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To: James Seagrove who wrote (1000861)

2/18/2017 8:54:10 PM

From: Wharf Rat

Respond to of 1574489

"Climate science is therefore a religion "

If climate science wasn't a science, I wouldn't have learned about it in my HS physics class. That was actually the second time I first heard about it in 8th grade. US liked science when I was in 8th grade. Ike actually listened to scientists.

Tell Ayn:

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight paper of Joseph Fourier
On the eighteenth of April, in Twenty Four:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

The History of Climate Science

In the beginning...To pick up the scientific trail of what is today known as the Greenhouse Effect, we need to travel back in time to France in the 1820s. Napoleon, defeated at the Battle of Waterloo just a few years previously, had just died, but somebody who had at one time undertaken significant engineering and academic projects for the late Emperor was now busily engaged on his investigations of the physical world, with a specific interest in the behaviour of heat. This was Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768–1830).

Fourier had calculated that a planetary object the size of Earth should, quite simply, not be as warm as it is at its distance from the Sun. Therefore, he reasoned, there must be something else apart from incoming solar radiation, some other factor that keeps the planet warmer. One suggestion he came up with was that the energy coming in from the sun in the form of visible and ultra-violet light (known back then as "luminous heat") was easily able to pass through Earth's atmosphere and heat up the planet's surface, but that the "non-luminous heat" (now known as infra-red radiation) then emitted by the Earth's surface could not make it back in the opposite direction quite so readily. The warmed air must, he reasoned, act as some kind of insulating blanket. That was about as far as he got with the idea back then, as the detailed measurements required to explore this hypothesis were not available, given the technology of the day.

skepticalscience.com

To: James Seagrove who wrote (1000861)	2/19/2017 8:17:22 AM
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