The innocense of carbon dioxide

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The innocence of carbon dioxide Gary Young December 10, 2020 To: Climate Sceptics Group at Yahoo.com Dear Sceptics, The reason I posted the Happer paper is my enthusiasm that it should end the arguments that more CO2 will cause more warming. I posted it again for those who missed it the first time. Now the work really begins for us Sceptics. Not only should we do all in our power to “get the word out,” particularly to the world’s decision makers but to all those who have been victimized by those who are profitably riding this manufactured crisis. For Mike MacCracken: You mentioned the work of Arrhenius going back to 1895. Yes he noticed that CO2 absorbed IR light. However, he had no idea what was really going on. It took Max Planck to come up with the idea of energy quanta (Nobel prize in 1918) which in large measure explained what Arrhenius observed. Mike, I have a big file under your name because you have frequently caused me to double check my understanding of science. You seem to have great confidence in your scientific skills, so I have a project for you if you choose to accept the challenge. Please analyze the attached June 8 2020 vanWijngaarden and Happer paper and tell us if and where they are wrong. If you have the time, could you also please critically review the attached Physics Rate Flow paper? Here is the problem as outlined by Happer: “We don't think there is a chance that any major journal will publish our paper. It is sure way to get the editorial staff fired. And we would rather not publish this in a second-tier journal. Samizdat on arXiv will have to suffice for now.” His explanation is really a damning incitement of the current situation. “It is very time consuming to submit a paper for review. Every journal has different requirement for formatting, citations, etc. We tried three times in good faith to submit this paper to three different journals. Some years ago, I wrote one of the most widely cited papers ever in Reviews of Modern Physics, the first journal we approached. You might think that a submission by an author who brought lots of credit to RMP, and who is also a member of the National Academy of Science might get a fair review. No such luck.” For William Kininmonth: I did a cursory scan of your paper and it seems focused on transient phenomena like clouds and their effect on the climate picture. I will read it much deeper because I also have been exploring similar aspects as those initiated by the great ocean heat conveyers. So is Happer: “We are now focusing on how clouds affect radiation transfer. This is a lot harder than the clear-sky calculations the of arXiv paper. 1


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