July 4, 2009, Earth Aphelion
TKeating
Earth Perihelion is the date on which the earth is closest to the sun.
That date changes from year to year. The last Earth Perihelion was
January 4, 2009. On that date the radiant energy that the earth
received from the Sun was greater than on any other day of the year.
It was a good day.
Earth Aphelion is the date on which earth is farthest from the Sun.
Today, July 4, 2009 is earth aphelion. Today the amount of radiant
energy that the earth receives from the Sun is less than on any other
day of the year.
REPOST:
Let's do some high school math shall we. At Earth Aphelion the earth
is at a distance of 1.0167103335 astronomical units, AU from the Sun.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
At Earth Perihelion the earth is at a distance of 0.9832898912 AU from
the Sun.
Radiance follows an inverse square law. This can be extremely dramatic
if you do flash photography. Under an inverse square law radiance
drops off by a factor of four if you double the distance from the
light source. Hence, in flash photography objects in the background
appear to be in the dark.
The ratio of the two distances above is 1.033988392. Taking the square
and then the inverse we get 0.9353382
That means that during the course of a whole year the radiance that
the earth receives from the Sun varies by ~6.5%. Compare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_constant#Solar_constant
"Solar constant"
"It is measured by satellite to be roughly 1366 watts per square meter
(W/m^2), though this fluctuates by about 6.9% during a year (from 1412
W/m^2 in early January to 1321 W/m^2 in early July) due to the earth's
varying distance from the Sun, and typically by much less than one
part per thousand from day to day."
Those who are challenged by high school math, like Al Gore (a high
school failure), GISS NASA chief James E. Hansen (a computer
programmer), Barack Obama (JD in black liberation studies), should ask
themselves how can a "Solar constant" that varies by 90 W/m^2 over the
course of a year, be called a constant? What fucking nonsense.
Climatology is a ship of fools.
Now the real troubling thing is that people who have shown no
proficiency in high school math rule the UN, the US government and the
IPCC. Some of them even write readable articles in Wikipedia that may
be of little note. Never the less it is worthwhile to check some
numbers given by people who can not do high school math. Please read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Radiative-forcings.svg
If you are willing to believe the work of people who cannot do high
school math you can read the graph that says that the radiative
forcing for all the CO2 that is in the atmosphere right now, 380 ppm
is only 1.5 W/m^2.
The so called greenhouse effect, 1.5 W/m^2 in total, is a triviality
compared to 90 W/m^2. $100 billions has been spent studying putative
small increments in a number which is trivially small, even if you do
believe in the work of monkeys.
Our leaders cannot do high school math. We are ruled by monkeys. We
are fucked. We're doomed.
Leon
Oh fuck, $100 billions has been spent pandering to legions of heat
seeking weasels and now $2 trillions is to be spent remediating a
nonproblem that is less serious (by an order of magnitude) that the
problem of the annual variation of the earth-Sun distance. This
craziness could have been avoided if high school math proficiency had
been made a prerequisite for service in high office as had been
advocated by John F. Kennedy.
T. Keating
<TKea...@hushmail.com> wrote:
>July 4, 2009, Earth Aphelion
snip...
B.T.W.. Here is a partial list (2009) of aliases this person has used
whileposting to sci.environment.
From: "A thoughtful mourner" <mantrap@
From: aa...@hushmail.com
From: apre...@hushmail.com
From: "Barack Obama" <Ob...@aol.com>
From: bestb...@hushmail.com
From: "Dr Crypto" <DrC...@hushmail.com>
From: "Edmund Fitzgerald" <mantrap@
From: "Eric Swanson" <mantrap@
From: "Ian St. John" <ist...@spamcop.net>
From: "kiloVolts" <mantrap@
From: "kilovolts" <mantrap@
From: "kiloVolts" <nos...@nospam.com>
From: "Leon" <tro...@hushmail.com>
From: "Leon Trollski" <le...@garyrock.com>
From: "Mike Vandeman" <.@3.com>
From: "Mike Vandeman" <mantrap@
From: "milliAmperes" <nos...@nospam.com>
From: "Ms. 2" <.@2.com>
From: "Ms. 2" <mantrap@
From: "Nicovar Inc." <bra...@hushmail.com>
From: proch...@hushmail.com
From: "Ravocin" <nos...@nospam.com>
From: "Sarah Palin" <Sa...@aol.com>
From: "Sanity" <newsgrou...@getalife.ca>
From: tro...@hushmail.com
and now, this Vancouver, Canadian Based Fossil Fuel Troll claims to
be..
From: TKea...@hushmail.com
This carbon addicted troll has stated in Message-ID:
<6999b307-6730-42af...@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
"ENVIRONMENTALISM IS A HATE CRIME!"
Needless to say.. this person is mentally unbalanced..