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It’s Time To Send The CO2-Obsessed Back To Science Class
Big League Politics ^ | February 20, 2019 | Jonathon Moseley

Posted on 02/20/2019 5:00:15 AM PST by Moseley

Advocates of a hypothesis that there is global warming that humans are causing ridicule those who won’t join their club. Yet the problem is that our schools have spread lack of understanding throughout our once-great society. Every institution run by people has been diminished. So let this be a primer if readers want to understand the hypothesis of global warming or try to free a believer from their fever:

I. Failing Freshman Statistics

The vast majority of the Earth is not being measured by weather stations. As we try to compare temperatures earlier in time, the poor coverage grows radically worse the farther back in time we go toward 1880.

The Earth’s surface measures 196.9 million square miles. Today, there are an estimated 10,100 weather stations world-wide, in addition to 1,000 free-floating buoys completely useless for measuring climate change.

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That means that if the temperature measurements were spread evenly across the Earth’s surface (they aren’t), there would be 1 weather station for every 19,495 square miles of the Earth’s surface. That’s almost the size of the State of Maryland (12,407 square miles).

Can today’s pseudo-scientists measure trends in the planet’s temperature? No. Here’s why:

First, the vast majority of the Earth’s surface is not being measured.

Second, a statistically valid sample, must be a random sample. You must take 196.9 million temperature measurements and average 196.9 million temperature measurements to come up with a single global average.

We can only resort to a smaller sample if the sample is random. But it is not. Any first-year student in undergraduate science would get an “F” if he tried to use a non-random sample to extrapolate the Earth’s overall global temperature.

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To: PeterPrinciple

Again, I smell a great future in lots of research grants.


41 posted on 02/20/2019 6:47:28 AM PST by Moseley (http://www.MoseleyComments.com)
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To: Moseley
BTW, to answer your specific questions:

how do you calibrate tree rings as an instrument of precise scientific measurement?
Calibration is done with rainfall records in the area of interest.

how do you standardize it as an instrument of measure?
Only useful if you have recent rainfall records in the area studied.

what is the margin of error in tree ring measurements? isn’t the margin of error or range of imprecision far greater than the effects we are trying to calculate?
See my earlier reply that discusses limitations of the methodology.

42 posted on 02/20/2019 6:48:19 AM PST by CedarDave (The Democrat Party Agenda is Death [late term abortion] and Taxes [raise and redistribute].)
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To: jdsteel

But this is the fatal flaw.

No one wants to remember that we are talking about GASES which MOVE and circulate.

So even if CO2 molecules are heavier than other atmospheric gases, the turbulence of the atmosphere exceeds the difference in mass.

Otherwise, if CO2 settled out as a layer near the Earth’s surface, all animal life including people would suffocate with only CO2 to breathe.


43 posted on 02/20/2019 6:50:03 AM PST by Moseley (http://www.MoseleyComments.com)
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To: SisterK

We ARE CARBON!


44 posted on 02/20/2019 6:51:53 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: dmcnash
So what that thermometers didn't exist 140 years ago...

The first reliable thermometers were invented over 300 years ago in 1714 by Daniel Fahrenheit.

45 posted on 02/20/2019 6:56:14 AM PST by CedarDave (The Democrat Party Agenda is Death [late term abortion] and Taxes [raise and redistribute].)
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To: Moseley

i REMEMBER THE OLD “GREENHOUSE EFFECT” from the 1950s and 1960s.

I also remember the 1980s when POPULAR SCIENCE MAGAZINE editorialized they would no longer use the term “Greenhouse Effect” as it was not true.
Ten years later they were hollering about “glo-bull warming”.


46 posted on 02/20/2019 7:04:36 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: All

The “people” who spout this global warming nonsense have a motto. “If you can’t silence opponents with science, then restrict them with ridicule.”
CO2 is plant food, read botany 101! FOOL!


47 posted on 02/20/2019 7:06:59 AM PST by Holdem Or Foldem (If it is settled it isn't science. :))
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To: Moseley

CO2 concentration is a lagging indicator of temperature change.

The largest sequestration of CO2 are the oceans (2/3rds of the surface). CO2 is sequestered in higher concentrations during cold periods and released in warmer periods.

Ice cores are not precise indicators of global CO2 concentrations because their sequestration rate is higher in the cold periods (freezing temps).


48 posted on 02/20/2019 7:08:05 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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A green house does not work by preventing radiation per se, it works because it physically prevents convection


49 posted on 02/20/2019 7:08:49 AM PST by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: polymuser

The problem is intentional “dumbing down” of PUBLIC education has been going on for several generations and so ignorance of basic science, history, and all other useful subjects is a case of the teacher pupil relationship becoming the blind leading the blind. I suggested to my daughter that one of her AGW devoted teachers and I have a simple and civil discussion in front of a class, but she feared the consequences to my blood pressure and her grade and didn’t take up the offer.


50 posted on 02/20/2019 7:36:03 AM PST by katana
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To: Moseley
CO2 is only a trace gas in our atmosphere ...0.04%. Most of this CO2 is from natural sources. CO2 is essential for life on earth as it is the basis for all green plants from algae to redwood trees. CO2 is plant food for green plants, thus it would be more effective to reduce CO2 levels by planting real forests rather than creating forests of windmills and solar farms. Global climate is driven by the sun which has far more impact on climate than any presumed greenhouse gas effects from molecular level increases in CO2 levels. The sun’s output varies and it is now entering a Maunder Minimum phase of reduced solar output. In relatively recent geologic times the earth experienced massive shifts in climate with much of the northern hemisphere being covered with miles thick ice sheets. About 18,000 years ago the massive global cooling that brought about the ice age reversed and the glaciers melted and retreated back to the arctic. The CO2 model does not explain this massive climate change nor can this climate change be in anyway attributed to human activity.

Climate alarmists ignore these established facts.

51 posted on 02/20/2019 7:47:15 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: SisterK
Of all things to declare war on? Carbon?

Not carbon, but carbon di-oxide. The other choice was hydrogen di-oxide (water).

ML/NJ

52 posted on 02/20/2019 7:58:12 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj
The other choice was hydrogen di-oxide (water).

I think you've got that backwards ... there are two hydrogen atoms to one oxygen ...

Dihydrogen monoxide.

53 posted on 02/20/2019 8:00:48 AM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: bert
Recently, a Freeper introduced a brilliant thought. CO2 is heavier then air and cannot form a layer at altitudes necessary to act as the glass in a green house.

Ever wonder why there is a tree line on mountains, above which there are no trees? Its not temperature related.

54 posted on 02/20/2019 8:08:32 AM PST by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: Moseley

The only source for planet wide oxygen is CO2. We only have 1% to spare and we have more people every year. We need more CO2 so we can have more O2. A bonus would be higher crop yields. More food for more people.


55 posted on 02/20/2019 8:20:19 AM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Revolutionary

Okay. Sounds reasonable to me. I truly hope you are working on getting grant funding to research this. You and your family could live like kings for decades.


56 posted on 02/20/2019 8:25:26 AM PST by Moseley (http://www.MoseleyComments.com)
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To: BlueLancer
I think you've got that backwards.

I think you are correct. (How stupid of moi!)

ML/NJ

57 posted on 02/20/2019 8:37:12 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: Moseley

Under the category of: Opinion.

If it’s fact, it’s not opinion. Needs to be categorized differently.


58 posted on 02/20/2019 10:12:19 AM PST by adorno
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To: goldbux

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59 posted on 02/20/2019 12:24:12 PM PST by goldbux (No sufficiently rich interpreted language can represent its own semantics. — Alfred Tarski, 1936)
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To: LeonardFMason

Every living thing is made of carbon. Carbon is the ultimate building block. And I think that carbon dioxide is an integral part of the NATURAL breathing, exhaling, plant respiration cycle. Regardless, the left promotes fake science.


60 posted on 02/20/2019 4:12:48 PM PST by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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