What's with the scientific fixation on the Carbon Theory?

https:// scied.ucar.edu/carbon-dioxide-absorbs-and-re-emits-infrared-radiation

Molecules of carbon dioxide (CO2) can absorb energy from infrared (IR) radiation. This animation shows a molecule of CO2 absorbing an incoming infrared photon (yellow arrows). The energy from the photon causes the CO2 molecule to vibrate. Shortly thereafter, the molecule gives up this extra energy by emitting another infrared photon. Once the extra energy has been removed by the emitted photon, the carbon dioxide stops vibrating. This ability to absorb and re-emit infrared energy is what makes CO2 an effective heat-trapping greenhouse gas. Not all gas molecules are able to absorb IR radiation. For example, nitrogen (N2) and oxygen (O2), which make up more than 90% of Earth's atmosphere, do not absorb infrared photons. CO2 molecules can vibrate in ways that simpler nitrogen and oxygen molecules cannot, which allows CO2 molecules to capture the IR photons. Greenhouse gases and the greenhouse effect play an important role in Earth's climate. Without greenhouse gases, our planet would be a frozen ball of ice. In recent years, however, excess emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from human activities (mostly burning fossil fuels) have begun to warm Earth's climate at a problematic rate. Other significant greenhouse gases include water vapor (H2O), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and ozone (O3).
This has been understood for a very long time, the only people who truly "don't get it" are professional idiots who in many cases are paid very well to keep asking, "what the heck could be going on, we need to study this for (N) more years to really understand what is happening." spamline

Oh and incidentally, your analogy is like saying either the driving force of your body is your brain or it’s your heart.

Really simple. If carbon is the driving force then the heat should follow the carbon. If the sun is the driving force then the heat should follow the orbital cycles and enhanced by the carbon blanket.
The Sun is the driving force of warming our planet. The atmosphere and its greenhouse gases act as insulation, that in turn holds in heat, which in turn heats oceans and land and such and establishes of our global climate system - a global heat and moisture distribution engine taking the suns broiling heat on our equator and moving it towards our poles, there's more to it.
Earth From Space HD 1080p Nova & NASA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpFryXQbVEA
Sun and atmosphere behave in concert along with many other lesser components our climate engine to give us today's weather systems. You can't understand what's going on with so little fundamental grasp of the dynamic systems climate involves and that scientists have been telling us (those interested enough to listen and learn.) about as their understanding continues to increase. (at least the words you share do.) These notions you present are like psik expounding on high-rise structures.
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Is that a new good luck chant / charm ? fill me in :-/
https:// scied.ucar.edu/carbon-dioxide-absorbs-and-re-emits-infrared-radiation
That's pretty cool, just a space will do it.
This has been understood for a very long time, the only people who truly "don't get it" are professional idiots who in many cases are paid very well to keep asking, "what the heck could be going on, we need to study this for (N) more years to really understand what is happening."
What do you say to that Mike? It's all just a gov hype, right ?
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Is that a new good luck chant / charm ? fill me in :-/ Sometimes if you add line it lets you past the spamblock... and no it's not a good luck charm, it's a curse.
https:// scied.ucar.edu/carbon-dioxide-absorbs-and-re-emits-infrared-radiation
That's pretty cool, just a space will do it.
This has been understood for a very long time, the only people who truly "don't get it" are professional idiots who in many cases are paid very well to keep asking, "what the heck could be going on, we need to study this for (N) more years to really understand what is happening."
What do you say to that Mike? It's all just a gov hype, right ? That's the insane thing about climate change denial, it claims global warming is a fraud created by just a few people, when the opposite is the case. This science was worked out well before fossil fuel use was a political hot potato, there was very little fossil fuels being burned when the original science was done. It's goes way back to the late 1600s when it was realized that based on the science of radiation of heat then being discovered that the Earth was warmer than it should have been then about 100 years later Joseph Fourier worked out by how much but didn't identify why. That took another quarter of a century when individual elements and molecules were starting to be identified and how they interacted in the natural world. John Tyndall showed how carbon dioxide and water vapour impeded the transmission of infrared or heat as it is more commonly called. Using these principles and thermodynamics and more Svante Arrhenius went to the laborious task of calculating by hand what would happen if you doubled the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the science was already confident enough then to do that. His results are still consistent and within the margin of error of today's latest calculations using theory and technology that didn't even exist then. If the theory of carbon dioxide being the main persistent component of the Earth's greenhouse effect was inaccurate the science would have fallen apart a long time ago. Instead the data and confidence keep getting more and more certain of the role that carbon dioxide plays in moderating the global climate. Take it away and the Earth will cool, add it and it will warm. It's not a coincidence that as we've added hundreds of billions of tons of carbon dioxide to the air the Earth has warmed, it's entirely consistent with what the science being done centuries ago was already telling us. None of these scientists had any idea of how political the issue would become in the future and were only concerned with doing the best science possible which they did. There never was a conspiracy and the science of the role carbon dioxide plays in climate is as sound as it gets. It doesn't matter how much money is spent to deny this or how many times deniers like Yohe chant, " we still don't know, we need more time, it's the volcanoes, ice cores, blah, blah blah,." If Yohe wasn't a denier he would have stopped this insanity a long time ago he has been proven wrong so many times. Each time he reloads and comes back with a slightly different direction, but it is all still the same attack on the valid science using nothing but claims of doubt that have never existed since these principles were first discovered. A long, long time ago. Intellectually climate change denial is stuck back in the Middle Ages when they still believed in Succubi and Succubuses and other fairy tales like that. Yohe comes across so irrational on this - as do all deniers - because they are engaging in denying reality itself.

Yohe, you gonna take that?
DougC inexplicably missed the very super duper important point I’m fishing for here.
He’s going to kick himself, because I’m pretty sure he knows.

But, you Mike and Mr. Big Mouth who started this (but don’t possess the intellectual integrity to back up his empty words), I bet not.
Still, I’m going to hold my cards a bit longer, besides gotta run off.

DougC inexplicably missed the very super duper important point I'm fishing for here. He's going to kick himself, because I'm pretty sure he knows.
This isn't a riddle. There is the extremely well founded science on the role carbon dioxide plays in moderating the Earth's climate and the profound danger we all face by altering it the rate we are now. And the fact that those who would be most directly affected by actually mitigating that disaster by a phasing out of fossil fuels have funded and created an extensive attack on the valid science to prevent a phasing out of fossil fuels. It's not a complex equation, it's just one that not enough people have taken the time to work out yet. I'm not competing with Mike Yohe or anyone on this, we are all facing the consequences of creating changes that if taken far enough will create some of the most hostile conditions on the Earth seen for millions of years. The science says we are replicating the changes that massive flood basalts cause. Those same flood basalts are associated with climate change that has wiped out most life on Earth. https://skepticalscience.com/Lee-commentary-on-Burgess-et-al-PNAS-Permian-Dating.html Playing the same kind of games as Yohe and thinking that is going to balance things out is just as irrational as he is.

Sorry Doug, don’t mean to get your goat but it certainly is a riddle, something so fundamentally well researched, yet most don’t even seem to know about it. Most don’t know that everything is secondary to the fundamental understanding of how greenhouse gases behave in the atmosphere. Where that information came from is very important.
What you left out was the:

Cambridge Research Lab at, Hanscom AFB Atmospheric Studies. The following comes from a blog post I made a while back: In this exercise I've combed through the Air Force Cambridge Research Lab's official history, and pulled out what seem to me highlights of their atmospheric research. It's all frustratingly vague, no hyperlinks here, still it is the official USAF record and offers some tantalizing hints to early Air Force Atmospheric Studies. Keep in mind this research took a century's worth of increasing fundamental understanding and evolved it into a thorough understanding of our atmosphere, its components and their physical properties and behavior within our atmosphere's real environment. I can be certain of this, even if I'm not an expert, because of all the functioning modern marvels that would have been impossible without that understanding being correct! Not to mention the insanity of thinking such fundamental nature can be hoaxed away, when thousands are studying it. I share the following quotes in the hope some may find it a useful tool for digging up more information about early atmospheric studies (Incidentally, such atmospheric research wasn't confined to the USA, Australia, USSR and others, were also solving these fundamental 'mysteries' in order to get on with achieving mastery over weaponry, which they certainly achieved. Interestingly, the geophysical understanding developed independently by each nation, totally agreed with each other. Funny that.)
Chronology From the Cambridge Field Station to the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory 1945 - 1985 Air Force Geohysics Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base Bedford, Massachusetts, USA http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a164501.pdf
March 1947 - The Air Material Command established an Atmospheric Laboratory in the Engineering Division of Watson Laboratories in Red Bank, New Jersey. June 5, 1947 - First Army Air Forces research balloon launched. February 1948 - The Atmospheric Laboratory at Watson Lab was redesigned Lab Geophysical Research Division - new mission plan was written up. May 26, 1950 - First successful experiment launched by AFCRL on an Aerobee rocket took measurements of the solar constant. April 6, 1951 - The Upper Air Research Observatory was established, located at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico. April 6, 1951 - Air Research and Development Command (ARDC) became operational August 1, 1951 - ARDC takes jurisdiction of Hanscom Field - Cambridge Research Center becomes landlord of Hanscom Field. Christian Science Monitor "Probing Earth's Secrets"- June 28, 1951 7 article feature on the work of the Geophysics Research Division September 1957 - The Photochemistry Laboratory created artificial airglow through the use of sodium released at 88,000' Thermal Radiation Laboratory and the Photochemistry Laboratory May 27, 1959 - The original seven-inch sphere was launched on a rocket to measure atmospheric density. July 1960 - Project Firefly got underway, using chemical releases to explore upper atmosphere properties. November 1960 - AFCRL (Air Force Cambridge Research Lab.) initiated a program of laser research using a ruby laser oscillator. February 23, 1961 - ARCRL made the first direct measurements of atmospheric density between 70 and 130 miles altitude. November 1961 - Four-year research effort to demonstrate the feasibility of long-range, air-ground VHF ionospheric scatter communications was completed. March 1962 - The Arcas-Robin rocketsonde system for high-altitude meteorological soundings went into operations. Spring-Summer 1962 - Project Fish Bowl "high altitude nuclear test observations... Aircraft support consisted of four KC-135's, three for studying thermal and optical emissions, and one for measuring atmospheric and ionospheric effects. Marked first time that a Michelson interferometer was operated successfully on a aircraft. December 1962 - A C-130 aircraft was specifically instrumented by the University of California's Visibility Laboratory for AFCRL program in atmospheric visibility. The Storm Radar Data Processor tested successfully for use in displaying wind intensities within tornadoes at various altitude. January 1963 - AFCRL started an Ozone Network to measure vertical ozone distribution over North America. AFCRL placed in operation a shock tube for measuring the absolute spectral line Intensities of elements forming the sun and stars. October 31 1963 - The final launch of Project Firefly took place from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. In this extensive series of rocket flights begun in the summer of 1960, chemical releases were utilized to study various properties of the atmosphere. Dense electron clouds formed by chemical releases created an artificial ionosphere for the transmission of VHF radio signals. Chemical trails also served as tracers for measuring winds, temperatures, and densities. An AFCRL rocket-borne quadrupole mass spectrometer made the first measurements of the ion and neutral composition of the D-region, which open the way to a new understanding of this layer of the atmosphere. December 1963 - Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) camera system went into operation on TIROS VIII satellite. By automatically rectifying and digitizing satellite cloud pictures, the system greatly speeded up their processing. A C-130 aircraft instrumented for cloud physics research. January 1964 - AFCRL placed its newly developed laser spectrograph in operation. Summer 1964 - Warm cloud and fog studies (project Cat Feet) started at Otis Air Force Base. January 1965 - AFCRL successfully aimed pulsed laser beam to a reflective satellite (LARGO, S-66) and then captured the beam's reflection on a photographic plate, marking the debut of satellite laser geodesy. January 1965 - Series of ballon flights began which measured moisture concentrations in the stratosphere. Summer 1965 - A new 6.6 meter ultraviolet vacuum spectrograph was installed at AFCRL for studies of the molecular structure of atmospheric gases. November 1965 - ARCRL assumed responsibility for the operation of NASA's Wallops Island facility. The radars were used for observations of atmospheric conditions associated with clear air turbulence. March 30 , 1965 - The OVI-5 satellite launched on this date measured radiation across the spectrum from the ultraviolet to the far infrared (0.2 -30 microns). Winter 1966 - AFCRL's U-2 aircraft used for high-altitude meteorological observations since the late 1950's was withdrawn for another mission. May, 1967 - The reinstrumentation of on of AFCRL's KC-135's as a fully-equipped flying infrared laboratory was completed July 27, 1967 - The Air Force satellite OVI-86 was launched. It carried an AFCRL interferometer with a thermoelectrically cooled detector to permit more sensitive infrared measurements. March, 1968 - reorganization - Upper Atmosphere Physics Laboratory is renamed the Aeronomy Laboratory August 1968 - Rocket-borne experiments were launched from Brazil to measure the latitude variation in meteor flux. The program used new techniques to overcome background contamination. November 1968 - A compilation of a complete set of atmospheric absorption line parameters was begun at AFCRL. 1969 - First applications of the Fourier Fast Transform Techniques to Michelson interferometric spectroscopy, reducing computer time by two orders of magnitude. Summer 1970 - AFCRL closed its Haven Acres site for measurements of small-scale meteorological phenomena - new site opened at Donaldson, Minnesota, in 1971. October 1970 - A new balloon-borne gas laser measured the size distribution of aerosols at high altitude. January 31, 1971 - AFCRL's Optical/Infrared Flying Laboratory made radiometric and spectral measurements of the plume of the Apollo 14 rocket booster during launch (repeated with Apollo 15) December, 1971 - A chemical decoy system to protect aircraft from heat-seeking missiles was flight-tested. An initial version of the optical/infrared (OPTIR) computer code was developed. It was designed to estimate the effects of nuclear detonations on optical/infrared detections systems. 1971 - The report, "Earth Sciences Applied to Military Use of Terrain" was published... among topics discussed: Multi-spectral photography and thermal infrared imaging procedures. October 16, 1972 - The Satellite Meteorology Branch received the first pictures from the NOAA-2 satellite. The combination of infrared and visual images transmitted permitted significant advance in satellite assessment of cloud cove. Summer, 1973 - Joint AFCRL/English experiments conducted to study turbulent transport of momentum and heat throughout the atmospheric boundary layer. December, 1973 - AFCRL developed a cloud-free, light-of-sight model to assist the development of weapons systems using optical, infrared, and laser sensors January, 1974 - The Optical Physics Division published a report on atmospheric transmittance for carbon dioxide, hydrogen fluoride and deuterium fluoride laser systems. July, 1974 - Stratospheric Environment Project launched. Its goal was to provide data needed by the Air Force in order to write environmental impact statements for the operations of the B-1 and F-15 aircraft. { If nothing else it shows that all layers of the atmosphere were thoroughly studied. This data is real, pretending there's some profound flaws in their understanding is nothing less than a bias driven disconnect from physical reality and human abilities.} September 1974 - Three rocket probes from the Woomera Range in Australia extended the measurements of the infrared sky background (the HI-STAR Program) to the Southern Hemisphere. November 1974 - The Air Force announced Realignment and Reduction Actions. As part of these Action, the Air Force directed that the geophysics research then being conducted at the Cambridge Research Laboratories (AFCRL) be transferred to Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. November, 1975 - The NASA Atmospheric Explorer (AE-E) satellite was launched. It carried an AFCRL-designed spectrometer composed of 24 individual collimating grating monochrometers.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ... and the list goes on. I'll end this little exercise in 1975, at page 65 of 90, since the really interesting fundamental understanding happened during this earlier period - everything else has been built upon them accurately nailing down that fundamental understanding.
Above quotes taken from: From the Cambridge Field Station to the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory Chronology, 1945 - 1985 Air Force Geohysics Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base Bedford, Massachusetts, USA http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a164501.pdf __________________________________________________________ Behold: NIST 'Combs' the Atmosphere to Measure Greenhouse Gases From NIST Tech Beat: October 29, 2014 http://www.nist.gov/pml/div686/20141029_greenhouse_comb.cfm ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ http://www.modtran5.com MODTRAN is an atmospheric radiative transfer model developed by Spectral Sciences Inc. and the US Air Force Research Laboratory. It has been extensively validated and serves as a standard atmospheric band model for the remote sensing community. http://www.spectral.com/MODTRAN.shtml This page looks like a fun tool, for those who have the understanding. http://climatemodels.uchicago.edu/modtran/ And those of us who don't, aren't in any position to second guess the experts, cut it out already.
The increase in atmospheric concentration of CO2 since preindustrial times is a given. Understand that the radiative physics of greenhouse gases are very well-understood. Consider heat seeking missiles flying through different altitudes searching for a heat source who's signature is changing with altitude. In order to program the computer, the programmer must know how to accurately compensate for the changing signature. It requires a complete knowledge of the radiative properties of all the gases in the atmosphere, or all that hardware is for naught. {Incidentally, there is not one contrarian "theory" or challenge to the physics that hasn't been looked at by informed individuals. You just have to poke around, you'll find that contrarian errors, omissions, and falsifications have been clearly explained. http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php?f=taxonomy
The list: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * Weather satellites that can image heat and moisture and wind's effects into comprehensible images. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * Precipitable water. Contrast brightness temperatures measured via oxygen emissions and via H2O emissions to back calculate how much water is present. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * Heat seeking air to air missiles, they would not function if those guidence computers didn't have a complete description of how heat moves through the atmosphere. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * Early-Warning satellites. How are they going to distinguish between a missile launch from lightning, over Siberia? Better look at IR in DETAIL! Spectroscopic Databases such as HiTran and Geisa have military origins. Going back to WWII and the desire to do Night Bombing better. Then this continued during research programs in the 50's & 60's, with a lot of it through the Cambridge Research Laboratory. The program ModTran that is an example of a narrow band Radiative Transfer Code, for calculating radiative transfer. Half the patents for this are held by the Pentagon. The company that develops it - Spectral Sciences Inc - does so under license to the United States Air Force. http://modtran5.com/ http://www.spectral.com/MODTRAN.shtml http://climatemodels.uchicago.edu/modtran/ For 20 years developments to ModTran were signed off by the Commandant of the USAF GeoPhysics Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, Ma. These days it is the responsibility of the Commandant, the USAF Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * Lasers wouldn't work if we had radiative physics wrong. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * The detection of specific chemicals in the atmospheres of exoplanets: By modeling the gases at high pressures, you can produce an expected absorption for infrared from the planet and compare the model to the spectra recorded by the Spitzer space telescope. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ *Spectroscopy includes measurement of absorption of IR wavelengths eg measurement of CO2 levels in the atmosphere and ice cores relies on IR absorption. (that would make using ice core records to "prove" GHE doesn't exists amusing) "Each sample has a volume of 4~6 cm3. CO2 concentration was measured with IR tunable diode laser spectroscopy, scanning a single vibrational-rotational absorption line." https://nsidc.org/data/docs/agdc/nsidc0202_wahlen/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * And it's not just physics of the standard GH gases. Microwave emissions of oxygen molecules gives us satellite temperature sensing of the atmosphere. Nitrogen - Nitrogen collisions form part of the basis of the GH effect on places like Saturn's moon Titan. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * Getting out of the IR range, but the Dobson spectrophotometer designed in 1924 to measure ozone (and the standard instrument for doing so, for many years) is based on the application of Beers Law. Using two close wavelengths that differ mainly in their O3 absorption coefficients, total column O3 is determined by the difference in transmission (sun view). Careful selection of wavelengths allows measurement of many atmospheric gases. IR instruments for CO2 and H2O are off-the-shelf items.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ But wait, there's more . . . Check out this power point for a complete review of what scientists understand, it's first class - perhaps the best summation for nonscientists I've seen: Greenhouse Gas and Climate Science Measurements The SIM Metrology School October 28 – November 1, 2013 James Whetstone Special Assistant to the Director for Greenhouse Gas Measurements National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA http://www.nist.gov/iaao/upload/SIM_School_Climate_Final_James_Whetstone.pdf Outline • The Sun and The Earth –Protection Mechanisms for Life on the Surface • Properties of Earth’s Atmosphere –Earth’s energy budget and greenhouse mechanisms – Greenhouses ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Atmospheric Propagation and Effect The Atmospheric Propagation and Effect department focuses on laser applications in the open atmosphere. Main topics are the use of laser radiation over long distances, such as optical energy transmission (laser power beaming, laser-based air defence) and the remote detection of pollutants and hazardous substances. Home: Institute:Departments:Atmospheric Propagation and Effect http://www.dlr.de/tp/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-2789/ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "CHRONOLOGY From the Cambridge Field Stations to the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory 1945-1985". Liebowitz, Ruth P. | Hanscom Air Force Base Geophysics Laboratory. Bedford, Massachusetts (For highlights link to http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/archive-usaf-atmospheric-studies-afcrl.html) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Rise and Fall of Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories. Edward E. Altshuler | January 2, 2013. http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Force-Cambridge-Research-Laboratories/dp/1481832514 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_homing ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ History of Australian research into Airborne Laser weapons systems HIGH ENERGY LASER WEAPONS Australian Aviation & Defense Review by Carlo Kopp, December, 1981 http://www.ausairpower.net/AADR-HEL-Dec-81.html
Courtesy of http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/12/nonexpert-problem-why-we-can-be-sure.html

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Okay Doug, or any other takers,
Riddle me this. Why isn’t this common knowledge?
Why hasn’t there been a movie and documentary about the intrepid young cold warrior scientists striving to develop the magical ability of getting bombs to fly faster than air planes in order to fire up some exhaust hole and blow up.
Yes, heat seeking air to air missiles.
Very complex machines,
very complex environment they must navigate through.
Why not explain the basics of the math and then explain the serendipity realization about why this had huge things to tell us about why our planet remained warm.
Namely the anatomy of our atmosphere, etc, etc,
or
The fact that independent teams in all the major countries, mostly working in secret, developed the same damned understanding and numbers.
etc, etc
(typo)
So damned much more that could be said, but gotta run and play wage-slave.

instead we repeat the same disingenuous contrived debate game going on since the 80s/90s and the oligarch constructed rightwing christian political machine, dedicated to profits over all else.
nothing ever gets learned, because at the heart of the matter people don’t want to learn about it

instead we repeat the same disingenuous contrived debate game going on since the 80s/90s and the oligarch constructed rightwing christian political machine, dedicated to profits over all else. nothing ever gets learned, because at the heart of the matter people don't want to learn about it
Is it really that people don’t want to learn? Or take the time to learn? That just doesn’t sound correct. What is going on is that the pushers of deniers have lost any credit that they may once have had. The IPCC still has credit because they have not taken the stance that seems to be a left movement on global warming. CC, you are more into this than I am so let me ask you for your opinion on an article that came out just a couple days ago. First question. The article was posted in the news media and made it to the top of the news outlets. The article was posted in many trade magazines like Science Daily and phys.org for example. Is this a type of article that you would back up? It seems that they are admitting that there are still many problems with the carbon and temperate charts. They are saying that CO2 and global average temperature (GAT) go hand and hand. “Climate evolution shows some regularities, which can be traced throughout long periods of earth's history. One of them is that the global average temperature and the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere usually go hand-in-hand. To put it simple: If the temperatures decline, the CO2 values also decrease and vice versa." Second question. Are they saying that the CO2 is following the temperature of the heat? Because if the heat goes down the CO2 has in the past also gone down too. If people read articles like this and they don’t blindly agree with what you want them to think. I don’t think that is people not wanting to learn or understand. I think it is too much garbage to pick through to have a clear perspective. The next question is outside of the article. And that is, if at the top of every 100,000-year climate cycle we have record heat and the extinction of species. We are now thirty years past the top of the 100,000-year cycle. What should we be expecting as far as record heat and extinctions without the Climate Change? One would think that it would be much worse than it is right now without mankind’s contribution. Added //www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170706113244.htm and //phys.org/news/2017-07-falling-sea-volcanos.html

WTF is

MikeYohe: pushers of deniers
instead we repeat the same disingenuous contrived debate game going on since the 80s/90s and the oligarch constructed rightwing christian political machine, dedicated to profits over all else. Nothing ever gets learned, because at the heart of the matter people don't want to learn about it
Is it really that people don’t want to learn? Or take the time to learn? That just doesn’t sound correct. Yes, all indications point at people not being interested in learning about climate science. Considering the transparent, childish lies they continue to embrace no matter how many times the details get explained to them. https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php?f=taxonomy
MikeYohe: First question. The article was posted in the news media and made it to the top of the news outlets… It seems that they are admitting that there are still many problems with the carbon and temperate charts. They are saying that CO2 and global average temperature (GAT) go hand and hand.
NO! You are relying on the big Lie of Omission. This is talking about measuring, recording, processing overwhelmingly complex information. You also hide how small these differences in numbers being argued over are, worst you avoid the bottomline truth that: EVERY MOLECULE OF CO2 ADDS TO OUR ATMOSPHERE’S INSULATION ABILITY. NOTHING MAKES THE SLIGHTEST SENSE UNTIL YOU ACCEPT THAT GEOPHYSICAL REALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST.
Proof positive that the physical understanding is exact and unavoidable (even if deniable) can be found in the list of modern marvels that would be impossible without an exquisitely accurate understanding of Earth’s atmospheric profile and greenhouse gas behavior within all its layers. http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/12/nonexpert-problem-why-we-can-be-sure.html Archive, Hanscom AFB Atmospheric Studies, Cambridge Research Labhttp://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/archive-usaf-atmospheric-studies-afcrl.html
MikeYohe: “Climate evolution shows some regularities, which can be traced throughout long periods of earth's history. One of them is that the global average temperature and the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere usually go hand-in-hand. To put it simple: If the temperatures decline, the CO2 values also decrease and vice versa."
No! It shows that people don’t appreciate all the different elements that influence climate and the details of how it plays out during any particular epoch. Understanding the past is fun and slightly informative, but it’s not the key understanding by a long shot. Also, past climate makes absolutely not sense if you don’t understand the greenhouse component - which you are deliberately trying to muddle up with that scientifically ridiculous paragraph up there.
MikeYohe: Second question. Are they saying that the CO2 is following the temperature of the heat? Because if the heat goes down the CO2 has in the past also gone down too. If people read articles like this and they don’t blindly agree with what you want them to think. I don’t think that is people not wanting to learn or understand. I think it is too much garbage to pick through to have a clear perspective.
IT’S THE INSULATION STUPID ! SCIENTISTS ARE SAYING THAT GREENHOUSE GASES HOLD IN X AMOUNT OF HEAT. What happens with that heat and how it gets circulated around our planet and its climate gets exceedingly difficult to track, quantify and process. You and your treasonous slimy gold and blood soaked crowd have managed to convince petty self-centered humans that difficulties in drawing the map means you could ignore the territory Come on, how stupid can you get? Of course people don’t want to know about it, it’s shit news. It means the party was over and living was going to demand a little serious forethought and moderation. Moderation in the amount of babies we pumped out and moderation in our expectations of the world. Instead, Reaganomics, “Too Much is Never Enough" - “He Who Dies With The Most Toys Wins" mentality and faith-based thinking won the race of how to meet the inevitable human/societal challenge of reckoning with a shrinking EARTH and The Limits of Growth. And now Trump the American glorification of Me First infantilism is occupying the White House like the Joker he is and the GOP is tearing down our government as fast as possible while the children of the enlightenment stand by watching. Oh but I digress.
MikeYohe: The next question is outside of the article. And that is, if at the top of every 100,000-year climate cycle we have record heat and the extinction of species. We are now thirty years past the top of the 100,000-year cycle. What should we be expecting as far as record heat and extinctions without the Climate Change? One would think that it would be much worse than it is right now without mankind’s contribution.
How many times are you going to repeat that totally irrelevant question? You’ve been provided the answer a dozen times by various posters here. Earth would be ever so slowly phasing into a glaciation. That transition takes place over centuries, millennia and longer. What we have done to our atmosphere has an impact NOW, every impact isn’t recognized, but we know the increased warming is relentlessly spreading throughout the system. Current weather events already prove plenty well that a warming Earth is going to become an increasingly hostile place to live.
MikeYohe: Added //www. sciencedaily. com/releases/2017/07/170706113244.htm also {the two articles are the same press release} phys. org/news/2017-07-falling-sea-volcanos. html
"Our approach has shown that the decreasing pressure at the seafloor could have induced increased lava- and carbon dioxide emissions. The enhanced volcanic carbon dioxide flux may have stabilized the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during the climate system's descent into the last ice age," adds Prof. Dr. Lars Rüpke of GEOMAR. The investigations suggest that close interactions between the solid earth and the climate system exist also on geologically relatively short time scales of about 5,000 to 15,000 years. …
So what the hell is that supposed to do with understanding the necessary fundamentals of climate science? It’s an obscure brick in the edifice of today’s complex understanding. Interesting for sure but an absolutely disingenuous distraction if a serious discussion about the “Carbon Theory" is what you’re here for. But, I know that’s not what your here for. This is an interesting game, nothing more, you are on the winning side, enjoying the fruits of your efforts, mark my words you will find them bitter fruits indeed.
WTF is
MikeYohe: pushers of deniers
instead we repeat the same disingenuous contrived debate game going on since the 80s/90s and the oligarch constructed rightwing christian political machine, dedicated to profits over all else. Nothing ever gets learned, because at the heart of the matter people don't want to learn about it
Is it really that people don’t want to learn? Or take the time to learn? That just doesn’t sound correct.
Yes, all indications point at people not being interested in learning about climate science. Considering the transparent, childish lies they continue to embrace no matter how many times the details get explained to them. https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php?f=taxonomy
MikeYohe: First question. The article was posted in the news media and made it to the top of the news outlets… It seems that they are admitting that there are still many problems with the carbon and temperate charts. They are saying that CO2 and global average temperature (GAT) go hand and hand.
NO! You are relying on the big Lie of Omission. This is talking about measuring, recording, processing overwhelmingly complex information. You also hide how small these differences in numbers being argued over are, worst you avoid the bottomline truth that: EVERY MOLECULE OF CO2 ADDS TO OUR ATMOSPHERE’S INSULATION ABILITY. NOTHING MAKES THE SLIGHTEST SENSE UNTIL YOU ACCEPT THAT GEOPHYSICAL REALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST.
Proof positive that the physical understanding is exact and unavoidable (even if deniable) can be found in the list of modern marvels that would be impossible without an exquisitely accurate understanding of Earth’s atmospheric profile and greenhouse gas behavior within all its layers. http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/12/nonexpert-problem-why-we-can-be-sure.html Archive, Hanscom AFB Atmospheric Studies, Cambridge Research Labhttp://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/archive-usaf-atmospheric-studies-afcrl.html
MikeYohe: “Climate evolution shows some regularities, which can be traced throughout long periods of earth's history. One of them is that the global average temperature and the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere usually go hand-in-hand. To put it simple: If the temperatures decline, the CO2 values also decrease and vice versa."
No! It shows that people don’t appreciate all the different elements that influence climate and the details of how it plays out during any particular epoch. Understanding the past is fun and slightly informative, but it’s not the key understanding by a long shot. Also, past climate makes absolutely not sense if you don’t understand the greenhouse component - which you are deliberately trying to muddle up with that scientifically ridiculous paragraph up there.
MikeYohe: Second question. Are they saying that the CO2 is following the temperature of the heat? Because if the heat goes down the CO2 has in the past also gone down too. If people read articles like this and they don’t blindly agree with what you want them to think. I don’t think that is people not wanting to learn or understand. I think it is too much garbage to pick through to have a clear perspective.
IT’S THE INSULATION STUPID ! SCIENTISTS ARE SAYING THAT GREENHOUSE GASES HOLD IN X AMOUNT OF HEAT. What happens with that heat and how it gets circulated around our planet and its climate gets exceedingly difficult to track, quantify and process. You and your treasonous slimy gold and blood soaked crowd have managed to convince petty self-centered humans that difficulties in drawing the map means you could ignore the territory Come on, how stupid can you get? Of course people don’t want to know about it, it’s shit news. It means the party was over and living was going to demand a little serious forethought and moderation. Moderation in the amount of babies we pumped out and moderation in our expectations of the world. Instead, Reaganomics, “Too Much is Never Enough" - “He Who Dies With The Most Toys Wins" mentality and faith-based thinking won the race of how to meet the inevitable human/societal challenge of reckoning with a shrinking EARTH and The Limits of Growth. And now Trump the American glorification of Me First infantilism is occupying the White House like the Joker he is and the GOP is tearing down our government as fast as possible while the children of the enlightenment stand by watching. Oh but I digress.
MikeYohe: The next question is outside of the article. And that is, if at the top of every 100,000-year climate cycle we have record heat and the extinction of species. We are now thirty years past the top of the 100,000-year cycle. What should we be expecting as far as record heat and extinctions without the Climate Change? One would think that it would be much worse than it is right now without mankind’s contribution.
How many times are you going to repeat that totally irrelevant question? You’ve been provided the answer a dozen times by various posters here. Earth would be ever so slowly phasing into a glaciation. That transition takes place over centuries, millennia and longer. What we have done to our atmosphere has an impact NOW, every impact isn’t recognized, but we know the increased warming is relentlessly spreading throughout the system. Current weather events already prove plenty well that a warming Earth is going to become an increasingly hostile place to live.
MikeYohe: Added //www. sciencedaily. com/releases/2017/07/170706113244.htm also {the two articles are the same press release} phys. org/news/2017-07-falling-sea-volcanos. html
"Our approach has shown that the decreasing pressure at the seafloor could have induced increased lava- and carbon dioxide emissions. The enhanced volcanic carbon dioxide flux may have stabilized the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during the climate system's descent into the last ice age," adds Prof. Dr. Lars Rüpke of GEOMAR. The investigations suggest that close interactions between the solid earth and the climate system exist also on geologically relatively short time scales of about 5,000 to 15,000 years. …
So what the hell is that supposed to do with understanding the necessary fundamentals of climate science? It’s an obscure brick in the edifice of today’s complex understanding. Interesting for sure but an absolutely disingenuous distraction if a serious discussion about the “Carbon Theory" is what you’re here for. But, I know that’s not what your here for. This is an interesting game, nothing more, you are on the winning side, enjoying the fruits of your efforts, mark my words you will find them bitter fruits indeed. You need to re-look at the article. What I think it is saying is that during our last Ice Age the CO2 did not drop because of the temperature drop because there was CO2 being released into the atmosphere. If that is true. Then the latest articles being released today are saying that the CO2 is following the temperature. You are telling me that the people are stupid because they don’t understand the Carbon Theory. All I am saying is just look at what is in the media for the people to read today. The problem is not the people.

feeding a climate change troll makes you a climate change troll.

Doug, sometimes …

feeding a climate change troll makes you a climate change troll.
MikeYoke might well be a troll, but if you call this
Yes, all indications point at people not being interested in learning about climate science. Considering the transparent, childish lies they continue to embrace no matter how many times the details get explained to them. https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php?f=taxonomy
MikeYohe: First question. The article was posted in the news media and made it to the top of the news outlets… It seems that they are admitting that there are still many problems with the carbon and temperate charts. They are saying that CO2 and global average temperature (GAT) go hand and hand.
NO! You are relying on the big Lie of Omission. IT’S THE INSULATION STUPID ! SCIENTISTS ARE SAYING THAT GREENHOUSE GASES HOLD IN X AMOUNT OF HEAT. What happens with that heat and how it gets circulated around our planet and its climate gets exceedingly difficult to track, quantify and process. This is talking about measuring, recording, processing overwhelmingly complex information. You also hide how small these differences in numbers being argued over are, worst you avoid the bottomline truth that: EVERY MOLECULE OF CO2 ADDS TO OUR ATMOSPHERE’S INSULATION ABILITY. NOTHING MAKES THE SLIGHTEST SENSE UNTIL YOU ACCEPT THAT GEOPHYSICAL REALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST.
Proof positive that the physical understanding is exact and unavoidable (even if deniable) can be found in the list of modern marvels that would be impossible without an exquisitely accurate understanding of Earth’s atmospheric profile and greenhouse gas behavior within all its layers. http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/12/nonexpert-problem-why-we-can-be-sure.html Archive, Hanscom AFB Atmospheric Studies, Cambridge Research Lab http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/02/archive-usaf-atmospheric-studies-afcrl.html
feeding a trolling :smirk: WTF is the matter with you Doug, did the whole scope, substance and trajectory of this thread so totally go over your head? No wonder we keep loosing so horribly. Did you really not get the message here? While the rest of gallery looks on in stone silence. :lol: . . . :blank: