Gaia, revisited: Atmospheric CO2 as a symptom of a vegetation ozone driven climate cycle

A synoptic analysis of the history of climate science introduces all potential climate drivers. This analysis is supported by demonstrating that the Global Carbon Equation (GCE) is not an equilibrium and the rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations recorded in the Keeling curve reflect yearly ocean CO2 emission minus yearly ocean CO2 uptake. Statistics are used to demonstrate that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is correlated to industrial pollutant emission. The significant determination coefficient between ocean behaviour and pollutants emission is interpreted as caused by pollutants accumulation in the Arctic night. With the return of light, in spring, the chemically reactive mixture of pollutants gas becomes self-lofting, thus influencing and being influenced by existing atmospheric pressure systems. The intensification results in storms that cause the thermocline to deepen and the ocean to degas. The gases are argued to ascent to the stratosphere at the equator where they cause stratospheric ozone depletion, which in turn results in global warming. This new interpretation of the climate cycle is substantiated by a reconstruction of the Keeling curve consisting of the superposition of six functions that determine the uptake and emission of CO2 by the Northern Pacific Ocean. A regression analysis between the monthly Keeling curve and present reconstruction indicates that the new hypothesis is viable. Finally, it is shown that this situation reflects a response system between vegetation composition and stratospheric ozone that is driving the Pleistocene climate cycle through natural fire generated pollutants.The present aberrantly high atmospheric CO2 concentrations recorded at Mauna Loa are interpreted as resulting from the reiteration of the natural warming phase of the Pleistocene climate cycle just beyond the glacial maximum.