I Love Carbon Dioxide and You Should Too

Townhall ^ | 05/16/2018 | Gregory Wrightstone

[logi_cal869]

My hypothesis is that they were right in the 70s (impending Ice Age), but for the wrong reasons.

The solar minimum is upon us, the irony being that without industrialization we might have been a couple volcanic events or other minor cosmic event away from ice-sheet city.

I believe that when certain events coincide with the solar minimum - terrestrial or otherwise - the planet dips into a deep freeze until another set of events trigger its release.

We may never know what brought about the end of the last ice age for certain, as I believe that the whole “ice core gas sampling” thing is defective in premise, an associative argument for global warming no different than fat was to the lipid hypothesis.

Small minds...

[minnesota_bound]

Correction.... water vapor

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Let’s not allow the unlearned (media) deny simple algebra while decrying “science deniers”. 2+2=4, therefore 4-2=2. Hard sciences are proven through the numerical triumvirate: math+algebra+calculus.

According to the recent PBS special, an increase in the atmospheric CO2 retains thermal radiation (IR energy); it “doesn’t allow the escape of heat”. While this is a scientific fact, it does not take into account any of the REFLECTIVE/DEFLECTIVE action of CO2. Incoming IR energy is deflected away from the earth in same manner AND RATE it is reflected back into the atmosphere.

CO2 is actually a MODERATOR of atmospheric temperature.
It’s math AND science.

[palmer]

While this is a scientific fact, it does not take into account any of the REFLECTIVE/DEFLECTIVE action of CO2. Incoming IR energy is deflected away from the earth in same manner AND RATE it is reflected back into the atmosphere.

Paper titled "Can Measurements of the Near‐Infrared Solar Spectral Irradiance be Reconciled? A New Ground‐Based Assessment Between 4,000 and 10,000 cm-1" says "About 25% of the Sun's energy reaches Earth in this [near IR] spectral region, which makes it important for quantifying the global energy budget, particularly since it is home to several strong water vapor, CO2, and other absorption bands." and the paper concludes that the amount of NIR is probably lower. In any case the other 75% of the incoming radiation is higher frequencies that are mostly not absorbed by CO2, water vapor or other greenhouse gases.

In contrast to the hot sun, the earth is pretty cool and thus radiates most of its energy at lower frequencies. The difference between the higher frequencies from the sun and lower frequencies from the earth is why increases in greenhouse gases cause warming. Of course that is oversimplified since the earth has wide variety of temperatures, surface materials vary, and the "greenhouse" is extremely uneven due to water vapor. Not to mention the gaping holes in the greenhouse" from convection.

But the greenhouse of greenhouse gases is quite sinilar to a glass greenhouse in it's basic operation.