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Date/Time 13 Jul 2014 4:55:48am
I agree with Bill Shut. The so called claim that more CO2 is causing global warming is NOT VALID. The IPCC "Consensus" fails to address all sources of energy. IPCC claims that only solar insolation causes warming and (nightly) cooling. This is absurd. Are they saying that there is no such thing as radioactive decay heat which Nature Geoscience July 2011 claims is 52% of Earth's heat source. Are they claiming that the Moon & Venus do NOT cause tidal energy and warming? (not to mention El Nino/La Nina which is directly Venus related.) How about Jupiter and Saturn tidal warming and cooling? ie Variation in Gravity forces is directly responsible for changes in energy input into the Earth, both in the 60 year cycle from 1500 to the 1530 peak to the 1560 bottom, AND the 1880, 1940, 1998 peaks and subsequent 30 year down trends due to the Jupiter/Saturn 60 year resonance cycles. (See "Gravity causes Climate Changes" in www.scribd.com)
CO2 has nothing to do with global warming. CO2 acts as a heat transport agent, just like convection and conduction. CO2 like water vapor absorbs Earth radiated IR energy and transports it to higher air elevation AND by collisions warms the upper air AND radiates it out to space thus maintaining the Earth Equilibrium temperature.
Common sense confirms it. Just where on Earth is this concentration of very hot CO2 or water vapor that has absorbed and retained the excess heat. Answer- it does not exist. The heat has been transported to space as part of the energy in equals energy out equilibrium. It can NOT cause warming or cooling because the Stephan-Boltzmann Law maintains the equilibrium