Wyoming and Climate Change: CO2 Should Be Celebrated, Not Captured
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report examines the actual and projected effects of the climate on the State of Wyoming in response to proposals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) through the use of “carbon capture” in order to avert purportedly catastrophic atmospheric warming.
This research concludes that Wyoming – like the planet – is benefiting from warming that began more than 300 years ago. Efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are unnecessary and exorbitantly expensive and would make no measurable difference in temperature.
Carbon Dioxide
Claims that carbon dioxide is a pollutant posing an “existential threat” are contradicted by scientific data. Today’s levels of CO2, while representing a recent increase, are significantly lower than they have been during nearly all of Earth’s history.
Pre-Industrial Revolution CO2 levels were approximately 280 parts per million (ppm) and began accelerating in the mid-20th century during the post-World War II economic boom. Current levels are about 420 ppm, a 50% increase during the last 200 years. Though elevated compared to the recent past, modern concentrations of CO2 are one-sixth of the average over the last 600 million years. Viewed in this geologic context, we are at near-historically low levels of CO2.
Temperature
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