Agenda Packet 7-15-19 Work Session

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MovingAhead Spring 2019 Outreach Summary 92 atmosphere contains only .04% carbon dioxide, yet that information was not even needed to predict temperature. The logical conclusion is that atmospheric gases only contribute to warming by their physical mass, which increases atmospheric pressure. Atmospheric compression due to gravity keeps the Earth warm, not the infrared radiative properties of the so-called greenhouse gases. Therefore, carbon dioxide has no special role in controlling Earth temperatures. Zeller and Nikolov suggest that the greenhouse effect be replaced by the term atmospheric thermal enhancement. Gas compression heating in a diesel engine eliminates the need for a spark plug. Obvious atmospheric heating due to air compression occurs regularly in Brookings, Oregon, which is famous for the Brookings effect weather phenomena, also known as a katabatic wind. Winds sweep down from the coastal mountains at high speed which causes atmospheric compression at sea level. This causes the air to heat up, which often makes Brookings warmer than lower latitude towns on the California coast. Gravity driven atmospheric compression heating happens everywhere on Earth at all times. We do not notice it because it is a continuous phenomenon. Without it, our oceans would freeze to the Equator. Schools teach that the carbon dioxide rich atmosphere of Venus creates a powerful greenhouse effect that keeps surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead: about 462 degrees Celsius. The new evidence suggests that heat is actually produced by Venus’s proximity to the Sun and the weight of its atmosphere, which is over 90 times heavier than Earth’s. Venus’s tremendous atmospheric mass produces crushing atmospheric pressure, which generates intense heat. The Secret — Dr. Nikolov points out that the greenhouse gas theory violates the Energy- Conservation Law in trying to explain the atmospheric thermal effect exclusively through radiation. Specifically, the total amount of short wave solar radiation absorbed by the Earth is about 240 watts per square meter. The measured long wave radiation coming down from our atmosphere is about 343 watts per square meter. This downward long wave radiation has been falsely assumed to be due to greenhouse gases absorbing long wave radiation emitted by the Earth’s surface as it heats up through short wave radiation bombardment from the Sun. We thus have 43% more energy coming down from the atmosphere than all the energy received from the Sun in total. The most likely cause of this excess energy is gas compression heating, not the greenhouse effect, which by definition can only help contain energy created by the Sun. The Fallacy — An actual greenhouse has glass walls that blocks convective heat exchange with the surrounding environment, thus insulating the air inside. Earth's atmosphere has no walls, so convective cooling acts as an escalator transferring heat from the surface of the Earth all the way up to the stratosphere. The commonly used greenhouse gas theory analogy to a parked car’s windshield is therefore false. A free flowing gas cannot trap heat, and thus cannot act as insulation to keep the Earth warm. The insulating effect of the atmosphere was first proposed in the 19th Century as a conjecture without observational evidence. It later became settled science through repetition by many generations of scientists quoting their mentors and peers. The Evidence — Earth’s climate history does not reveal any evidence of carbon dioxide increasing Earth’s temperatures as a greenhouse gas. The temperature increase Earth experienced after the end of the Little Ice Age (1300 to 1870) up to about 1940 was not caused by man-made greenhouse gas emissions because industrial output during those years was too low to make any significant difference. Therefore, the heat waves and drought that caused the Dust Bowl of the 1930s had nothing to do with fossil fuels. July 15, 2019, Joint Work Session – Item1