AGW is bunk ( yes, that again)

4/10/24:

I hope my point was not taken to mean to blow off the video mentioned. But man! Keep it simple! People need to be spoon fed, or so it seems. A long video or movie will not be watched in its entirety.

I could make a series of what I consider to be the most cogent points. But a point may not be cogent for everybody. So how do you make that list?

Al Fin's blog has more info about the video, if you'd like to check it out. Maybe it might be helpful. However, the usual brand of Idiocracy types don't bother to read, anyway. Getting them to watch a video may become the next big challenge. And so it goes.



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4/7/24:

New film about the Climate Change Emergency scam.

I agree, but it is too long for me. I watched about half of it. I could say don't waste your time, but who knows. Maybe some people will be persuaded by it. To me, the best approach is the shortest. While keeping it short, mention also that these people are wasting your time as well as your money. I'm talking about the "climate deniers" too!



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3/24/24:

Let's get to the heart of greenhouse gas theory, shall we? The contention is that by capturing energy within itself ( that'd be the electrons, I suppose), it will re-radiate that energy back into the environment. This will cause all the heat that will melt all the glaciers and cause us all to die. ( not that this would actually happen, but it is more dramatic to say "die" )

It has to be the electrons, because the nucleus will mean the entire molecule itself, since 99.9% of the mass is in the nucleus. Actually, electrons mass out at 1/2000th of what a proton does. So, an electron is more like .05% of the mass of the molecule ( or less since we are not counting the neutrons, which mass out as much as a proton--make that about .025% ).

Anyway, the infrared waves are captured by the tiny electron, and the tiny electron re-radiates it back out to the environment. With so little mass, it doesn't seem plausible. That's putting it mildly. Maybe a mite can lift an elephant, but I am skeptical.

As stated before, it's the mass, not the gas. Electrons cannot store that much heat because they don't have the mass.

end 3/24/23 update, the most recent update prior to this one is of 12/5/23, and follows:

12/5/23: Update to yesterday's post:

From the part below, where the amount of CO2 in terms of mass was calculated to be about 1 mole in a 5 gallon can: and the mass of that was 44 g, then what would be the mass in terms of the actual amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at 400 parts per million? Easy calculation. Divide 400 by a million, and multiplying it by 44 grams, yielding an incredibly small amount of mass. But that should be expected.

Punching the numbers in the calculator gives 0.0176 grams. That's less than 2% of 1 gram. All of that is going to melt all the glaciers and cause sea levels to rise? Puh leeze. By the way, that's how much in that 5 gallon container. Scape off a piece of paint, and you'd probably get more mass.

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Instapundit link to study that says Earth not warming that quickly.

The implication is that any heating since 1948 is caused by human activity---thus it's the carbon dioxide. That merits another discussion, so here goes.

As mentioned on this here blog, it's not the gas, it is the mass. Gases doesn't mass out for much either. Let's take one mole of carbon dioxide. At standard temperature and pressure, one mole equals about a 5 gallon container. A mole of substance is its atomic weight in grams. Since carbon dioxide atomic weight is 44g/mole, a 5 gallon container filled with carbon dioxide would have a weight ( other than the container itself ) of about 44 grams.

That much isn't much. It's about an ounce and a half. That much mass isn't going to heat things up very much, now would it? Fill it up with boiling water, and it will do some damage if you poured it on something alive. But at 212 degrees, 5 gallons containerful of carbon dioxide won't be much more than a puff of air. Not likely to cause too much damage, and by the time it contacted the living thing, it will have cooled down a lot!

That's true because of the nature of gases. Gases are the least dense state of matter. For those in Rio Linda, that means that the 5 gallon empty tank ( full of carbon dioxide ) doesn't weigh much. Well, duh.

That's pure carbon dioxide, too. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is 400 parts per million. That's 400 divided by a million. For 5 gallon container, that's 44 g times 400 divided by a million. The warmists want you to believe that this will melt all the ice in Greenland and such.

AGW is not only bunk, it is ree-damned-diculous.