Posted by
reasonmclucus on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 4:31:48 PM
It is becoming increasingly clear that in western society the inmates
are running the asylum. The idiot elite that holds power in most
western nations have demonstrated their insanity by accepting the
outright lie that the essential atmospheric gas carbon dioxide is
a undesirable pollutant that needs to be regulated.
The scam begun by the crooked
Enron
corporation in the 1990's falsely
claims that very slight increases in CO2 would substantially raise air
temperatures. Enron, and its successors, hoped to profit
from trading
carbon
credits like it had profited from trading credits in sulfur
dioxide, a byproduct of coal combustion.
The scientific fact is air temperatures would rise
substantially if atmospheric CO2 were to decline to a
point insufficient to support plant life.
Areas of bare ground are significantly hotter than comparably located
plant covered ground because bare ground converts the solar
radiation to heat.
CO2 is
essential
to funcitoning of the biosphere. Plants store solar
radiation by converting atmospheric CO2
to complex carbon molecules instead of converting it to heat. The
energy is stored in the form of the electron bonds that hold the
molecules together. Plants also reflect solar radiation back into
space, further reducing solar heating.
Those who talk about global warming have failed to provide any evidence
of significant temperature change. They claim (depending on the
source) only about a 0.5 - 0.7 C increase in temperature which is only
a 0.23% change [Note: per cent changes are calculated using the Kelvin
scale because of the arbitrary zero point of the Celsius scale - the
only thing you can have less than nothing of is money.]
Such a small change could easily be the result of changes in equipment
or the characteristics of measuring sites.
The claim about CO2 causing warming by trapping IR ignores the fact
that physicist
R. W. Wood
demonstrated in a 1909 experiment that trapping IR did not heat
greenhouses as many in the 19th Century had believed and thus the
process could not heat the atmosphere either.
Those who talk of magical greenhouse gases have no understanding of the
complexity of earth's
energy
system.
Earth gets virtually all of its heat from the sun and changes in
heating are most likely caused by variations in solar output than human
activity. If human activity is affecting temperature the most
likely mechanism would be the heat generated by human activity or
changes in the thermal characteristics of the landscape.
Except in tropical areas the human body is hotter than the air most of
the time. Human activities such as cooking and operation of
mechanical devices generates additional heat. Pavement produces
more heat than plant covered areas.
Any Western leaders who think they can benefit from the adverse
economic consequences of restrictions on CO2 emissions should be
taken to the Happy Home by those nice young men in their clean white
coats.
Western leaders who think an economic calamity can benefit them are
living in the wrong century. Any economic collapse in the West would
speed up the process of shifting the economic center of gravity from
the West to Asia. China is already benefitting from the West's
economic mistakes and is moving toward controlling the American economy
by buying American assets and becoming the creditor for its government.