Finally, a really good response from us “deniers”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A24fWmNA6lM
Uh, oh. The socialist bartender may need to be recalibrated.
About time for me to post this again:
For those curious:
CO2 only absorbs infrared light aka heat in two very narrow bands of wavelengths (think “colors” of heat). In those narrow bands, CO2 is almost completely opaque.
Even at only 0.04% of our atmosphere, CO2 absorbs almost all infrared light in those bands within a few tens of meters. Hence, if you increased CO2 by even 10 times, the total amount of infrared light (again, heat) absorbed by the atmosphere would NOT CHANGE.
Think about it like this: You have 10,000 sheets of very thin semi-opaque paper. Each sheet abosbs 0.04% of light passing through it. That means those 10,000 sheets will aborb almost all of the light passing through them.
Note: the math is a little complicated. First sheet aborbs 0.04% of the light leaving 99.96% left. Next sheet abosorbs 0.04% of the remaining 99.96% leaving about 99.92%. Next sheet aborbs about 99.96% of that, leaving 99.88% left. After about 10,000 sheets, only about 1.83% of the light is left. Basically all of it has been absorbed (and likely converted into heat).
Consider those sheets to be about 1 meter thick (that is a gross overestimation — it’s probably more like 10 cm thick, but erring on the side of a conservative estimate). That means your 10,000 sheets are a combined 10km thick. The atmosphere is about 10,000km thick. Hence all infared light is abosbed in the first 1/1,000 of the atmosphere.
How much more light is absobed if you increase the opaqueness of those sheets? Answer: none.
Outside of those narrow bands, CO2 is almost completely transparent. So again, if you increased CO2 by even 10 times, the amount of infrared light (again, heat) would NOT CHANGE.
Now the climate “scientists” try to handwave and “computer model” their way around these basic physics facts. After all, computer models are always right (/sarc). But that’s how the REAL physics works.
Short version: manmade aka CO2 caused climate change is not just a hoax, it is not even a very good hoax for those who know the physics. Unfortunately the level of basic physics education in this nation is basically nil with the exception of real engineers, physicists, and scientists.
Furthermore, why does CO2 only make up 0.04% of our atmosphere? The answer is simple: CO2 is PLANT FOOD. More CO2 simply means more plants and thus more O2 (oxygen). The plants including trees, grass, and mostly plankton simply gobble it all up. “Carbon based life forms” anyone in the class?
The climate apocalypse is always ten years away. Clocks and calendars will have to be adjusted constantly to make that always true.
The current approach, to pretend that all the earlier prophecies of doom never happened, has its drawbacks.
I have found this problem evaporates in retirement.
OMG!!!! the whole of human systems will just collapse I tell you. /sarc
1. Pick anything. Anything at all.
2. Google “Global Warming effect on X”
If X is bad, global warming is magnifying it.
If X is good, global warming is decimating it.
They postulate 2 factors that might cause the rotation of the earth to slow down, neither of which we can do anything about. Just be glad the rotation of the earth is not speeding up, otherwise we might all get flung into space by centrifugal force.
Oh Pleeeeeeeeease
Is there anything it can’t cause?
This article is nonsense. If these authors actually have degrees, where did they get them? Cracker Jack prizes?
It’s Official: The Leap Second Will Be Retired (a Decade from Now)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/science/time-leap-second-bipm.html
The leap second has been (will be) depreciated and discontinued.
quote:
Time is up for the leap second. Last week, an international coalition of scientists and government agencies voted to retire the dated timekeeping system, which will officially end in 2035.
The decision was made Nov. 18 during a general conference in France held by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), the organization responsible for global timekeeping.
Similar to leap years, leap seconds are a measure of time that get added periodically to clocks to make up for the difference between astronomical time (Universal Time 1, or UT1), also known as the Earth’s rotation, and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is based on the atomic clock.
https://www.livescience.com/goodbye-leap-second-2035
This certainly leads to a great idea for reducing the federal budget: Cut all funding for the Scripps Institute for Oceanography, and other similar wastes of time and money.
According to the geological record, we are still in a relative cooling period, barely out of an ice age. There is NO Global Warming to speak of.
So, my cellphone is one minute different from my laptop. And my laptop is also one minute different from the office laptop.
How is this any concern to anyone other than those plotting trajectories or day-traders?
Excuse me, but the premise is bunk that “global warming” is THE CULPRIT that upsets clock time.
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BEFORE “global warming,” the earth rotation varied in speed, plus or minus amounts, around “24 hours in a day.”
AND, the earth rotation will continue to vary in speed, plus or minus amounts, around “24 hours in a day.”
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The highest point on earth, is not Mt. Everest. The highest point is the top of some mountain along the equator - because the earth is fatter there - near the equator.
Not news, that the earth changes shape, has an axis of rotation that wobbles.
Not news, that the moon also does its own - variable thing.
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What may be news to a lot of people, is:
Water beneath the surface of the earth, moves around because of the gravity of the moon. One of the noticeable areas with that feature, is the western part of the Fertile Crescent - aka The Levant - the rough and mountainous terrain of Israel, Syria, southern Turkey.
The caverns and caves and underground aquafers contain water that is affected by the moon’s gravity.
So there are moments in the day, when water comes forth. A major source of some mysticisms, rumors, and stories of ancient times.
Our obsession with time is probably one of the things that God laughs at the most.