2018: America’s Bitter Winter of ‘Global Warming’
On Twitter December 28, President Trump wrote: “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!”
Predictably, social media lit up with comments by agitated alarmists who apparently believe everything, including the gas problem their great uncle had during Christmas dinner, is caused by global warming. They won’t be happy until the Earth freezes over and everyone dies.
They must have missed the news that Escambia County Florida had nearly two inches of snow on December 10, Erie, Pennsylvania just broke a 59-year-old snowfall record and International Falls, Minnesota had a record-breaking 37 degrees below zero Christmas week. This happened thanks to a phenomenon scientists call a “Rossby wave” — not global warming — whereby Alaska blows it’s arctic air south while simultaneously “inhaling” warm air from the tropics. We get a break from the cold while folks in the Lower 48 get to experience what living in Alaska is like without buying a plane ticket.
You’re welcome.
Besides record-breaking cold, alarmists ignore that snowfall has increased for more than a century.
On December 6, 2017, in the Chugach mountains I call home, Thompson Pass, experienced one of history’s most intense snowfalls at a rate of 10 inches per hour. That’s a record even for Thompson Pass which often gets between 600 to 900 inches of snow per year.
Additionally, the sea ice improved this year.
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Alaska’s “cool late-summer weather over the central Arctic Ocean helped preserve sea ice, slowing its melting enough to rank this year’s annual ice minimum as only the eighth lowest in the satellite record, far from the worst it’s been.”
Record cold. Record snow. Recovering sea ice. But, things are not always as they appear. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology announced in February 2017 they are investigating the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for alleged climate data manipulation after whistleblowers stepped forward, including Dr. John Bates, former principal scientist at the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville North Carolina who claims NOAA scientists put a “thumb on the scale” to favor their global warming argument.
Maybe this is not about science at all. Maybe it’s more about phony prophets painting fake pictures to produce an alternate reality.
Alarmists are not interested in the indisputable evidence the Earth goes through cyclical periods of cooling and warming. The Earth experienced periods of glaciation, then melting, long before the construction of Al Gore’s energy-devouring Nashville home and Leonardo DiCaprio’s excessive use of private jets.
Gore said the Arctic would be ice free by 2014 and the guy that Democrats call a “prophet,” James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Godard Institute for Space Studies, predicted the Arctic ice would melt by the end of 2017.
Oops.
Hansen recently published a paper suggesting we are now on the brink of a short ice age caused by…wait for it…global warming. He claims global temperatures are an “unreliable diagnostic of planetary condition as the ice melt increases” and predicts “large scale regional cooling by mid-century” for the North Atlantic and Southern oceans.
Obviously, climate alarmists have the same answer for every weather pattern, so the rest of us normal folks should forget them and focus on reality. Right about now, a little global warming sounds nice as we dream of white sandy beaches, not the white powdery stuff outside our windows waiting to be shoveled.
Read more at townhall.com
Trackback from your site.
Dean Jackson
| #
Carbon Dioxide Has Less Volume Than Either Nitrogen and Oxygen, Therefore Carbon Dioxide Is Cooler
More important than a gas’ IR absorption capabilities is an atmosphere gas molecule’s volume. At 1 atmosphere/70 F, one pound of Carbon Dioxide has a volume of 8.7 cubic feet, smaller than Nitrogen at 13.8 cubic feet, and Oxygen at 12.1 cubic feet. With a smaller volume than either Nitrogen and Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide can only possess less heat than Nitrogen and Oxygen.
As the above paragraph illustrates, at 1 atmosphere/70 F Carbon Dioxide has approximately one-third less heat than either Nitrogen or Oxygen, proving Carbon Dioxide’s cooling effect on the atmosphere. Therefore, when the volume of Earth’s atmosphere is increased by additions of a cooler trace gas, such as Carbon Dioxide is on Earth, the result can only be a cooling of the planet, all other variables remaining constant. And if other variables should increase the heat on Earth, such as increased radiation from the Sun, then the additional trace gas will have a relative cooling effect on Earth. How precisely does this cooling effect take place? As Carbon Dioxide levels increase, consequently also increasing the atmosphere’s volume, the lower specific heat (below, see Fast Science At Ridgemont High) of the Carbon Dioxide molecules dictates that (1) the Carbon Dioxide molecules will extract heat from neighboring Nitrogen and Oxygen molecules; which will (2) lower the heat capacity of Nitrogen and Oxygen; thereby (3) reducing global temperatures.
The transfer of [warmer] heat from nitrogen and oxygen to [cooler] carbon dioxide is instantaneous, as opposed to the mechanical process of infrared radiation absorption by carbon dioxide that takes time to create heat, which tells us that carbon dioxide obtains at least 95% of its heat from neighboring nitrogen and oxygen molecules.
To better grasp this fact, let’s use a more familiar everyday experience we witness involving water: When a small amount of cooler water is added to a larger warmer body of water, the result is a cooling of the water.
Because the atmosphere is a Nitrogen-Oxygen based atmosphere, representing over 99% of the atmosphere’s gasses, adding Carbon Dioxide to the atmosphere cools the Nitrogen-Oxygen based atmosphere, as demonstrated in experimental designs conducted by Professor Gert Venter, Agricultural Engineering, University of Pretoria: “You know, that’s why all I can do is laugh when these global warming monkeys tell me that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. It is not, and I have live, precise experimental situations in over 30 sites around the world that prove that it is not. These guys create a model in their computers, based on arbitrary assumptions, and then ignore all the experimental evidence to the contrary. My experiments show that INCREASING ATMOSPHERIC CO2 IS CORRELLATED WITH A DECREASE IN ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE in my agricultural environments.”
With Carbon Dioxide A Cooling Molecule In Earth’s Atmosphere, Then What Is Warming The Atmosphere?
The heat obtained by both Nitrogen and Oxygen comes from (1) thermals (the direct transfer of warmer heat emanating from the ground that’s absorbed by cooler Nitrogen-Oxygen molecules); (2) latent heat (the transfer of heat from warmer water vapor to cooler Nitrogen-Oxygen molecules); (3) heat produced by incoming radiation absorbed directly by the atmosphere, not solely from the absorption of outgoing IR; and (4) man-made structures on the ground. The warmth that blankets us each day is due to Nitrogen and Oxygen, not the puny amounts of the trace gas Carbon Dioxide, nor any of the other trace gasses.
Regarding man-made structures on the ground, interestingly NASA’s ‘earth’s energy budget’ illustration fails to provide the data on the amount of solar radiation absorbed by those structures, and it is the massive growth of urban sprawl the last sixty years that accounts for the atmosphere’s warming, a warming that is being tempered by increasing amounts of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere.
Continue reading the article…
https://sites.google.com/site/deanjackson60/throwing-cold-water-on-global-warming
Reply