A simple way to tell an internet crank is by how often they use ALL CAPS. It is hard to have a rational discussion with someone who is screaming.
Those pictures are worth a thousand deliberately disingenuous words.
Per the world temperature change map, I live in the light red area of Alaska, I remember back to the 1950's with fair clarity.
The 1940's were cold (per parents and grand parents), the 1950's were cold (per me), as were the the first years of the 1960's.
Late 1960's warmer winters began happening more often, cold spells became shorter.
The 1970's began an accelerated warming, cold winters were fewer with shorter duration of the high pressure ridges that cause inversions, resulting in fewer -60 and colder temperatures.
1989 saw a winter colder than the previous ten years, three weeks of -40. Nothing like the six weeks of -50 seen in the 1950's, but damn cold.
Jump to 2016. After an entire winter of above zero I removed my furnace and heated the house with the lights in the garden.
Not a problem, probably could have removed the furnace in 2013 but I worried about weather, cold winters still can happen, not as cold and not as often, but natural variability says they will happen.
The climate in Alaska has warmed and is continuing to warm faster every year.
Rumor has it this is a part of a worldwide result of climate changing the local weather patterns. I am not everywhere but that is true in Alaska.
A simple way to tell an internet crank is by how often they use ALL CAPS. It is hard to have a rational discussion with someone who is screaming.
The atmosphere is a cold nitrogen oxygen bath, conduction chilling
Conduction implies direct physical contact. There is little contact between molecules and opportunities for heat transfer by conduction in thin air. Different layers of the atmosphere are heated by different kinds of radiation. The whole problem is your cold air bath heated by reflected solar radiation, and the molecules doing the heating are not nitrogen and oxygen they're methane, carbon dioxide, and water. More oceanic heat more water vapor. More heat less CO2 solubility, more CO2 more heat more water more heat more CO2 more heat more water more heat. Smog pollutants might be a missing variable actually helping to cool, by reflecting incoming solar radiation.
There's been a conspiracy about climate change since the 1950s at least. Billions, trillions, of dollars have poured into it to keep the public confused and ignorant. For the last 60 years scientists have been lying their asses off. Falsifying evidence, ignoring facts, telling the public what the corporations and government want them to hear.
The obvious analogy here is tobacco. But the oil companies and politicians are far more powerful then the tobacco companies were. Once they committed the country to a certain infrastructure they've bent the truth as far as they can to protect their profits and sell out their children.
I've never understood the people who think that the scientists are making this up. Why? The money is with the big corporations that use huge amounts of carbon. Why would a scientist in 1985 want to say something oil companies don't want to hear? It's a great way to lose your job. If you could prove climate change is an illusion you'd be very rich.
Now that it's obvious, for anyone over 20 years old you know how much the weather has changed within your lifetime. The only people who are denying it now are doing it for political reasons. Which is callous, selling out everyone's future to be lockstep with the oil companies and the corrupt ignorant politicians that do their bidding.
Being skeptical is a good thing, I'm always on the side of questioning the experts and looking for the holes in their logic. I hate siding with the status quo.
After a certain point with this issue it becomes stubbornness and pride which lose their charm as we get older. No one likes a crank.
looks like atmospheric constituents do NOT determine temperature either, rather what Unionized has been saying....that atmospheric compression ie: 'pressure' determines the habitability of this rock.
...i also believe Unionized used the word conduction inappropriately instead of convection...not a huge deal, but was seized upon to discredit him.
people actually read Unionized's posts? lol
There is no convection either. You see cloud tops flatten? The atmosphere is divided into layers. That means they don't mix.
https://science.nasa.gov/ems/13_radiationbudget
https://www.ces.fau.edu/nasa/module-2/how-greenhouse-effect-works.php
How is the atmosphere a heater? Greenhouse gases.
There is no convection either. You see cloud tops flatten? The atmosphere is divided into layers. That means they don't mix.
https://science.nasa.gov/ems/13_radiationbudget
https://www.ces.fau.edu/nasa/module-2/how-greenhouse-effect-works.php
How is the atmosphere a heater? Greenhouse gases.