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The awareness that the Earth's climate is changing is slowly growing, even outside the ranks of the most eager environmentalists.

Despite this growing understanding, many decision makers, with some honorable exceptions, still tend to express mostly verbal support, but are reluctant to back the necessary corrective actions required to avoid further deterioration of the climate.

Other debaters participating in the ongoing climate discussions tend to use arguments more based on their own personal conviction, than on available facts. With such a perspective, it is easy to argue for a wait and see strategy, where necessary, but often unpopular, decisions are postponed indefinitely, or at least until after the next election.

Contrary to widespread assumptions, we have sufficient knowledge today about both the current and historic climate to calculate the impact that the CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) content in the atmosphere has on the earth's climate.

In this book, known climate data from different time periods within the last 20 million years of the earth's history has been used to derive new mathematical formulas describing this impact.

All data used are historic data from before human activity began to affect the climate. The data has been taken from publications and magazines available on the internet, and should be well known for the informed reader. References have been provided to simplify source check.

I hope the new formulas describing the relationships between the CO2 content in the atmosphere, temperature and sea level derived in this book can help remove at least some of the uncertainties that weaken the understanding of the environmental challenges we face, and have to meet.

When using the new formulas to calculate values for temperature and sea level for given levels of CO2 content in the atmosphere, the results accurately matches observed historic values.

In spite of this, there can be conditions or relationships I have overlooked or that could have been better explained.

If you find anything you consider wrong, or that could have been better explained, I would appreciate your feedback to klima@instefjord.no.

This book is divided into three separate parts.

In chapter 2 – 4, mathematical formulas describing the relationships between the CO2 content in the atmosphere, temperature and sea level are derived.

In chapter 5, possible rate of change scenarios for temperature and sea level are discussed.

Chapter 6 shows how the predicted temperature and sea level rise can be halted, and even reversed.

Best wishes with the reading.