"Climate change," is
real, but it is not what Barack Obama, Jim Hansen, Al Gore, Michael Mann, Phil
Jones and Heidi Cullen claim. Our daily
high temperatures have been in decline for 27 years, per the above graph but, since 1880, with a few bumps up, the overall trend was down.
When a 1971 group of six NASA
scientists, including Jim Hansen, made a
presentation to Congress saying an ice age was coming they were much closer
to the truth than in 1988 when Jim Hansen returned to Congress to warn of
global warming. The difference was that
Al Gore's new tax and bureau ideas rang Congressional bells. So here we are with Hillary Clinton planning
to end the debate by putting all deniers in prison. As a threatened person in this fiasco I offer
a "jury ready" presentation to all my fellows.
The atmosphere is a closed
system that obeys the laws of gaseous chemistry. Gravity is a better bottle than any we make. No more than 100 kilograms of gas leave our six trillion metric ton atmosphere every year thanks to gravity. We will never run out of air in spite of
having no apparent lid on a planet open to the vacuum of outer space.
Molecules bump each other
five million times every second. We know
that as is the frequency as we hear it on short wave at 5000 khz. One "kiloHertz,"
is 1,000 cycles per second, so 5000 is five million cycles or Hertz. If you tune to that frequency on short wave
radio you will hear WWV, the Atomic Clock time signal from Colorado
To leave the atmosphere one
molecule has to be hit at an angle pointing out of the atmosphere many times to
kick it up to the 25,000 mile per hour escape velocity. It is a rare event but with a virtually
infinite number of molecules it happens. Nearly all are hydrogen or helium which we do
not need. We will never run out of breathable air. Man will be gone as a consequence of
nature. We have to get out of the way
for the next species.
Water vapor is the only
significant gas heating the atmosphere with one to four percent of the
mass. Infrared heat waves, IR, are not
captured by any other gas, but carbon dioxide, CO2, which is insignificant in
quantity with four one-hundreths of one percent, but Jim Hansen has demonized
it and made it a monster for money and fame. He is a multimillionaire in a profession where
vows of poverty are printed on the backs of Ph.D. degrees. He is a hero in
academia, now a place with casino values.
Professional integrity on the college campus is a myth. They're like banana republics without
bullets. Been there, done that; got some
scars.
In terms of temperature water
vapor controls the atmosphere. Water can
exist as a solid, liquid or gas in the range of temperatures on Earth and where
71% of our surface is covered by water the atmosphere is generally saturated
with it, ranging from one to four percent.
Warmer is wetter; colder is drier.
Water vapor has been
troublesome in science as it condenses in instruments, causing corrosion and by
changing state, the physics of the sample.
For 100 years science experimented only with "dry" air, that
from which all water had been removed which meant what we learned of the gases
did not apply to nature so the history of atmospheric science was deeply flawed.
Early in the 20th century that practice was corrected.
Carbon dioxide is the only
other gas in air that absorbs infrared radiation significantly, but only
one-seventh as well as water vapor. CO2 is a
"trace" species in air with only 0.04% percent and is officially
ignored in weather science as "insignificant." Only scoundrels talk of CO2 in the
atmosphere.
Where water vapor condenses
to liquid from the atmosphere we can use the Le Chatelier Principle for the
physics of the atmosphere. It says,
"The product of the concentrations of the reactants over the product of
the concentrations of the products in a reaction is a constant." Water
vapor is the reactant and water liquid is the product. The equation is:
[H2Og] x [CO2g] / [H2Ol] = Kt
The brackets enclosing terms indicate
"moles per liter." A
"mole" is the mass of the molecule in atomic weight units, awu, as
grams. Where water has two hydrogens,
with one atomic weight unit each, and one oxygen with 16 atomic weight units a
"mole" of water has a mass of 18 grams. For CO2 it would be 44 grams as carbon has 12 awu and adding
32 for two oxygen atoms equals 44 grams per mole. If we take 18 grams of water and 44 grams of
CO2
we will have the same number of molecules of each. "K" means "constant" and
"t" is the Absolute temperature in degrees Kelvin.
In the 19th
century Lord Kelvin discovered if he reduced the temperature of a gas one
Celsius degree the volume decreased by 1/273rd.
He reasoned that if he reduced the temperature by 273 Celsius degrees
the gas would vanish! So he called that "Absolute Zero" and defined
it as zero degrees Kelvin, or Absolute, which gave him a scale for
computing changes in gas volumes with
changes in temperature; a great
contribution.
The addition of CO2 to the
atmosphere changes the amount of water vapor air can hold and water vapor is
the principle air heater. We can
manipulate the Le Chatelier equation to model this situation by solving for
water vapor:
[H2Og] = Kt x [H2Ol] / [CO2g]
The equation says as we
increase the quantity of CO2 the quantity of water vapor declines. Where water vapor is seven times better at
absorbing energy from sunlight the temperature declines. This is in full agreement with the real
temperature record of the last 27 years and not the one Jim Hansen's Goddard
Space Sciences Institute falsified since 1988.
The irony of this is that if
the promoters of "global warming" and man caused "climate
change" had been honest in their work they would have a legitimate issue
against carbon, but now they have sentenced themselves to failure and
ridicule. Nonetheless, man's production
of CO2
is only 3.2% of the total produced as 93.6% is produced naturally with the bulk
coming from the decomposition of limestone.
There is no way to control that. Man is insignificant on this planet and
will be gone in a few thousand generations and we do not have to worry about
climate change.
Adrian Vance
Broadcast Audio: Climate Change Is Real 7:38 min
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