Quote from Trader666:
The assumption of a low and stable level of CO2 in the pre-industrial atmosphere, and of its recent increase of about 30% as a result of fossil-fuel burning (IPCC 2007), was posed by Callendar (1958) and From and Keeling (1986), after their arbitrary rejection of most of the more than 90,000 technically excellent, direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere, carried out in America, Asia, and Europe, during 149 years between 1812 and 1961 (Figure 1). These measurements showed that the 5-year average CO2 concentrations fluctuated widely, with a minimum of 290 parts per million by volume (ppmv) in 1885, and peaking up to 440 ppmv around 1820, to about 390 ppmv around 1855, and to about 440 ppmv around 1940 (Beck 2007)âa pattern completely different from a flat and low ice-core record.
So how did Plimer calculate his 440 ppm? Because nobody else except him claims this. If you look online you can only find websites citing his outrageous claim, but no other scientists have deduced this number.
