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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Solar photons are high temperature (5500C) and short wavelength (0.4-0.8 microns). They travel through Earth’s atmosphere almost unhindered to the surface. It’s the long wavelength IR photons emitted by Earth’s surface to cool from the solar photons that atmospheric CO2 can “reverse the direction of”.
All day the surface absorbs solar photons and slowly heats up via its heat capacity of so many degrees per Joule. At the same time it tries to cool by emitting IR radiation based on the black body radiation law, with peak power at a wavelength inversely proportional to the absolute temperature T independent of material, and a total power over all wavelengths proportional to T^4.
Until the surface gets really hot, the surface cooling IR has low power. The hotter it gets, the higher the cooling power, keeping surface temperatures normally below 50C even in Death Valley on July 4. The normal Earth surface temperature range is -50C to +50C, corresponding to peak power wavelengths of 8-13 microns. Magic CO2’s absorption/reemission wavelength is way out at 15 microns, so cold (-80C) that it’s not even heat, and can’t raise the temperature of any black body absorbing it higher than -80C, which means almost never.
The big con game of the global Marxist politician-run U.N> IPCC is to pretend that that atmospheric CO2 molecules catch and regurgitate 15 micron IR surface cooling photons to add to the solar photons and raise the temperature higher than the Sun alone, when they came from the surface in the first place, meaning they’re double-counting them to make CO2 seem like a magic global warming gas for pure political gain. The fact that 15 microns is the peak power wavelength of an iron rod chilled to -80C is denied by them, because their whole scam is a denial of Nature’s ironclad First Law of Thermodynamics (energy conservation) and Second Law of Thermodynamics (entropy).
Forgetting about the Second Law, once you see it, energy double-counting that denies the First Law is as plain as the nose on Jimmy Durante’s face. It’s a misdirection play like stage magicians and carnival grifters pull. All these years they’ve misdirected millions, even physicists, to sell their CO2 hoax and stir enough alarm to swindle billions if not trillions of taxpayer money.
It’s time the good news is spread that the IPCC emperor has no clothes so that it can be laughed out of business and their gigantic steal stopped. They enjoy enormous control of Big Tech and the PC press, but if we try hard enough the truth can spread enough to sink them and their big plans to eat the world.
It sounds like I’ve trivialized a complex problem, but yes, I have. It’s so simple a 5th grander can understand it. Here’s the complete disproof of the greenhouse effect in a link that all should share if they care about their children’s future:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-enhanced-greenhouse-effect-1/answer/TL-Winslow
Truth trumps politics. Screw Marx.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-key-factors-that-officials-at-the-UN-climate-summit-will-examine-and-discuss-regarding-greenhouse-emissions-and-global-warming-temperatures/answer/TL-Winslow