Alarmist Scientists’ Schizophrenia Has Corrupted the Conclusions by Early Climate Science Greats.
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By Jim Steele
Guy Callendar was a British engineer and amateur meteorologist whose research demonstrated how rising CO2 could warm the planet. In his 1938 paper The Artificial Production Of Carbon Dioxide And Its Influence On Temperature, he challenged the consensus when most scientists believed water vapor’s greenhouse effect was so overwhelming it rendered any contributions from CO2 insignificant. According to the Guardian and other media outlets, “He was the first scientist to discover that the planet had warmed by collating temperature measurements from around the globe, and suggested that this warming was partly related to man-made carbon dioxide emissions.”
Guy Callendar Guardian Cover
I confess, I admire much of Callendar’s scientific research. He calculated from what altitude downward infrared (his non-solar “sky radiation”) originated. He showed with CO2 at 300 ppm, 82% of the redirected infrared, that slows the cooling our surface, originates from the first 1000 meters of our atmosphere. Unfortunately, he did not discuss how rising convection releases most heat at higher altitudes, as seen by cloud formation. He also calculated that over dry Antarctica only 40% of the surface’s emitted infrared is redirected back towards the surface by CO2 and water, while in the moist tropics 73.5% is redirected explaining why tropical nights remain warm.
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