[Forum] Congratulations to Charles Hemmings (Coast Community News Edition 232) for castigating both climate change alarmists and deniers for their fake scientists and flawed scientific logic.
They are like a dog chasing its tail, one spinning to the left, the other to the right.
The truth is that neither Carbon nor its oxide affect climate in any way.
Three facts in nature are irrefutable: The concentration of Carbon Dioxide today is still negligible, at less than 400ppm, 0.04 per cent, and absolutely incapable of affecting climate in any way; Invisible humidity, gas-phase water, is greater than 400ppm by more than 500 per cent above Australian deserts at mid-day, and by more than 6,000 per cent at Darwin before a monsoonal downpour; CO2 gas does not accumulate in the atmosphere, it has been equilibrating for millennia at between 0.03 and 0.04 per cent, as the population of the globe has grown to its present 7,000,000,000 or more, by means of the botanical process known as Photosynthesis.
The details, briefly, are as follows.
From 1910 to 1940, all reputable encyclopedias have quoted accurately, not from guesses or flawed modeling, CO2 concentrations, to two decimal places, as either 0.03 or 0.04 per cent, because the precise values calculated from the many analyses were a trace either below or above 0.035 as calculated to three decimals.
Back then, two decimals were more than necessary.
Values less than 0.035 became 0.03, values greater became 0.04.
So, the correct value was 350ppm.
World population then was one quarter of today.
Throughout the 20th century, huge amounts of CO2 were discharged into the air by increasing amounts in each of the 100 years.
Today, it is still less than 0.04 per cent.
This proves that CO2 equilibrates to what would be called a ‘residual equilibrium’: what’s left after ‘something’ is occurring.
Once upon a time, good schools taught that water, both as liquid in the oceans and as vapour in the air, is the primary moderator of climate in the Cosmos.
Since at least 1950, water vapour content has been excluded from ‘standard analyses’ of air, because it varies greatly from time to time and place to place, so it tends to be ignored by the uninitiated.
However, water vapour, the gas, follows the laws of diffusion of all gases, so it diffuses rapidly, even against a breeze, from high concentrations where it is generated, to lower concentrations elsewhere.
Thus, the high vapour contents above the oceans surrounding Australia are constantly diffusing towards the deserted centre, to maintain another type of equilibrium, which does not promote rain, primarily due to the high air temperatures in deserts.
Hot air carries a higher loading of water vapour before the ‘dew point’.
Nevertheless, the air above any Australian desert is at least five times (500 per cent) greater than CO2 concentration.
At 20 deg.C and 50 per cent Relative Humidity, the factor is 18 times (1800%).
At 25 deg.C and 60% Relative Humidity, the factor is 30 times (3,000%).
At 30 deg.C and 90% RH (Darwin), the factor is 60 times (6,000%).
Who in a right mind would demonise Carbon knowing that?
Is there experimental or other conclusive evidence that CO2 is thousands of times more potent as a so-called greenhouse gas than water vapour?
So how does CO2 equilibrate?
In a nutshell, carbon fuels burn in cities and the Amazon and eucalypts also burn to produce CO2 gas.
This gas diffuses around the globe, continuously unimpeded by us.
A dynamic equilibrium exists everywhere.
In polluted cities where people choke, and above farms and forests where the CO2 concentration in the air is sufficiently high to permeate into all vegetation.
Using a process known as Photosynthesis [putting elements like C, H, O, N, ‘together’ using light], all plants: (a) inhale from the air, during daylight, all the CO2 that is available in excess of a minimum ‘equilibrium concentration’; [burn as many fires as will burn, the CO2 will soon be inhaled]; (b) separate the C from the O2; (c) exhale the O2 back to the air; [so that no matter how much C is burned, oxygen will never be depleted]; (d) combine the C with HHO (water) plus trace quantities of other elements needed by each plant species, from the roots [a trace of Nitrogen is needed for proteins]; and, (e) produce all botanical substances from a ‘basic brick’ that is predominantly CHHO (carbon wetted/carbohydrate) that structures itself in a myriad of hexagonal molecular forms.
Who will deny any of the above?
The most precise analysis of air to 5 decimals is Nitrogen: 78.12345; Oxygen: 20.87654; Argon: 0.93; CO2: 0.04; approximately a dozen impurities, including rear-end discharges from cows, horses, buffalo, and camels: 0.03.
Grand Total: 99.99999%.
Email, Mar 8
Guy Caruana, East Gosford