"It has always been a mystery to me that anyone believes the rubbish that increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are responsible for an increase in air temperature. CO2 has a specific heat of 0.2 BTU per pound (of CO2) per degree F.Air has a specific heat of 0.25 BTU per pound (of air) per deg F.
"An increase of 100 ppm of CO2 is 'supposed to' gain heat from solar thermal radiation to increase air temperatures by one degree. How is this possible?
"You need to transfer 250,000 BTU of heat to raise the temperature of one million pounds air one deg F. Adding 100 pounds of CO2 (100 ppm) gets you only 20 BTU for every one deg F temperature rise of CO2. It is silly to think that the Sun is going to warm CO2 to over 12,000 deg F.
"Isn't it odd that so called scientists choose to ignore basic Thermodynamics, unless such mundane subjects are no longer taught in our enlightened schools."
Submitted to GWH.com by semiconductor pioneer Julius Blank
Very good blog. I've always had the same wonder. . .only less scientific. I've always wondered, if 0.0038% of our atmosphere that's human made is warming, what's the other 99.9962% doing. Surely, through use of simple math, the rest of the atmosphere has to be creating much much more of a warming effect. Even if you just count CO2, the 0.0342% of our atmosphere - the natural CO2 - would create so much of a warming that the warming from human made CO2 would seem insignificate.I cover some of these, and more views like this in my blog. Feel free to have a stop by sometime.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that the cooling of the last couple of years has been dismissed as being due to La Nina (the opposite of El Nino). Let's think about this- both La Nina and El Nino are just descriptions of how heat is moved around the Pacific Ocean and not a measure of how much heat is in the planet (it's like saying I've only got $30 in my bank account so I am poor when I have a million dollars under the mattress).Thanks Chjris for your comments.
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