Thursday, July 11, 2019

James Hansen, Ph.D. - The Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity - Offstage (video)



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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QvVzE1Gn54

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I got a degree in electrical engineering and computers 43 years ago, with 300 credit hours including all kinds of courses on math, physics, chemistry, and other subjects, enough for several masters degrees that I didn't apply for. I got the broadest background in history, and have been building on it ever since, always studying and growing to become the mental giant I am today :) That's why I have single-handedly slain the CO2 greenhouse warming hoax. There's nothing wrong with me or my disproof, it's about you and your failure to fully understand it. Cases in point:

The IR from the surface would have been transmitted directly to outer space without impedance? I guess IR is like visual energy and just cuts through the atmosphere, or is like the Moon. It's being generated by a surface heated by visual energy, putting the SB Law into operation there, butthe atmosphere is in direct contact with it and absorbs the lion's share of its heat via conduction, then starts it on its journey to space via convection not radiation. If the 0.04% trace amount of CO2 also absorbs some IR via radiation, it is trapped in the 99.96% of non-CO2 molecules, which suck or diffuse its heat energy and add it to the parade. Either way the CO2 blows along with the other gases because entropy keeps it well mixed. The Greenhouse Warming Theory has always been based on a hoax that CO2 acts like glass in a greenhouse. Sorry, no glass no greenhouse. And the SB Law only applies to solid surfaces like the Sun's and the Earth's, not air.

You say that as the balloon rises it cools via the lapse rate, but sorry, you must have been sick the day they taught that in 5th grade. The cooling is based on pure adiabatic expansion, not radiation. The formula is g/h, where g is gravity and h is heat capacity, i.e., the gases rise because they are lighter then as the pressure decreases they try to expand too, trading heat for work, riding on top of the lower layers in a continuum. The SB Law is not applicable. The very reason there is an atmosphere way up miles high instead of it all freezing and falling to the ground is the magnificent heating of the surface by the Sun and cooling of the surface by the atmosphere. CO2 has no power to interfere with this and upset the balance.

As to satellites, they can only measure what radiation falls on them, but by then there's little heat left, and the air ultimately releases its energy via radiation as the atmosphere runs out, so what? Satellites can't "read" the surface temperature through all that atmosphere, we have thermometers down here.

The word equilibrium is another hoax. The atmosphere isn't a reversible system in equilibrium, it's a power-driven dyna*mic system that's never in equilibrium, and treating the whole system as thermal equilibrium that must be forced into a stable equilibrium curve is moose hockey. The Earth always rids itself of the Sun's energy dynamically using the atmosphere as a gigantic chimney, but the CO2 hoax is to keep confusing the Earth's surface temperatures which are only caused by the Sun with a fake dragon in the sky that can rewarm the surface with its own heat, which is pure bunk, making Hansen's entire career a case of a poor physics student run amok. No matter what the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere may be, it is just helping the process of cooling the surface, and because the lapse rate robs most of the heat what happens to it up in the sky is only of interest to academics, just like what happens below an avalanche doesn't affect birds sitting on the mountaintop.

Do you have any real criticisms of my killer essay? If not, try telling Hansen to refute it or give it up.

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What Is the Antarctic Volcanoes Project?

It's too bad the current brouhaha about CO2 is so narrowly focused. So what if a higher concentration in the atmosphere raises global average temps? If higher temps were accompanied by increased atmospheric moisture, it would even out around the world and turn it into a paradise planet, greening the deserts so that the teeming billions could be fed. Cold temperatures are inimical to life, not a goal of life.

Too bad, it might take a lot more CO2 than you think to really change the global weather, but not because it has any control over Earth's surface temperatures. In fact atmospheric CO2 can't melt an ice cube with its 15 micron main radiation wavelength that has a Planck radiation temperature of -80C, colder than dry ice (-78.5C).

Why do they call CO2 greenhouse gas? Because plants breathe it, and they pump it into greenhouses to help them grow and thrive. Polar regions and deserts look good in postcards, but who wants to live there. Meanwhile global pop. is zooming, so obviously the real answer is to pump more CO2 and water vapor into the atmosphere to turn the Earth into a greenhouse, turning deserts both hot and cold into lush green crop-growing regions like 35 million years ago when the avg. global temp was 88F and the CO2 level was 1K parts per million (vs. 415 PPM today). So what if we lose some desert polar regions and even some yummy coastline, the adjustments will be inconvenient but temporary, but I prefer shirt-sleeve weather to Frosty the Snowman. How many arctic animals can't adapt to a warmer climate? What animal needs to live in ice and snow and wouldn't like a vacation to Tahiti? They can lose the fat, hair or feathers.

The real question is can we make and keep the global CO2/H20 levels high enough, and for how long? Sooner or later mass global starvation will become unstoppable if world pop. keeps climbing, and this is the way to forestall it, if we act soon enough. Don't give me them Malthusian objections, give me some CO2/H20 solutions. I like a paradise Earth in the possibility window.

So, while the world is debating the horrors, extent or lack thereof of global warming caused by CO2, let's engineer the CO2/H20 solution to making the Earth a warm temperate planet from pole to pole with no deserts or ice wastelands, allowing vastly more food to be grown and turning poor nations rich. I DON'T mean a planet with wild swings between super-hot summers and super-cold winters, but one that is warmer than now everywhere, but moister and greener, with a giant network of plant life helping to avoid extremes. Since CO2 and water vapor are the keys, and the paltry amounts in the atmosphere need to be increased as soon as possible to turn deserts green and get the warming process off to a good start, but the new levels have to be maintained permanently, I'm looking to remote Antarctica (which is really a sea) as the most promising source for unlimited CO2 and water vapor generation, given that noxious emissions (sulfur dioxide, etc.) can be controlled.

This blog is for posting news on the world climate situation, scientific and political, along with my own articles. I'm sure it will start out with hardly any interest or followers, but I'm hoping that it will attract the smartest people eventually and in the end I hope for a global consensus that if it can be done it must be done.

So what is the Antarctic Volcanoes Project? My working idea is that an international effort to reactivate as many volcanoes in Antarctica as possible in an ideal location for distributing the CO2/H20 will produce the best and most cost-effective results. Sorry, one-worlders, it won't give you a license to override and control any country's economy, but if your country is suffering from lack of food you will be too busy expanding farming to care. Hence until I think of or hear about a better way to increase world CO2/H20 levels, this is my pet project. If you are a scientist, please climb aboard my AVP Express and let's make it happen.

It Would Be Funny If It Were's So Sad

It would be funny it weren't so sad, but when the scientists say "greenhouse gas" they are using a malaprop. It should be greenhouse GLASS, because that's why a greenhouse stays warm, by glass walls stopping convection of air and trapping heat. Yes, CO2 is pumped into greenhouses, but not for heating purposes, only to help plants BREATHE. So the whole sucker's game of "greenhouse gas" must truly be for the purpose of stopping more vegetation from growing and feeding the teeming billions. Is that their true goal? Another blip on the horizon is the promise of melting permafrost releasing gigantic amounts of CO2 from the Arctic not Antarctic sector. Let's hope we at least get some more good CO2 that way.

Jan. 14, 2011. Good article on CO2 levels and global temps 30-40 million years ago

Aug. 31, 2011. Giant pipe and balloon to pump water into the sky in climate experiment

May 31, 2013. Scientists find that higher CO2 levels green arid regions

Mar. 30, 2015. Higher atmospheric CO2 levels causing boom in vegetation

Aug. 2015. 'Unprecedented' volcanic eruption released enough water vapor to heat Earth: report

Aug. 15, 2017. Scientists find 91 new volcanoes miles beneath Antarctica's thick ice sheet

How Much CO2 Do Volcanoes Emit?

Will a major volcanic eruption fix climate change? - James Matkin

Part of the heat is coming from beneath our feet

Did any volcanoes erupt in 2020?

T.L. Winslow (TLW, the Historyscoper (tm)

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