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Carbon Dioxide irrelevant in climate debate says MIT Scientist
Examiner.com ^ | August 18, 2009 | Dianna Cotter

Posted on 08/19/2009 8:18:27 PM PDT by sourcery

In a study sure to ruffle the feathers of the Global Warming cabal, Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT has published a paper which proves that IPCC models are overstating by 6 times, the relevance of CO2 in Earth’s Atmosphere. Dr. Lindzen has found that heat is radiated out in to space at a far higher rate than any modeling system to date can account for.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: duh; globalwarming
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To: Wuli
Heat, in truth does not "rise", what it really does is: "heat moves toward cold".

It does both, convection (warm air rising) and longwave radiation which is what you are describing.

21 posted on 08/20/2009 9:15:15 AM PDT by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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To: Laserman

“The warm Earth radiates in all directions, but the little of the radiation that heads outward to space gets reabsorbed by the atmosphere before it escapes.”

Not according to the study using latest satellite-based data conducted by the learned MIT professor.


22 posted on 08/20/2009 8:22:11 PM PDT by Wuli
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Thanx Again !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

23 posted on 08/24/2009 1:07:05 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
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