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This is an upvoted comment from a climate change denier posting on YouTube:

Vivek [Ramaswamy]’s statement on climate change was correct, and this immensely helped the Republican brand: Earth's atmosphere is only .04 percent CO2, and humans only produce 5 percent of that, meaning .0016 percent of our atmosphere is composed of human produced CO2, and if humans disappeared entirely, nature would still produce 95% of global CO2 anyway. Climate change is cyclical and caused by solar cycles and Milankovitch cycles (and things we are not aware of yet since it is not fully understood). CO2 levels rise and fall with ocean temperatures. As ocean temperatures cool, more CO2 is absorbed, as they rise, more is released. Higher CO2 levels follow global warming, but don't cause it. We are heading into a cooling period and CO2 levels will fall accordingly. All of the measures proposed to combat supposed anthropogenic climate change (which isn’t happening like they say, so stop buying into it) are based on a fraudulent theory & will cause harm, either to the ecosystem, or human society. There is no climate crisis. There are, however, real forms of pollution that need our attention.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfax0RHiIVQ&lc=UgzM3LxLciGwLP_ujVV4AaABAg

Given that the overwhelming majority of reputable climate scientists agree that humans are a cause of significant climate change, I am quite skeptical of the above comment.

Are the specific arguments in the YouTube comment correct or are they deeply flawed?

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    This is too many claims in too minor a source. Can you reduce it to a single claim, and find other sources repeating it? For Milankovitch please see this earlier question https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/44936/22367 – Avery Aug 25 '23 at 19:09
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    Your question title should state what the claim is and not just say that you are skeptical about it and it comes from youtube. Also comments on a youtube video are not a notable source for a claim. – Joe W Aug 25 '23 at 19:11
  • @Avery Thanks. I'll do some searching for other sources making the same claim. I have a hunch this person is repeating a claim made by others, but this is the first time I have read this particular claim. – RockPaperLz- Mask it or Casket Aug 25 '23 at 19:21
  • @JoeW Thanks as well. I fixed the title per your request, and will look to see if there are other sources for this claim. Thanks again. – RockPaperLz- Mask it or Casket Aug 25 '23 at 19:22
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    Your title still isn't very clear. First you don't need to include that you are skeptical about a claim. Second you should be more clear about what the claim is saying about humans and climate change. – Joe W Aug 25 '23 at 19:41
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    A comment on a youtube video is not a notable claim, so this question will end up being closed. All of the claims in your quote are false and well-known among science-deniers. You can see explanations of why they're wrong at https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php – Mark Aug 25 '23 at 20:26
  • Other duplicates include: "Higher CO2 levels follow global warming, but don't cause it." [Duplicate](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22122/does-temperature-drive-co%e2%82%82/22125#22125) "We are heading into a cooling period" [Duplicate](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4597/are-we-heading-for-a-mini-ice-age/4605#4605) – Oddthinking Aug 26 '23 at 00:08
  • And the 9th oldest surviving question on this site: [Do human activities contribute to climate change?](https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/41/do-human-activities-contribute-to-climate-change) – Oddthinking Aug 26 '23 at 00:14
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    @Mark Thank you for the link. That's very helpful. – RockPaperLz- Mask it or Casket Aug 27 '23 at 03:21
  • "Some twit in a youtube comment" sounds like it wouldn't pass the notability test. – Shadur Aug 29 '23 at 13:17
  • @Shadur For this site, for better or worse, true. Unfortunately, outside of this site, one person's twit is another person's "very reliable source" (often in the most bigly way). – RockPaperLz- Mask it or Casket Aug 29 '23 at 21:55

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