I don’t see how his argument about gases cooling has anything to do with the “greenhouse gas” theory. I don’t believe in man-made global warming, but this article doesn’t seem to address the actual idea of how it WOULD work, if it happened.
Yes, the author appears to have left out that key piece of information. My understanding of CO2 warming theories are that CO2 absorbs longer wavelength IR radiating from the earth and re-radiates half of that power back to the earth. I wonder if the author is trying to point out that the extremely low thermal mass of the trace amounts of atmospheric CO2 mean that all of the energy absorbed by the atmospheric CO2 is radiated away at night and thus the average temperature of the CO2 is constant over a 24 hour period and thus cannot provide a heat affect over an extended period of time.
Good Post. I hate it when those opposed to the Green House warming theory use bad science. There are multiple ways to disprove CO2 induced global warming. This article was not one.
He contends that, since these and other gases cool rapidly after the earth rotates its surface from the rays of the sun,
as do trees, rocks, water, buildings, etc., they do not retain heat to radiate further the following day; and, no
more than the aforementioned structures of the planet, regardless of the amount of gas percentage present.
Furthermore, the "greenhouse gas theory" postulates that gases like CO2 retain the sun's heat disproportionately
radiate over a long enough time span as to build "heat sinks" that build up more and more heat to radiate over a
period of days.
this article doesn’t seem to address the actual idea of how it WOULD work..
His point is that there is no way to prove, by scientific measure, that this theory would, could, or should work.
How can you explain an IF? It doesn’t work, the science says what it says.
Do you want someone to pump up the CO2 to 8,000 ppm like it has been in the past? I think it was actually closer to 13,000 ppm at times. In the depths of the ice age, it was down to 150 ppm. Plant life just about went extinct at that. It thrives at high levels of Carbon, it is toxic to life when at its lowest.