Everywhere and All-at-Once
Once I had begun to take in the full import of the fact that the earth and the oceans meet the atmosphere just everywhere and all-at-once I began to search for a word to describe this phenomenon that everybody observes yet which virtually nobody acknowledges. Could one say simultaneous-ness? Ugly. Then I thought of ‘synchronicity’ – but it is not enough. Synchronous applies only to time. I needed a word for time and place.
The great heat exchange that is taking place over the entire globe is taking place everywhere and all at once by contact, by conduction. There is not a word in the English language that I am aware of that can describe the fact that is easily observable – that the action and reaction that is taking place between every surface everywhere on this planet is instantaneous, contiguous and continuous.
Far from it being the Sceptics who do not believe in Global Warming and Climate Change, precisely the opposite is the case. It is the Warmists who do not acknowledge, who are utterly blind to the incredible Global Warming/Cooling that is taking place all together and all at once – in a sort of majestic symphony. Every instrument in this celestial orchestra is playing its part harmoniously, everything is on cue, and the supreme conductor, Great Nature, is conducting everything.
As I rose yesterday morning to clear the misted windows of my car, the temperature was a mere 7C. I had to drive with my wife down the M3 past Southampton, along the M27 and then the A31 across the New Forest. As I passed the sign for the Rufus Stone and came to the great open spaces of heath and gorse, I was reminded that only a few minutes ago in geological time William the Conqueror was hunting here. And being full of the wonder of the contact between the heavens and the earth just everywhere and all at once, I sensed the atmosphere of this wild place. Then, later, as we passed along the A31 towards Wimborne, high pines with their own secret atmospheres bordered the road. Everywhere ahead of me the ribbon of road unwound, now warmer at some 17C, unusually mild for late October. The road itself was an immense heat exchange mechanism. Elsewhere in the world the sun is so hot in some places that the road tar melts and yet elsewhere again the ice-truckers drive their perilous way in the frozen wastes.
A good friend wrote to me that he was concerned about the incremental increase in world temperatures – only a little increase will make a huge difference, he averred. (Incremental? Where did he get that word from?) Tell me good friend, where have you observed this incremental increase? And if it does pertain, have you taken into account the incremental increase in Antarctic ice? Even the Arctic ice, which ebbs and flows, is presently at an all time high. Al Gore suggested it might all be gone by Christmas – he forgot that during the Holocene Maximum there was almost certainly no ice in the Arctic at all! For three thousand years!
Oh no! Good friend, you have been listening to the querulous whingeing sounds of the warmists’ tin whistle. You have forgotten the winds, the woodwind section, the imperious sound of the horns, the clarion call of the brass, the thunder of the drums, the lightning clash of the symbols and the sunny serenity of the strings.
It is no good to isolate one tiny element like Carbon Dioxide and then imagine that you can pontificate about the great body of the Biosphere. We need a holistic approach. It is incumbent on those who seek the truth to listen to the entire orchestra that is playing everywhere and all at once.
My friend the truly honourable Emmanuel Elliott emailed me, insisting that I listen to some Feedback programme on the BBC, – Should Climate Sceptics be given Air time? This included some short comments from Professor Bob Carter, who happened to have been my second mentor, and who went out of his way to visit me in my home, when over from Australia. After a minute and a half at most of Bob Carter the Feedback droned on for all of 11 minutes, justifying the fact that the BBC are shit-scared to debate the Climate issues. Why? They argued that climate scientists were all agreed on the facts, so actually there was nothing to discuss – the consensus had it.
But of course this was a barefaced lie, delivered with cool aplomb. What is true and what is accepted by both sides is that Carbon Dioxide absorbs infrared radiation. The whole of the warmist position is based on this fact, established in experiments many moons ago. But the Warmists proceed to a non sequitur, a classical non sequitur.
They argue that through the warming of the Carbon Dioxide in the air, the whole atmosphere is warmed; and the more Carbon Dioxide the more warming will result. But the empirical facts deny this, even the so-called facts from the Climatic Research Unit. But to argue that the warming and cooling of CO2, which is just 0.04{154653b9ea5f83bbbf00f55de12e21cba2da5b4b158a426ee0e27ae0c1b44117} of the atmosphere, is going to warm the whole of the rest of the atmosphere, calls for an abandonment of all logic and the curt dismissal of the scientific method.
Once we establish that the principal heat exchange mechanism is through contact, through ‘conduction’ the arguments of the Warmists melt into nothing. Radiation may be absorbed and emitted by a few pesky molecules of Carbon Dioxide, but how does that compare with the all embracing contact of Earth and Atmosphere Everywhere and All-at-Once?
Anthony Bright-Paul
Note to the BBC: I am sure that Piers Corbyn and Hans Schreuder would gladly debate with your foremost Warmists.
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