The Global Warming Myth: Lynching of Carbon Dioxide the Innocent Source of Life

After looking at such data and evaluating it, the conclusion of our 1994 paper was:

“ The problem of obtaining a reliable value for the absorptivity to emissivity ratio for all the entities at the earth’s surface and in its atmosphere that participate in the radiative equilibrium process is a formidable task. It is unlikely that any proposed model contains a realist ratio for the entire globe over a long enough time scale….

“ It is implausible to expect that small changes in the concentration of any minor atmospheric constituent such as carbon dioxide, can significantly influence that radiative balance, despite the fact that carbon dioxide plays a major role in the biosphere. The most significant atmospheric component in
the radiative balance is water: as a homogeneous absorbing and emitting vapor, in its heat transport by evaporation and condensation; as clouds, snow and ice cover, which have a major effect on the albedo, and as the enormous circulating mass of liquid ocean, whose heat capacity and mass/energy transport with the atmosphere dominate the earth’s weather.”

In the 14 years since that conclusion was drawn, all the data I have seen only further reinforces that conclusion. So much so, that I currently dramatize that conclusion on the subject by saying:

“ In comparison to water in all of its forms, the effect of the carbon dioxide increase over the last century on the temperature of the earth is about as significant as a few farts in a hurricane!”

In the intervening years, as the fear mongering hysteria on the subject of human caused global warming grew, and as Gore was able to negotiate the Kyoto protocol on the subject, I felt compelled to get my analysis published more widely. I wrote to Bert Bolin, the Swedish oceanographer, who headed the IPCC, and submitted the paper to Nature and Science, but despite the fact that I had published about 100 research papers by then, including a Navy manual on the use of computer models to forecast weather, they wouldn’t publish my analysis. Who was I to challenge all those sophisticated computer models that were predicting catastrophic warming as a result of human emissions of CO2? Never mind that none of them had ever been verified, and besides I was challenging the results of an industry that was being supported by billions of dollars of research contracts and grants.

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