Cohler/Soon: “ Response to Ed Berry’s recent presentation” #431

Jonathan Cohler, joined by Willie Soon, says he is correcting false statements Ed Berry made about their paper “Dominance of Natural Atmospheric CO2 Dynamics,” which is under review and posted online. Cohler argues Berry wrongly claimed they ignored Berry’s work, presented an identical delta-14C “proof,” and called for a carbon-cycle model; Cohler says they cited Berry prominently and used newer radiocarbon data (Hua et al. 2022) and Koutsoyiannis 2024. They distinguish residence time (~3.8 years) from radiocarbon relaxation time (~18.4 years), claim a bridge equation links them, and assert their new work mathematically refutes Bern multi-exponential/adjustment-time models. They also discuss conflicts with the CO2 Coalition over attributing CO2 rise to humans.

00:00 Why This Rebuttal

01:23 Berry Claims Overview

03:16 New Radiocarbon Data

05:19 Lie One Citation Record

07:33 Lie Two Not Identical

10:00 Lie Three No Model Needed

12:34 Why Skip Berry 2023

13:16 Residence vs Relaxation

15:57 Bridge Equation Results

17:20 Math Theorems Against Bern

18:29 Independent Checks and Implications

21:38 Host Q and IPCC Confusion

22:49 Soon on Adjustment Time Myth

24:55 Table Consensus and Bern Failure

26:25 Bomb 14C Reality Check

27:30 Why Bomb Tests Matter

28:19 Ethics And Accusations

29:27 Data Driven Challenge

31:08 CO2 Coalition Split

33:32 Math Not Debate

36:55 Ugly Email Wars

40:01 Science Over Ego

42:52 Searchers Versus Blockers

43:22 Passing The Torch

45:08 Final Thanks And Goodbye

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