August 20, 2025
More Than Your Breath Blowing Back in Your Face
Timothy Birdnow
Here is yet another angel to dance on the pinheads of Climate Alarmism.
NASA's Tiny Prefire Satellites Just Uncovered a Hidden Driver of Earth's Storms
The article states:
So different kinds of ice impact the transmission of longwave radiation back into space differently.
Well,well,well...
In fact the 20 some-odd climate models predicting a warming caused by the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide don't take any of this into account. Never have.
It should also be pointed out that the models - and the solar models used by NASA - do not take into account changes in wavelengths in solar irradiance (SSI,or Spectral Solar Irradiance)' NASA sticks with the standard TSI (Total Solar Irradiance) and doesn't deviate from that. Those measurements show no increase in solar activity, perhaps a slight decline even, but the shorter wavelengths have actually increased over the last fifty years and the longer ones have decreased, and we have no idea how that affects climate. For example, the infrared has shown up to 6% decline at 2400 nm while the shorter wavelengths have increased. Much of the infrared that comes to Earth is reflected by clouds but the ultraviolet is absorbed by the atmosphere and the sea and the ground.
It's like cooking with a microwave oven. The oven doesn't get hot to the touch but it heats the food therein. My toaster oven (which sits right next to my microwave) gets very hot to the touch and takes much longer to heat the same food. It's not about the total energy but the wavelengths involved.
Yet none of this is taken into account by the climate models. And land use changes are soft-peddled by these same models even though they have a profound impact on surface temperatures. A blacktop is much hotter than a forest. A blacktop with a huge air conditioner running full blast is even hotter.
Medieval scholars were mocked by modern folks for some of their more esoteric concerns. A big argument in the Middle Ages was about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Modernists scofffed at the foolish debate, yet here we are with an equally foolish debate over HOT AIR and we keep finding more angels on that particular pinhead. Increasingly it appears that Global Warming aka Climate Change has a great many fathers, most of whom were spawned by Mother Nature. It is increasingly clear it's not about our own breath being blown back in our faces.
Here is yet another angel to dance on the pinheads of Climate Alarmism.
NASA's Tiny Prefire Satellites Just Uncovered a Hidden Driver of Earth's Storms
The article states:
Since its launch in spring 2024, PREFIRE has been examining how much heat Earth sends into space from the Arctic and Antarctic. While the tropics take in the greatest share of the Sun’s energy, winds, storms, and ocean currents carry much of that heat toward the colder polar regions, which receive far less sunlight. Ice, snow, and clouds in these regions then release some of the heat into space, primarily as far-infrared radiation. The difference between the heat absorbed in the tropics and the heat radiated out at the poles strongly influences global temperatures and helps drive Earth’s climate and weather systems.
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\At the center of PREFIRE are two advanced spectrometers created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. These instruments detect light in the far-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and can sense 10 times more of these wavelengths than any comparable device. The data provides scientists with new details about processes such as the melting and freezing of surface ice, seasonal snow changes, and variations in cloud cover.
"The PREFIRE satellites show that at these longer wavelengths, the amount of radiation going into space can differ from one type of ice to another by as much as 5%,” said Brian Drouin, PREFIRE’s project scientist at JPL. "Measurements that look at the same areas but with shorter wavelengths do not show this difference.
[...]
\At the center of PREFIRE are two advanced spectrometers created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. These instruments detect light in the far-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and can sense 10 times more of these wavelengths than any comparable device. The data provides scientists with new details about processes such as the melting and freezing of surface ice, seasonal snow changes, and variations in cloud cover.
"The PREFIRE satellites show that at these longer wavelengths, the amount of radiation going into space can differ from one type of ice to another by as much as 5%,” said Brian Drouin, PREFIRE’s project scientist at JPL. "Measurements that look at the same areas but with shorter wavelengths do not show this difference.
So different kinds of ice impact the transmission of longwave radiation back into space differently.
Well,well,well...
In fact the 20 some-odd climate models predicting a warming caused by the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide don't take any of this into account. Never have.
It should also be pointed out that the models - and the solar models used by NASA - do not take into account changes in wavelengths in solar irradiance (SSI,or Spectral Solar Irradiance)' NASA sticks with the standard TSI (Total Solar Irradiance) and doesn't deviate from that. Those measurements show no increase in solar activity, perhaps a slight decline even, but the shorter wavelengths have actually increased over the last fifty years and the longer ones have decreased, and we have no idea how that affects climate. For example, the infrared has shown up to 6% decline at 2400 nm while the shorter wavelengths have increased. Much of the infrared that comes to Earth is reflected by clouds but the ultraviolet is absorbed by the atmosphere and the sea and the ground.
It's like cooking with a microwave oven. The oven doesn't get hot to the touch but it heats the food therein. My toaster oven (which sits right next to my microwave) gets very hot to the touch and takes much longer to heat the same food. It's not about the total energy but the wavelengths involved.
Yet none of this is taken into account by the climate models. And land use changes are soft-peddled by these same models even though they have a profound impact on surface temperatures. A blacktop is much hotter than a forest. A blacktop with a huge air conditioner running full blast is even hotter.
Medieval scholars were mocked by modern folks for some of their more esoteric concerns. A big argument in the Middle Ages was about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Modernists scofffed at the foolish debate, yet here we are with an equally foolish debate over HOT AIR and we keep finding more angels on that particular pinhead. Increasingly it appears that Global Warming aka Climate Change has a great many fathers, most of whom were spawned by Mother Nature. It is increasingly clear it's not about our own breath being blown back in our faces.
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This is a digression, but you've noticed that Kristi Noem has ordered that the border fences built to keep illegals out of the U.S. are now to get a black coating on them, in order to make them more difficult to climb? I expect the Left is yelling bloody murder about it.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at August 21, 2025 10:37 PM (FpsZq)
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