One picture is worth a thousand words
Below: North Central Antarctica, on Oct 9, 2023, after it was reported in September of 2023 that Antarctica had a once-in-a-7.5-million-year significant absence of ice during its recent winter. There were 22 hours of daylight on Oct 9, resulting in the satellite image below. Now, you show me where this "massive, once-in-a-7.5-million-year" critical ice loss is located.
Anyway, look and see how much ice was there, while the Climate Scaremongers were claiming that there was catastrophic ice loss at Antarctica, during its wintertime. They kept calling it a "7 sigma event." By the way, a 5 sigma event is one that happens every 3.5 million years. None the less, 2023 was a once-in-a-57-year event. It wasn't even a "once-in-a-century" event.
Incidentally, from April 10 to September 2nd, the Sun was "down all day" everyday, at the inner continental recesses of Antarctica. Thus, there are no daylight photos of inner-Antarctica during winter time.
In the photo above, at the top, you will see intervals of thick & tapered black lines. Those are Nadir Gaps, where the satellite was designed to not photograph those thin areas. They're like grid lines, for measuring purposes ... for surveying purposes. In fact, any nadir is a line below a certain point that travels straight to the ground and creates a 90 degree angle when touching the ground.
The 2023 Antarctic Deception
When it's a matter of record low wintertime sea ice maximums in either of the two polar caps, it is NOT a matter of ice melting during the season when -20F, -40F, & -60F temperatures dominate. It's a matter of not as much ice forming after Summer ends at the polar cap in focus, concerning as much ice as was formed in other years.
Let it be repeated once again, so that the realization will sink inward
If you could prove that there were years before 1979 when polar sea ice was as low or lower than today ... and simultaneously much lower than in 1979 ... then the Al Gore Climate Theory of CO2 as Temperature Driver gets automatically invalidated. And of course, 1973, 1974, 1975 were significantly lower in sea ice area. In other years, the sea ice was moderately lower than 1979, concerning the Northern Hemisphere's Arctic Ocean.
The realization of a unconscionable swindle of taxpayer dollars will come when it's made commonly known that 90% of all of Planet Earth's greenhouse gases --- by volume --- is WATER VAPOR. The realization will come when the media announces the scientific fact that the amount of space that atmospheric CO2 takes-up in the Earth's atmosphere is 0.042%. This is LESS THAN 1/2 of 1%. This is almost 1/2 of 1/10 of 1%.
In other words, for every 2,358 molecules that were in the sky in the Northern Hemisphere's Winter of 2023, only one was CO2. This is based on a 424 ppm count. That's 1 in 2,358 molecules. That's a score of 2,358 to 1. There is NO WAY in which co2 drives such a climate.
Incidentally, for every 10 molecules in the Earth's sky, 2.1 are the O2 oxygen molecule. In addition, for every 5.2 molecules out there in the sky, 4 of them are nitrogen molecules (N2.) As far as goes Argon, for every 21 and a half molecules in the sky, 2 of them are Argon. So, we visualize the molecular content of the atmosphere:
CO2 ... 1 in 2,358 Argon ... 1 in 10.7 Oxygen ... 1 in 4.7 Nitrogen ... 1 in 1.28
There is Infrared Inactive CO2 and then there is Infrared Active CO2: Not all co2's are alike.
A deeper understanding of the long-term climate con game will seep inward, when it's made commonly known that co2 exists in three modes of vibration known as dipole moments, and in one of those vibrational modes, co2 is incapable of capturing infrared heat.
This easily explains why an ice age, such as the Ordovician Ice Age, was able to transpire, while the atmospheric co2 level was more than NINE TIMES HIGHER than today. CO2's three vibrations have already been explained at the Blue Marble Album, at Youtube, and elsewhere on the internet. However, at this point, take into account CO2's radiative forcing.
Today, IR Active CO2 operates at 3.7 watts per meter squared (w/2). In 1890 or so, active CO2's radiative forcing was measured at 1.88 watts per meter squared. (That's 1 POINT 88 watts only.) As a result, it was declared that the radiative forcing of CO2 doubled since 1890. Time out here. Here comes the question ... eventually:
The vibrational mode of CO2 comes in three modes, but only one mode at a time. They are 1} Symmetric Stretching 2} Asymmetric Stretching 3} Bending Motion, like the flapping wings of a bird in flight.
Well, when a CO2 molecule is in the Symmetric Stretching Mode, it is infrared inactive (IR inactive.) It does NOT create "a dipole moment." It does NOT show up on the IR Spectrum. It is incapable of retaining infrared heat ... It is incapable of causing global warming. In fact, it can cause Ice Ages. This is why an Ice Age can occur when the CO2 count is NINE TIMES HIGHER than today.
So, here is the question: Where is there a chart, table, or a graph that marks CO2's watt-per-meter-squared radiative forcing, according to its three different vibrational modes, aka dipole moments? In other words ...
.[1] At what amount of watts per meter squared does CO2 exist, during its asymmetric stretching mode? [2] At what amount of watts per meter squared does CO2 exist, during its bending mode?
Needless to say, CO2 radiative forcing is ZERO watts per meter squared, whenever co2 is in its Symmetrical Stretching Mode. An atmosphere of symmetrically stretching CO2 can cause an Ice Age.
One more thing about CO2. While it's claimed to be the cause of Global Boiling as a greenhouse gas, when CO2 is in its solid form, it's a refrigerant. It's a block of ice called Dry Ice. Ironic ... sort of. What it actually does is become a medium ... a go-between for ... heat transference (which see.) We return to the topic at hand, though:
The lesson here is that Atmospheric Science is exceptionally involved and is NOT driven by only one variable -- one input number. Atmospheric Science is NOT the simpleton version presented by the Al Gore People, in 2006. Therefore, to use as your spokesperson a Swedish high school drop-out who does NOT know the first thing about 1] Atmospheric Science, 2] Weather History, 3] Meteorology, 4] pre-Holocene Paleontology, and/or 5] Oceanography is to use one of the most Useful Idiots a political faction can ever use to advance its agenda ... and to keep humanity dumbed-down with emotion-inducing diversionary tactics.
Such a thing is not clever. It's predictable for any faction that keeps losing the statistics and proxy evidence war, thereby necessitating that faction to hide such scientific & historic facts from humanity. Thus, you use an emotionally unstable teenager and give her false statistics. You tell her the opposite of the fact that the natural disaster death rate declined super significantly since the 1920s, the 1930s, and the 1940s.
You also tell her the opposite of the fact that American yearly forest fires (wildfires) dropped super significantly since the late 1920s and the entire 1930s, when the western population was so low that there wasn't the manpower nor the technology to put out the massive fires, during the worst drought in the previous 1,000 years.
The time of this writing is the Memorial Day Weekend, 2024. The place of this writing is the United States, specifically near the Three River Confluence of Pittsburgh which is located at 40 latitude & 80 longitude.
There have been constant claims that the Earth is in a state of global boiling and that there have been heat waves in Antarctica, in addition to the provenly bogus claim that Antarctica is suffering from a catastrophic amount of ice absence ... or even ice melt. Okay then, below is the most recent temperature report from the Amundsen-Scott Base, in Antarctica. This Accuweather report is placed here as a reality check, for those who actually believe the Antarctica is melting:
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| We keep being told that Antarctic ice is melting. Of course, those who get Congressional funding, NGO funding, and other types of funding are the ones who keep saying this, over and over again. Well, for ice to have melted at Amundsen-Scott in May of 2024, the temperature needed to have risen 126 degrees Fahrenheit. The report above is that of May 27, 2024. |
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| During the same May week of 2024, the famous Vostok Station dipped to MINUS 99 degrees Fahrenheit. In order for ice to have started melting there, the temperature needed to rise 131 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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| During the same May week in 2024, it dipped to MINUS 96F, at the famous South Pole Station. |
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| The Concordia Research Station is well known to the knowledgeable. During the same May week of 2024, the temperature there dipped to MINUS 99 Fahrenheit, as it did at Vostok. So, what justifies a person heavily compensated by various "climate funding sources" to tell humanity that Anarctica is melting and that the Statue of Liberty is in the process of going underwater? |
ABOVE: During the same month of May 2024, Springtime America received record snowfall, at Lake Tahoe. But, we keep being told that the sea level will rise 200 feet. Yet, from 1880 to 2020, the sea level only rose 8 to 9 inches.
Then, it was recently claimed by well-funded scientists that the sea level rose 4 inches in the past 30 years. That would amount to 0.1333 inches per year ... or 13 & 1/3 inches per century ... or 16 inches per every 120 years. This amounts to a sea level rise equal to the width of two pennies per year.
At today's "reported" rate of sea level rise, it will take 17,158 to 18,000 years to elevate the sea level 200 feet. Do you have just cause to believe the heavily funded "scientist" who claimed on stage, in front of a video camera lens, that the sea level will rise 200 feet? He's on video, sounding all so confident ... and in-your-face pushy, like a salesman.
Welcome to the CO2 Gazette:
In 1966, the atmospheric co2 level was 322 ppm. The Climate Hysteria propaganda teams of today assert that atmospheric co2 levels below 330 ppm are quite safe and do not trigger severe ice melt or weather disasters of note. This would mean that, in no way would there have been any time in which Polar sea ice would have reached a record low, while co2 stayed below 330 ppm. And in no way, according to the same assertion, would hurricanes be a menace to any part of Planet Earth.
Well, those two assertions were proven wrong, simply through reading centuries of weather history. The 1960s saw a few years of significantly less than usual polar sea ice, and in the early 1960s, there were a couple of world-ending Pacific Cyclones. Their pressure systems within were the lowest of the low. They proved the 330 ppm ceiling limit theory to have been worthlessly false, as did any catastrophic cyclone that emerged before the Year 1974. This included those that date as far back as the day after Christmas, in 838 CE.
There is a long list of cyclones and major storm tides which transpired when the co2 count was below 300 ppm and which killed thousands upon thousands of people, as well as having rearranged the coastline of the Netherlands ... and even put cities into the history books, such as was the case with the Danish city of Rungholt, in 1362.
The many natural disasters which occurred from 838 CE to the start of the Industrial Revolution proved Al Gore, David Attenborough, and Michael Mann to have been extremely non-factual. It is a complete lie to claim that the weather was mild for a thousand years, until the start of the Industrial Revolution in 1760. There have been horrendous weather events all throughout the Medieval Era, the Renaissance Era, and the Baroque Era. This included the Age of Exploration ... and Colonization. This included the reign of Kubla Khan.
The co2/temperature Causation Assertion was long since proven wrong, via the searing heat of 1936, 1934, 1922, 1921, 1913, 1911, 1905, 1901, 1895, 1878, and 1871. These heated years all transpired when when the co2 count ranged from a very low 295 ppm to a low-enough 310 ppm.
This same climate assertion was proven wrong in 1966, when the Antarctic wintertime sea ice plummeted. In 1966, the co2 count was 318 ppm. That's 12 points below 330 ppm threshold theory. Yet, co2 didn't follow the rule that the Global Warming People set for it. Meanwhile, the 500,000 year long Ordovician Ice Age proceeded while the co2 level was at 4,000 ppm.
The details of that particular ice age is beyond the scope of this discourse. However, shortly after the Climategate emails were revealed, someone presented a theory for that ice age, by citing the low Carbon-13 count at the beginning of that half million year ice age which came in two major pulses. Well, it was recently found that a rise in co2 is accompanied by a decrease in carbon-13. This is called "an inverse relationship." This was concluded through a study that involved the 1990s to the Year 2021.
During ice ages, there is a much less supply of water vapor in the air, being that extremely cold air also equals dry air. Being that water vapor is 90% of all greenhouse gases -- by volume -- any discussion of greenhouse gases -- in any era of climate history -- is automatically invalid, if water vapor is not included in the discussion.
In as much, the mystery as to how a glaciation period can persist is easily solved. Water Vapor becomes a rare commodity during ice ages. However, there still remains the mystery as to what actually causes ice ages to commence, in the first place. There is more to include, but not here, due to the budgeting of printing space.
Recent CO2 Scorecard
As far as goes 330 ppm, that level of atmospheric co2 arrived in 1974. Then, in 1980, the co2 count rose to 339 ppm. The 1990 co2 count was 355 ppm, and at the Turn of the Millennium, the co2 count was 370. The 400 ppm marked occurred in the Year 2015. And when the co2 count reached 418 ppm in 2021, Antarctica ended up having its coldest winter in known history. Al Gore & Michael Mann are summarily proven wrong, yet again. The 418 ppm level should have heated-up Antarctica, when the opposite occurred in the Southern Hemisphere.
As far as goes hurricanes, in the history of Planet Earth, voyagers and coastline inhabitants have witnessed coastline-destroying hurricanes throughout the centuries when the co2 count was below 300. This included massive sea storms of the 1700s, 1500s, and very late 1200s. Include the Pacific during the early 1960s, when charting the most extreme cyclones in history on a graph. In 1962, when the Pacific Ocean delivered a handful of historically punishing typhoons/cyclones, the co2 count was 318 ppm.
The aforementioned topics have already been detailed at the Blue Marble Album and elsewhere. There's a search box at the top right-hand side of each of this site's pages. Make good use of it.
Official Academic Atmospheric Science Teaching
When it comes to natural disasters and temperature, one must learn the science of Pressure Gradient Forcing, as well as Baroclinic stability vs instability. It goes as follows:
Very simply, when the temperature difference between the Equator and the Poles gets closer to each other ... aka "diminishes" ... as when a phase of global warming occurs, then the atmosphere becomes less turbulent and there are less hurricanes and other types of turbulence-induced natural disasters on Planet Earth.
On the contrary, when the temperature difference between the Equator and the Poles widens ... increases ... as during the Little Ice Age ... the atmospheric turbulence of Planet Earth increases, and this results in more hurricanes and other turbulence-induced natural disasters. Once again, for clarity sake, it's the global cooling phases which result in more turbulence-related natural disasters.
As a result, there were tremendous sea storms, aka cyclones, during the Little Ice Age which occurred from 1284 C.E. and 1840 C.E. This included the disaster of 1780, as well as Kubla Khan's naval invasion fleets being decimated on two different storm-ridden occasions. There is a notable list of cyclones, coastline floods, and other natural disasters throughout the centuries --- long before the invention of the gasoline-powered engine.
It was a complete lie to have claimed that the weather was mild for a 1,000 years, until the Industrial Revolution. There were massive disasters supported by evidence and surviving witnesses which occurred when the atmospheric co2 count was very low. In fact, numerous grave markers, the Elbe River Hunger Stone, chronicles, captain logs, and monuments of Europe prove Michael Mann and David Attenborough to have been the most egregious of liars, in their claiming that Planet Earth was a hedonist's pleasure palace that hosted no hurricanes, droughts, floods, epidemics, or famines, for a thousand years.
This pressure gradient force reflex is why jet streams only meander during wintertime. It has nothing to do with CO2. Plus, realizing that co2 is too small in quantity ... in the atmosphere ... to ever drive the climate, is not an element of cognitive dissonance. It's an element of common sense.
World peace will be accompanied by the discarding and the disqualifying of many lies that line society today. Incidentally, the TIROS-1 weather satellite dates back to 1960. It's first photo was made on April 1 on that year. Thus, the satellite era did NOT begin in 1979. It began in 1960. The full article related to the photo below ... and related to satellite technology of the 1960s ... is found at:
