimot.no

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