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There Is No Atmospheric Green House Effect

Capt. Karl — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:47:31 +0000

The Liberty Tree Lantern comment: Remember folks, ALLOF THE NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, that are “economical” and a “benefit” to mankind, in both an environmental sense and a financial / practical sense, will come forward for reasons inherent in “Capitalism” and Liberty.

Oppression and despotically forced new energy technologies, like the now realized devastating pitfalls of ethanol and E85 including additional pollution BTW, will cause massive increases in the cost of living (Groceries and all products) and devastation to our economy; for as long as the tyrants in the Federal Government enforce it by the threat of taxes, penalties, fees, and other costs to be forcefully paid through the “AGENTS” of “The Matrix” called (IRS) Agents at the threat of jail or the point of their guns, the ability of the market and nature, of necessity to be free of immorality through enforcement of justice of “natural law” or the Ten Commandments as inscribedon the doors of the Supreme Court where Moses looks down from a mosaic on the wall with the tablets, will not be able to make the corrections necessary or allow further blessings of our creator for mankind to be realized for his will would be neutralized and superseded by the Federal Government. The JUNK science of Global Warming is a Theocracy of economic and liberty oppression that is of a congregational cult that mankind would be wise to avoid. - – Capt. Karl

Published by AJStrata at 9:20 am under All General Discussions

Updated

Reader Crosspatch referred us to this excellent scientific paper (which has been out in one form or another for almost two years now) which debunks the entire man-made global warming myth at its source – the fact that no one has (or can) prove there is a “Greenhouse Effect”. It is a fascinating read and notes how real green houses warm up by heating the trapped air which cannot be cooled by convection (hot air rises, cool air drops in to take up the heat being absorbed by the ‘ground’).

The IPCC green house theory (which is proven to be false) relies on a radiation imbalance between the Sun and the reflecting/emitting Earth. It assumes visible light comes in, is absorbed by the ground, etc, and then heat radiation (infrared) is transmitted out. It assumes (wrongly) that infrared cannot escape the glass or atmosphere and that is how heat builds up (not because the air cannot be refreshed).

The paper is especially illuminating in its discussion on a car getting hot in the sun on the inside, while the ground and air right outside the car doesn’t. If radiation was the real mechanism (as all the priests at the Church of Al Gore/IPCC claim) then there would not be so much warming ‘inside’ relative to the outside.

In fact, the paper notes an experiment where a “salt house” was developed (because salt does pass infrared as easily as visible light) and it was shown both the ’salt and ‘glass’ houses warmed at the same rate, even though there was no trapping of the infrared radiation in the salt house.

In fact, the salt house warmed more and faster – because of one monumental mistake made by the entire man-made global warming community! The priests of IPCC assume the sun generates more visible light than infrared, and it is the infrared radiation from the earth which is heating the atmosphere. They assume the heat from the Earth is trapped because the atmosphere captures the infrared but passes the visible.

But the reality is the Sun produces radiation in the following bands and percentages based on black-body radiation models (used to model suns): Ultraviolet (UV) – 10%, visible light 44.8%, Infrared (IR) 45.2%! The Sun produces more energy in the IR than in the visible. Those same atmospheric molecules absorbing the Earth’s IR is also absorbing the Sun’s IR – and guess which IR source is orders of magnitude larger? Does the Earth glow and shed light to planets across this solar system?

This really is just a stunning point. The Green House effect would have to work both ways. If trapped IR radiation by CO2 (which only accounts for 7% of the so called green house gases) is the driver behind global warming then it should be taking off like a rocket given how much IR is coming from the Sun. The Sun is an IR generator that dwarfs whatever heat is coming from the Earth’s surface. But we all know the CO2 has been rising the last ten years and the temperature has been dropping. What gives?

I find it completely dumbfounding that the IPCC and others never proved their IR radiation imbalance theories. Not once! In fact, the paper lists a string of smart sounding but incoherent and wrong statements about how green houses work and the atmosphere. In a shining example of getting so complicated in the their thinking they misses the obvious is this one:

Claim: The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lets the radiation of the Sun, whose maximum lies in the visible light, go through completely, while on the other hand it absorbs a part of the heat radiation emitted by the Earth into space because of its larger wavelength. This leads to higher near-surface air temperatures.”

Disproof: The first statement is incorrect since the obviously non-neglible infrared part of the incoming solar radiation [ajstrata: the 45.2% of the solar radiation] is being absorbed (cf. Section 2.2). The second statement is falsiedby referring to a counterexample known to every housewife: The water pot on the stove. Without water filledin, the bottom of the pot will soon become glowing red. Water is an excellent absorber of infrared radiation. However, withwater filled in, the bottom of the pot will be substantially colder.

The boiling water example is brilliant in its simplicity and ability connect to just about anyone. The heat from the Earth’s surface is carried away by the air which rises and drops the heat off in the upper atmosphere and into space. Just like the water in the pot. Heat is not dissipated by radiation, it is by conduction to the air and then convection of the air to remove the heat.

So it seems the entire Global Warming ’science’ is built upon science fiction assumptions that defy the real laws of physics! They’ll grant a PhD to just about anyone these days.

Addendum: Clarification – the paper also notes that some or much of the Sun’s IR is reflected back into space by the ionosphere, which is probably why the paper keeps noting the ‘non-negligible” solar IR levels. Note; This reflection boundary is not part of the IPCC green house model.

Update: IPCC ’science’ is based on 19th century theories – never proven:

In their research and review papers the climatologists refer to legendary publications of Svante August Arrhenius (19 Feb. 1859 – 2 Oct. 1927), a Nobel Prize winner for chemistry. Arrhenius published one of the earliest, extremely simple calculations in 1896, which were immediately - and correctly – doubted and have been forgotten for many decades [44{46]. It is a paper about the influence of carbonic acid in the air on the Earth’s ground temperature. In this quite long paper, Arrhenius put the hypothesis up for discussion, that the occurrences of warm and ice ages are supposed to be explainable by certain gases in the atmosphere, which absorb thermal radiation.

I am fairly certain physics has evolved quite a bit since the First World War.

Major Update: I want to, once more, go to the boiling pot model to explain why there is no radiative green house effect as the IPCC claims (some clown on Powerline doesn’t understand that the ‘real’ green house effect is heat transferred by conduction and then trapped by limiting convection – which the atmosphere can do with clouds, etc).

If the radiative model existed at all then the following would not happen:

3.8.3 In the kitchen: Physics-obsessed housewife versus IPCC

In Section 3.3.5 it was indicated how simple it is to falsify the atmospheric greenhouse hypotheses, namely by observing a water pot on the stove: Without water filledin, the bottom of the pot will soon become glowing red. However, with water lled in, the bottom of the pot will be substantially colder.

In particular, such an experiment can be performed on a glass-ceramic stove. The role of the Sun is played by the electrical heating coils or by infrared halogen lamps that are used as heating elements. Glas-ceramic has a very low heat conduction coecient, but lets infrared radiation pass very well. The dihydrogen monoxide in the pot, which not only plays the role of the “greenhouse gas” but also realizes a very dense phase of such a magic substance, absorbs the infrared extremely well. Nevertheless, there is no additional “backwarming” effect of the bottom of the pot. In the opposite, the ground becomes colder.

Dihydrogen monoxide is of courtsewater. But what the pot shows is is there is no radiation back to the pot from the water molecules (the number one “green house” molecule). The heat transfer process is completely overwhelmed by convection and conduction with water in place, and the run away heating is contained to ‘the ground’ when there is not sufficient water or air to transport the heat out.

The fact is there is no proof or evidence of a radiation driven green house effect, therefore there is no physical reality to the IPCC theories. Remove the concept of CO2 absorbing and re-emitting IR heat creating a feedback heating from the IPCC assumptions and they have nothing. The heat transfer of the atmosphere is in convection and conduction – which has nothing to do with CO2 specifically (any atoms or molecules convey heat through these methods).

Moreover, the regulating of the Earth’s climate is more likely due to the vast oceans which are heat sinks. The warm, livable atmospheric conditions are driven more by the heat contained in the 75% of the planet which is covered by water (which is why coastal cities and towns are degrees warmer than their inland cousins a few miles away).

Basically, these goofs at the IPCC have it completely wrong because they don’t have the knowledge and mathematical skills to apply the equations they misuse.

Addendum: The confusion also seems to be that no one is aware that the IPCC doesn’t assume the driving force is convection (which is neutral regarding the trace gas CO2 verses H2O vapor). The paper lists a long litany of evidence that the IPCC assumes CO2 is the global warming culprit because of their mythical IR radiation transport via CO2 – why else focus on CO2 in the first place? Yes, there is heat energy in the atmosphere, but it is driven by conduction and convection – which means CO2 is no different from any other molecule in the air. Duh.

Some snippets of the IPCC claims:

“If one raises the concentration of carbon dioxide, which absorbs the infrared light and lets visible light go through, in the Earth’s atmosphere, the ground heated by the solar radiation and/or near-surface air will become warmer, because the cooling of the ground is slowed down.”

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“In a real glass house (with no additional heating, i.e. no greenhouse) the window panes are transparent to sunshine, but opaque to terrestrial radiation. The heat exchange must take place through heat conduction within the glass, which requires a certain temperature gradient. Then the colder boundary surface of the window pane can emit heat. In case of the atmosphere water vapor and clouds play the role of the glass.”

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“Name for the influence of the Earth’s atmosphere on the radiation and heat budget of the Earth, which compares to the effect of a glass house: Water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere let short wave solar radiation go through down to the Earth’s surface with a relative weak attenuation and,however, reflect the portion of long wave (heat) radiation which is emitted from the Earth’s surface (atmospheric backradiation).”

These are all wrong statements (might as well say the Earth is flat and the Sun orbits the Earth). There are plenty more in the paper. The point is the IPCC cannot target CO2 UNLESS the driver of heat transfer is this mythical IR radiation loop. It doesn’t exist, QED their models and predictions are fiction.

5 Responses to “There Is No Atmospheric Green House Effect”

# crosspatchon 24 Mar 2009 at 1:31 am

The thing is that it is very easy to use a term like “greenhouse” that most people are familiar with and they can understand and then you make them afraid but offer them a path to deliverance if they just elect you to office and allow you to control industry.

To debunk the idea, you have to be talking to someone that understands the math and physics involved.

What we have today is a situation where if 51% of the people “believe in” something, it becomes truth. So it isn’t a matter of whether it is true or not, it is if one side is able to “sell” it to a greater number of people. That is what Hansen is complaining about when he said last week that the “democratic process” isn’t working in policy.

Well, you can’t vote on physics. Things are what they are, one’s beliefs notwithstanding. We have increasing adult illiteracy, we have people who get their “news” from facebook. We are becoming an idiocracy. When 50% of the population is below the median intelligence level, it becomes very easy to sell them on things like this with simple concepts they can understand and very difficult to explain why those ideas are wrong when you need some understanding of physics to understand the argument.

Before all the atmospheric CO2 was turned into oil, shale, gas, coal, limestone, and marble, it was in the atmosphere. The atmosphere had about 7,000 parts/million of CO2. It now has about 380ppm. When the atmosphere was at 7,000 ppm, the temperature was about 5 degrees warmer than now. It didn’t go into “runaway” and it didn’t destroy life.

When modern fish and corals evolved, the CO2 content was down to about 1500 to 2000 parts/million. People rant that an increase in CO2 from 350ppm to 380ppm is “acidifying the ocean” and hurting species. And that is bunk because those species lived for millions of years when CO2 was much higher and thrived. In fact, only about 10,000 years ago the Great Barrier Reef was completely dead. It was dead because it was 400 feet above sea level. Ocean levels in the last ice age were about 400 to 500 feet lower than they are now. Every single coral reef we know today is less than 10,000 years old if it is in less than 400 feet of water.

The reason the models go into runaway is that they assume an “infinitely thick” atmosphere. They assume an atmosphere than can not shed its heat at altitude. It assumes that the heat from the sun warms the CO2 and what leaks through heats the Earth and the Earth’s radiation further heats the atmosphere creating a “hot spot” in the troposphere several miles up. That isn’t happening. When you heat air (even air containing CO2) it rises. When it rises, it rises above most of the other CO2 in the atmosphere and its heat is radiated into space.

A litmus test for the “greenhouse” effect is warming oceans. If there is a greenhouse, the oceans would be warming. They aren’t. Over the past several years the oceans have been cooling. Sea level rise which has been pretty much linear for the past thousand years or so stopped in 2006.

No hot spot, no ocean warming, no sea level rise. YOU ARE BEING LIED TO. Trouble is, too few people understand well enough to realize it. And those that DO understand are being bribed with research grants or are being fired when then voice their opinions.

It is the biggest scam ever foisted on the people of the earth.
# crosspatchon 24 Mar 2009 at 1:38 am

Also, atmospheric response to CO2 isn’t linear. Imagine an atmosphere with no CO2. If you add X parts per million to get a degree of temperature increase, you need to add 10 * X to get the next degree of rise. And then you need to add 100 * X to get the next degree of rise. Most of the impact of CO2 is already realized. That is why increasing CO2 to 7000 parts/million only results in a 5 degree rise in temperature.

Oh, and another thing … all this fuss is about 0.7 degree rise over 100 years. It turns out that 0.5 degrees of that isn’t real. It is hidden in “adjustments” made to the temperature records. In other words, NOAA fudges the numbers and “adjusts” them up 0.5 degrees. Temperatures from the early part of the century are left unadjusted. Global warming is man made, alright, but not in the way you are expected to believe.
# crosspatchon 24 Mar 2009 at 2:50 am

Here is another little tidbit about where people are being mislead. Weather is generated by differences in temperature. The greater the difference in temperature between two air masses, the stronger the storms will result when those masses collide.

People are being led to believe that “global warming” is responsible for an increase in Midwestern US tornado activity. The fact is that cooling can be just as responsible. When cooler air flows down from the upper plains, it is the same as warmer air flowing up from the gulf. It isn’t the absolute temperature that creates the storm, it is the difference in temperature between the air masses.

Air coming up from the Gulf of Mexico is mainly determined by the temperature of the water. Air flowing down from Canada is mainly determined by how much heat it can radiate into space. In a global warming scenario, the air coming from Canada would be warmer (because in the Global Warming model, temperatures at higher latitudes are impacted more) while air from the Gulf would be about the same. That is because it takes a very long time (months) to heat up water but it takes a very small amount of time (hours) to cool air. In a global warming situation, Midwestern tornadoes would DECREASE because the air flowing down from Canada would be warmer. There would be less difference in temperature with air flowing up from the Gulf. In a global cooling scenario, the difference would be greater and there would be more storms.

Same with hurricanes. Hurricanes intensify mainly at night. This is because it is, again, temperature difference that drives a storm. The greater the difference in temperature between the surface and the air aloft, the more convection you get. It is convection that drives a storm. In global warming, the air aloft should get warmer. This should REDUCE convenction and result in weaker storms, not stronger storms. Global warming “experts” also rely on surface temperatures. What they need to rely on is the DIFFERENCE between surface temperature and the temperature at the top of the eye wall. The greater the difference, the stronger, the convection, and the more powerful the winds. The less difference, the weaker the convection.

It isn’ t the surface anomaly that causes the storms, it is the anomaly of surface temp minus aloft temp that will tell you how much storm potential you have with tropical storms. If the air aloft is cold, you are bound to get stronger storms. If the sea surface is warmer you will get more storms started. If the surface is warmer AND the air aloft is colder you will get more storms and more powerful storms provided the winds aren’t so strong aloft that they blow the tops off the convection (sheer).

A storm is a heat engine. It works on the difference in heat between two points, not the absolute heat at one point.
# daniel ortegaon 24 Mar 2009 at 10:39 am

Just a question and I mean no disrespect.
I understand the argument but why this?
On a winter night, if the sky is clear, there is frost on the ground.
But on a winter night, if later, a blanket of clouds come over,
then there is no frost on the ground.
?
The blanket of clouds appears to trap the heat, No?
If the mechanism was just due to the convection then,
it wouldn’t make any difference?

I don’t like the eco-lunatics. I just want to understand.
The convection only theory does not seem to fit my own observations.
# AJStrataon 24 Mar 2009 at 10:46 am

Daniel,

The clouds trap the heat by not allowing the air column to lift the warm air up where it is dissipated in space. That is not a radiation feedback loop. That is convection being limited by a mass of water vapor (the clouds).

The main point is that convection (moving molecules rising with heat) and conduction (heat transfered by ‘touching’ – basically rapidly moving molecules banging into others and heating them up) do not differentiate CO2 from any other molecule. If these are the primary heat pump for the atmosphere, then removing or adding CO2 will have no measurable effect.

The IPCC targets CO2 only because of their mythical IR feedback theory. If the IR feedback theory is not valid (and this paper shows that in spades) then the cap $ trade in CO2 levels is a useless exercise is futility.

BRZEZINSKI: OBAMA’S GLOBALIST “RASPUTIN”

Capt. Karl — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:25:54 +0000

BRZEZINSKI: OBAMA’S GLOBALIST “RASPUTIN”

By Patrick Briley
September 16, 2008

NewsWithViews.com

Zbigniew Brzezinski is Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisor. Brzezenski was the national security advisor for President Carter from 1977 to 1981. In 1988 he endorsed HW Bush for President and was Co-Chair of the HW Bush national security advisory task force. From 1987 to 1989 he also served on the HW Bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Clinton Secretary of State Madeline Albright was a student of Brzezenski.. GW Bush Secretary of State, Condi Rice (also a former national security advisor), who studied under Albright’s father, shares many of the same world government views with Brzezinski and Albright.

Zbigniew Brzezinski is an advocate of socialist world government, a goal he has promoted as a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and as a speaker at former Soviet Premier and Communist Mikhail Gorbachev’s first World Forum. Brzezinski is an architect of creating regions of global governance from independent nations to achieve world government. At the World Forum Brzezenski described the global regions that are now being put into place under Condi Rice: Israel and the Palestinians (now MEFTA, Middle East Free Trade Association), Iran as part of a Central Asian region, and China as part of a Far Eastern region. As a member of CSIS Brzezinski has guided their efforts to publish the North American Integration Monitor (2002) that calls for the loss of US sovereignty to a North American Union (NAU) as one of the regional global government blocks.

The proposals for global taxes by Obama have come with the recommendations of Zbigniew Brzezinski to pay for globalization and world government. Obama has proposed a global poverty tax in a US Senate bill. The Climate Change Control Bill strongly supported by Obama calls for an international governing regime to monitor and regulate carbon dioxide and “carbon footprints” from discovery, to production, to consumption at a cost of $50 trillion globally and at a cost of $8 trillion for US taxpayers, all to be paid for by a global tax, whose monies will be used to establish a world government body.

Obama, Brzezinski and Al Gore have worked closely with Communist backed environmental fronts led by Gorbachaev (proponent of Earth Charter, author of Manifesto for Earth), to promote the falsehood of significant global climate change due to manmade sources of greenhouse gases to scare the world and the US into paying such a global tax to “save the planet.” Prominent Republicans have bought into this scam including GW Bush, Condi Rice, John Warner, Joe Lieberman and John McCain who also have supported key provisions of the Climate Change Control bill as well as the Keyoto accords. The scam also leads to reduced oil production and greater dependence on foreign oil setting up the US for blackmail by Communist and Islamic nations who are increasing their oil production and exploration.

It is not an accident that Obama and Brzezinski are and have been in lock step with Communist and socialist world government plans. Obama’s longstanding ties with Communist, Marxist and Islamic terror mentors in the US have been well documented in the US and world press. What many do not know but need to know is that Zbigniew Brzezinski represents another one of these Islamic terror, socialistic, world government and Marxist mentors of Obama.

Brzezinski openly praises Marxism in his book Between Two Ages published in 1970. Incidentally Brzezenski’s father was an ambassador to Russia from Poland during Stalin’s reign and Zbigniew worked to protect and defend some East German intelligence agents of Stasi some of whose former members later worked to enable the 9/11 hijackers and other Islamic terrorists (Hamburg cell of Atta, Alshehhi and Jarrah). Like Obama, Brzezinski was not born in the continental US (born instead in Poland where he lived until near the age of ten before moving to Canada), and has dual US and Polish citizenship.

Zbigniew Brzezinski co-founded the Trilateral Commission (TC) with David Rockefeller in 1973 and was its first director. Brzezinski selected Jimmy Carter as a member while Carter was the governor of Georgia and before Carter became US President. TC is the primary organization managing the goals of globalization to achieve world government via manipulations of economies, politics and religions of nations around the world including the US.

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, Global Warming and Gasoline

Capt. Karl — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:48:52 +0000

You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas. It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline. All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth. What an amazing fraud; what a master scam. Americans will now lose their prosperity and there FREEDOM.

See: http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/19842304.html