Earth's Greenhouse

There is no question that the Earth enjoys the fruits of greenhouse warming. Without it, the Earth would be an ice ball. Thanks to the greenhouse effect, we enjoy a global rise in temperature of approximately 33 degrees C. This warming is attributable to all greenhouse elements in our atmosphere; water, contaminants, and CO2. Any shielding in the atmosphere such as smoke or volcanic debris lessens the amount of radiant energy we receive from the Sun and therefore the Earth's temperature falls.

This discussion will center on CO2. CO2 is a relatively minor greenhouse gas regulated by the oceans. Humans are responsible for about 3% of the CO2 released into the atmosphere, but the oceans account for the majority of its release even when compared with all of the land based biomass.

The release of CO2 from the oceans depends on the ocean temperature. The oceans release more CO2 as ocean temperatures rise and conversely, absorb CO2 in the cold oceans. The phenomenon is not in reverse as punctuated by the global alarmists. CO2 is a product of the oceans warming and not the cause of it.

A number of things regulate Ocean temperatures. The Sun is the largest source of ocean warming. Other contributors are the percolating effects that circulate the ocean water through the many fissures on the ocean floor, and subsea volcanoes. Most people do not realize that there are over 1000 active subsea volcanoes.

From the Sun, we get radiant energy. The Earth is two-thirds water. So the amount of radiant energy that reaches the oceans is critical to ocean temperature. Clouds and contaminants from volcanoes and other sources are all the Earth has to regulate how much of this radiant energy makes it to the oceans. Cloud cover is essential as clouds reflect an enormous amount of the Sun's energy back into space.

According to R. Lindzen, CO2 only accounts for about 5% of the natural 33 deg C greenhouse effect. The total rise in temperature on Earth from all CO2 is only 1.65 deg C. Since humans only account for 3% of that total, humans are responsible for .0495 deg C.

Richard S. Lindzen, Proc. Nat. Acad. of Sciences, 94, 8335-8342 (1997) 8 and (in German) Klima 2000 (Heuseler), 2, 3-8 (1998) 5/6

The global warming alarmists, for the most part are good folks who believe that the U.S. is killing the planet. They believe that our use of fossil fuels, that drive our economy, will cause great calamities unless we reduce our carbon footprint, and of course, it will cost more than a trillion dollars to pay for our largess. The scheme behind the carbon offsets is nothing more than the redistribution of wealth advocated by leftist extremist for years. The CO2 fallacy has given them the ideal tool to strip the U.S. of its prosperity.

In conclusion and for the record, I want to let it be known that we all look forward to the day that fossil fuels become unnecessary. Fossil fuels produce other contaminants that harm this world, but global warming is not one of them. For now, our way of life is dependent on fossil fuels and until we can economically swap to cleaner alternatives, it does no good to trash this country. It is not in the U.S. that our athletes have to wear mask from air-pollution. I also realize that there are higher figures for man's contribution to the CO2 in the atmosphere floating around, but those higher figures are without foundation and are bandied about for pure political purposes.

These following references are for you to peruse at your convenience. They represent the source for some of the points made in this writing.

Gary Novak
Independent Scientist

http://nov55.com/ntyg.html

Carbon dioxide absorbs infrared radiation (IR) in three narrow bands of frequencies, which are 2.7, 4.3 and 15 micrometers (µM). This means that most of the heat producing radiation escapes it. About 8% of the available black body radiation is picked up by these "fingerprint" frequencies of CO2.(A measureable and Replicable figure)
But humans could not double the CO2, because they only put 3% of the CO2 in the air. If they put twice as much in, it would do whatever it does in 9.7m instead of 10m. If humans stopped putting any CO2 in the air, it would do whatever it does in 10.3m instead of 10m. In other words, nothing humans do with CO2 could be of the slightest relevance to global warming, even if oceans were not regulating it.

The Climate Catastrophe
- A Spectroscopic Artifact?

By Dr. Heinz Hug - Heinz Hug, Chemische Rundschau, 20. Febr., p. 9 (1998) and: Klima 2000 (Heuseler), 2, 23-26 (1998) 1/2 and:

http://www.wuerzburg.de/mm-physik/klima/artefact.htm

http://www.john-daly.com/artifact.htm

It is hardly to be expected that for CO2 doubling an increment of IR absorption at the 15 µm edges by 0.17% can cause any significant global warming or even a climate catastrophe.

Cheers,

-Robert-