Phil Drietz letter: Global warming is not caused by man

I agree with the ‘Kill tax breaks for carbon-capture scams’ letter of July 5, 2025, that carbon capture is a big waste of taxpayer money, a safety hazard and destroys private property rights.

However, the author left out a key issue: ‘The false idea that man-made carbon dioxide is causing climate change. I say this after having written many lettersto the editor in recent years, giving reasons why man-made climate change is fake science. I received feedback, but no solid rebuttals using empirical evidence detailing how man’s puny 0.0016% of atmospheric gases can jerk the global climate system around.

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Recently, I discovered that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a non-scientific organization, has been manipulating the data regarding the increase in solar radiation absorption by the planet, distorting the facts to make it appear as though human CO2 emissions are the primary cause.

Additionally, high-resolution satellites have recently found more than 19,000 new undersea volcanoes, bringing the total to over 43,000, according to AAAS ‘Science’ issue of April 2023.

So, we really don’t have a good understanding of the impact of carbon dioxide and volcanic heat being pumped into the oceans.

Ocean currents are moving all that hot water, but all those mountains create vortices that shift water in directions we don’t fully understand — and that can have an enormous effect on global climate.

Global warming is driven by undersea volcanoes; hot 40,000-mile-long mid-ocean mountain ridges and rifts, ocean currents, and the amount of sunlight penetrating Earth’s surface.

It is not driven by man-made carbon dioxide.