Saturday, February 21, 2015

Global Warming didn't get the memo

Record cold is supposed to be somewhere remote and exotic, not New York City.

5 comments:

Dan Pangburn said...

How could it have been missed?

The simple proof that change to the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) does not cause climate change has been hiding in plain sight. Here it is:

CO2 has been considered to be a forcing. For a unit area, the units of a forcing are Joules/sec. Energy change for that same unit area has units Joules. Average forcing times duration equals energy change (analogous to average speed times duration equals distance traveled). Energy change divided by effective thermal capacitance is temperature change. Thus equivalently, the appropriate scale factor times the time-integral of the CO2 level would produce the average global temperature (AGT) change attributable to the CO2 change.

According to widely available data from Vostok, Antarctica ice cores, during previous glaciations and interglacials, CO2 and AGT went up and down nearly together (as so dramatically displayed in An Inconvenient Truth). If CO2 is a significant forcing (scale factor not zero), temperature could only increase and it would increase with the time-integral of the CO2 level. Because instead AGT and CO2 go up and down nearly together, this actually proves CO2 change does not cause significant average global temperature change. Because CO2 is only a trace gas in the atmosphere, if CO2 change does not cause temperature change, it cannot cause climate change. THUS THE CO2 CHANGE FROM BURNING FOSSIL FUELS HAS NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON CLIMATE.

Application of this analysis methodology to CO2 levels for the entire Phanerozoic eon (about 542 million years) (Berner, 2001) proves that CO2 levels up to at least 6 times the present will have no significant effect on average global temperature.

See more on this and discover the two factors that do cause climate change (95% correlation since before 1900) at http://agwunveiled.blogspot.com . The two factors which explain the last 300+ years of climate change are also identified in a peer reviewed paper published in Energy and Environment, vol. 25, No. 8, 1455-1471 or search “agwunveiled”.

Old NFO said...

Snerk... Not hearing much out of them right now...

ProudHillbilly said...

This wind + heavy snow + fridgid cold in WV is making me seriously crave some global warming.

Paul, Dammit! said...

Yeah, it pretty much sucks. The 50mph winds on top of the 1 degree really put the candles on that cake. It's driving pack ice into all the damn places we wanted to put boats, making life hell.

Glenn B said...

Yep, it was 1 degree yesterday (I live just about 10-12 miles east of the eastern edge of NYC and temp was the same here) and today there was a bit of global warming with the temp getting up to 29 in my neck of the woods (or maybe 30 depending on which Internet weather service I checked)and for several hours now it has been snowing again (and it still is coming down). Tomorrow though, the global warming is really supposed to take effect and the temps will be in the 30s an it is supposed to rain all day. Heck - global warming may cause some flooding - if it melts enough of the snow. Then on Monday, that global warming thing will do what the libterds said it would do and it will be back in the twenties at most and all that rain will freeze over. Oh the humanity....