AGW discussion number 100

 It may not be a hundred.  It may just seem that way.  This post will be titled this way in order to systemize posts of this type, for future reference.  Since that has not been the way so far, it may be hard to reference them all.  Consequently, ideas and so forth may get repeated.  One search produced 73 posts.  Okay, but the search filter may not have captured them all.

Whatever the case may be, I will write another one of these things.   Maybe it is only repetition of old ideas.

This post is inspired by the Wapo article referenced here.  It is not my intention to address it directly, but to attack on the premises of AGW theory.  The premise is that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will cause the Earth's climate to heat up significantly.  This is referred to as AGW  ( Anthropogenic Global Warming ).

The discussion does mention parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  One means of attacking the severity of the alleged problem is to note that "per million" is a small number.  Thus, a change from - 280 parts per million (ppm) to 400 parts per million - is not a significant move in terms of its scale.

If it were money, the difference would be 280 dollars to 400 dollars as opposed to one million dollars.  If it were distance, it would mean a difference of a hundred and twenty feet over a two hundred mile jaunt.  Parts per million is a small number.  It doesn't need to cause such consternation.

At the current level of nearly 400 ppm, the scale is about 1/2500 th of the atmosphere.   A tiny fraction, yes?  Once again, if it were weight, it would be like one pound as opposed to twenty five hundred pounds.  The comparison is like the difference in weight between a soft drink in a pint size bottle, and the weight of a car.

That much weight is going to influence the rest in significant ways?  That is quite a claim.  It cannot be proven.

For example, it takes 140 BTU to heat up a pound of water to boiling temperatures.  The same amount of BTU's would only heat up the 2500 pounds of water to 140/2500 degrees, or about 5 one hundredths of one degree.  Pour that boiling water into a tank of water with 2500 pounds of water in it, and you would hardly notice the difference.  It is doubtful that you would even notice it at all.

However, the carbon dioxide would never get that hot, anyway.  This would be the case no matter how well it could hold heat.

Water holds het better than carbon dioxide.  Try boiling that pound of water in the sun all day.  Won't happen.  It is doubtful that you could get it to boil on a hot summer day.

Even if you did, you would have to sustain that over the night period.  The water would return to normal temperature from a boil in a much shorter period of time.

In order to raise the temperature of the atmosphere, it has to retain some heat from the prior daylight hours.  If all of it escapes, then how does that warm the climate?  It cannot.

AGW is bunk.