Fear Mongering on Man-Made Global Warming

In the Concentrates section of the November 12 issue of Chemical and Engineering News, CH says that based on a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, businesses, governments, and communities across the world need to plan for a warming world. The report goes on to say that by 2100, the world will be 6°C warmer than present.


That may or may not be true. There is no mention of how the report authors come to this conclusion. It may be just another instance of fear mongering on the part of global warming advocates.

However, the report does clearly indicate that it's prediction is based upon increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere caused by the activities of man. Again, there is no indication of how carbon dioxide affects global warming.

We continue to hear about carbon dioxide, and now additionally other gases, being designated as greenhouse gases. Presumably a greenhouse gas is one which has a special property of inhibiting transmission of heat through the atmosphere to interstellar space, thereby increasing global temperatures. No scientific proof or even a reasonable proposed mechanism has ever been presented to justify the claims.

In fact, data from the gas encyclopedia indicates that the transmission of heat through carbon dioxide is not significantly different than it is through the other atmospheric gases, including the nitrogen and oxygen which are the major atmospheric constituents. In addition, the very low concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would make the effect insignificant.