Note:
This article excludes one
Russian climate model
that does not over-predict
global warming, obviously
working in collusion
with Donald Trump,
so it can't be trusted !
Claims of dangerous
This article excludes one
Russian climate model
that does not over-predict
global warming, obviously
working in collusion
with Donald Trump,
so it can't be trusted !
Claims of dangerous
greenhouse gas-caused
global warming,
are based on
meaningless
computer games --
-- "climate models"
that have made
very wrong predictions
of the average temperature,
for three decades.
In real science,
the 'IPCC climate models'
would be falsified by
their far off the mark
average temperature
predictions.
But in modern
climate "science",
it seems nothing
that is claimed
can ever be falsified,
just like religious beliefs.
So, never mind
the wrong predictions
for three decades,
the IPCC will stick with
their wild guess number
for how much
global warming
is caused by CO2,
that was first publicized
in the 1979 Charney Report,
... and never changed.
That number matches
the results of almost all
of the climate models,
which are obviously
programmed to get
that "preferred",
but wrong, answer
= a doubling of CO2
in the atmosphere
will increase the
average temperature
by about +3 degrees C.
But, in reality,
if we assume that
all the warming
since 1950
was caused by CO2
( with no scientific proof
that ANY of the warming
was caused by CO2 )
the warming rate
has only been ...
... +1 degree C.
per CO2 doubling,
... not +3 degrees C.
per CO2 doubling,
...so its no surprise
the climate model
predictions
have averaged
triple the warming
The IPCC treatment
of water vapor,
is as a feedback
that triples the warming
allegedly caused
by carbon dioxide alone.
There is no evidence
that theory is correct.
But water vapor
is the dominant
greenhouse gas
-- water vapor and clouds
account for up to 90%
of the greenhouse gas
effect.
Water vapor is natural,
and constantly changing,
both regionally
and seasonally.
Water vapor
is a natural cause
of greenhouse gas
warming
not a "feedback".
Naturally occurring
water vapor
also reduces the
greenhouse warming
potential of other gases,
especially methane
and nitrous oxide.
With greenhouse gases,
the actual
greenhouse effect
is a slowing
of Earth's cooling
( cooling by
infrared heat from
Earth's surface
radiating upwards
toward space ...
but the cooling rate
is disrupted by
greenhouse gases).
CO2 mainly affects
surface temperatures
at night, although
the reason for that
is still being debated***
( nights not
cooling off
as much as they
otherwise would,
before dawn,
is described as
"global warming",
which misleads
many people
about what is
really happening ).
*** The strongest reason,
in my opinion, at the link below,
why the greenhouse
gas warming
of surface temperatures,
is measured mainly at night:
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2018/07/global-warming-mainly-at-night-why.html
*** The strongest reason,
in my opinion, at the link below,
why the greenhouse
gas warming
of surface temperatures,
is measured mainly at night:
https://elonionbloggle.blogspot.com/2018/07/global-warming-mainly-at-night-why.html
The ‘greenhouse effect’
is attributed to gases
that absorb and re-emit
up going infrared energy,
in the 3 to 70-micron
wavelength range,
where greenhouse
gases have some effect.
But the cooling Earth
emits very little
infrared energy
in the wavelengths
that both methane CH4
and nitrous oxide N2O
can absorb.
The final cooling step,
heat emission into space,
is infrared radiation
leaving the
upper troposphere
and stratosphere.
The solar radiation
coming down from the sun,
is in the ultraviolet
and visible light wavelengths.
Clouds and water vapor
block some of the
incoming solar energy.
Greenhouse gases of
CO2 ( carbon dioxide ),
CH4 ( methane ), and
N2O ( nitrous oxide ),
have almost no effect
on incoming sunlight.
By ignoring
water vapor
as the primary
greenhouse gas,
the IPCC ignores
the practical fact
that water vapor
severely limits
the ability of methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxide (N2O)
to absorb outgoing radiation
as Earth cools,
severely limiting their
greenhouse gas effect.
The greenhouse effect
of both CH4 and N2O,
are vastly overstated
by the IPCC,
The logarithmic relationship
between atmospheric
carbon dioxide (CO2)
concentrations and
average temperatures
is based on the MODTRAN
atmospheric model
at the University of Chicago.
Even with CO2 at the low
pre-industrial level
( under 300 ppmv,
or parts per million, by volume )
the influence of adding CO2
to the atmosphere,
was already small.
And even smaller effect
starting at today's
CO2 atmospheric level
of about 400 ppmv.
CO2 accounts
for no more than
10% to 20% of all
greenhouse warming,
and probably a lot less,
with water vapor
and clouds
accounting for
at least 80% to 90%,
and probably a lot more.
The effects of
CH4 and N2O
are trivial.
Reliable models
for the effects of
greenhouse gases
can not exist
without a
reliable model
reliable model
for the effects
of water vapor,
which does not exist.
Earth's CO2 levels
had been
much higher than now,
in most of the past
4.5 billion years.
There were no
climate "tipping points",
with runaway warming,
ending life on our planet.
There was no known
ocean acidification problem.
We know that because
corals flourished,
leaving extensive
fossil reefs
fossil reefs
for us to study.
The bad news back then
was giant meteor strikes,
and massive
volcanic eruptions
that probably released
carbon dioxide CO2,
methane CH4,
nitrous oxide SO2,
and other gases,
that affected the oceans
and atmosphere.
But evolution continued.
The only undisputed effect
of adding CO2 to the air
over the past century,
has been a 'greening'
of the Earth.
And, of course,
that's good news !
Unfortunately,
modern climate "science"
consists of lots of
government bureaucrats,
with science degrees,
stating with great confidence,
for three decades so far, that
"we know the future climate",
even as their very wrong
computer game predictions
prove they have no idea
what the future climate will be !
However,
the bureaucrats
know they will have
permanent job security,
to play computer games
for a living,
as long as
the politicians
who hired them,
continue to claim
a climate disaster
is coming.
And that's why
modern
climate "science"
climate "science"
is junk science ...
with the annual, scary,
wrong climate predictions,
repeated year after year ...
followed by the false claim
from leftist politicians,
that only a
powerful government
powerful government
( which they've always wanted )
'can save the Earth
for the children' !
It's self-serving
junk science,
for money and power.