Real Science: Man-Made CO2 Can’t Cause Global Warming; It Doesn’t Have the Mojo

North Star Writers Group ^ | January 16, 2009 | Candace Talmadge

[Dukes Travels]

Despite all scare-mongering to the contrary, carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere is not the cause of global warming.

To be an agent of greenhouse heating, carbon dioxide (or any) atmospheric gas would have to be capable of absorbing in significant quantities both the sun’s radiation spectrum (the ultimate source of natural heating on Earth) and of absorbing heat radiating back from the Earth (the greenhouse effect).

There is a process to measure a gas’s absorption ability called atomic absorption spectrometry. Suspicious of the entire global warming hysteria, atmospheric physicist James A. Peden put carbon dioxide through just such an analysis. Based on where and how much of the sun’s total radiation output, which consists of light and other wavelengths not visible to human eyes, Peden estimates that carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere takes in no more than 8 percent of the sun’s total radiation.

[StACase]

There's a "Blip" of CO2 absorption peeking out from behind the water vapor band around 15 microns.
The whole argument is about that "Blip"!