Dedicated to Jim Gmelin, a high school and university classmate, lifelong friend, Marine, lawyer, lover of nature, birds, and wildernes. In retirement, he was a popular docent guide at the New York Botanical Garden.
Some say that space between the stars, planets, moons, etc. is empty.
Isn’t the universe a continuum made up of mass, force (gravity) and energy? The energy in space is electromagnetic radiation of all types.
Sunshine warms planets and moons in different ways due to their atmosphere, rotation, and presence of water or lack thereof.
Infrared radiation originates on the warmed surfaces of planets. IR cools Earth when it goes back to space. Gravity shapes the sun, planets and moons. It influences weather.
Do carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere interact with infrared radiation from surfaces of the land and oceans to cause a catastrophic greenhouse effect?
In the 1890s a few scientists suggested that infrared radiation from heated land and oceans acted on carbon dioxide to cause a greenhouse effect.
From the 1970s to the present, politicians, and organizations have sounded man-made global warming alarms. Millions of people believed them without learning if there was any difference between man-made and natural carbon dioxide. There is no chemical difference. CO2 is CO2.
Do you need to be an atmospheric physicist, an atomic, molecular, optical physicist, or expert in photons to know if catastrophic man-made global warming is happening?
NO!
- Students, adults and grandparents can easily understand enough about weather and climate, if they just think.
- This presentation of plants in the Denver Botanic Gardens and the accompanying text can show you the way. You decide! ENJOY.
The green bushes and yellow flowers come from sunshine, CO2 in the air, and rain and snow. Does infrared radiation interact with man-made CO2 to cause serious man-made climate change?
The molecules in this flower were CO2 and H2O a few months prior.
The molecules in these leaves were CO2 and H2O a few months prior.
What causes flowers to grow? Sunshine, atmospheric CO2, and water? Or infrared radiation interacting with man-made CO2?
Amazing how life, sunlight, water, CO2, and the right climate can assemble such intricate leaves and beautiful flowers while getting the colors and forms perfect everywhere.
Everything in this photo except the house came from sunlight, CO2, and H2O, not greenhouse effect.
Everything in this photo except the vase came from sunlight, CO2, and H2O, not infrared radiation and greenhouse effect.
Weather is caused by energy being out of balance around the world. Man-made climate alarmism is based on static equilibrium models. This is not acceptable for setting policies for use of fossil fuels.
The simple static global temperature models used by alarmists (UN IPCC, etc.) pay little attention to real causes of weather - dynamic energy imbalances, volume of the oceans and their role in global fresh water supply. These models must not be used to answer the question of continued use of fossil fuels.
The Denver Botanic Gardens are great for studying how the sun, carbon dioxide and water enable tremendous varieties of life to thrive. Man-made carbon dioxide helps plants grow just as natural carbon dioxide does. Isn’t life on our water planet marvelous?
A simple climate model
1) Static average sunshine acting 24 hrs/day on a flat model of the Earth . It is helpful for those studying the “supposed” greenhouse effect of “man-made” carbon dioxide. This is physically meaningless for studying real weather and climate science.
A simple climate model
2) Uses a global static average of temperature, and infrared radiation emitted from a “typical” surface. These parameters can’t be good explanations of weather and climate.
3) Doesn’t account for the area or volume of water in oceans and elsewhere.
A simple climate model
4) Accounts for cloud reflection, albedo. Doesn’t account for cloud physics!
5) Accounts for concentration of CO2 and water vapor.
6) Gives an account of the electromagnetic spectrum in and out at the top of atmosphere. It is not necessarily the correct explanation of a “greenhouse” effect.
A simple climate model
7) Accounts for evaporation but not the important complete water cycle.
8) No accounting for most weather events.
9) No accounting for energy from the core of the Earth
