AGW: Helping Someone To Better Understand Global Warming

Here’s a statement that you can set aside for whenever someone wants to independently gain a better understanding of global warming. All they have to do is use it as their search request to yield very appropriate and pertinent results. [Note that DuckDuckGo privacy browser will give the best results, at least in this particular case.]

“If it were not for greenhouse gases, Infrared Radiation (heat) would freely escape thru the atmosphere and into space resulting in a planet frozen solid.”

Note: The related topic of global warming is dealt with in a very proactive manner on the YouTube channel “Just Have A Think”.

AGW: Yes, Water Vapor Is The Predominant Greenhouse Gas, but...

Water vapor is the predominant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and mostly maintains the planet’s temperature; however, as carbon dioxide, methane and other non-condensable greenhouse gases are added, this further amplifies the greenhouse effect and raises temperatures further. Besides increasing evaporation rates, the warmer air is able to hold additional water vapor (a condensable greenhouse gas). Warmer temperatures, also, ramps up the rate at which permafrost and oceanic hydrates melt, thus releasing more and more ‘methane’. This further amplifies the greenhouse effect and, thus, increases temperatures that again, in turn, causes increased levels of evaporation and melting. The even warmer atmosphere can now hold even more water vapor, which, of course, is a greenhouse gas... repeat... repeat...

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/climatesciencenarratives/its-water-vapor-not-the-co2.html

Note: To read about what happens when greenhouse gas levels are decreased to abnormally low levels, search:
‘Snowball Earth + cyanobacteria’

Related links:

https://samslair.blogspot.com/2018/10/ancient-greenhouse-gases-givers-and.html?m=1

https://samslair.blogspot.com/search?q=Snowball+earth+cyanobacteria+&m=1

Global Warming & Covid Pandemic: Fear, Denial and Anger

 If we cannot even successfully implement simple universal face mask protocols to control the rapid spread of the increasingly contagious Covid virus, then what chance do we have in stemming the progression of global warming? Can we act in our own best interests, or has fear has generated such a strong ‘us vs them’ tribal response in ourselves that rational cooperation is unlikely? How much has our innate survival instinct been co-opted by fear and its allies, denial and anger.

Anger and hatred makes one feel stronger and is but a temporary antidote to feeling fearful and weak. It’s what ‘moves in and takes over’ when denial isn’t enough by itself to assuage one’s fears. But the reality of the danger keeps ‘rearing its ugly head’ and the ever increasing levels of angst and the resultant anger ‘boils over’ into overt displays.

Example: Global warming calls for the curtailing of fossil fuel consumption & the Covid pandemic requires the implementation of public health protocols to combat the Covid virus.  Both of these issues are resisted by rigid thinkers. Denial of the source of these dangers in order to ‘combat fear’ actually winds up increasing the dangers. This further increases fear levels, which then ramps up denial, which results in even more danger. The vicious cycle continues until a ‘shit storm’ finally manifests. And when two or more such storms merge and become one, a ‘perfect storm’ ensues, such as the Summer 2020 riots which resulted from the combined angst concerning global warming, the Covid pandemic and a host of social issues (e.g.. policing problems). And this is just one spiral in a building global storm.

Example of denial:
“...a registered emergency room nurse from South Dakota, told folks online about patients who test positive and still deny that COVID is what's making them so ill...”
https://www.newsweek.com/south-dakota-nurses-tweets-about-covid-positive-patients-who-dont-believe-virus-go-viral-1547727

Humor:
https://images.app.goo.gl/Z8QVWWcoMzn5Po526

Innate Source of All Discord, Polarization and Conflict

 The world is experiencing discord, polarization and conflict in a preponderance of magnified tribalism at all levels. The ‘us vs them’ mentality is innate in the human psyche. True spiritual enlightenment (not religion), however, frees one from the shackles of dogma and ideology so that cooperation between peoples (discussing the pros and cons) can outweigh competition and bring Truth and Justice to the fore. The Law of Harmony and the Absolute Law of Cause and Effect are Cosmic Spiritual Laws that take precedence. 

One aspect of the following video shows that human group conflict is a reflection of the inner conflicts of the very individuals that comprise these groups.

If you’re short on time, then start listening at the 37 minute mark. You can either go back to the beginning or start at the beginning if time allows for a very special discourse elucidating the opposite of discord and conflict:

“What the Ascended Masters Are and Are Not”

https://youtu.be/_oBQpUwjtMc

The Interplay of Infrared Radiation and Quantum Mechanics Explains the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming

CO2/methane and the greenhouse effect has kept Earth from freezing into a solid ball of ice for billions of years. 

Paleogeology shows us that when carbon dioxide levels were suddenly ramped up to the extent that it couldn’t have been induced by the Milankovitch cycle, then dramatic global temperature increases followed. When CO2/methane levels were abnormally low, the Snowball Earth conditions prevailed.

The why of how CO2 is the driving force of the Greenhouse Effect is fascinating and involves quantum mechanics. The following video explains it quite well. Note that I’ve posted its transcript as well.

“How Quantum Mechanics Explains the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming” (5 min.):
https://youtu.be/-EJOO3xAjTk
[with transcript / simply click on ‘Transcript offering:

https://www.ted.com/talks/lieven_scheire_how_quantum_mechanics_explains_global_warming?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare]

Transcript:
“You have probably heard that carbon dioxide is warming the Earth, but how does it work? Is it like the glass of a greenhouse or like an insulating blanket? Well, not entirely. The answer involves a bit of quantum mechanics, but don’t worry, we’ll start with a rainbow.

If you look closely at sunlight separated through a prism, you will see dark gaps where bands of color went missing. Where did they go? Before reaching our eyes, different gases absorbed those specific parts of the spectrum. For example, oxygen gas snatched up some of the dark red light and sodium grabbed two bands of yellow.

But why do these gases absorb specific colors of light? This is where we enter the quantum realm. Every atom and molecule has a set number of possible energy levels for its electrons. To shift its electrons from the ground state to a higher level, a molecule needs to gain a certain amount of energy. No more, no less. It gets that energy from light, which comes in more energy levels than you could count.

Light consists of tiny particles called photons and the amount of energy in each photon corresponds to its color. Red light has lower energy and longer wavelengths. Purple light has higher energy and shorter wavelengths. Sunlight offers all the photons of the rainbow, so a gas molecule can choose the photons that carry the exact amount of energy needed to shift the molecule to its next energy level.

When this match is made, the photon disappears as the molecule gains its energy and we get a small gap in our rainbow. If a photon carries too much or too little energy, the molecule has no choice but to let it fly past. This is why glass is transparent. The atoms in glass do not pair well with any of the energy levels in visible light, so the photons pass through.

So, which photons does carbon dioxide prefer? Where is the black line in our rainbow that explains global warming? Well, it’s not there. Carbon dioxide doesn’t absorb light directly from the Sun. It absorbs light from a totally different celestial body. One that doesn’t appear to be emitting light at all Earth.

If you are wondering why our planet doesn’t seem to be glowing, it’s because the Earth doesn’t emit visible light. It emits infrared light. The light that our eyes can see, including all of the colors of the rainbow, is just a small part of the larger spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, which includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays and gamma rays.

It may seem strange to think of these things as light, but there is no fundamental difference between visible light and other electromagnetic radiation. It’s the same energy, but at a higher or lower level. In fact, it’s a bit presumptuous to define the term visible light by our own limitations. After all, infrared light is visible to snakes and ultraviolet light is visible to birds. If our eyes were adapted to see light of 1900 megahertz, then a mobile phone would be a flashlight, and a cell phone tower would look like a huge lantern.

Earth emits infrared radiation because every object with a temperature above absolute zero will emit light. This is called thermal radiation. The hotter an object gets, the higher frequency the light it emits. When you heat a piece of iron, it will emit more and more frequencies of infrared light, and then, at a temperature of around 450 degrees Celsius, its light will reach the visible spectrum.

At first, it will look red hot. And with even more heat, it will glow white with all of the frequencies of visible light. This is how traditional light bulbs were designed to work and that’s why they are so wasteful. 95% of the light they emit is invisible to our eyes. It’s wasted as heat. 

Earth’s infrared radiation would escape to space if there weren’t greenhouse gas molecules in our atmosphere. Just as oxygen gas prefers the dark red photons, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases match with infrared photons. They provide the right amount of energy to shift the gas molecules into their higher energy level.

Shortly after a carbon dioxide molecule absorbs an infrared photon, it will fall back to its previous energy level and spit a photon back out in a random direction. Some of that energy then returns to Earth’s surface, causing warming.
The more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the more likely that infrared photons will land back on Earth and change our climate.”

Related article:
“The Greenhouse Effect Explained in Simple Terms”:
https://scienceofdoom.com/2014/06/26/the-greenhouse-effect-explained-in-simple-terms/