No Climate Emergency

The CO2 myth just doesn't add up.

Part of my work in 1990 included trying to dissuade the electronics industry from using Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). I attended numerous discussions and presentations often conducted by Dr Colin Lea of the National Physics Laboratory who did a wonderful job in bringing the issue to everyone's attention. Scientists at the time stated that, if use of CFCs ended in 1990,  Ozone depletion would peak in 2015. Furthermore, the ozone levels in the upper atmosphere would not return to 1980 levels until the year 2070.

Another aspect of my work at the time necessitated a strong understanding of thermal energy transfer; conductive, convective and radiative. Being a former radar engineer, the radiative component was something I seemed to grasp quite well.  

I now live in the Southern Hemisphere. On very cold days, in midwinter, the intensity of the sun's rays this year has seemed markedly stronger than I can ever remember. Which leads me to suspect that either the radiation from the sun has increased or the screening effect of UV rays offered by ozone has decreased in line with scientists' predictions. 

I did read a scientist's report that suggested sunspot activity attenuates deep space cosmic radiation. The suggestion was that the reduction in sunspot activity in recent years has resulted in a marked increase in unhindered cosmic radiation reaching our (ozone depleted) atmosphere. That suggestion was debunked by another scientist as "climate change denial". However, the counter argument demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of radiation in general.     

My point is, the CO2 debate hinges on the convective effects of thermal energy as did the methane scare in the early 1990s, when methane, as produced by cows, was seen as the greatest threat to the planet.

In reality, nitrogen (79%) and oxygen( 20.6%)  have far more of an influence on convective energy transfer than Carbon Dioxide (0.0004 % ) or methane (negligible) could possibly have. 

I am also led to believe that Carbon Dioxide levels have been as high as 700ppm as recently as 800AD when vineyards proliferated on the Bere Alston peninsula in South Devon. 

I still believe global warming as we know it is primarily due to radiative thermal energy and a reduction in the screening effect offered by a depleted ozone layer.

The damage wreaked on the ozone layer by the increasing use of CFCs since their creation in the 1920s has adversely affected the atmospheric balance and will continue to do so for another 50 years. Climatic variations are a side effect. 

However, the real elephant in the room is the fact that there are more human beings alive now, than have ever died. They all want houses, food, water, cars, holidays and toys. They also exhale Carbon Dioxide. 

Colin Munro.  I.Eng

The CO2 myth just doesn't add up.

Part of my work in 1990 included trying to dissuade the electronics industry from using Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). I attended numerous discussions and presentations often conducted by Dr Colin Lea of the National Physics Laboratory who did a wonderful job in bringing the issue to everyone's attention. Scientists at the time stated that, if use of CFCs ended in 1990,  Ozone depletion would peak in 2015. Furthermore, the ozone levels in the upper atmosphere would not return to 1980 levels until the year 2070.

Another aspect of my work at the time necessitated a strong understanding of thermal energy transfer; conductive, convective and radiative. Being a former radar engineer, the radiative component was something I seemed to grasp quite well.  

I now live in the Southern Hemisphere. On very cold days, in midwinter, the intensity of the sun's rays this year has seemed markedly stronger than I can ever remember. Which leads me to suspect that either the radiation from the sun has increased or the screening effect of UV rays offered by ozone has decreased in line with scientists' predictions. 

I did read a scientist's report that suggested sunspot activity attenuates deep space cosmic radiation. The suggestion was that the reduction in sunspot activity in recent years has resulted in a marked increase in unhindered cosmic radiation reaching our (ozone depleted) atmosphere. That suggestion was debunked by another scientist as "climate change denial". However, the counter argument demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of radiation in general.     

My point is, the CO2 debate hinges on the convective effects of thermal energy as did the methane scare in the early 1990s, when methane, as produced by cows, was seen as the greatest threat to the planet.

In reality, nitrogen (79%) and oxygen( 20.6%)  have far more of an influence on convective energy transfer than Carbon Dioxide (0.0004 % ) or methane (negligible) could possibly have. 

I am also led to believe that Carbon Dioxide levels have been as high as 700ppm as recently as 800AD when vineyards proliferated on the Bere Alston peninsula in South Devon. 

I still believe global warming as we know it is primarily due to radiative thermal energy and a reduction in the screening effect offered by a depleted ozone layer.

The damage wreaked on the ozone layer by the increasing use of CFCs since their creation in the 1920s has adversely affected the atmospheric balance and will continue to do so for another 50 years. Climatic variations are a side effect. 

However, the real elephant in the room is the fact that there are more human beings alive now, than have ever died. They all want houses, food, water, cars, holidays and toys. They also exhale Carbon Dioxide. 

Colin Munro.  I.Eng