Normally we get the (Committee For a Constructive Tomorrow) CFACT newsletter and we read it and we haven’t posted any of the articles until now. Hillary Clinton and Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein both adamantly claim that Global Warming Climate Change is worse of a threat than Islamic Terrorists.
I, Publius Jr, have a degree in Aerospace Engineering. I also had at one time learned to fly a small engine airplane in a high school class called Aerospace Science, but I never got my pilot’s license. Training to be a pilot taught me how to read weather maps and to tell from cloud formations what the weather would be like–basic meteorology. My Aerospace Engineering studies at Iowa State University and later at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, taught me all about the sciences that play a part in weather such as: Physics, Thermodynamics, Aerodynamics, Chemistry, and Heat Transfer.
The last one, Heat Transfer, plays a huge part in what we perceive as the temperature, but rather the rates of heat absorption and heat emittance can fool the most learned man like Al Gore. The two biggest culprits of the “Global Warming” perception are solids and liquids. Gases do not retain heat for very long and gases like Carbon Dioxide (CO2) can not be held as the chief culprit of Global Warming. If gases especially CO2 retained heat like these so-called Climate experts say then Mars would be a tropical paradise because Mars’ atmosphere is mostly made up of Carbon Dioxide, though it’s atmosphere is one tenth the thickness of Earth. Mars is a barren wasteland that is extremely cold most of the time. Land development is primarily the real culprit in the perceived “warming” or “cooling” of a piece of property. The original condition of the land has certain heat transfer traits. When one chops down a forest for farm land the heat absorption goes up but the heat emittance goes down being that trees act as heat exchangers much the hair on your body do–they wick away the heat absorbed through the tree body and leaves.
In a city when one takes virgin land and puts an asphalt or concrete parking lot on it next to a store, housing, or a business complex the heat absorption goes up and the heat emittance tends to go down. You’ve heard of sea and land breezes near bodies of water? This is due to the different rates that solids and liquids absorb and emit heat. Depending on the time of day you’ll have a sea breeze and at other times you’ll get a land breeze. This is due to a convection current between the land and body of water or vice versa.
So the actual temperature might remain the same over time but the development of land might increase or decrease the heat absorption and or increase and decrease the heat emittance of the land. The feeling one gets on redeveloped land is not necessarily due to “climate change,” it is due to the heat transfer rate of the solids and liquids in the property.
I experienced this when I served in the US Army at Ft Bliss Texas. I spent most of my time in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment motor pool. At midday the temperature in the summer might have been 110 degrees Fahrenheit, but the motor pool concrete made it feel like 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
This opinion is from my studies in the subjects that make up the weather and climate. Also I have empirical evidence that global climate change is a misperception by a lot of untrained faithful dupes who want to believe in climate change theology.
Here is he CFACT article. ~~ Publius Jr.
The UN’s “climate change” pretext for urban control
Bonner Cohen PhD
October 19, 2016 by Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.,
With an ever-increasing amount of the world’s population expected to be concentrated in urban areas in the decades to come, the United Nations and allied national governments as well as green non-governmental organizations (NGOs) hope to use the sheer power of demographics to transform the energy, housing, and transportation sectors in the name of combating climate change.
Jean Francois Gagné of the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) told participants at Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador that, for the first time, global emissions of greenhouse gases, particularly CO2, had flattened out, even as the world’s economy showed some sign of recovery. He welcomed this as evidence that measures adopted by national governments to lower manmade levels of carbon dioxide were beginning to have an effect.
Asked by this correspondent whether the emergence of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), a technology that rose in the private sector independently of national or global mandates, had anything to do with curtailing CO2 emissions, Gagne answered in the affirmative. Gagne acknowledged the role of private-sector innovation … but added that it was government’s job to set the parameters within which such innovation could take place. This is in line with the notion of public-private partnerships that globalists have been pushing to get industry on their side. It’s a clever strategy, because many large corporations are eager to look green, and to take advantage of whatever energy-related regulations and subsidies governments adopt.
The Price of Demonizing CO2
Speaker after speaker at Habitat III called for “decarbonizing” the world. Carbon, without which life on earth would not be possible, is to be eliminated. And levels of carbon dioxide are to be ruthlessly suppressed. It appears never to have occurred to these people that CO2 is plant food. Driving down levels of CO2 will be disastrous for agriculture. The world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion by mid-century, and these people will have to be fed. For an organization that prides itself on its concern for the world’s poor, the UN’s war on carbon dioxide shows precious little understanding of the real problems facing people in poverty.
On the contrary, participants at Habitat III were urged to acquire three new UN anti-fossil-fuel publications. Two of them are books, “Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning,” and “Addressing Climate Change in National Urban Policy.” For those will less time on their hands, there is a handy “fact sheet” titled “City and Climate Change Initiative.” All are available online to ensure the widest possible distribution.
In addition to dissemination global-warming propaganda, Habitat III is serving as a platform for other really bad ideas. Germany’s exhibition, for example, warns against the perils of “gated communities.” Never mind that many of Germany’s government buildings are gated and guarded by burly men carrying automatic weapons. So it’s okay for bureaucrats to enjoy a measure of protection while ordinary citizens will have to make do with being herded into the compact cities the UN wants to put up everywhere.
There is, according to the organizers of Habitat III, one standard for the high and mighty … and one for the rest of us.
About the Author: Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.
Bonner R. Cohen, Ph. D., is a senior policy analyst with CFACT.