FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE CLIMATE CHANGE

(This writing April, 2015)

There have been numerous discussions by many environmentalists concerning global warming (now referred to as climate change) but thus far none of them have presented any factual information to substantiate their claims. Making accusations is not the same as presenting facts. Many of these “pseudo-intellectual environmentalists” have actually resorted to relying on deliberate falsehoods as a means of frightening people into believing their predictions. There has not been a single instance where anyone, either pro or con about the issue, has presented all of the known facts at one time to either substantiate or repudiate their claims. Most information is doled out to the public in snippets so that no one is able to visualize the total picture and be able to arrive at their own rational conclusions. The subject is like a picture puzzle, only one piece shown to the public at a time. It is only when all of the pieces have been put together that one can see the whole picture and to know the truth.
My purpose for writing this article is to present actual facts, showing how changes in our solar system and changes occurring here on our own planet can influence global warming or cooling. It is my further intention to disprove the inaccurate claims made by these environmentalists. What is global warming and cooling? The earth is warmed by heat energy, in the form of short wave lengths of light, radiated by the sun and absorbed by the earth’s surface. The amount of heat energy reaching earth is never constant due to a number of factors. Listed below are descriptions of these factors.

HOW THE EARTH’S ORBIT AROUND THE SUN 

AFFECTS THE AMOUNT OF HEAT ENERGY REACHING US 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_orbit

The orbit of our planet around the sun does not follow a true circular path. Instead, the path varies, being more elliptical at times and then going back to being more circular. This cycle occurs about every 100,000 years. At present the distance of the earth from the sun varies from 92,000,000 to 94,000,000 miles. At other times our planet may be further away from the sun. As the earth gets closer to the sun it receives more heat energy from the sun and becomes hotter and as it gets further away from the sun it receives less heat energy and becomes colder. This variation in heat energy reaching our planet affects long-term climate changes. This is why we experience extremely cold glacial periods about every 100,000 years (refer to chart 2 on temperatures in cold areas of the earth). The next glacial period will occur in about 50,000 years from now.

THE TILT OF THE EARTH’S AXIS 

CAUSES SUMMER AND WINTER SEASONS 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_axis_tilt_and_precession.jpg#file

If you were to spin a top on a table at a high speed it would remain upright (or at 0 degrees tilt) for a short while. However, as the top slows, it will begin to tilt and to wobble. At present the angle of the earth’s tilt is about 23 degrees from vertical. However, that angle of tilt varies due to the wobbling effect. Therefore, the tilt of the earth’s axis may be less or more than 23 degrees at times. Since there is a tilt of the axis, the northern hemisphere experiences warmer weather in June, July, and August and colder weather in December, January, and February. However, the southern hemisphere experiences temperatures exactly the opposite during those times. The reason for this is that the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun in the summer and we have more hours of direct sunlight while in the winter it is tilted away from the sun and we receive fewer hours of sunlight. Also, the sun’s rays have to travel through more of the atmosphere in the winter and thus are not as warming. As the tilt of the earth’s axis becomes greater or lesser due to the wobbling effect, we experience greater or lesser amounts of heat energy reaching us. The time for one complete cycle in the wobble occurs about every 23,000 years.

SOLAR FLARE-UPS ALTER THE AMOUNT OF HEAT 

RADIATING FROM THE SUN 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flare

The sun’s energy originates at its core where, under great pressure, hydrogen atoms combine to form helium atoms. The hydrogen atoms used weigh slightly more than the one helium atom that they form. The difference in this change in weight is converted to energy according to Einstein’s equation which states that the energy produced equals the mass that was lost times the square of the speed of light (E = MC²). The core of the sun is millions of degrees Fahrenheit while the surface is about 10,000 degrees. Solar flare-ups are the result of the hotter inner material breaking through the surface of the sun. When this occurs, the overall temperature of the sun’s surface becomes hotter and the earth receives more heat from the sun since it is exposed to these higher temperatures. This is similar to adding more wood to a campfire. When there are more solar flare-ups the earth experiences warmer weather. Solar flare-up cycles vary about every 12 years but larger changes, lasting hundreds of years, can also occur. Examples of these events occurred when the earth warmed up about 2000 years ago and then again from 900AD to 1300AD. There was far less solar flare-up activity from 1300AD to 1850AD which was known as “The Little Ice Age”. During the warmer periods mentioned, people in Europe thrived because they were able to grow many crops over the longer growing seasons and in areas farther north than they can now. However, during “The Little Ice Age”, crops failed in the cold, damp climate and many people died due to starvation and illnesses. Therefore, it is a known fact that warmer weather is actually helpful to mankind while colder weather is very detrimental to our well-being. This proves that the hysterical rhetoric that people hear from the pseudo-intellectual environmentalists every day about the dangers of global warming is not true. Certain socialist billionaires in America and elsewhere are pushing this agenda and many people in the science community are doing their bidding. If these people
succeed with this propaganda, it will allow them to gain financial control of the world by controlling fossil fuels (carbon credits).

VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AFFECTS THE AMOUNT OF HEAT ENERGY 

REACHING THE EARTH’S SURFACE

More shade and "Greenhouse" gases than you can imagine!

When volcanoes erupt some of them spew out a considerable amount of ash into the atmosphere. The larger ash particles settle out quickly on nearby areas while the lighter small dust particles remain in the upper atmosphere for much longer times. Mt. St. Helens, while causing a considerable amount of damage to the surrounding areas when it erupted, is still considered to have been a relatively small volcano when compared with giant eruptions in the past. When Mt. Toba erupted 72,000 years ago it emitted over a thousand times as much dust into the atmosphere as did Mt. St. Helens. There was so much dust in the upper atmosphere around the world that it blotted out much of the sun’s rays, causing the earth to go into a deep-freeze cycle. A considerable amount of the plant and animal life at that time died, decreasing the existing human population by as much as 99% according to genetic studies. Smaller volcanoes do cause some changes in our weather patterns, a fact that needs to be taken into account.

VARIATIONS IN OCEAN CURRENTS 

CAN AFFECT CHANGES IN WEATHER PATTERNS 

Surface currents at present

Changes in the direction and heat content of the ocean currents can affect the climates of the land masses that they surround. Warm ocean currents keep southern Europe much warmer than areas in Siberia at the same latitude. These changes are brought about indirectly by changes in solar flares.
In summary then, while all of the above factors have a significant impact in changes of the earth’s climate, they are all beyond the control of mankind.

HOW DOES CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE ATMOSPHERE AFFECT OUR CLIMATE?

One important fact to note is this: As carbon dioxide is being produced, either by mankind or by nature, it is also being absorbed by all plant life for their growth. As more carbon dioxide is produced, it simply results in more carbon dioxide becoming available for intake by plants. This stimulates plant growth, just as it did during the Carboniferous Period 300 million years ago when most of the fossil fuels were produced. This fact has been proven in hot houses using propane for heat. Plants in these hot houses grew at a much faster rate than plants in similar hot houses using only electrical heat. The combustion of propane produces carbon dioxide which is taken in by the plants in the hot houses. It is a logical conclusion then that if mankind were to severely reduce the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere that it would only hinder the growth rate of plants.

Carbon dioxide is a molecule made up of carbon and oxygen. Being a more complex molecule it is more unstable than oxygen and nitrogen molecules. When long ultraviolet rays, emitted
from the earth’s surface, strike the molecules in the atmosphere, they are absorbed by carbon dioxide molecules but not by nitrogen and oxygen molecules. However, it needs to be mentioned that these carbon dioxide molecules cannot build up heat but instead release heat just as quickly as they absorb it, going outward in all directions. The net effect therefore is negligible, considering the tiny quantity of carbon dioxide available in the atmosphere. NASA once was an organization concerned with putting rockets and men into space. Since the year 2009 however, the space program has been severely cut back. NASA is now in the business of promoting the cause of the environmentalists by engaging in teaching school children to believe in information that is simply not true. Children are being taught that nitrogen and oxygen gases cannot absorb heat and that only “greenhouse gases”, such as carbon dioxide, are able to do so. What NASA is referring to is only the radiating infrared waves that are absorbed by “greenhouse gases”. For some reason, they fail to mention that all gases can absorb heat by other means. As air comes in contact with the earth’s warm surfaces it absorbs some of that heat. The heated air then rises and displaces the cooler air above which then moves downward to absorb more heat from the earth’s surfaces. This process is called conduction and convection and all gases are involved.

The makeup of dry gases is as follows: 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.036% carbon dioxide, and 0.004% other gases. As can be seen, carbon dioxide constitutes a very tiny portion of the atmosphere (see Chart 1 attached). Our atmosphere is not dry however, containing water vapor in varying amounts which is constantly changing in volume. Outside of deserts and rain forests the amount of water vapor varies from 2% to 4%. For purposes of discussion, we can use the figure of 3% to represent an average amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. Using the figure of 3% we can see that the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is about 83 times as much as is carbon dioxide. Also, water vapor is about 2.22 times better at retaining heat as is carbon dioxide (specific heat of 0.444 for water and 0.200 for carbon dioxide). Therefore, water vapor is about 184 times more effective as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. As an example, if the content of water vapor in the atmosphere changed from 3% to 2.98%, that small change would be just as effective as a greenhouse gas as all the carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere. This single fact alone is sufficient proof to disprove all claims being made by environmentalists that carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels is destroying the earth.

The Pacific Ocean from the International Space Station

Another point of contention is this: If water vapor contains so much heat energy, then why haven’t we bothered to measure the heat content of the oceans at all locations and at all depths? All that water contains a lot of heat energy! The heat contained in the atmosphere is insignificant by comparison. Air temperatures recorded at most urban locations are higher now than when temperatures were first being kept at the latter part of the nineteenth century. This is because the areas are now surrounded by much more energy-absorbing materials. They do not reflect temperatures outside of city limits and therefore should not be used for comparison studies. We have no accurate temperature data prior to when we first started collecting temperature data (it is indirect guess work). Actually, the hottest weather during this period was during the 1930’s when the “dust bowl” in Oklahoma and other areas occurred. During that time we had far less industry and lower carbon dioxide levels then we have now. Also, during the war years (1941-1945) we had tremendous industrial expansion (and more carbon dioxide being produced) and yet we had cooler weather. The environmentalists cleverly omit this contradicting information in their reports.

"The oceans WILL rise!  The deserts WILL grow!  Devastation guaranteed! The computer models are NEVER wrong!"

And yet, in spite of all these facts, why are so many “environmental scientists” fanatically predicting an end to our way of life as we know it if we don’t stop spewing so much carbon dioxide into the air? Some of these people have even resorted to such extremes as to making the claim that carbon dioxide is a poisonous gas. Carbon monoxide, formed by incomplete combustion of fuels, is poisonous, not carbon dioxide. These people are certainly not ignorant, having obtained advanced degrees. However, many people who condemn the use of fossil fuels do not have scientific backgrounds and are extremely ignorant. A prime example of this ignorance is the profusion of Hollywood actors running around the country, condemning the American way of life. They do not realize that they are destroying the lives of the very people who are supporting their wealthy life styles. “Pseudo-intellectual environmentalists” are being controlled by a few billionaires who are seeking to destroy our economy and our way of life so that this country can be remolded into a socialist state. They seek to accomplish these aims by legislating unrealistic and ridiculous changes in our laws to either reduce or eliminate the use of fossil fuels and to also impose huge fines and taxes upon our industries and power plants. These changes are being pursued fanatically by evil politicians and, if forced upon us, would result in totally decimating the living conditions of the middle and lower classes. Prices of food, transportation, and energy to heat and cool homes, and many other necessities would become unaffordable.