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To: average joe who wrote (761006)

1/2/2014 9:23:58 PM

From: Alex MG

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You accept global warming on faith not based on any understanding of the science behind it.

LOL, thanks for proving my point... 99% of scientists agree, the planet is warming... one could argue the causes but to dispute the scientific facts puts you in the pin-head crowd... congrats

What country do you imagine I live in? I'll give you a hint it is not the USA.

what the F does that have to do with whether or not you are a conservative pin-head

so you live in Canada... there are plenty of conservative pin-heads in CA as well

you probably voted for Rob Ford the crack smoker and crook

64th Mayor of Toronto

To: average joe who wrote (761006)	1/2/2014 10:27:40 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1574054

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life," He's talking about you, even tho you don't live here, and lots of others on this thread, direct descendants of the Know Nothing Party. "faith not based on any understanding of the science behind it" The science is sound. Asimov studied Fourier, Tyndall, and Arrhenius in college physics, even if you didn't. For $3800, you can read it in the original, something he prolly never did. *EXPLANATION AND EVIDENCE FOR THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT AND GLOBAL WARMING* TYNDALL, JOHN. On the Absorption and Radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption and Conduction "The solar heat possesses... the power of crossing an atmosphere; but, when the heat is absorbed by the planet, it is so changed in quality that the rays emanating from the planet cannot get with the same freedom back into space. Thus, the atmosphere admits of the entrance of the solar heat, but checks its exit; and the result is a tendency to accumulate heat at the surface of the planet." -Tyndall FIRST EDITION of the first empirical evidence and explanation of "the greenhouse effect"; one of the most important papers in the field of climate change science. “In 1859 John Tyndall, intrigued by the recently discovered ice ages, took to studying how gases may block heat radiation. Since the work of Joseph Fourier in the 1820s, scientists had understood that the atmosphere might hold in the Earth's heat. The conventional view nevertheless was that gases were entirely transparent. Tyndall tried that out in his laboratory and confirmed it for the main atmospheric gases, oxygen and nitrogen, as well as hydrogen. He was ready to quit when he thought to try another gas that happened to be right at hand in his laboratory: coal-gas. This was a fuel used for lighting (and Bunsen burners), produced industrially by heating coal. It consisted of carbon monoxide (CO) mixed with a bit of the hydrocarbon methane (CH4) and more complex gases. Tyndall found that for heat rays, the gas was as opaque as a plank of wood. Thus the industrial revolution, intruding into Tyndall's laboratory in the form of a gas-jet, declared its significance for the planet's heat balance. “Tyndall immediately went on to study other gases, finding that carbon dioxide gas (CO2) and water vapor in particular also block heat radiation. Tyndall figured that besides water and CO2, 'an almost inappreciable mixture of any of the stronger hydrocarbon vapors' such as methane would change the climate. But there was far more water vapor circulating, and although CO2 was only a few parts in ten thousand in the Earth's atmosphere, that was still much more than other gases. There is so little methane in the atmosphere that it was not detected there until 1948" ( American Institute of Physics). In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, pp. 1-36, Vol. 151, Part I, 1861. The Bakerian Lecture. London: Taylor and Francis, 1861. Quarto, the complete journal in original wrappers; custom cloth box. Wrappers a little soiled with wear to spine (particularly at head and foot). Scarce in original wrappers. $3800. manhattanrarebooks-science.com