Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases
Global warming continues to be a subject of much debate in our society. Many pundits and politicians have agreed and disagreed about what the cause or causes of global warming may be.
Firstly one must agree that global warming exists before embarking on the difficult task of assigning reasons for it.
Therein lies a major conundrum, for if there is no global warming then the hoopla surrounding the speculation that greenhouse gases are the major contributor is all for naught.
The naysayers would have us believe that the notion of greenhouse gases causing global warming is a result of bad science. They suggest that those on that side of the argument have failed to take into account things like the ice age cycles and the varying earth orbits that contribute to the recent warmer earth temperatures.
Then there is the question of measurement of the earth’s temperature. How accurately can that be done and is the data that has been collected truly reflective of any change caused by greenhouse gasses.
The following charts are a compilation of data taken from the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 73 edition from the CRC press. Although not conclusive there are a number of things that can be supposed from looking at these charts.
If we assume that the data used to create these charts is accurate then we could say that the rising CO2 has no correlation to the earth’s temperature. But suppose that one or the other of the charts is from bad data. I submit that the temperature chart is either from bad data or the data is influenced by something other than the rising CO2. This goes to the previous suggestions that ice age cycles etc and numerous other things have a greater influence on the earth’s temperature than amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
From my personal experience of working in the science of CO2 measurement for 25 years, I can tell you that the instrumentation used to measure CO2 in atmosphere is nearly flawless and that the CO2 chart is probably dead on, atmospheric CO2 is rising.
Then we can safely assume that atmospheric CO2 has risen from 1958 to 1989 as the data suggests. This fits nicely with the theories. But because the temperature chart does not show a clear increase over this period it isn’t possible to reasonably say the earth’s temperature rises with the increasing CO2 for the same period.
So do we rule out CO2 as the cause of global warming? Of course not, the data simply doesn’t cover enough time to do that.
What is obvious is that reliable temperature data may be the weak link in determining if green house gases have any affect on the warming of the earth. Further if reliable temperature data is not available then the mere existence of global warming cannot be determined, much less the causes.
A must read for those, who like me, are suspicious of the magnitude of the greenhouse gas effect. http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
Firstly one must agree that global warming exists before embarking on the difficult task of assigning reasons for it.
Therein lies a major conundrum, for if there is no global warming then the hoopla surrounding the speculation that greenhouse gases are the major contributor is all for naught.
The naysayers would have us believe that the notion of greenhouse gases causing global warming is a result of bad science. They suggest that those on that side of the argument have failed to take into account things like the ice age cycles and the varying earth orbits that contribute to the recent warmer earth temperatures.
Then there is the question of measurement of the earth’s temperature. How accurately can that be done and is the data that has been collected truly reflective of any change caused by greenhouse gasses.
The following charts are a compilation of data taken from the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics 73 edition from the CRC press. Although not conclusive there are a number of things that can be supposed from looking at these charts.
If we assume that the data used to create these charts is accurate then we could say that the rising CO2 has no correlation to the earth’s temperature. But suppose that one or the other of the charts is from bad data. I submit that the temperature chart is either from bad data or the data is influenced by something other than the rising CO2. This goes to the previous suggestions that ice age cycles etc and numerous other things have a greater influence on the earth’s temperature than amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
From my personal experience of working in the science of CO2 measurement for 25 years, I can tell you that the instrumentation used to measure CO2 in atmosphere is nearly flawless and that the CO2 chart is probably dead on, atmospheric CO2 is rising.
Then we can safely assume that atmospheric CO2 has risen from 1958 to 1989 as the data suggests. This fits nicely with the theories. But because the temperature chart does not show a clear increase over this period it isn’t possible to reasonably say the earth’s temperature rises with the increasing CO2 for the same period.
So do we rule out CO2 as the cause of global warming? Of course not, the data simply doesn’t cover enough time to do that.
What is obvious is that reliable temperature data may be the weak link in determining if green house gases have any affect on the warming of the earth. Further if reliable temperature data is not available then the mere existence of global warming cannot be determined, much less the causes.
A must read for those, who like me, are suspicious of the magnitude of the greenhouse gas effect. http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
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