Try Your Own Falsification of the CO2 Greenhouse Effect
Much has been made of the so-called effects of CO2 as an agent of warming the atmosphere, as in a greenhouse, thereby supporting the notion that CO2 is warming the planet and, by extension, is caused by man’s activities that generate said CO2.
There exists a video on YouTube: “CLIMATE 101 with BILL NYE” that does not demonstrate a robust use of the Scientific Method. In using two separate, artificial heat sources, the risk of uneven heating is introduced. Also, a staged image of the thermometers was used, not the actual experimental result.
Below, Bill Nye’s staged thermometer image:
You will find other videos of this experiment on the internet that generate CO2 from soda drinks, seltzer and such. These are flawed experiments. Using CO2 generated from things like soda pop and Alka-Seltzer can introduce water vapor. We are investigating CO2, not water vapor.
The following experiment, easily repeatable by anybody, refutes the CO2 effect and thereby knocks the legs out from under Anthropogenic Global Warming and exposes, once and for all, SCIENTIFICALLY that AGW is nothing but a myth.
Materials:
-two (virtually) identical glass containers that have tight fitting lids.
-two matched thermometers
-a dry CO2 source, from something like a paintball propellant canister.
Do a controlled calibration of the thermometers to make sure that they read the same under the same circumstances.
Place them in the glass containers, close the lids and place them IN THE SUNLIGHT (not in front of heat lamps, etc.- we’re trying to mimic the earth’s atmosphere, after all) and do a calibration to make sure the two jars heat up the same.
Be very careful to locate the jars in identical situations and make sure sunlight does not directly strike the thermometers. If there is any significant discrepancy, new items may have to be obtained.
Once you are satisfied that they heat at the same rate, take them back out of the sunlight, uncover and wait for equilibrium.
Fill one jar from your CO2 source, close both jars and place back in the same location as before. Watch and plot the temperature rise in both.
I am confident that you will discover, as I did, that the jar with the CO2 does NOT shoot way up in comparison to the one with air, as it is purported to do in those YouTube demonstrations.
In fact, I found that it actually lagged behind by about 1/2 degree, ending up at virtually the same temperature. I have seen other on line experimenters get similar results.
It is also worth noting that CO2 in the atmosphere is only 400 ppm, not highly concentrated, as in this experiment.
BUT DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT– do the experiment yourself! That’s what true science is about. Repeatable, empirical experiments, NOT computer models!
Bottom line: so if, in fact, the planet is heating (debatable) go find the real reason. It ain’t CO2.
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