Reader's View: Carbon emissions cause heat, not vice versa

Reader's View: Carbon emissions cause heat, not vice versa

2010 blog post pushed the theory that heat causes carbon dioxide, a position echoed in letters in the News Tribune. However, scientific consensus doesn’t agree. Scientists state emissions of carbon dioxide act as forcing agents that warm the climate at alarming rates. Data for the post were from satellites and monthly NOAA measurements at Mauna Loa in Hawaii. But the data were only taken from the ocean and recorded as anomalies, differences betw…