In serveral posts I have linked to a PDF that is currently posted at junkscience.com
I found that link from lindy's post of climatedebatedaily.com
I highly recommend all read the PDF.
The author in the PDF explains why he as an EE came to doing the analysis and writing the explanation. My own analysis of CO2 suppositions and the increasing certainty of there status as hoax follows a similar path.
From the PDF, Some About the Author
Richard Petschauer after serving in the Air Force during the Korean War, graduated from the
University of Minnesota in 1956 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and a degree in
Business Administration. In 1987 he was named the first Unisys Fellow for his pioneering work
on computer magnetic memories that started in the late 1950s; later he did work on
semiconductor memory systems, logic circuits and packaging for large, high-performance
mainframe computers, and managing engineering departments of over 100 people. He also
developed statistical design techniques for limits of on-chip wiring and computer clock speeds;
his latest patents were on controlling signal wiring crosstalk on dense, high-speed digital
semiconductor chips. After retirement he developed over thirty computer-based tools of
statistical techniques for engineering design, quality and product failure/lifetime prediction. He
also became involved with improved methods of humidity and temperature control for large
residential buildings where he became familiar with the advantages of modern infrared
thermometers, later applied in this report.
Recently he had trouble understanding how a rise of carbon dioxide, or any substance, in the
atmosphere from such low values as 0.035 percent could have such an overly large influence on
the Earth's future temperature as some predict. So he decided to read and learn about this from
the perspective of an individual with a technical background, but not in the field of climate. After
a few infrared measurements on summer nights showed that the amount of heat being radiated
from the atmosphere was much less than some climate models predicted, he began an intensive
study resulting in his own computer simulations based on available atmospheric data and well-
known laws of infrared physics. While weather predictions and long-term climate and very
complex and beyond the author's expertise, he feels the single issue of heat absorption and
radiation due to carbon dioxide is much simpler, well understood, and better modeled and
measured as proposed here. For reasons explained in the report, he went from being
unknowledgeable to skeptical to now very doubtful about a harmful future temperature rise due
to increased carbon dioxide levels. |
