Global Primary Greenhouse Gas Concentrations by James Pate Williams Jr BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

I designed and implemented a C# computer language application to model the global greenhouse gas concentrations data found on the NOAA website:

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/aggi.html

I used the latest recommended data for time period 1979 to 2017. The concentrations of three greenhouse gases were modeled: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O).

The empirical modeling paradigm I used was simple linear regression. My model goes out to the year 2300. The key formulas used by the model are:

                                Simple Linear Regression Parameters

See the website:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_linear_regression

Some plots of the concentrations in parts per million (PPM) and parts per billion (PPB) are given below.

                                                Carbon Dioxide Concentration in Parts Per Million
                                                        Methane Concentration in Parts Per Billion
                                                 Nitrous Oxide Concentration in Parts Per Billion
                                             Carbon Dioxide Concentration in Parts Per Million
                                                      Methane Concentration in Parts Per Billion
                                                   Nitrous Oxide Concentration in Parts Per Billion
              Simple Linear Regression Parameters
              Simple Linear Regression Parameters
             Simple Linear Regression Parameters
                                                         Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Table

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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