Climate Follies Encore
Written by Joseph A Olson | 31 January 2011
Lord Monckton — The curtain has fallen, but due to demand, the players will present a final bit of show. I must begin by thanking Dr. Judith Curry for opening the long avoided climate debate. On Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011, she stated on her blog that she wanted to refute the science text, Slaying the Sky Dragon, but did not understand it. The repressed college professor in me demanded that I explain any difficulties on this subject.
The invited CC list on the resulting email thread was a who’s who of climate science, mostly of the Luke Warmist and Deniers’ camps. Three days of staid homilies were exchanged until finally the crux of the problem was identified. Anyone who is NOT a denier just does not understand basic Physics.
This brought some interesting replies. The most interesting involved the Holy Grail of Warmist worship, the phantom “back-radiation” force. There are Warmists, Luke Warmists, and Deniers. This phantom is the defining element of this fable and refuses to fit into classical Physics.
The following is the actual exchange. Playing the part of the English Lord will be Lord Monckton. The Luke Warmist chorus is played by the who’s who on the CC list and the Slayer is played by your narrator and co-author of Slaying the Sky Dragon.
Lord: “Back radiation can be simply demonstrated by pointing a simple infrared detector at the underside of a cloud. Try it.”
Chorus: “My IR detector only cost $60! Simple! Agreed! Agreed!”
Slayer: “Clouds do not absorb and re-radiate heat back to Earth. Clouds add THERMAL MASS which takes longer to heat and cool. Warmists ‘support’ this false hypothesis with IR thermometer readings, but the IR readings of a hot Barbie is the same from any distance; ENERGY is not. Your $60 REMOTE thermometer is not measuring the radiant energy you are receiving, it is measuring the resonance of the Barbie.”
We know that this was the final act of the follies for there has been no reply in 36 hours from the Lord or the Luke Chorus. This email thread was sent to dozens of other prominent scientists who have confirmed that at last, we are discussing the correct science parameters. Actual values of CO2 mass or micro-seconds variations in lapse time for individual molecules slowing IR transmission to space are unimportant. Even orders of magnitude variations are meaningless in this actual instance.
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