1. The person to blame is Margaret Thatcher. Gore was just a minor politician, and, being an American, intellectually negligible, when he started banging on about Man Made Global Warming. But when Thatcher pushed the issue into international politics at the UN, he was able to ride on her coat tails and get well known.
2. "Hoist with" (Shakespeare's original" or "hoist by" (modern) his own petard. Not "on". A petard was a shaped explosive charge used for blowing gates open. Not "on".
It is interesting how the temperature has fluctuated over the eons. It's a good argument against man-made warming. The CO2 argument for man-made warming is pretty good too. CO2 does absorb infrared radiation (IR) as any engineering text on heat transfer will show. The youtube video with the title: "How quantum mechanics explains global warming - Lieven Scheire" gives a crude explanation of what is happening at the molecular level. Another one, includes calculations due to CO2 - it sounds about right, but I want to see the math in greater detail before I'm totally convinced. That video has the title: ""The Quantum Physics of Climate Change" by Brad Marston, Brown University". Both good to watch and I'd appreciate any comments about errors, etc. I'm trying to figure out if AGW is a real problem or not. Thank you.
Even Margaret Thatcher isn't really to blame. In her 1989 speech to the UN she didn't actually claim a causative link bwteen CO2 and AGW, and she also mentioned solar and volcanic activity which you never hear about (from the alarmists) these days. She obviously also had some serious misgivings, as she published a kind-of-retraction the following year to downplay the role of CO2, but by then the damage had been done. Unfortunately her small hint had already been spotted by every scam artist and con man in the world, all of whom - like Al Gore - have gone on to make megabucks
1. The person to blame is Margaret Thatcher. Gore was just a minor politician, and, being an American, intellectually negligible, when he started banging on about Man Made Global Warming. But when Thatcher pushed the issue into international politics at the UN, he was able to ride on her coat tails and get well known.
2. "Hoist with" (Shakespeare's original" or "hoist by" (modern) his own petard. Not "on". A petard was a shaped explosive charge used for blowing gates open. Not "on".
It is interesting how the temperature has fluctuated over the eons. It's a good argument against man-made warming. The CO2 argument for man-made warming is pretty good too. CO2 does absorb infrared radiation (IR) as any engineering text on heat transfer will show. The youtube video with the title: "How quantum mechanics explains global warming - Lieven Scheire" gives a crude explanation of what is happening at the molecular level. Another one, includes calculations due to CO2 - it sounds about right, but I want to see the math in greater detail before I'm totally convinced. That video has the title: ""The Quantum Physics of Climate Change" by Brad Marston, Brown University". Both good to watch and I'd appreciate any comments about errors, etc. I'm trying to figure out if AGW is a real problem or not. Thank you.
Even Margaret Thatcher isn't really to blame. In her 1989 speech to the UN she didn't actually claim a causative link bwteen CO2 and AGW, and she also mentioned solar and volcanic activity which you never hear about (from the alarmists) these days. She obviously also had some serious misgivings, as she published a kind-of-retraction the following year to downplay the role of CO2, but by then the damage had been done. Unfortunately her small hint had already been spotted by every scam artist and con man in the world, all of whom - like Al Gore - have gone on to make megabucks