Bartemis: on mass balance and the cause of changing levels of atmospheric CO2

From comments at WUWT on the OCO2 satellite monitoring of CO2 levels

Bartemis

October 4, 2015 at 10:27 am

It is very clear that, at the very least in the modern era, CO2 is essentially governed by a temperature modulated process, and human inputs are not temperature modulated. The rate of change of atmospheric CO2 concentration is essentially proportional to properly baselined temperature anomaly

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/scale:0.18/offset:0.125/plot/esrl-co2/from:1979/derivative/mean:12

The match with the satellite temperatures is best, but for a longer term, there is a pretty good match with Southern hemisphere temperatures

But, that is no surprise since SH temperatures match the satellite record fairly well, with the NH temperatures after 2000 diverging

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4sh/plot/hadcrut4nh/plot/rss/plot/uah

For over 100 years, NH and SH track closely. Then, suddenly, vroom, they diverge. Circumstantial evidence, at least, that the NH temperatures have suffered from dubious and arbitrary “adjustments”.