Laws of Physics Define the Insignificant Warming of Earth by CO2 – Psychromatric Usage
Gerald Ratzer2023
Science is governed by the Laws of Physics and the Scientific Method. In the case of Climate Science, the more specific requirements are in the Laws of Thermodynamics. Our latest paper is not based on any simulation or advanced computer modelling, but on empirical data collected from the real world outside. All the data, and the calculations, are in a single Excel file and freely available for anyone to check, at the link below. This is how real Science should be done - fully open and transparently.
We encourage the reader to do a simple exercise of finding their local temperature and relative humidity and going through the steps to add another data point to our diagrams. This involves one chart lookup and one multiplication, see below. This process will answer a simple question which few scientists know – “What is the molecular ratio of water vapor to carbon dioxide in the air?”. The answer to this question will let you know just how insignificant CO2 is and why water vapor is the primary greenhouse gas.
Our technique allows for all the heat-related processes in the atmosphere and the interaction with the land, oceans and lakes. It includes the complex effects of infrared radiation and absorption and any applicable feed-backs. The technique and results in the paper are an open book for others to crosscheck. We think the data collection, chart lookup and calculation are so simple that any teenager with a cell phone could do it. We invite you to participate . . .
Try this simple exercise to introduce the Research Concept.
1. Use the online interactive psychrometric chart . Click on this link.
2. Find your local Temperature (°C) and Relative Humidity (%). Try Accuweather.com - with 3.5 million locations.
3. Put these numbers opposite “T dry” and “Rel Humid”, respectively.
4. Then click on the box: “Or input data for air properties” to insert a white/blue check-mark.
5. Scroll down to the green “Submit” button and click on it.
6. The chart to the right will show a green marker for the input values.
7. The humidity ratio is on the right vertical axis, and in the list to the left (third one down).
8. Multiply this number by 3.84 to get your local approximate molecular ratio of H2O to CO2.
9. You can compare your value to the other 240 values in Figure 2 and 3 of the paper.
Based on this data collection and analysis, we find the Tropics, as we know, are hot and humid and most of the global humidity in the air is in the Tropics. The ratio of water vapour molecules to CO2 ranges from 1:1 at the poles to over 100:1 at the Equator. The median value is about 80:1 on a global basis. Thus, water vapour completely overwhelms CO2, and we argue the warming from just CO2 – is too small to measure.
The “too small to measure” comes from a published paper: Laws of Physics define the insignificant warming of Earth by CO2. A pdf is available at Set Publisher
Gerald Ratzer Professor Emeritus McGill, Montreal