The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was killed by the 2007 U.N. IPCC Report

The United Nations is working on a new Kyoto Treaty. They need to replace the old Kyoto Protocol.

The old Kyoto Treaty was based on four carbon molecules, created by industrialization, which caused global warming. They combined to create a ‘carbon footprint’ which needed to be offset by ‘carbon credits’.

Things changed with the 2007 United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports. Report 2 states that the rate of growth of the four greenhouse gasses has diminished. Methane had a negative growth rate for most of this decade. The Report’s official response, ‘The reasons for the decrease in the atmospheric CH4 (Methane Gas) growth rate and the implications for future changes in its atmospheric burden are not understood (Prather et al., 2001) but are clearly related to changes in the imbalance between CH4 sources and sinks.’

In science, when the results differ from the theory, the theory needs to be re-evaluated.

Methane was important because it reflects 20-28 times more energy than CO2. With Methane diminishing, the focus is shifting to CO2 as the only causal effect.

The problem is that CO2 has never been a causal factor in global warming. It is always an indicator. When the graphs that display the correlation between global warming and CO2 are overlaid, it becomes obvious that first our planet warms, and then CO2 increases. Global warming causes increased CO2, not the other way around.

It’s like the carpenter who says, ‘Every time my thumb hurts, I hit it with a hammer.’

The global warming theories did not predict the weather patterns of the last few years. 2006 was the hottest year of the decade, but 2008 was the coldest and 2009 is colder. There is a missing piece in the global warming theories. That missing piece will simplify everything and stop the concern over global warming or global cooling. That missing piece will be discussed in a future article.