GWNutshell

        CO2 is a trace gas in air. It is one of every 3883 molecules where water vapor is one of every 20 molecules. Water vapor molecules absorb heat energy, or infrared, from sunlight four times as well as CO2. (See Absorption Spectra) Water vapor is responsible for 99.9% of all atmospheric heating.

        There are 194 times as many water molecules as CO2 and each absorbs four times as much energy as each CO2. To blame CO2 for "global warming" is ridiculous. It is done only by corrupt, ignorant or sloppy scholars in whitecoats whose Ph.D.s should be rescinded for crimes against science.

        NASA has been spending $4 billion dollars a year to study the atmosphere since James Hansen made his famous presentation to a committee of Congress on a very hot 1982 August day. Eleven years before that he had been trying to sell them on a coming ice age and that they should be taxing carbon as carbon particulate matter was shading Earth from sunlight. Congress didn't bite the first time, but they saluted the Hansen flag in 1982 and the world has not been same since as politicians caught on that this would give them more power than that changing hands with the Magna Carta or the Guillotine. Jim Hansen is responsible for the wasting of over $104 billion of taxpayer's money and he wants more!

        The Hansen gang of 50 Ph.D. scientists at the Goddard Space Institute on the campus of Columbia University in New York City is playing the oldest game in academia. They write papers and put each other's names on them in order to balloon published output. If each writes one paper and shares credit with 49 others each can claim to have authored 50 papers. They run in journals with circulations of a few hundred, substantially less than that put out by any American high school newspaper, which will be of greater scholarship and worth, but not cost four billion dollars per year. And, these people have the gall to claim "Global warming deniers are paid off by oil companies telling lies!"

When the textbook publishers saw this coming they realized it required a whole new set of "corrected" text books so they gleefully put textbook writing committees together and what is now taught for science in our schools does not pass the smell test. And, where the teacher's unions will not allow schools to pay more for trained science teachers, who can make three to four times in industry what the schools can pay, the result is a Dark Age in science teaching. Little if any is actually taught in our high schools when 50 years ago it was seen as a "national emergency" in view ofSputnick. This does not bode well for America.

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