Saturday, March 23, 2013

Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming


Open email to Sen. Cornyn (TX):

Dear Sen. Cornyn,
    Thank you for your two responses to my emails on carbon dioxide and global warming. I recognize that the burden of responding to all of your correspondence requires the use of various "form" paragraphs. Those paragraphs indicate to me your general thought processes on any specific subject.
    With all due respect, Senator, you have been hoodwinked into the global warming scheme, as have many other relatively educated Americans. You seem to accept a relationship between carbon dioxide concentration emissions, from burning fossil fuels, and any apparent increase in earth average temperatures. Nothing could be father from the truth.
    In effect, you say carbon dioxide heats the earth. What should we do about it? An analogy could be: witches are bad. What should we do to control them. In both cases, one would be making an assumption on the reality of the situation, which really does not exist. If something is not real, why would one want to control it?
    If I may be so bold as to improve your education on the subject, you should not talk about carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, with the implication that it is essentially responsible for all of the projected devastation of global warming. In fact, our total atmosphere is composed of global warming gases. They are not only advantageous but absolutely necessary for the existence of life on earth, since they average out the temperatures between the light and dark side reception of radiation from the sun. NASA's writeups on global warming cover that point in the first step of its various essays.
    Since the natural atmospheric gases, most
 of which are nitrogen and oxygen, are responsible for the positive greenhouse effect that we have, a more logical question to pose is whether there is something unusual about carbon dioxide, which exacerbates the greenhouse effect to a dangerous level, even though it's concentration in the atmosphere is at the extremely low level of about 350 ppm. Before we move on to the subject of how to control carbon dioxide and the various costs associated, plus relationships with China and India, would it not be reasonable to first determine whether there is a problem?

Monday, March 4, 2013

Secretary of State Kerry - Global Warming

    In a recent speech, new Secretary of State Kerry gave strong emphasis to a need for controlling global warming. I don't believe he specified how he intends to do this, but the party line has been to control carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
    I would like to know from Secretary Kerry what justification he has to relate carbon dioxide to global warming. If we have global warming, and there is some conjecture about that, what does carbon dioxide emissions have to do with it? Granted, carbon dioxide emissions are up. So is inflation, the national debt, Chicago murders, etc. Are any of these responsible for global warming?