I knew, YOU knew, and I can also see that You have man sized fingers too...watch out somebody surely will focus all the attention to
and disregard everything else You said!
Allow me to elaborate on Your reply:
"climatology" does not go beyond the buzz words or concept names of well known physics & chemistry. This "science" quotes books & publications without even going a few pages into the depth of it and then make the most outlandish cause and effect statements in the news media.
It`s been done with the DDT bird shell effect, mercury pollution, "acid rain", CFC`s where one <Cl>
radical can score 100 000 collisions in a row against .99 Million to 1 odds...and now with Carbon Dioxide on which the entire new "science" is based.
Yet water is the most common substance on this planet and without it life would not exist.
This "science" uses methods adults use when they want to put on a scary show for their kids using their hands in front of a candle behind a curtain to project 2 dimensional larger than life monsters on a screen.
Every scary over sized shadow they project for the frightened audience can be explained
with the properties of the most common substance on earth, water.
Both "Acid rain " was ...., but the CO2 boogerman could also be dealt with one single sentence which is in any chemistry book:
Water left exposed to air for any length of time will dissolve carbon dioxide, forming a dilute solution of carbonic acid, with a limiting pH of about 5.7. As cloud droplets form in the atmosphere and as raindrops fall through the air minor amounts of CO2 are absorbed and thus most rain is slightly acidic
And the "global warming" scare with these 2 statements:
Water has the second highest specific heat capacity of all known substances, after ammonia, as well as a high heat of vaporization (40.65 kJ·mol^−1)
The specific enthalpy of fusion of water is 333.55 kJ·kg^−1 at 0 °C. Of common substances, only that of ammonia is higher
These two unusual properties allow water to moderate Earth's climate by buffering large fluctuations in temperature. Per Josh Willis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory the oceans absorb one thousand times more heat than the atmosphere (air) and is holding 80 to 90% of the stored heat.
Of course in the Internet/Wikipedia that is spin-phrased as "....and is holding 80 to 90% of the stored "global warming" heat.
And then there is the water vapor Infrared absorption spectrum:
Now Compare that with the narrow CO2 spectral line:
Where they tell You that this spectral line can "catch" enough Infrared to heat the planet...
Right, then You could also find shelter from the rain by standing under a hydro line.
So that leaves us with the "Melting glaciers"
Well that`s where this propaganda science has the advantage, that it does get a little bit more complicated and
You do need to have some physics semesters under Your belt to spot this fraud.
But that can also be boiled down to the key facts which are at play here:
Triple point
The temperature and pressure at which solid, liquid, and gaseous water coexist in equilibrium is called the triple point of water.
They partially explain that to high school kids why skates glide so easy on ice!
You don`t even have to get that complicated to understand that Steam, liquid Water and Ice can happily co-exist
given the pressure is large enought...which it certainly is under a thick layer of ice.
And that happens to the glacier, which slide off mountain sides "because of global warming":
Science Links Japan | Anisotropy of ice plasticity and dislocations in ice: anomalous properties of hexagonal ice Ih associated with cubic structure Ic
And Tourists are watching and filming "global warming evidence" at the Alaska pan handle coast where huge chunks of ice crash every other minute into the Pacific Ocean.
"Climatologists" plant Laser Targets higher up and "collect correlation data" between "average ice motion" and "average temperature".
And after that the astonished public gets a "science lesson" on Cable TV, both on the "Discovery Channel" and the "National Geographic" which conclude Your SUV is destroying the planet.
TV works even better than the shadow puppet theater, because with that one exaggeration is limited to the size of the canvas and the distance to the candle.
When I was getting my geology degree in the 1960's and 70's all was well with the world, then in the 1970's when I was getting my PhD we first heard of GW. And on its face the theory was sound and so we pretty much ignored it.
However as time went on myself and a bunch of other geologists started looking at the historical record and concluded that the hysterical doom mongering was ridiculous and started asking ourselves why they were getting so silly with their predictions, that is what caused us to start looking at their science. That's when we realised they really didn't have any.
It was quite a revelation I assure you. Back in the 90's we still didn't really care because we had no idea what their goal was. We figured they were twits and had figured out a wonderful gravy train and while we didn't like it we also realised that it allways happens in academia so once again pretty much ignored it. Then when I was actually teaching for a year between projects I had a student come up and fill me in on what they had been doing and what he thought was their goal. Needless to say at first I thought he was mad but I did the proper thing and actually looked at what he presented and after about a month of real serious work between the two of us I was astounded to find that he was correct.
Since that time I have been working against these bastards, and bastards is what they are.
And yes my fingers do frequently get in the way!
All those years of swinging a rock hammer has made them pretty callused!
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