July 31, 2023
Climate-change alarmists have fun scaring people with big numbers without context. Take this article, for instance (https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/energy-of-25-billion-atomic-bombs-trapped-on-earth-in-just-50-years-all-because-of-global-warming). Sounds really scary that our additions to global greenhouse gases have "trapped" 25 billion atomic bombs' worth of energy (using the bomb dropped on Hiroshima as the standard) in the last 50 years. But when compared with the energy of 4.1 million hydrogen bombs per second, well, it's not so scary. (4.1 million per second = 246 million per hour = 5.904 billion per day = 2.154960 trillion per year = 107.748 trillion per 50 years, or 4.309920 billion times as many as we've "trapped" with our greenhouse gas increases.)
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Posted by: Mike at July 31, 2023 05:31 PM (W93yv)
Posted by: larvar at July 31, 2023 11:15 PM (AK9fm)
Certainly we in Missouri have had nothing unusual for this time of year. Yeah it's been hot and we've had some days over a hundred, but we ALWAYS get days over a hundred in July.
As you say there has been undersea volcanism - something woefully underappreciated and not take into account by models. They are still using Gerlach et. al., a very poor study done decades ago, as their gold standard for the amount of undersea volcanoes and Gerlach woefully underestimated the number of such.
I would add we also had an El Nino year which usually does mean a very hot summer. And solar activity shot up after a year of being in the drink.
So there are pleny of reasons for a warm summer. But like CO2 dude!
I would also add that
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at August 01, 2023 08:25 AM (Ik1Mk)
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Posted by: misspuy27 misspuy27 at August 24, 2023 11:10 AM (jmLgs)
Sorry, but there is no proof of any of what you say here. All there are is computer models that cannot predict current climate from past data.
The whole theory is predicated on the ridiculous notion that carbon dioxide gathers in the mid-level atmosphere (the upper troposphere) and acts like a blanket, holding heat and reflecting it back to Earth as long-wave radiation.
But there is a problem; there are only four molecules of carbon dioxide for every ten thousand molecules of air. And of that we've put less than one of those in the atmosphere.
You are essentially arguing that a chicken wire roof will hold the heat from your furnace in your house.
Also, the models don't even work. They have long searched for a hot spot in the tropical troposphere - as all the models say must be there. Yet they have never really found it. They are always announcing "aha!" and then turn out to be wrong. This phenomenon should stick out like a sore thumb.
There also have been n ot one but two pauses in warming, something none of the models can account for.
The argument was always the missing heat was going into the oceans. But they've not found that. The oceans are not warming as much as the models say they should.
I would ask you, what about the plantet Mars? If carbon dioxide is such a powerful greenhouse gas Mars should be far warmer (it's atmosphere in 95% co2). Mars should have a climate similar to Canada. It doesn't; it's far colder, with temperatures dropping as low as a hundred below.
And in fact the Earth has had ten times as much atmospheric co2, and it was actuallly colder at that point.
There is no evidence for this. All we can say is as far as we know (and we don't have eyes on every square inch of the Earth) the planet has had a modes 1* of warming over the last hundred and twenty years. Much of that was in the 1930's, I might add, well before the rise in atmospheric c02.
But there is a lot of money invested in this, and a lot of power on the line as well. It's a generations-long War of the Worlds scare.
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