Posted by
reasonmclucus on Sunday, May 18, 2008 8:11:14 PM
Unless some other candidate enters the race I will be voting for
you in November. However, that is only because neither of
the likely Democratic candidates has the experience to be the
nation's Chief Executive Officer. Your acceptance of
the nonsense about purported "global warming", which Meteorologist John
Coleman calls "
the greatest scam in history", indicates a level of
gullibility that is undesirable in presidents.
I can understand how American leaders would believe that Saddam Hussein
still had significant amounts of Weapons of Mass
Destruction. Hussein had used such weapons in the past and there
was no evidence he had destroyed them. U.N. inspectors discovered
unloaded nerve gas shells shortly before the U.S. invaded
Iraq.
However, there is no evidence for "global warming". There is no
evidence of any significant temperature change other than the normal
rise and fall of temperatures over time. The earth has warm years and
cool years, warm decades and cool decades. The process that is
supposed to produce global warming is physically
impossible.
Those who claim the existence of global warming admit that temperatures
only changed by 1 F or 0.17% during the entire 20th
Century. A one degreee variation is insignificant
considering that daily temperatures fluctuate by 20 - 30 F
and by over 100 F from winter to summer in temperate
areas during the year. The passage of a strong cold front can drop temperatures by 30 F in a matter of hours.
A one degree change over a century could easily be explained by
differences in equipment or changes in the locations where the
equipment is located. Today's equipment is of
questionable
reliability. Many
sites have characteristics that artificially produce higher temperatures.
Temperature varies by more than one degree in different parts of
my yard. Temperatures went up and down during the 20th Century
and have declined since 1998. The concept of a
global average temperature
itself is of questionable value.
Jean Baptiste Fourier
first suggested that infrared radiation (IR) from the surface heated
the atmosphere, but Fourier also believed that star light could heat
the earth. He believed that gas molecules converted the radiation into
heat. Niels Bohr demonstrated in his Nobel Prize winning
research
that absorption of specific wavelengths of light by gas molecules
changed the energy state of their electrons rather than causing them to
become hotter.
Land and water heat the air by conduction rather than radiation. 70%
of the earth's surface is water which is a very poor radiator anyway.
Supporters of global warming have failed to provide any evidence that
the low energy radiation produced by earth's surface can heat anything.
Those who believe in global warming claim that it is caused by carbon
dioxide (CO2) trapping a small range of IR.
However, physicist R.W. Wood, who invented IR photography,
demonstrated
in 1909 that the process of trapping IR didn't cause
greenhouses to stay warm. Instead they stayed warm because they
trapped heated air which doesn't readily lose heat energy by converting
it into radiation. His experiment used solid barriers to
trap IR. CO2 is less than 400 parts per million in the atmosphere
and is hardly capable of trapping IR the way the solid barriers Wood
used could.
Ferenc Miskolczi resigned in protest from NASA after it suppressed a
study
indicating that the equations used to show CO2 would cause substantial global warming
contained a serious flaw that rendered the equations invalid. His
corrected equations show no warming.
Dr. Gerhard Gerlich and Ralf D. Tscheuschner in their essay
"Falsification
of the Atmospheric Greenhouse Effects Within the Framework of
Physics" argue that the process global warming believers talk about
would be a perpetual motion machine that physicists claim would violate
the laws of physics.