Bob Guercio

As I see it:

Conservation of energy must be considered at all times. At equilibrium, the energy into a system must equal the energy out.

Consider a box of CO2 with infrared coming in and leaving. CO2 molecules are constantly emitting and absorbing infrared; however, at equilibrium the number of absorbers equals the number of emitters.

Now imagine that the incoming IR is cut in half. Suddenly there is less IR to be absorbed and for a while there will be...

Increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere have resulted in the warming of the troposphere and cooling of the stratosphere which is caused by two mechanisms. One mechanism involves the conversion of translational energy of motion or translational kinetic energy (KE) into Infrared radiation (IR) and the other method involves the absorption of IR energy by CO2 in the troposphere such that it is no longer available to the stratosphere. The former dominates and will be discussed first....

Under Revision

The scientific community has established that the burning of fossil fuels is significantly and negatively changing earth's climate; however, the fossil fuel industry is challenging this in order to protect their profits. They are using a strategy which is not new and was previously used first by the tobacco industry and then by the chemical industries with regard to acid rain, the ozone hole and DDT. Since it was used for the first time by the Tobacco Industry,...

The strongest argument to dispute the contrarians is to appeal to the fact that the science of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) has been firmly established by the scientific community. This argument certainly holds no sway with the contrarians but it is a tremendously powerful argument for the general public. Most people are reasonable and trusting of scientists; they will not accept the absurd notion that the scientists are in collusion to...