That’s like tobacco companies trying to alert the public to lung cancer!

but it is quite simple..

take the mass of the atmosphere, measured in kilograms: multiply by the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram and multiply that by 1000 to convert the gram to kilogram and you get the amount of energy required to raise the earths temperature 1 degree C

None of his numbers, calculations or statements make any sense whatsoever.

For the record, no competent scientist anywhere left on earth questions the fact the temperature is going up — and we’re the principal cause.

I saw the Discovery Channel program narrated by Tom Brokaw, and it broke my heart. An Inconvenient Truth was in my town for exactly one week, and I missed it because I had to go out of town. That broke my heart, too. :(

BTW anti-global warming fooles what do you think the measure of a temperature actually means,

yes I know how hot something is, I do not mean the casual meaning…but what a physical scientist would say…

Temperature is the physical property of a system that underlies the common notions of “hot” and “cold”; something that is hotter has the greater temperature. Temperature arises from the random microscopic motions of the atomic and subatomic constituents of matter. The temperature is related to the average energy of these microscopic motions. It is a fundamental parameter in thermodynamics.

from wiki, with me so far people?

Well since we are talking about Global warming

Models referenced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict that global temperatures may increase by between 1.4 and 5.8 °C (2.5 to 10.5 °F) between 1990 and 2100.

which is a function of the earths atmosphere, lets discuss temperature in gases since even you would admit the atmosphere is made up of gases, and not solids or liquids;

For a monatomic ideal gas the temperature is related to the translational motion or average speed of the atoms. The kinetic theory of gases uses statistical mechanics to relate this motion to the average kinetic energy of atoms and molecules in the system. This average energy is independent of particle mass, which seems counter intuitive to many people. Although the temperature is related to the average kinetic energy of the particles in a gas, each particle has its own energy which may or may not correspond to the average. However, after an examination of some basic physics equations it makes perfect sense. The second law of thermodynamics states that any two given systems when interacting with each other will later reach the same average energy. Temperature is a measure related to the average kinetic energy of a system.

wiki again, see I’m trying to keep it simple for you people…since you all don’t seem to do science real well with all the high quality of home schooling you got

now we know that temperature is a measurement of energy, and that the measurement of temperature in gasses is the average of the kinetic energy held in those gases…

now how about a good question..how much “gasses” does the atmosphere contain, ever wonder how big the atmosphere really is?

well;

The total mean mass of the atmosphere is 5.1480 x 10to the 18th power kg with an annual range due to water vapor of 1.2 or 1.5 x 10 to the 15th power kg depending on whether surface pressure or water vapor data are used; somewhat smaller than the previous estimate. The mean mass of water vapor is estimated as 1.27 x 10 to the 16th power kg and the dry air mass as 5.1352 ±0.0003 x 10to the 18th power kg.”

(obviously this website does not do scientific notation, so to put it in a way you will recognize)

I know I know it looks real complicated but hang in there people, I’ll work it out for you…

5.1480 x 10to the 18th power kg

looks like this for most people

the figure we really need is..

5,148,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms

which is about;

5,674,700,000,000,000 tons,

actually all the air is quite heavy good thing it is spread out eh?

but for purposes here we need the more complicated number

5.1480 x 10to the 18th power kg

now it is going to get a bit complicated because I have to introduce some more scientific units like the joule,

The joule (symbol: J) is the SI unit of energy, or work with base units of kg·m²/s² (N·m). The base unit conversion can be remembered using the equation E=mc², where E is in joules, m is in kilograms, and c is the speed of light.

and

1 joule is approximately equal to:

0.238845896628 cal (calorie) (small calories)
and

The small calorie or gram calorie approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 g of water by 1 °C. This is about 4.185 J.

but for our purposes here it is used to measure energy both

kinetic energy : energy associated with motion

and

potential energy : the energy that a piece of matter has because of its position or nature or because of the arrangement of parts

see measuring wind is measuring the kinetic energy..but measuring temperature is measuring the potential energy.

still with me? Hang in there we are just getting to the good parts…

thus given the mass of the atmosphere which is
5.1480 x 10 to the 18th power kg

remember 4.185 J. is needed to increase the temperature of 1 g of water by 1 °C.

now it is simple math

5.1480 x 10 to the 18th power kg

times 4.185 J. times 1000(to convert grams(in the joule) to kilograms (what we are using to measure the mass of the atmosphere)

and we get;

2.154438 x 10 to the 22nd power

or 21,544,380,000,000,000,000,000 joules of energy ADDED to the atmosphere by raising it ..just one degree..C

See people it is not the measurement of temperature that is the only factor which we need to take into account, but the total mass that the temperature being measured

and I only referenced 1 degree C not 1.4 even though it is the smaller rise let alone over five times the amount I referenced which 5.8 degrees C which is the upper limit or rise

BTW just for comparison;

The first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 exploded with the energy of about 20 kilotons of TNT (~8.4×10to the 13th power joules).
other wise we release energy equivalent to 2.5 x 10 to the 8th power Hiroshima bombs into the atmosphere to raise it one degree, that is

250,000,000 Hiroshima bombs worth of energy into the earths atmosphere, not nuclear radiation, but the actual energy release the bomb does which causes the wide spread destruction

Think that might be a lot of energy, which by the laws of thermodynamics has to go some where…like into the weather we experience..except is has A hell of a lot more potential energy for creating winds and things like hurricanes…. which are simply heat exchange systems to move the heat to cooler areas of the planet, and much more powerful cold fronts which is another form of heat exchange system on our planet….they have tornados and straight line winds which seem to be getting worse…..

see it is not that hard to understand is it ….people?

but see, unlike news reporters, sports reporters are allowed to mention morality.

I think maybe the weather worldwide is just a wee bit screwy nowadays.

All in all he’s a good egg.

I hope that people are catching on to this problem in large enough numbers that we reach a critical mass, so that doing something about it will become a mainstream political “crusade” rather than just a “crazy idea promoted by the wacko left”. When mainstream media outlets in unrelated subjects start making statements like this, it’s a good sign.

They also noted that the US government spends 10 times more on resources which protect oil interests, than the actual oil product is worth.

What else would you expect?

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