This presentation and study was made in memory of Prof. Murry Salby (1951 – 2022), who in his textbook of climatology pointed out the marginal influence of humanity on the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and who in lectures in Sydney 2011, Edinburgh 2013, Essen 2015, London 2015, 2016 and Hamburg 2018 deduced from Henry’s Law that the increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere results from the warming of the oceans, from where this gas is naturally released. Since the rate of increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration is directly proportional to the anomalous global ocean temperature (the difference from the long-term average previous temperature), the total atmospheric CO2 concentration itself must be directly proportional to the time integral of the anomalous ocean temperature. Thus, variations in CO2 concentrations must be integrally lagged behind variations in global temperature.
