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Tag Archives: Carbon dioxide
Pressure Broadening
In a recent blog post Dr. Roy Spencer took the skeptical community to task for a list of arguments he considers to lack merit. One of these was the argument that the CO2 absorption bands are saturated. He stated that … Continue reading
Everyone Loves Lists, Should We Worry or Not?
Take a big leap back in time. It is 1974, forty years ago. The planet has been cooling for thirty years. There is very real concern about this. The Pentagon is making Ice Age contingency plans. The scientific community is agnostic. … Continue reading
A Graphic Study of the Greenhouse Effect
The greenhouse effect is poorly named. Nothing about it even vaguely resembles the protective shield of a greenhouse. The effect is about the florescence of certain gasses in a discontinuous fashion according to their individual spectral properties. When they shine, … Continue reading
YGBFkiddinme, Low Emissions Grass?
From Nature Magazine this pearl of pulchritude: “The solution, says Michael Peters, an agronomist at CIAT and leader of the team that has developed the low-emissions grass, is to encourage ammonium to persist in the soil for longer, by suppressing microbial … Continue reading
Dude, It’s Not About Carbon Dioxide
We know a lot about Carbon dioxide in a jar. We know the wavelengths it prefers to absorb and emit photons. We know it tends to mix efficiently with other gasses. We know it has a nearly magical affinity for … Continue reading
I Deny
“Denier!”, in the tone of apostasy. Well, call me the apostate, because I deny. I deny that there is any reasonable scientific evidence that Carbon dioxide will cause catastrophic global warming. I deny this as a naturalist and serious student … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Dioxide Loves to Swim, Carbon Prohibitionists, Carbon Theology, Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Religion
Tagged Carbon, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Carbon Management, Carbon Prohibitionism, Carbon Prohibitionists, environment, Global Warming Denial
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A Quick Review of the Carbon Cycle
Quick review of the carbon cycle magnitude per NASA in Gt.: Ocean to atmosphere 90 Microbial respiration land 60 Plant respiration land 60 Human 9 ——— Total surface to atmosphere 219 Photosynthesis land 123 Atmosphere to Ocean 92 ——- Total atmosphere … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Cycle, Carbon Dioxide Loves to Swim, Climate Change, Geography, Oceanography
Tagged Atmosphere, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, NASA, PH, Weathering
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The Naturalist and the Seven Microatmosphere Disparity, or Carbon Dioxide Loves to Swim
Humans are naturalists by nature. We like to use our wonderful, color sensing eyes to peer through the leaves into the netherworld beyond to better understand how our world works. We’ve hacked the leaves back quite a bit now but … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Biology, Carbon Cycle
Tagged 7 uatm disparity, Atmosphere, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Earth Sciences, environment, PH
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Carbon and Freight Trains
Everyone seems to think that carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere and sort of sits there like some invisible smoke, trapping outgoing IR like our automobile windshields and heating us up. Carbon dioxide is more like a freight train. Humans … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Geography, Oceanography
Tagged Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Earth
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An Argument for the Necessary Existence of Negative Feedback to the Greenhouse Effect of Water Vapor.
A crucial component of the hypothesis that the one part in ten thousand in the atmosphere that represents human CO2 caused the atmospheric warming from the late 1970’s to the late 1990’s is the notion that the miniscule warming by … Continue reading
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