After watching a Halloween broadcast of "It's the Great
Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", I realized that Linus van Pelt
is like those who preach global warming . Linus
doesn't let the failure of the Great Pumpkin to appear destroy his
belief that the Great Pumpkin exists. Similarly,
the climate shaman who preach global warming won't let colder
than normal winter weather in recent years destroy their belief that
someday their "Great Pumpkin" will rise from the pumpkin patch and
distribute warming throughout the world.
When I started examining the claims about global warming I was
surprised by the total lack of any scientific basis for the claim
that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide could raise the
temperature of the air. The idea that a gas that
is only 0.04% of the atmosphere could determine atmospheric
temperature sounds more like magic than science. The
false belief that heat in greenhouses and the atmosphere involved
the trapping of low energy infrared radiation developed at a time
when scientists falsely believed atoms were the smallest particles
of matter. Many believed Benjamin Franklin's theory that
heat involved some mysterious "fluid". they called "caloric"
For those not familiar with the "Great Pumpkin..." program,
Linus van Pelt is a little boy in the "Peanuts" comic strip which is
available at
Gocomics.com. A recurring story line is his long
standing belief that on Halloween the Great Pumpkin will rise from a
sincere pumpkin patch and distribute toys. On this
particular Halloween he convinces Sally Brown, who considers him her
"sweet babboo", to sit in the pumpkin patch with him. She is
mad when the Great Pumpkin doesn't appear. However, Linus is
undeterred in his belief that the Great Pumpkin will eventually
appear. In the comic strip Linus is occasionally shown
waiting in the pumpkin patch on Halloween. Sometimes he
will persuade someone else to wait with him
Near and subfreezing weather
occurred frequently in the continental U.S. except for
Florida, California, and small parts of Texas, Arizona and the
coasts of Oregon and Washington, On the morning of January 8,
2015, subfreezing temperatures extended south into the atmosphere
over the northern Gulf of Mexico and west from the
Atlantic to California and parts of Oregon and Washington.
The 20 F line reached through Georgia just north of the border
with Florida.
Those who preach the global warning religion act more like religious
fanatics than scientists. Real scientists respond to
critics by trying to fi nd more facts to support their
theories. The global warming preachers respond to
criticism with name calling and threats. They use terms
such as "denier" and "contrarian" like religious fanatics use the
term "heretic", Religious fanatics rely on
consensus about beliefs rather than facts.
The claims of empirical science are considered more valid than other
claims when the science claims are based upon verification through
observation and experimentation. Physicist R.W. Wood
tested the claim that trapping infrared radiation helped
greenhouses retain heat in 1909 in an
experiment that used greenhouses that were identical except
that one greenhouse used glass that reflected IR and the other used
glass that was transparent to IR . His experiment disproved
the theory that "trapping" IR caused the heat in greenhouses
or the atmosphere.
Neils
Bohr subsequently demonstrated that the process of absorbing
and re-emitting specific wavelengths of light by molecules had
nothing to do with heating. Instead, the process involved
changes in the energy state of the electrons. His
calculations indicated that the very small amount of energy involved
was what he called a "quantum". The quantum of
energy released by CO2 molecules wouldn't be enough to heat
anything. The process of absorbing and re-emitting radiation
breaks up the radiation instead of trapping it.
Real scientists know that conduction by heated surfaces heats the
atmosphere and the air in greenhouses. At any one instant
heated objects convert only a fraction of their heat energy to
radiation so heat transfer by radiation to other objects is
limited. However a heated object in what physicists call
"thermal contact" with another object or gases will attempt to heat
the other substance to its temperature. The walls and ceiling
of a greenhouse hold the heated air inside. Outside the
greenhouse gravity holds heated air close to the
ground.
Global warming shaman have yet to provide any proof that
carbon dioxide or any other gas can cause heating by interacting
with electromagnetic radiation. They just demonstrate
their ignorance of science and math by claiming a nonsense
number they call "average global temperature" proves global
warming. .
Saturday, October 31, 2020
The Great Pumpkin and Climate Change
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