Are Our Scientists Heating the Earth?

Written by Anthony Bright-Paul on July 1, 2019. Posted in Current News

Our Scientists keep claiming that the Earth is getting hotter and hotter and that we humans must keep the temperature of the Earth within a 2º Centigrade limit, otherwise all sorts of disasters will befall mankind.

So, the question that I put to you, my readers, are these same scientists responsible for the very warming to which they are opposed and which they declare will cause disaster for mankind?

Actually I don’t believe for one moment that such an entity as a global temperature exists, since temperatures are forever in flux and there is a huge range of temperatures in the atmosphere alone.

But let us for one moment agree with our scientists that their arcane measurements have a degree of veracity and that mankind is causing the surface of the Earth to overheat. But are these same scientists responsible for that overheating?

Let us look at the evidence and their claims. Physicists will not dispute that the Sun does not send heat through space, but radiation. So we have to agree that infrared radiation from the Sun encounters mass and this causes heat. I don’t think that any Physicist will dispute that.

What they go on to claim is that the Earth also re-radiates infrared into the atmosphere and this infrared radiation causes the ‘Greenhouse Gases’to heat up and trap heat, thus causing an unwelcome rise in the supposed Global temperature. What is their solution? It is very simple – we must curtail emissions of ‘Greenhouse Gases’, in particular the gas called Carbon Dioxide. The result has been that for several years now every effort has been made to curtail emissions of Carbon Dioxide.

The question is very simple – is this the correct diagnosis? Has the curtailing of Carbon Dioxide emissions actually contributed to rising temperatures at say 5 foot off the surface of the ground?

We know that Nitrogen and Oxygen together make up 99% of Earth’s atmosphere. The entire ‘Greenhouse Gases’ are only 1%, and the greater part of this 1% is Water Vapour. So does this Water Vapour contribute to warming or cooling? Well we all know that the effect of the Sun’s radiation, infrared, upon the ocean waters is evaporation. Is evaporation cooling or warming? The answer is not in doubt. Evaporation of water causes cooling, and the condensation into clouds causes more cooling, and the incidence of rain, snow or hail causes yet more cooling.

It is sometimes argued that a humid atmosphere will slow down the exit of heat, but this is simply a false argument, since water vapour in the form of mist or clouds scatters incoming infrared, so the effect of Water vapour in all its forms is cooling.

What then of Carbon Dioxide?

In order to do a little revision on the subject I had recourse to the World Wide Web and looked up the properties of Carbon Dioxide, which is the supposed villain of the piece and which almost every politician believes ‘traps heat’ and causes warming.

I need hardly add that almost every Newspaper and Journal likewise echo the idea that ‘Greenhouse Gases’ trap heat. However anybody who has a slightly analytical mind will understand that it is utterly impossible to trap heat and that it has never been done and never will be done. But what about a Greenhouse?

The answer is simple.

A Greenhouse will trap ‘air’ and the temperature of the air within will vary with the time of day. At midday the temperature of the air inside may well rise, but as night falls the temperature falls to seek equilibrium with the air outside. Ergo heat is not trapped.

The air may be trapped, but heat is never trapped. Any simpleton can understand that.

Here are a few of the uses of Carbon Dioxide.

1. Carbon dioxide in solid and in liquid form is used for refrigeration and cooling.
2. It is used in fire extinguishers.
3. Carbon dioxide is also used widely as a coolant, a refrigerant, and an ingredient in the manufacture of frozen foods.
4. Carbon dioxide fire extinguishers are often used to control electrical and oil fires, which cannot be put out with water.
5. Carbon dioxide is essential for internal respiration in a human body. Internal respiration is a process, by which oxygen is transported to body tissues and carbon dioxide is carried away from them. Carbon dioxide is a guardian of the pH of the blood, which is essential for survival.
6. Why do we need carbon dioxide? Oxygen is the most important gas for keeping us alive because body cells need it for energy and growth. Without oxygen, the body’s cells would die. … The lungs and respiratory system allow oxygen in the air to be taken into the body, while also enabling the body to get rid of carbon dioxide in the air breathed out.
7. Carbon dioxide is used to produce carbonated soft drinks and soda water.
8. The sunlight, carbon dioxide (CO2) and water are used in a process called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is a process of making food by plants and phytoplankton. Plankton release Oxygen as waste in this process. Carbon dioxide, iron, nitrogen and phosphorous are important substances with are required in the procedure.
9. Phytoplankton live near the surface of the ocean because they need sunlight like all green plants. They also need water and nutrients to live. Phytoplankton use water and CO2 to grow, but phytoplankton still need other vitamins and minerals, like iron to survive.

So a little research shows that we need CO2 for refrigeration, as a coolant, to fight electrical fires, for carbonated drinks, as food for phytoplankton and green plants which produce Oxygen as a by-product. Where does it say that Carbon Dioxide traps heat? Nowhere, for such an immature idea is simply lunacy.

Carbon Dioxide is a recognised coolant and fire retardant. Cutting emissions of Co2 might very well have the effect of raising the temperature of surface areas. The idea that heat can be trapped is a myth that any thoughtful schoolboy could explode. Why does this myth still persist?  For that one needs to ask ‘Who funds this nonsense?

It is the old a saying ‘He who pays the piper calls the tune’. Al Gore still perpetuates this myth – he is a very skilful politician, but a truly abysmal scientist.

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