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Subject: Physics Demonstrates That Increasing Greenhouse Gases Cannot Cause "Dangerous" Warming, Extreme Weather or Any Harm
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:15:05 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
Physics Demonstrates That Increasing Greenhouse Gases Cannot Cause Dangerous
Warming, Extreme Weather or Any Harm
Richard Lindzen
Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Happer
Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Princeton University
PHYSICS DEMONSTRATES THAT INCREASING GREENHOUSE GASES CANNOT CAUSE DANGEROUS
WARMING, EXTREME WEATHER OR ANY HARM
More Carbon Dioxide Will Create More Food.
Driving Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Net Zero and
Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Be Disastrous for People Worldwide.
June 7,2025
SUMMARY
At the outset it is important to understand that carbon dioxide has two
relevant properties, as a creator of food and oxygen, and as a greenhouse gas
(GHG).
As to food and oxygen, carbon dioxide is essential to nearly all life on earth
by creating food and oxygen by photosynthesis. Further, it creates more food
as its level in the atmosphere increases. For example, doubling carbon dioxide
from today's approximately 420 ppm to 840 ppm would increase the amount of
food available to people worldwide by roughly 40%, and doing so would have a
negligible effect on temperature.
As to carbon dioxide as a GHG, the United States and countries worldwide are
vigorously pursuing rules and subsidies under the Net Zero Theory that carbon
dioxide and other GHG emissions must be reduced to Net Zero and the use of
fossil fuels must be eliminated by 2050 to avoid catastrophic global warming
and more extreme weather. A key premise stated by the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) is the "evidence is clear that carbon dioxide (CO2)
is the main driver of climate change, " where 'main driver means responsible
for more than 50% of the change."
The Biden Administration adopted over 100 rules and Congress has provided
enormous subsidies promoting alternatives to fossil fuels premised on the Net
Zero Theory. The EPA Endangerment Finding, for example, asserts "elevated
concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be
anticipated to endanger the public health and to endanger the public welfare
of current and future generations."
On April 9,2025 President Trump issued a "Memorandum on Directing Repeal of
Unlawful Rules" and Fact Sheet stating "agencies shall immediately take steps
to effectuate the repeal of any regulation" under Supreme Court precedents,
inter alia, where "the scientific and policy premises undergirding it had been
shown to be wrong, " or "where the costs imposed are not justified by the
public benefits." We understand the Supreme Court has also ruled in the
leading case State Farm that an agency regulation is arbitrary, capricious and
thus invalid where, inter alia:
"the agency has ... entirely failed to consider an important aspect of the
problem"
"the agency has relied on factors which Congress has not intended it to
consider."
We are career physicists with a special expertise in radiation physics, which
describes how CO2 and GHGs affect heat flow in Earth's atmosphere. In our
scientific opinion, contrary to most media reporting and many people's
understanding, the "scientific premises undergirding" the Net Zero Theory, all
the Biden Net Zero Theory rules and congressional subsidies are scientifically
false and "wrong, " and violate these two State Farm mandates.
First, Scientific Evidence Ignored. All the agency rules, publications and
studies we have seen supporting the Endangerment Finding and other Biden Net
Zero Theory rules ignored, as if it does not exist, the robust and reliable
scientific evidence that:
carbon dioxide, GHGs and fossil fuels will not cause catastrophic global
warming and more extreme weather, detailed in Part III.
there will be disastrous consequences for the poor, people worldwide, future
generations, Americans, America, and other countries if CO2, other GHGs are
reduced to Net Zero and fossil fuels eliminated that will endanger public
health and welfare, detailed in Part IV.
Second, Unscientific Evidence at the Foundation. Unscientific evidence is all
we have seen underlying the Endangerment Finding and all the other Biden Net
Zero rules, detailed in Part V.
Further, Pres. Trump's Memorandum Fact Sheet stated that agencies 'must repeal
any regulation where the costs imposed are not justified by the public
benefits." This is a separate and an additional reason all the Biden Net Zero
Theory rules must be repealed because they have no public benefits but impose
enormous costs, detailed in Parts III-V.
Therefore, these Supreme Court decisions and the science demonstrated below
support repealing all the Net Zero Theory rules as soon as possible.
Further, for the same reasons, Congress should repeal all Net Zero theory
subsidies, all laws that require GHG emissions be reduced and all laws that
restrict fossil fuel development and infrastructure.
Finally, Peter Drucker warned, as every Net Zero Theory rule and subsidy
demonstrates, that science in government is often based on "value judgments"
that are "incompatible with any criteria one could possibly call scientific."
Therefore, we suggest the President issue an Executive Order requiring all
government agencies taking action based on scientific knowledge only rely on
scientific knowledge derived by the scientific method and never base their
action on unscientific evidence and sources.
We also suggest the Executive Order clarify that the scientific method is,
simply and profoundly, to validate theoretical predictions with observations,
and further, that scientific knowledge is never determined by the opinions of
government, consensus, 97% of scientists, peer review, or is based on models
that do not work, or cherry-picked, fabricated, falsified or omitted
contradictory data, elaborated in Part II of the paper.
In summary, the blunt scientific reality requires urgent action because we are
confronted with policies that destroy western economies, impoverish the
working middle class, condemn billions of the world's poorest to continued
poverty and increased starvation, leave our children despairing over the
alleged absence of a future, and will enrich the enemies of the West who are
enjoying the spectacle of our suicide march.
Instead, let people and the market decide, not governments.
Read the entire report here as a pdf:
https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Lindzen-Happer-GHGs-and-
Fossil-Fuels-Climate-Physics-2025-06-07.pdf
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