Posted on 05/13/2014 5:31:32 PM PDT by rottndog
And his degree is in meteorology.
He’s not an electrical engineer like the guy who claims the antarctic is melting.
I’ll tell you a little secret about carbon...CO2 does not conduct heat as well as air.
At night, CO2 and air cool down to ambient temperature...but during daylight, air heats up faster than does CO2.
That’s a fancy way of saying that CO2 is cooler than air during the day.
The more CO2 displaces air in our atmosphere, the less our atmosphere heats up each day.
CO2 *does* have a greenhouse effect (you can see that impact on Mars), but it has *less* of a greenhouse effect than does air.
And that is a dirty little secret...the truth against The Big Lie being told about CO2 emissions.
They cool (compared to air).
Hard to argue with real data as opposed to Algore hot air
Actuallly, the BEST question that no one wants to ask is what ended the last mini ice age?
CO2, as I have said often, is a trace gas. Carbon dioxide does not have the atomic structure to "trap" heat; Water vapor on the other hand traps heaps of energy in order to be water vapor. But in that trapping the temperature of the water vapor itself does not increase.
CO2 does not affect temperature; rather temperature affects CO2. I finally found the thermodynamic information regarding CO2.
Atmospheric radiation absorption and emission are dominated by the presence of all three phases of H2O. Like all molecules, CO2 only absorbs and emits specific spectral wavelengths (14.77 microns) that constitute a tiny fraction of solar radiation energy in Earths atmosphere. The first 50 ppm of CO2 absorbs about half of this tiny energy, each additional 50 ppm absorbs half of the remaining tiny fraction, so at the current 380 ppm there are almost no absorb-able photons left. CO2 could triple to 1,000 ppm with no additional discernible absorptionemission. This is the Beer-Lambert Law: The intensity of radiation decreases exponentially as it passes through an absorbing medium.
There are no greenhouse gases in physics. CO2 is not a pollutant; it is green plant food.
"...the warming of the Earth has been much weaker than what climate models show."
"[The IPCC report] does not bring up the large difference between observational results and model simulations"
This needs to be pointed out again and again and again. Why should we listen to the alarmists when they've already been proven wrong?
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