Cap Allon: Study: CO2 Molecules Have Little Consequential Impact On Outgoing Radiation

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Study: CO2 Molecules Have Little Consequential Impact On Outgoing Radiation

Recent research suggests carbon dioxide molecules have little consequential
impact on outgoing radiation, and that today's climate models assign
fundamentally erroneous global temperature effects to CO2.

Russian physicists (Smirnov and Zhilyaev, 2021) had their peer-reviewed paper
published in the Advances in Fundamental Physics Special Issue for the journal
Foundations.

After a detailed assessing of the role of CO2 molecules in the atmosphere, they
assert: "w"e have a contradiction with the results of climatological models in
the analysis of the Earth's greenhouse effect."

Key points from the paper:

1. Climate model calculations of CO2's impact on global temperatures are in
error by a factor of 5 as a result of "ignoring, in climatological models, the
fundamental Kirchhoff law" which says radiators are "simultaneously the
absorbers."

2. Change in the concentration of an optically active atmospheric component
(like CO2) "would not lead to change in the outgoing radiative flux."

3. CO2 molecules "are not the main radiator of the atmosphere." Water vapor
molecules are, and thus they "may be responsible for the observed heating of
the Earth."


The discrepancy between the greenhouse gas effect of water vapor molecules
relative to CO2 has been addressed elsewhere: Lightfoot and Mamer (2014) and
(2017) suggest that water molecules are a) 29 times more abundant in the
atmosphere and 1.6 times more effective at warming than CO2 molecules are; b)
water vapor accounts for 96 percent of the total radiative forcing for all
greenhouse gases; and c) doubling CO2 concentrations to 550 ppm would only
result in a global temperature increase of 0.33C.

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Proponents of anthropogenic global warming can blindly dismiss these findings
all they want, but what they show, at the very least, is that the science is
far from settled. The term "consensus" is one used to rally the misinformed and
browbeat weak politicians. In reality though, the science is still very much
out on global warming-and that's me being generous. However, without an open
and honest review of the literature, the masses will remain in the dark,
forever fearful of a hypothesized future.

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