Another Episode Of Cleaning The Augean Stables
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Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@weschenbach on eX-Twitter)
Our estimable Charles the Moderator, who gets my eternal thanks for keeping the hits happening here on WUWT, asked me to take a look at a new paper yclept Multivariate Analysis Rejects the Theory of Human-caused Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Increase:The Sea Surface Temperature Rules by Dai Ato, an independent researcher in Japan. Seems it’s been getting some play. I’ll refer to this paper as Ato2024.
I wasn’t far in before alarms went off. The study conducted a multivariate analysis using publicly available data to examine the impact of sea surface temperature (SST) and human emissions on atmospheric CO₂ levels.
It concluded that SST was the independent determinant of the annual increase in atmospheric CO₂ concentration. Human emissions were found to be irrelevant in the regression models.
And most revealingly, it says:
Furthermore, the atmospheric CO₂ concentration predicted, using the regression equation obtained for the SST derived from UK-HADLEY centre after 1960, showed an extremely high correlation with the actual CO₂ concentration (Pearson correlation coefficient r = 0.9995, P < 3e-92).
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/09/12/another-episode-of-cleaning-the-augean-stables/
